Last Updated on February 26, 2026, 3:10 pm ET
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Monday, February 23
Top o’ the Day
Apple Intelligence Pushes Hallucinated Stereotypes to Millions of Devices Unprompted
(The Decoder)
Fair Use Week (Sec. 107): The Copyright Act at 50
(Authors Alliance)
See also: Participate in Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week! (ARL: Association of Research Libraries and CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
From Proposal to Passage: Enacted US AI Laws, 2023–2025
(FPF: Future of Privacy Forum)
In Spite of War Ukrainian Academic Publishing Leads
(LSE Impact)
Library Publishing Creates and Library Publishing Showcase Week 2026
(LPC: Library Publishing Coalition)
Most AI Bots Lack Basic Safety Disclosures, Study Finds
(University of Cambridge)
Training the Next Generation of Slave Societies Digital Archive Scholars
(ACLS: American Council of Learned Societies)
Trump Administration Drops Appeal Over Its $1.2 Billion Demand from UC System
(Higher Ed Dive)
UNESCO’s New Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity Report: Libraries as Essential Cultural Infrastructure
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
US NIH Research Grant Funding Rates Plummeted in 2025
(Science)
Where Should SocArXiv Draw the AI Line?
(SocArXiv)
ARL Member Libraries
AI Labs, Cameras, Creative Tools, Gathering Spaces: Libraries Lend Ideas and Innovation to How We Connect, Create, and Learn
(York University Libraries)
AI Tools for Academic Libraries: AI Speech-to-Text Models
(University of Waterloo Libraries via Choice)
ARL member library authors
Freedom in the First Edition: Douglass’s Landmark Work Joins the Rare Books Collection
(University at Buffalo University Libraries)
March Mammal Madness Returns to Celebrate Science, Storytelling, and Libraries
(ASU Library, ASU: Arizona State University)
Registration Open for CRL Practical Sessions
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
Higher Ed
Understanding How HBCUs Leverage Partnerships to Support Students’ Basic Needs
(EdWorkingPapers)
Updated ACE Brief Offers Practical Steps for Campuses Facing Immigration Uncertainty
(ACE: American Council on Education)
Scholars & Scholarship
Fostering Responsible Research Assessment: DORA Launches New Introductory Course
(DORA: Declaration on Research Assessment)
UC3 New Year Series: Persistent Identifiers in 2026
(UC3: University of California Curation Center)
Tuesday, February 24
Top o’ the Day
Building a More Resilient Ecosystem for Publicly Funded Research Data
(COS: Center for Open Science)
Call for Proposals: CNI Spring 2026 Prerecorded Project Briefing Edition
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Cultural Heritage Transition
(DPLA: Digital Public Library of America)
Also from DPLA: DPLA Directors Elect Joe Lucia New Board Chair
Editorial: Legally Creative, Democratically Dangerous: Trump’s Plan to Twist the News (archived version)
(The New York Times)
How Teens Use and View AI
(Pew Research Center)
See also: The Digital Divide in Generative AI: Evidence from Large Language Model Use in College Admissions Essays (preprint) (arXiv)
Library of Virginia Joins Association of Southeastern Research Libraries
(ASERL: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries)
Trump’s Student Loan Delinquency Crisis, Unmasked
(The Century Foundation and Protect Borrowers)
Under Pressure: Navigating Threats to Gender Expansive Student Privacy
(CDT: Center for Democracy & Technology)
ARL Member Libraries
An Exploration of Open Access Viewpoints and Self-Archiving Decisions of Yale School of Public Health Primary Faculty
(Yale University Library via JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
ARL member library authors
Baker Library’s Bells: a Story of Shared Soundscapes
(Dartmouth Libraries, Dartmouth College)
Also from Dartmouth: Refurbishments and Renovations at Baker-Berry Library
Historical Marker Commemorates Toni Morrison’s Time in Ithaca
(Cornell University Library)
Introducing Our Annual Impact Report
(USC Libraries, USC: University of Southern California)
Reviving Historic Media with OSU’s Digitization Team
(The Ohio State University (OSU) Libraries via Axios Columbus)
Thousands of Early Modern Japanese Books from UCLA, Berkeley, UCSF to Be Digitized in Yanai Initiative Project
(UC Berkeley Library and UCLA Library)
UMD Libraries Receives Grant to Support Digitization of Rare Japanese Books
(University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Academic Journals’ AI Policies Fail to Curb the Surge in AI-Assisted Academic Writing (abstract only)
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences of the United States of America)
How Ten Publishers Retract Research (preprint)
(arXiv)
Mapping Inequalities in the Academic Research Ecosystem: A Systematic Literature Review
(QSS: Quantitative Science Studies)
SHADAC Survey Data Finder
(SHADAC: State Health Access Data Assistance Center via Data Rescue Project)
Wednesday, February 25
Top o’ the Day
AI Is Not Improving Productivity: Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu (podcast)
(Me, Myself, and AI Podcast, MIT Sloan Management Review)
Coming Soon in March! Join RDA Information Sessions on Agentic AI Tools for Research
(RDA: Research Data Alliance)
Emergency Curation as Anticipatory Maintenance: Lessons from the 2016/2017 Data Rescue Movement
(Big Data & Society)
Fair Use Supports Accessibility, but You Don’t Have to Take My Word for It
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
GRIOS Establishes Its Academic Advisory Board
(GRIOS: Global Research Initiative on Open Science)
Pop-Up Journals for Policy Research: Can Temporary Titles Deliver Answers?
