Last Updated on February 5, 2026, 2:51 pm ET
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Monday, February 2
Top o’ the Day
Academic Publishers Defeat Lawsuit Over “Peer Review” Pay, Other Restrictions
(Reuters)
“Big Beautiful” Education Regulations Now in the Works
(NCSL: National Conference of State Legislatures)
Call for Institutions to Participate in a New Study on Students’ Basic Needs
(Ithaka S+R)
IFLA Guidelines for Green Libraries
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Top AI Leaders Are Begging People Not to Use Moltbook, a Social Media Platform for AI Agents: It’s a “Disaster Waiting to Happen”
(Fortune)
See also: Malicious Moltbot Skills Used to Push Password-Stealing Malware (Bleeping Computer)
UC3 New Year Series: Digital Preservation in 2026
(UC3: UC Curation Center, CDL: California Digital Library)
US Education Department’s Efforts to Fire Staff Cost Over $28 Million, a Watchdog Says
(NPR)
Video: How Do Young Adults Get Their News?
(Pew Research Center)
ARL Member Libraries
Color Our Collections: McGill Edition
(McGill University Libraries)
Elizabeth Cowell on Finding Work-Life Balance and Lowering Barriers to Information Access
(UC Santa Cruz University Library via ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Message from Dean Stanley Wilder (04LFP Fellow): New Library Building Update
(LSU Libraries, LSU: Louisiana State University)
“No More Excuse”: KU Professor Launches Research Journal for Undergraduates
(KU Libraries, KU: University of Kansas)
Also from KU: Gorton Music & Dance Library to Celebrate Quarter Century Milestone
Orange County Holocaust Oral History Project Now Publicly Available and Searchable Online
(UC Irvine Libraries)
Skanska Begins Rebuild on $104 Million Johns Hopkins Library
(Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries via Construction Dive)
Steacie Weeding Project Begins
(York University Libraries)
Video: A Conversation with Leo Lo, Dean of Libraries and Advisor for AI Literacy at the University of Virginia
(University of Virginia Library via Charleston Hub YouTube channel)
What Makes This Repository Different? Its Values.
(Michigan State University Libraries and University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries via Katina)
ARL member library authors
Yale Library Announces the Return of 12th-Century Manuscript to the Republic of Poland
(Yale University Library)
Tuesday, February 3
Top o’ the Day
A First Look at College Enrollment Outcomes After the End of Affirmative Action
(Class Action)
See also: Colleges See Major Racial Shifts in Student Enrollment (The New York Times)
Anthropic’s Launch of AI Legal Tool Hits Shares in European Data Companies
(The Guardian)
Common Cause: Students for Academic Freedom
(Campus Compact)
International AI Safety Report 2026
(UK Department for Science, Innovation & Technology)
Newberry Library Receives $4 Million Grant
(The Newberry)
See also: Opening Up the Arts and Humanities for All Americans (The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
RLUK, SCONUL, ARMA Launch New Project to Support Transition to Open-Access Long-Form Publications
(RLUK: Research Libraries UK, SCONUL: Society of College, National and University Libraries, and ARMA: Association of Research Managers and Administrators)
Section 230 at 30: We Need It Now More Than Ever
(CDT: Center for Democracy & Technology)
Students Told Us What GenAI Guidance Works. Here’s Their Advice
(THE: Times Higher Education)
Upcoming Event: Fair Use Week Congressional Briefing Hosted by ARL and Re:Create (Wednesday, February 25)
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries and Re:Create Coalition)
Upset at Reports That He’d Given Up, Trump Now Wants $1 Billion from Harvard
(Ars Technica)
ARL Member Libraries
An Inside Look at the History of Television
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
Douglass Day at UCSB Invites the Public to Transcribe Black History
(UC Santa Barbara Library)
Generative AI Critical Literacy Pilot Launched This Spring
(Cornell University Library)
Libraries Celebrate Fifth Anniversary of Dinsdale Family Learning Commons
(University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) Libraries)
Piloting Wikidata as an Authority Identifier: The (In)visible Women Project at the Smithsonian Institution
(Smithsonian Libraries and Archives via Journal of Open Humanities Data)
ARL member library authors
Princeton University Library Marks America’s 250th with Revolutionary War Artifacts and Stories
(Princeton University Library via WHYY)
The Copyright Conversation
(Brigham Young University, Columbia University, Harvard University, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign via LJ: Library Journal )
Upcoming Virtual Event: Copyright Public Modernization Committee Meeting (Wednesday, February 25)
(Library of Congress)
UW Libraries Query Service Helps Students, UW Community 24/7
(University of Washington (UW) Libraries via The Daily UW)
Why Libraries Still Matter: New UR Librarian Timothy McGeary (16LFP Fellow) on the Future of Academic Libraries
(University of Rochester (UR) River Campus Libraries via Campus Times)
