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Monday, August 4
Top o’ the Review
APDU Statement on Firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner
(APDU: Association of Public Data Users)
See also: Statement on Commissioner McEntarfer’s Removal (The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Data Labeling Is the Hot New Thing in AI: The Race to Build AI Agents Is Spurring Demand for Human Experts
(IEEE Spectrum)
Google Has Dropped More Than 50 DEI-Related Organizations from One of Its Funding Lists
(CNBC)
NEH Announces $34.79 Million for 97 Humanities Projects
(NEH: US National Endowment for the Humanities)
“There Is No Workaround to This Moment—We Are All Targets”
(THE: Times Higher Education)
Upcoming In-Person Event: Kula Academy Launch—Symposium on Truth, Knowledge, & Society (Monday–Tuesday, September 15–16, Victoria, British Columbia)
(Kula: Library Futures Academy)
What the Columbia Settlement Really Means
(Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University)
Will Cuts to National Science Foundation Funding Affect Scholarly Publishing Activity?
(Delta Think)
See also: Judge Allows the National Science Foundation to Withhold Hundreds of Millions of Research Dollars (AP: The Associated Press)
ARL Member Libraries
AI for OCR & Translation
(University of Texas Libraries)
Blake Wilson Selected as Next Director of KU Law’s Wheat Law Library
(The University of Kansas (KU) Libraries)
Creating Space: How Online Library Services Support Equity
(Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries & University Museums)
Digitized Collection of Black New Orleans Nightlife Posters, 1979–1980, Published
(Tulane University Libraries)
“I Only Knew How to Search Google”: Students’ Reflections on a Four-Year Information Literacy Curriculum
(McMaster University Libraries via Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association)
ARL member library authors
Library of Congress Unveils Major Upgrades to Chronicling America Website
(Library of Congress)
Shaping Public Library Legitimacy: Case Analysis of the New York Public Library
(NYPL: New York Public Library via Libri)
Higher Ed
College Isn’t in the Plans for Many Rural Students Despite Stepped-Up Recruiting Efforts
(AP: The Associated Press)
Rolling Back Education Access for Undocumented Students
(EdSurge)
UVA Appoints Paul G. Mahoney as Interim President
(UVA: University of Virginia)
See also: UVA Names Interim President (paywall) (The Daily Progress)
Scholars & Scholarship
A Step Towards Global Open Science Monitoring
(UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
Quantifying Large Language Model Usage in Scientific Papers (abstract only)
(Nature Human Behaviour)
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Tuesday, August 5
Top o’ the Review
Conservatives and Free Speech Advocates Wanted Colleges to Change for Decades. Some Now Say Trump Went Too Far. (paywall)
(The Boston Globe)
Note: Archived version available
How Trump Is Reshaping Government Data
(NBC News)
NSF to Invest in New National Network of AI-Programmable Cloud Laboratories
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
OpenAI Releases Open-Weight Reasoning Models Optimized for Running on Laptops
(Reuters)
Organized Scientific Fraud Is Growing at an Alarming Rate
(Northwestern University via EurekAlert, AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science)
See also:
- A Do-or-Die Moment for the Scientific Enterprise (Reese Richardson)
- The Entities Enabling Scientific Fraud at Scale Are Large, Resilient, and Growing Rapidly (PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
Pentagon Slashes Staff of R&D Repository (Defense Technical Information Center) by Nearly 80%
(Defense One)
Trump Administration Violated Impoundment Law by Canceling NIH Grants, Slowing New Awards, GAO Finds
(STAT)
ARL Member Libraries
AI in Scholarly Publishing: A Study on LIS Journals’ Guidelines and Policies
(Stony Brook University Libraries and University of Houston Libraries via International Journal of Librarianship)
ARL member library authors
See also: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (JLSC) Updates Policy on Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) (JLSC)
CLIR Funds 21 Digital Reformatting Projects Through Recordings at Risk
(Atlanta University Center (AUC) Woodruff Library, Brigham Young University (BYU) Library, Rutgers University Libraries, UC San Diego Library, University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst Libraries via CLIR: Council on Library and Information Resources)
See also: CLIR Now Accepting Applications for Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices Grant Program (CLIR)
Explore the 19th-Century Blueprints That Reimagined UVA’s Iconic Rotunda
(University of Virginia (UVA) Library)
New Mural Adjacent to Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) Celebrates Sisterhood of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell
(Washington State University (WSU) Libraries)
One of the Most Significant Intellectual Works of the 18th Century Now at McMaster
(McMaster University Libraries)
Temple Libraries Open House Invites North Philadelphia Neighbors to Learn More
(Temple University Libraries)
Higher Ed
AHA Publishes Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education
(AHA: American Historical Association)
Surveying the AI Landscape: Emerging Patterns in Higher Education Research
(Digital Promise)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Humanities Groups Fight Back After Federal Grant Cuts
(Courthouse News Service)
Open Source Initiative Joins the Re:Create Coalition
(Re:Create Coalition)
Scholars & Scholarship
Does ChatGPT Ignore Article Retractions and Other Reliability Concerns?