(Nature)
Signs of the Times: IFLA Weak Signals Report 2026
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
US Science Agency Moves to Restrict Foreign Scientists from Its Labs
(Science)
What Civic Renewal Actually Looks Like
(The Art of Association)
What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?
(404 Media)
Will AI Help or Hinder Scientific Publishing?
(Undark)
Workforce Pell Is a State Data Policy
(New America)
ARL Member Libraries
PUL Officially Launches Commons Library in New Environmental Studies and School of Engineering and Applied Science Complex
(PUL: Princeton University Library)
Streamlining Open Access Agreement Lookup for U-M Authors
(University of Michigan (U-M) Library)
Also from U-M: Collaboration with U-M Museum of Art Activates an Archive
The New York Public Library Announces the Return of Lunch Dances
(NYPL: New York Public Library)
UNT Libraries Launch Levi H. Davis Dallas Oral History Collection, Preserving Voices That Shaped The City
(UNT University Libraries, UNT: University of North Texas)
We Spent an Hour in Five of Columbia’s Favorite Libraries. Here’s What We Found.
(Columbia University Libraries via Columbia Daily Spectator)
Scholars & Scholarship
OCUL Advances AI and Machine Learning Initiative with Major Project Milestones
(OCUL: Ontario Council of University Libraries)
Reclaiming the Scholarly Ecosystem: Reflections on the First Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Research Seminar of 2026
(Leiden Madtrics)
Thursday, February 26
Top o’ the Day
AI Versus Accuracy? Readers Are Willing to Make the Trade-Off
(CJR: Columbia Journalism Review)
See also: Are Librarians the Key for Teaching AI Literacy? (CBC)
Frontiers of Statistics in Science and Engineering: 2035 and Beyond 2026
(National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
See also: IRIS 2025 Year in Review (IRIS: Institute for Research on Innovation & Science, University of Michigan)
How the US Department of Education Has Turned Civil Rights Enforcement into a Discriminatory Tool
(Brookings)
Medical Schools Assign Students a New Coach: AI
(AAMC)
National Geographic Bolsters Archival Access with $57 Million Grant from Lilly Endowment to Illuminate Shared Human Journey
(National Geographic Society and Lilly Endowment Inc.)
Op-Ed: Trump Station? America’s Place Names Are Not Bargaining Chips
(The Hill)
UN Creates New Scientific AI Advisory Panel
(Nature)
US Federal Science Workforce Declines Sharply Under Trump
(AIP: American Institute of Physics)
Video: Resilient Knowledge: Trust, Mistrust, and Manipulation of Open Science Research
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries YouTube channel)
What the CLEAR Act Gets Wrong
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
ARL Member Libraries
A Big Day for the Declaration and Special Collections
(University of Virginia Library)
“Howdy!”—UT Press Title Wins 2025 Tennessee History Book Award
(University of Tennessee (UT) Knoxville Libraries)
Write On: Ongoing Digitization of Cage Correspondence Spans Decades
(Northwestern University Libraries)
Higher Ed
The College Reality Check: What Students Experience vs. What America Believes
(Gallup and Lumina Foundation)
The National Survey of Academic Researchers: New Facts and Data
(PLOS One)
2026 Higher Education Trends
(Deloitte Center for Government Insights)
Upcoming Hybrid Event: Conference on AI and Higher Education (Wednesday–Friday, October 28–30)
(AAC&U: American Association of Colleges and Universities)
Scholars & Scholarship
Highly Cited Researchers: Key Trends 2015–2025
(Clarivate)
OpenAlex Announces New Features and Usage-Based Pricing
(OpenAlex)
Also from OpenAlex: Video: A Beginner’s Guide to Vibe Coding with OpenAlex
ORCID and DataCite Supercharge Your Research Visibility
(ORCID and DataCite)
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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