Last Updated on May 28, 2026, 3:17 pm ET
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Tuesday, May 26
Top o’ the Day
AI Hallucinations Are Infiltrating Expert Work—and Entering the Permanent Body of Knowledge
(Fortune)
AI Hiring Tools Can Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection
(HAI: Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
Digital Preservation Virtual 2026—Call for Proposals
(NDSA: National Digital Stewardship Alliance)
Higher Education Must Be Rebuilt to Restore Public Trust. Here’s How.
(AAUP: American Association of University Professors and AFT: American Federation of Teachers via Higher Ed Dive)
In His First Encyclical, Pope Leo XIV Says AI Must Serve Humanity, Not the Powerful Few
(RNS: Religion News Service)
Synthetic Sources?: Auditing Generative Search Engine Citations for Evidence of AI-Generated Sources
(arXiv)
UC Berkeley Law School Bans Most AI Use Following Plagiarism Issues
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Archive.ph snapshot
See also: AI Policy, UC Berkeley School of Law, Effective Summer 2026
Why College Students Are Booing AI
(The Atlantic)
Archive.ph snapshot
Working Together to Improve Access to Scholarly Content for People with Disabilities
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries and Elsevier)
ARL Member Libraries
ARL Unbound: Interview with Xuemao Wang
(Northwestern Libraries, Northwestern University via ARL: Association of Research Libraries and LJ: Library Journal)
First Vanderbilt Cloud Innovation Lab Student Cohort Develops AI Breakthrough for Media
(Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries)
How the Library of Congress Is Using Both AI and Volunteers to Unlock Public Broadcasting History
(Library of Congress via Nextgov/FCW)
UNT Libraries Strategic Framework for Addressing AI’s Impact on Academic Libraries FY 2025–27
(UNT University Libraries, UNT: University of North Texas)
Advocacy & Public Policy
CFLA-FCAB Submission to 2026 Federal Budget Consultation
(CFLA-FCAB: Canadian Federation of Library Associations)
Ensuring Effective and Efficient Agency Logging and Network Visibility to Defend Against Evolving Cyber Threats (M-26-14)
(OMB: US Office of Management and Budget)
Improving the Quality of Open Funding Metadata: A Call to Action
(Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information)
Republican Lawmakers Suggest Cutting Off Funding for National Academies
(AIP: American Institute of Physics)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI Not Yet Good Enough to Mark University Essays, Rewarding “Style Over Substance”
(University of Cambridge)
New IPIE Analysis Finds Text-Based Generative AI More Persuasive Than Deepfakes
(IPIE: International Panel on the Information Environment )
Will It Become Harder to Oversee AI Systems?
(AI Security Institute, UK Department of Science, Innovation and Technology)
Wednesday, May 27
Top o’ the Day
AI Put Synthetic Quotes in His Book but This Author Wants to Keep Using AI
(Ars Technica)
Argonne Launches First Large-Scale AI Inference Service for Open Science
(Argonne National Laboratory, US Department of Energy)
Clare Appavoo Honored with CARL Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network via CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
EMS Press Raises the Bar for Accessible Mathematical Publishing
(EMS Press, EMS: European Mathematical Society)
See also: Large Language Models for Web Accessibility: A Systematic Literature Review (preprint) (arXiv)
From Free Speech Advocates to Critics: The Trump Administration’s New Rhetoric Promotes Support for Censorship Among Trump Voters
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
How One University Is Purging and Replacing “Woke” Classes
(The Washington Post via MSN)
Library Associations and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
NSF Launches Tech Accelerators Initiative to Speed Key Technologies to Market
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Are Both Walking Back Their AI Jobs Apocalypse Prophecies as They Eye Blockbuster IPOs
(Fortune via MSN)
Wikipedia’s Gender Gap Has Flipped for One Group of Scientists
(Science)
YouTube Will Now Automatically Label AI Videos
(TechCrunch)
ARL Member Libraries
How a Rare Buddhist Text Led to a Legacy of Learning at UW and Beyond
(University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries)
Library Services & Content Management (LSCM) Pilot Project 2 with UNT Libraries Now Complete
(UNT Libraries, UNT: University of North Texas via FDLP: Federal Depository Library Program, GPO: US Government Publishing Office)
“Why Libraries Matter Now More Than Ever to Democracy”: Papers from Technology, Innovation Law, and Ethics (TILE) Institute 2025 Symposium
(Library of Congress via Seattle University Law Review Online)
Scholars & Scholarship
Advancing Open Science Through Research Assessment Reform? Content Analysis of Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) Action Plans
(Scientometrics)
AI in Library Contexts: Progress from the OCUL AI & Machine Learning Initiative
(OCUL: Ontario Council of University Libraries)
Scientific Societies Launch “Trust Seal” to Strengthen Confidence in Science
(BioCore via Newswise)
STAMPED Principles for Reproducible Research Objects (preprint)
(MetaArXiv)
The Paradox of 200 Million Records in Open Science
(SCImago)
Towards a Sustainable Data Commons Ecosystem
(IT for Change and OKFN: Open Knowledge Foundation)
Thursday, May 28
Top o’ the Day
A Community-Driven Blueprint for Digital Equity
(Public Knowledge, UnidosUS, and National Digital Inclusion Alliance)
Case Studies in Advancing Community Priorities Through Museum-Community Participatory Science Partnerships
(Citizen Science: Theory and Practice)
Constance Malpas Promoted to Vice President, Research
(OCLC)
How State Legislatures Are Reshaping Higher Education
(SpeechMatters Podcast, University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement)
IARLA Pathways to Open: The Global Impact of Repositories (videos)
(IARLA: International Alliance of Research Library Associations via RLUK: Research Libraries UK)
Most Generative AI and Custom Model Projects Will Be a Bust: Gartner
(The Register)
Redefining Publishing: Practical Pathways to Open Science
(PLOS: Public Library of Science)
See also: Adapting Our Journals Business: Preparing for an Increasingly Uncertain Future (Royal Society of Chemistry)
Richard Ovenden: “Defending Knowledge: Why Libraries Matter” (video)
(Bodleian Libraries YouTube channel)
Who Is Accountable When AI Goes Global?
(CFR: Council on Foreign Relations)
With AI Hard to Detect, Harvard Faculty Move the Fight Back into the Classroom
(The Harvard Crimson)
ARL Member Libraries
NYPL Acquires Gay Talese Archive
(NYPL: New York Public Library)
The Crane Library: The History of UBC’s Accessible Library for the Blind
(UBC Library, UBC: The University of British Columbia)
“These Are The People I Come From”: Newly Digitized Photo Collection Brings Columbia’s 20th-Century Black History to Life
(University of South Carolina University Libraries)
Higher Ed
How China Built a Higher Education Superpower
(The World of Higher Education Podcast, Higher Education Strategy Associates)
Number and Salaries of Full-Time Teaching Staff at Canadian Universities (partial) 2025/2026
(Statistics Canada)
Syllabi with Citations That Assign Open Titles: 2025 Update
(Open Syllabus)
Scholars & Scholarship
A New Resource for Journals and Publishers: Journal Implementation Guidance for Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) 2025
(COS: Center for Open Science)
AI-Assisted Teams Outperform AI-Led Teams but Not Human-Only Teams in Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
See also: Do Agents Need Semantic Metadata? A Comparative Study in Agentic Data Retrieval (preprint) (arXiv)
Analysis of the Relationship Between Access Models and Retractions with Peer Review Issues (2014–2024) (abstract only)
(Scientometrics)
Will AI Be Overconfident About Academic Research Findings When Reliant on Abstracts? (preprint)
(arXiv)
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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