(Learned Publishing)
Does ResearchGate Have a Growing Credibility Problem?
(Nature)
Lyrasis Is Strengthening the Foundations of the Organizational Home
(Lyrasis)
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Wednesday, August 6
Top o’ the Review
Access for All: Bridging the Gaps in Library Accessibility
(Library Futures)
ACLS, AHA, and MLA Commend Court Decision Granting Preliminary Injunction of Cancellation of Awarded NEH Grants
(ACLS: American Council of Learned Societies, AHA: American Historical Association, and MLA: Modern Language Association via PR Newswire)
Big Ten Open Books Project Launches ‘Indigenous North Americans’ Collection
(BTAA: Big Ten Academic Alliance)
Fulbright–British Library Eccles Institute Scholar Award in Library and Information Science—Apply by Monday, September 15
(British Library and Fulbright Commission)
More information about the award
Gartner Hype Cycle Identifies Top AI Innovations in 2025
(Gartner)
See also: “Open-Weight” Debate: Allen Institute for AI Says OpenAI Needs to Go Further to Be Truly Open (GeekWire)
Open-Access Publishing in a Global Context
(NCSES: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Royal Society Sets Out Plan to Move Journals to Full Open Access in 2026 Through Subscribe to Open
(The Royal Society)
Stanford Student Newspaper Sues Trump Administration over Writers Fearing Deportation
(The Hill)
ARL Member Libraries
Archiving Canada’s Universities
(Queen’s University Library, University of British Columbia Libraries, and University of Toronto Libraries via University Affairs)
“Lost LA” Wins Seventh Los Angeles Area Emmy Award
(USC Libraries, USC: University of Southern California)
Mapping Change: Student Research Projects Supported by Penn Libraries Resources
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
New Acquisition: First Edition Aaron Copland Score
(University of Michigan Library)
PUL Site Reconstructs Books and Manuscripts Taken from the Archives of the Convent of San Pablo
(PUL: Princeton University Library)
The Libraries’ Tripsaver Has Changed to Interlibrary Services
(NC State University Libraries)
UB’s James Joyce Museum Touted as Part of Irish Legacies Concert at AKG
(University at Buffalo (UB) University Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI-AI Bias: Large Language Models Favor Communications Generated by Large Language Models
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
COAR Notify Now Available to ePrints users
(COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories)
NISO Open Discovery Initiative Publishes Results of Survey on AI and Discovery Systems
(NISO: National Information Standards Organization)
Research Data Management Services in Academic Libraries to Support the Research Data Life Cycle: A Systematic Review
(JASIST: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)
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Thursday, August 7
Top o’ the Review
Inside the US Government’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety
(WIRED)
Labeling AI-Generated Content May Not Change Its Persuasiveness
(HAI: Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
Most Parents Prefer College Pathway for Their Child
(Gallup)
Report Shows Rapid and Thorough Deletion of Environmental Information by Trump Administration
(EDGI: Environmental Data & Governance Initiative)
The AI Bullsh**t Index and the Psychology Behind It
(MediaPost)
Top Medical Journal Editors Defend Their Standards, Independence
(AMA: American Medical Association)
Trump AI Action Plan: Short on Action
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Trump to Require Universities to Hand Over Admissions Data on Race
(NBC News)
ARL Member Libraries
A Global Vision: Korea Foundation Intern Bridges Cultures Through Library Work
(UC Irvine Libraries)
Grant Enables Library to Preserve and Digitize 1970 Documentary on Student Activism
(UC Santa Barbara Library)
Mark Emmons Selected as Dean of College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences
(The University of New Mexico University Libraries)
Navigating the Stacks: Understanding First-Gen International Student Journeys in the Library
(University of Michigan Library)
NEH Has Awarded UNT Libraries $216,859 for Eighth Consecutive Round of National Digital Newspaper Program
(University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries)
Ohio University Selects PerkinsEastman to Lead Master Planning Project to Renovate Alden Library
(Ohio University Libraries)
Student Government Honors Libraries with Senate Bill
(George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida)
University of Pittsburgh Library System Receives Third NEH Grant for Homestead Steel Strike Workshop (paywall)
(University of Pittsburgh Library System via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Archived version available
Scholars & Scholarship
On the Open Road to Universal Indexing: OpenAlex and Open Journal System
(QSS: Quantitative Science Studies)
Report on China’s OA Journal and Early Warning Lists
(STM: International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers)
Use of LLMs in Preparing Accessible Scientific Papers (preprint)
(arXiv)
Zoom In, Zoom Out, Reframe: Domain Experts’ Strategies for Addressing Non-Experts’ Complex Questions
(Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems via Google Research)
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