Wednesday, February 4
Top o’ the Day
A Generation Threatened: New Data Highlights Challenges Facing Undocumented High School Graduates
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
AI Could Transform Research Assessment—and Some Academics Are Worried
(Nature)
Big News! IMPACT: Research Library Summit—July 2028
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Engagements on Canada’s Next AI Strategy: Summary of Inputs
(Government of Canada)
Public Libraries as Last-Mile Partners for Microcredentials and Learning and Employment Records
(EvoLLLution)
Reflections on the Value of an AI-Assisted Textbook
(Inside Higher Ed)
States Race Forward on Education AI Regulations Despite Trump Objections
(The Hill)
The Librarians Documentary Premieres Monday, February 9
(Independent Lens, PBS)
See also: Georgia Librarians Could Face Criminal Charges for “Harmful Materials” (Georgia Recorder)
The Purpose of Stewarding Distinctive Collections: Discovery and Impact
(JSTOR)
We Invite Submissions to a Spring 2026 Special Issue of The Political Librarian
(EveryLibrary Institute)
ARL Member Libraries
ALA Council Elects Two Members to Executive Board for 2026–29
(Wayne State University Library System via ALA: American Library Association)
Boston Public Library Announces New Entrepreneur-in-Residence
(Boston Public Library)
Introducing Kent State University Libraries’ New Mobile App
(Kent State University Libraries)
Introducing the Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) Advisory Board
(ARL and University of Michigan Library via Lyrasis)
McCain Library at ASU to Blend History, Civics in a Living Landmark
(ASU Library, ASU: Arizona State University)
Personifying Five UC Berkeley Libraries
(UC Berkeley Library via The Daily Californian)
University Library Unveils Generative AI Tool Customized for Tar Heels
(UNC University Libraries, UNC: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI Agents Meet Federal Data: Public Preview for the GovInfo Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
(GPO: US Government Publishing Office)
PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists (preprint)
(arXiv)
Unmediated AI-Assisted Scholarly Citations (preprint)
(arXiv)
Thursday, February 5
Top o’ the Day
A Framework for Assessing the Trustworthiness of Scientific Research Findings
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Before Trump Ban, Universities Were Slowly Making Faculties More Diverse
(The Washington Post via MSN)
Data Rescue Project Wins 2025 RDAP Work of the Year Award
(RDAP: Research Data Access & Preservation Association)
See also: A Year in Data Rescue (Data Rescue Project)
Examining Generational Divides—Political Attitudes and Behavior
(Stavros Niarchos Foundation SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University)
Federal Data Is Disappearing
(NOTUS: News of the United States)
JAG Thanks Congress for Strong Support of Scientific Research Funding and Infrastructure in Final FY 2026 Appropriations
(Joint Associations Group (JAG) on Indirect Costs via ACE: American Council on Education)
The Cost of Confusion: Dispelling Myths About the NIH Public Access Policy and Article Processing Charges
(Upstream, FORCE11)
“The World Factbook”: CIA Unexpectedly Closes an Internet Veteran
(heise online)
Too Many FOIA Requests, Too Little Transparency
(CJR: Columbia Journalism Review)
Towards Digital Balance: A Data-Driven Scoping Review of the Research Landscape at the Intersection of Digital Media Use and Health
(Royal Society Open Science)
University Journal Publishers—Global, Messy, and Underestimated
(LSE Impact, LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science)
ARL Member Libraries
Editorial: Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship
(University of Michigan Library via CJAL: Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship)
Gamechanger: Can AI Accurately Transcribe Primary Source Documents?
(University of Virginia Library)
Go Behind the Scenes of Research at UC Riverside with “The Reference Desk” Podcast
(UC Riverside Library)
Higher Ed
New Research Highlights a Disconnect Between University Retention Strategies and Adult Learner Priorities
(Collegis Education and UPCEA: The Online and Professional Education Association)
Strategic Decision-Making in Higher Education: State Legislators and Affordability Policy for Public HBCUs
(EdWorkingPapers)
Scholars & Scholarship
Guide to Open Textbook Essential and Exemplary Features
(OEN: Open Education Network, University of Minnesota)
Open-Source AI Tool Beats Giant LLMs in Literature Reviews—and Gets Citations Right
(Nature)
See also: OpenScholar Has Been Accepted to Nature (Ai2: The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Physical AI: A Primer for Policymakers on AI-Robotics Convergence
(CSET: Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University)
Preserving the Open Web: Inside the New Wayback Machine Plugin for WordPress
(Internet Archive)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
http://infoDOCKET.com
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