Last Updated on May 14, 2026, 4:35 pm ET
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Monday, May 11
Top o’ the Day
Call for Proposals: Summer 2026 Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Edition
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
How Higher Ed Can Make AI Work
(Digital Promise)
See also: How Higher Ed Can Innovate on AI Without Sacrificing Privacy (EDUCAUSE Review)
Journalism Is the Biggest Source for AI Query Answers
(MediaPost)
See also: Report cited in article (Muck Rack)
Judge Rules Trump Administration’s Cancellation of Humanities Grants Was Unconstitutional
(AP: The Associated Press)
See also: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Funding in Historic Case (ACLS: American Council of Learned Societies, AHA: American Historical Association, and MLA: Modern Language Association)
Leading AI Image Detection Tools Mislead Online Users, Often Declaring Authentic Content Fake
(NewsGuard)
National Academy of Sciences Experts Denounce Trump’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Board Purge
(Scientific American)
Publishers Seek $19.5 Million and Domain-Takedown Order Against Anna’s Archive
(TorrentFreak)
The Next Unit of Science: Is the Scientific Paper Due to Be Replaced?
(The Transmitter)
The State of the Humanities in Higher Education
(Ithaka S+R)
ARL Member Libraries
Campus Libraries Become AI Hubs
(The University of Oklahoma Libraries and University of Virginia Library via US News & World Report)
Financial Wellness Hub Now Open in McKeldin Library
(UMD Libraries, UMD: University of Maryland)
IU Libraries Connects Instructors with Librarians to Improve Information Literacy
(IU Libraries, IU: Indiana University Bloomington via IPM: Indiana Public Media)
Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives Earns Provincial Recognition for Archival Leadership
(University of Waterloo Libraries)
The h-index and What It Can’t Tell You
(Western Libraries, Western University)
Tracking the AI Evolution in Research Libraries: Findings from ARL’s 2026 AI Quick Poll
(Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries and University of Virginia Library via ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
ARL member library authors
UGA Preserves Ted Turner’s Legacy at Special Collections Library
(UGA Libraries, UGA: University of Georgia via ANF: Atlanta News First)
Voices of Survival Platform Launched with Illinois Holocaust Museum
(USC Libraries, USC: University of Southern California)
Scholars & Scholarship
“AI Is, at Its Heart and Best, a Tool”: Students, Faculty Weigh in on the Use of Large Language Models to Read Academic Papers
(The Cornell Daily Sun)
See also: Study discussed in article (PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
Data by Experience: A Survey Investigating Differences in Data-Citation Practices According to Researchers’ Career Stages
(QSS: Quantitative Science Studies)
LLM Hallucinations in the Wild: Large-Scale Evidence from Nonexistent Citations (preprint)
(arXiv)
Tuesday, May 12
Top o’ the Day
George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep Back New “Human Consent Standard” for AI Licensing
(The Verge)
Global Number of Jailed Writers Tops 400 for First Time, with Sharp Rise in Iran
(PEN America)
Human Wisdom for the Age of AI: A Field Guide to Cultivating Essential Skills
(AAC&U: American Association of Colleges and Universities)
Humanity AI Announces More Than $18 Million in New Grants to Shape AI for the Public Good
(Humanity AI via The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
See also: DPLA to Put Libraries at the Center of the AI Age (DPLA: Digital Public Library of America)
In the Vacuum of AI Legislation, Libraries Have the Playbook
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries via Techdirt)
Revised Standards for Libraries in Higher Education
(ACRL: Association of College & Research Libraries)
Seven Takeaways from the Spring 2026 Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries
(ARL)
60% of US Teens Have Tried AI Chatbots, 11% Use Them Daily
(FAU: Florida Atlantic University)
The “Most Absurdly Optimistic Project” at the Heart of the Modern Internet: In Conversation with Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
(King’s College London)
ARL Member Libraries
Chronicle of Higher Ed Recounts Law Library Director’s Challenges with AI Podcasting Bot
(University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries)
Community Archives as Healing Practice
(ASU Library, ASU: Arizona State University)
Federal Requirements for Student Consumer Information Transparency in Higher Education
(Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress)
Former Dean Lorraine Haricombe to Speak on Libraries and Digital Scholarship
(KU Libraries, KU: The University of Kansas)
Research in French: Spotlight on Scholarly Comics
(uOttawa Library, University of Ottawa)
Higher Ed
AI and Information Seeking: A Comparative Exploration of AI Chatbots, Search Engines, and Library Resources as Information Sources Among University Students
(Journal of Library and Information Science)
College Still Matters to Americans, but Costs Are Holding Many Back
(Lumina Foundation and Gallup)
See also:
- Federal Student Loan Defaults Return After Pandemic Pause (Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
- Student Loan Debt Is Delaying Life Milestones for Young Americans (Axios)
US Colleges Report 20% Drop in Foreign Students over Visa Clampdown
(Bloomberg via Yahoo)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI Tools and Assistants Such as Claude Can Now Connect to CourtListener’s Full Functionality
(Free Law Project)
New Digital Navigator Resources Added to the NDIA Resource Library
(NDIA: National Digital Inclusion Alliance)
Why Generic Indicators for Research Culture Don’t Work
(RoRI: Research on Research Institute)
Wednesday, May 13
Top o’ the Day
AHA and American Oversight on Today’s Hearing to Block Trump’s Efforts to Evade Presidential Records Law
(AHA: American Historical Association and American Oversight)
AI Bills Can Be as Big as a Postdoc Salary. Is the Cost Worth It?
