Last Updated on June 8, 2026, 12:11 pm ET
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Monday, June 8
Top o’ the Day
AI Is Masking America’s “Postliterate” Workforce
(Axios)
Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession Now Available
(AAUP: American Association of University Professors)
Cost Transparency Doesn’t Conflict with Library Values. It Can Help Us Defend Them.
(Katina Magazine)
Data Foundation Launches Center for Climate and Environmental Data
(Data Foundation)
Knowledge Futures and Crossref: Exploring High-Volume DOI Management
(Knowledge Futures and Crossref)
Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences
(Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis)
The AI Boom Is Gobbling Up Power Faster Than Ever
(Business Insider)
Archive.today version
Upcoming Digital Lenders Forum 2: No One is Alone: Building Internal Support for Digital Lending (Wednesday, June 17)
(BLC: Boston Library Consortium)
Upcoming Webinar: Cutting Through the AI Noise: Practical Pathways for Academic Libraries (Thursday, June 11)
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries and CNI: Coalition for Networked Information via Choice, ALA: American Library Association)
US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945: Volume 5 Now Available
(Project MUSE)
ARL Member Libraries
Articulating Generative AI Information Literacy Competencies: An ACRL Framework–Driven Model for Academic Libraries
(Georgetown University Library via JIL: Journal of Information Literacy)
ARL member library authors
For the Truth Is All Powerful: Researching the Black Experience in Kentucky
(UK Libraries, UK: University of Kentucky)
How WashU Moved to Preserve and Archive the Shuttered Riverfront Times
(WashU Libraries, WashU: Washington University in St. Louis via St. Louis Public Radio YouTube channel)
Learn to Lead—A New Interview Series on Our YouTube Channel
(University of Miami Libraries via IATUL: International Association of University Libraries)
LSU’s Plan to Demolish Library, Build Anew Could Restore Original Campus Blueprint
(LSU Libraries, LSU: Louisiana State University via Reveille)
Pivoting for Access: How OSU Libraries Is Leading the Next Chapter of Ebook Strategy
(OSU Libraries, OSU: Oklahoma State University)
Rice’s Fondren Library Establishes Indian American Community Archives
(Rice University Fondren Library)
2026 Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections
(Library of Congress)
UNC–Chapel Hill Launches Statewide Study on Libraries and Generative AI in Local Communities
(UNC University Library, UNC: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
UTK Libraries Summer Reading Bingo
(UTK Libraries, UTK: University of Tennessee, Knoxville via Instagram)
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Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
http://infoDOCKET.com
@infodocket
About the Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit membership organization of research libraries and archives in major public and private universities, federal government agencies, and large public institutions in Canada and the US. ARL champions research libraries and archives, develops visionary leaders, and shapes policy for the equitable advancement of knowledge.
