Last Updated on February 12, 2026, 2:55 pm ET
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Monday, February 9
Top o’ the Day
Defining Technologies of Our Time: Artificial Intelligence
(Aspen Digital)
See also:
- “Facing the Stakes of AI Together”: 2025 Athens Roundtable Report (The Future Society)
- State AI and Related Terms: Definition Examples (Updated) (NCSL: National Conference of State Legislatures)
Funding Cuts, Shifts in Aid Could Make College Harder to Afford for Low-Income Families
(The Hechinger Report)
Internet Archive Adds Searchable Access to Archived Pages from CIA World Factbook
(Internet Archive via infoDOCKET)
It’s a Process, Not a Revolution: Institutional Journeys Toward Open Research Information
(Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information)
Marco Rubio Out as Acting Head of National Archives
(Federal News Network)
Minnesota Star Tribune Launches News Literacy Initiative to Fight Disinformation
(E&P: Editor & Publisher Magazine)
New Benchmark Shows AI Models Still Hallucinate Far Too Often
(The Decoder)
New CNI Executive Roundtable Report: Strategies for AI Access
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Also from CNI: Deadline Friday: Submit Your Proposal for CNI’s Spring Meeting
Request for Comments: Draft Preservation Policy
(FDLP: Federal Depository Library Program, GPO: US Government Publishing Office)
US State Department Will Delete X Posts from Before Trump Returned to Office
(NPR)
What Undergraduates Need to Know and Actually Know About Generative AI
(Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence)
ARL Member Libraries
“Academic Hub of the University”: Here’s What Students Can Expect to Experience in LSU’s New Library
(LSU Libraries, LSU: Louisiana State University via Reveille)
Also from LSU: LSU Special Collections Offers Behind-the-Scenes Tours of Archives at Hill Memorial Library
FY 2025 Duke University Libraries Impact Report
(Duke University Libraries)
Also from Duke: New Library Search Platform Coming in May
KU Libraries Sprints Week Produces Research, Teaching Results
(KU Libraries, KU: The University of Kansas)
Video: The Link Between News Overload and News Avoidance
(University of Florida (UF) Libraries YouTube channel)
Also from UF: News Literacy Week Instagram highlight
Higher Ed
Federal Funding for Science and Engineering: Trends in Rankings Among Top Universities, FYs 2014–23
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
New Study of 31,000 College Syllabi Shows Faculty Warming to AI in the Classroom
(CSHE: Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley)
Scholars & Scholarship
How to Stop The Survey-Taking AI Chatbots That Threaten to Upend Social Science
(Nature)
The RISE Humanities Data Benchmark: A Framework for Evaluating Large Language Models for Humanities Tasks
(Journal of Open Humanities Data)
Tuesday, February 10
Top o’ the Day
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
(HBR: Harvard Business Review)
Check Out Our New Open Data FAQ
(Authors Alliance)
Could AI Save Endangered Archives? A Kenyon College Cohort Aims to Find Out
(The Ohio Newsroom)
Does ChatGPT Enhance Equity for Global Health Publications? Copyediting by ChatGPT Compared to Grammarly and a Human Editor
(PLOS One)
See also: Communicating Science in the Age of Gen AI: Can Generative AI Support the Usage of Higher-Level Science Communication Strategies in Writing? (Science Communication)
Dozens of Researchers Will Move to France from US Following High-Profile Bid to Lure Talent
(Nature)
How Open Is “Open” Over Time?
(Delta Think)
Internal US Department of Energy Documents Confirm Climate Report Was Created to Justify Trump Administration Policy
(UCS: Union of Concerned Scientists)
New Benchmark Shows AI Models Still Hallucinate Far Too Often
(The Decoder)
Openness in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Documenting Open Research Practices Beyond STEM
(UKRI: UK Research and Innovation and Wellcome Trust)
2026 License Negotiations
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)
User (Non-)Compliance with Age Verification: Preliminary Evidence from a Deceptive Web Experiment
(CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, CMU: Carnegie Mellon University)
See also:
- CyLab’s Sarah Scheffler Discusses New Research on Age Verification Technologies at FTC Workshop (CMU CyLab)
- Video: Age Verification Workshop (FTC: US Federal Trade Commission)
ARL Member Libraries
Celebrate Recently Updated Spaces That Elevate Access, Collaboration, and Services
(University of Cincinnati Libraries)
Heard Libraries Exhibit Explores the Infinite Worlds of Science Fiction
(Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University)
Online exhibit
New Exhibit Celebrates 65 Years of the United States Peace Corps
(UK Libraries, UK: University of Kentucky)
2026 LPC Board Election: Candidate Bios and Statements
(Ohio State University, Penn State University, University of Florida, University of Minnesota, Wayne State University via LPC: Library Publishing Coalition)
Higher Ed
Campus Compact Receives Transformational Gift
(Campus Compact)
Lumina Releases Initial Data Tracking Whether the US Is Educated, Trained for Economic Prosperity
(Lumina Foundation)
Universities Report 8.1% Growth in R&D Expenditures in FY 2024, Reaching Over $117 Billion
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Scholars & Scholarship
Study: Platforms that Rank the Latest LLMs Can be Unreliable
(MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Case of the Mysterious Citations (preprint)
(arXiv)
Wednesday, February 11
Top o’ the Day
A Queer Institution: LGBTQ+ Librarian Identity, Belonging, and Libraries as Sites of Struggle (abstract, snippets)
(The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
A “QuitGPT” Campaign Is Urging People to Cancel Their ChatGPT Subscriptions
(MIT Technology Review)
Americans’ Complicated Relationship with News
(Pew Research Center)
See also: The Impact of LLMs on Online News Consumption and Production (preprint) (arXiv)
Dean’s Lecture Series: A Conversation with Dr. Colleen Shogan, 11th Archivist of the United States
(University of Maryland College of Information)
Getting In Is Getting Easier: College Admission Is Largely Becoming a Buyer’s Market
(The Hechinger Report)
Navigating Digital Preservation in the Cloud: Community Good Practices from iPRES 2025
(APTrust: Academic Preservation Trust)
Participate in Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week!