(Nature)
cOAlition S Appoints Curt Rice as Director
(cOAlition S)
See also: OPERAS: A New Home for cOAlition S (OPERAS)
Democratic Lawmakers Demand Trump Explain—and Reverse—Termination of NSF’s Governing Board
(Science)
See also: NSF Elevates Career Staff to Lead Directorates (AIP: American Institute of Physics)
Developing Citizen Science 2026–Report from the Masterclass
(LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries)
Government of Canada Invests Over $168 Million in Canada’s Research Ecosystem
(Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat)
Also from Government of Canada: Shifting Perceptions of Misinformation in Canada: Trends in Exposure, Detection, and Trust, 2025
Governments May Shape What AI Chatbots Say by Shaping the Web They Learn From
(University of Oregon; Purdue University; University of California, San Diego; New York University; and Princeton University via Tech Xplore)
Library Patron Privacy in the Age of AI
(EveryLibrary Institute)
Living Guidelines on the Responsible Use of Generative AI in Research (3rd ed.)
(European Commission)
Op-ed: Imposter Syndrome Used to Be a Lie. AI Made It True
(Fortune)
See also: Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains (404 Media)
Wikimedia Foundation Joins Digital Public Goods Alliance to Champion Open Knowledge Infrastructure
(Wikimedia Foundation)
ARL Member Libraries
A Look Inside the Lilly Library Renovation
(Duke University Libraries via The Chronicle, Duke Student Publishing Company)
Data Centers and Their Energy Consumption: Frequently Asked Questions
(Congressional Research Service, LC: Library of Congress)
Also from LC: Presenting the Past: Exploring the American Archive of Public Broadcasting Podcast and Show Notes (2021–22)
How to Build a Library Culture
(UConn Library, UConn: University of Connecticut via Katina)
ARL member library authors
Processing History: The Buddy Collette Papers and the American Federation of Musicians Local 767 Records
(UCLA Library)
University of Tennessee Gets Thousands of Cormac McCarthy’s Books, Gaining Access to the Mind Behind the Novels
(UTK Libraries, UTK: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville via WBIR News)
Scholars & Scholarship
GPO Doubles Congressionally Mandated Reports on GovInfo
(GPO: US Government Publishing Office)
RDA 26th Plenary Meeting Wrapped!
(RDA: Research Data Alliance)
The Future of Scholarly Blogs: Scholarly Bloggers’ Perspectives on Long-Term Preservation (preprint)
(arXiv)
Upcoming Virtual Event: LGBTQ Data Rescue Hackathon (Thursday, May 28)
(Data Rescue Project)
Thursday, May 14
Top o’ the Day
A Civic Grammar for AI Rights
(Science)
Building Trust, Sustaining Art: Cross-Case Findings from the Arts Research for Communities of Color Fellowship
(SSRC: Social Science Research Council and Wallace Foundation)
Do Job Postings Show Early Labor‑Market Effects of AI?
(Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Identifying Academic Spam and Recommendations for Dealing with It: A Literature Review
(ESE: European Science Editing)
Meeting the Moment, Shaping the Future: 2025 ACLS Annual Report
(ACLS: American Council of Learned Societies)
Mozilla Foundation Joins Re:Create
(Re:Create Coalition)
NSF Announces $1.5 Billion NSF X-Labs Initiative to Pursue Generational Breakthrough Science Efforts
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
The Moral Reckoning of AI
(Vanderbilt Magazine, Vanderbilt University)
US Library Survey 2025: Under Pressure
(Ithaka S+R)
Use of AI Tools in the Publishing Process: Expectations from Publishers Through Author Guidelines
(Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics)
ARL Member Libraries
CARL Announces Recipients of the Inaugural Fund for Advancing Open Access Book Publishing
(University of Calgary Libraries & Cultural Resources via CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
NYPL and RHPG Announce the Kate Medina Fellowship for Literary Narrative Nonfiction
(NYPL: New York Public Library and RHPG: Random House Publishing Group)
Six Decades of UCR Course Catalogs Now Online
(UC Riverside Library)
“The Daily” and “Beyond the Page” Online
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
Texas Tech Names Seth Porter New Dean of University Libraries
(Texas Tech University Libraries)
Thoreau Edition Publishes Final Volume of Henry David Thoreau’s Correspondence
(UC Santa Barbara Library)
Upcoming Online Event: Katherine McDonough on AI and Map Collections (Monday, May 18)
(BPL: Boston Public Library)
Also from BPL: BPL Launches Library Card Design Contest for 2026
Higher Ed
AI and Grade Inflation (working paper)
(Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley)
AI in Higher Education: Where Leaders and Students Stand
(ACE: American Council on Education)
APLU Releases Report on Public and Land-grant Universities’ Degree-Completion Strategies
(APLU: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities)
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