Last Updated on May 26, 2026, 3:05 pm ET
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Top o’ the Day
AI Hallucinations Are Infiltrating Expert Work—and Entering the Permanent Body of Knowledge
(Fortune)
AI Hiring Tools Can Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection
(HAI: Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
Digital Preservation Virtual 2026—Call for Proposals
(NDSA: National Digital Stewardship Alliance)
Higher Education Must Be Rebuilt to Restore Public Trust. Here’s How.
(AAUP: American Association of University Professors and AFT: American Federation of Teachers via Higher Ed Dive)
In His First Encyclical, Pope Leo XIV Says AI Must Serve Humanity, Not the Powerful Few
(RNS: Religion News Service)
Synthetic Sources?: Auditing Generative Search Engine Citations for Evidence of AI-Generated Sources
(arXiv)
UC Berkeley Law School Bans Most AI Use Following Plagiarism Issues
(San Francisco Chronicle)
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See also: AI Policy, UC Berkeley School of Law, Effective Summer 2026
Why College Students Are Booing AI
(The Atlantic)
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Working Together to Improve Access to Scholarly Content for People with Disabilities
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries and Elsevier)
ARL Member Libraries
ARL Unbound: Interview with Xuemao Wang
(Northwestern Libraries, Northwestern University via ARL: Association of Research Libraries and LJ: Library Journal)
First Vanderbilt Cloud Innovation Lab Student Cohort Develops AI Breakthrough for Media
(Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries)
How the Library of Congress Is Using Both AI and Volunteers to Unlock Public Broadcasting History
(Library of Congress via Nextgov/FCW)
UNT Libraries Strategic Framework for Addressing AI’s Impact on Academic Libraries FY 2025–27
(UNT University Libraries, UNT: University of North Texas)
Advocacy & Public Policy
CFLA-FCAB Submission to 2026 Federal Budget Consultation
(CFLA-FCAB: Canadian Federation of Library Associations)
Ensuring Effective and Efficient Agency Logging and Network Visibility to Defend Against Evolving Cyber Threats (M-26-14)
(OMB: US Office of Management and Budget)
Improving the Quality of Open Funding Metadata: A Call to Action
(Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information)
Republican Lawmakers Suggest Cutting Off Funding for National Academies
(AIP: American Institute of Physics)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI Not Yet Good Enough to Mark University Essays, Rewarding “Style Over Substance”
(University of Cambridge)
New IPIE Analysis Finds Text-Based Generative AI More Persuasive Than Deepfakes
(IPIE: International Panel on the Information Environment )
Will It Become Harder to Oversee AI Systems?
(AI Security Institute, UK Department of Science, Innovation and Technology)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
http://infoDOCKET.com
@infodocket
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