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries and CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Should There Be Limits to the Editorial Use of Assistive AI Tools?
(COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics)
TikTok Is Tracking You, Even if You Don’t Use the App. Here’s How to Stop It.
(BBC)
See also: TikTok Launches an Opt-In Local Feed in the US Leveraging Users’ Precise Location (TechCrunch)
Upcoming Webinar: How POSI v2 Guides the Sustainability of Open Infrastructure Organizations (Monday, March 2)
(Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information)
Women Remain Underrepresented in Scientific Organizations, New Evidence Shows
(ISC: International Science Council)
See also: Bridging the Gap in Science and Technology (SSHRC: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)
ARL Member Libraries
Call for Entries from ARL Members—ARLIES 2026 Film Festival
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Call for Papers: Special Issue on the Future of Diamond Open Access
(JEP: Journal of Electronic Publishing, University of Michigan Library)
Dowd Illustration Research Archive Acquires the Reynold Brown Collection
(WashU Libraries, Washington University in St. Louis)
Interior Reconstruction Begins at Eisenhower Library
(Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries & University Museums)
Textbooks Too Expensive? How the Library Can (and Can’t) Help
(Temple University Libraries)
University Libraries Leverage Local Bookstore Expertise to Build Community-Centered Collections
(University of Colorado Boulder University Libraries)
University Libraries to Survey Undergraduates via Email to Better Understand Library Use
(Penn State University Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Beyond One-on-One: Authoring, Simulating, and Testing Dynamic Human-AI Group Conversations
(Google Research)
Essential Aspects of Tools for Developing Scientific Data Management Plans
(Data Science Journal)
Thursday, February 12
Top o’ the Day
AI Mass-Publishing in South Korea Stokes Quality Furor and Policy Debate
(ChosunBiz)
See also:
- National Library of Korea Rejects AI Publisher’s 9,000 Book Deposits (The Chosun Daily)
- AI-Generated Text Is Overwhelming Institutions—Setting Off a No-Win “Arms Race” with AI Detectors (The Conversation)
Data Infrastructure Isn’t Just Technical
(Data Rescue Project)
Deepmind’s Research AI Occasionally Solves What Humans Can’t and Mostly Gets Everything Else Wrong
(The Decoder)
New Report Urges Broader Definition of “Open Research” to Include Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Practices
(University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives)
NSF’s Flagship Fellowship Program Is Rejecting Applicants Without Peer Review
(Science)
PEN America Names Summer Lopez and Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf Co-Chief Executive Officers
(PEN America)
See also: PEN America Names New Leadership After Gaza Fallout (The New York Times)
Podcast: Universities and Democracies
(The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC)
STEM Talent: Education, Training, and Workforce
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Video: Data Privacy and the Future of AI Governance: A Conversation with Former FTC Commissioner Julie Brill
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University YouTube channel)
ARL Member Libraries
Creativity Comes Alive in the Libraries’ New Maker Zone
(Texas A&M University Libraries)
Faculty-Librarian Poster Project Hits All the Right Notes
(Indiana University Libraries Bloomington)
Library of Congress to Open New Experiential Gallery for Children and Teens This Spring
(Library of Congress)
Protecting What Remains: Introducing the UVA Archival AI Protocol
(University of Virginia (UVA) Library)
Thomas Padilla Appointed Associate Dean for Research and Learning
(University of Nebraska–Lincoln University Libraries)
University Libraries Mark 20 Years of Empowering Students Through Tech Lending
(The University of Arizona University Libraries)
Upcoming Online Seminar: Research Library Strategy for Imagined Futures: The ARL/CNI Futurescape AI Experience (Wednesday, March 4)
(ARL and Western University via RLUK: Research Libraries UK)
Video: Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Real-World Importance of Open Access Today
(Princeton University Library via OASPA: Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association)
Video: Introducing Cougar Collections
(University of Houston Libraries)
“What Makes It Matter”: Oral History Project Captures Heart and Resilience of UC Berkeley’s Libraries
(UC Berkeley Library)
Higher Ed
Down 9.2%: Colleges See Drop in New Gifts to Endowments
(Higher Ed Dive)
Ontario Lifts Tuition Freeze, Unveils Financial Aid Reforms as It Adds Billions to University and College Funding
(Toronto Star)
Open archived version
Reevaluating the Mission of Higher Education: Meeting Our Cybersecurity Challenges Together
(EDUCAUSE Review)
US Colleges Received More Than $5 Billion in Foreign Gifts, Contracts in 2025
(Morning Edition, NPR)
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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