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Monday, August 5
Top o’ the Review
ARL Awarded IMLS Grant for Futurescape Libraries: Mapping Possibilities for Tomorrow’s Information Hubs
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
CLIR Awards $796,320 to Rescue Endangered Audio and Visual Heritage: 26 Projects Selected in Latest Round of “Recordings at Risk” Program
(CLIR: Council on Library and information Resources)
See also: MIT Libraries Receives Grant to Digitize Endangered Language Recordings
Launch of IFLA’s Internet Manifesto
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Mainstreaming Nature in US Federal Policy
(Science)
See also: OSTP Climate & Environment Leaders Emphasize Key Role of Nature in US Federal Policy (OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House)
Our 2024 Digital Accessibility Audit: Findings and Fixes
(HathiTrust)
Supporting the Barcelona Declaration
(Coalition Publica)
The Role of the Law Library in Serving Incarcerated Individuals: Announcing a New IMLS-Funded Project
(Ithaka S+R)
Wiley, Oxford University Press (OUP) Confirm AI Partnerships
(Books+Publishing)
ARL Member Libraries
Alan Grosenheider Appointed Interim University Librarian for University of California (UC), Santa Barbara
(UC Santa Barbara Library via ARL)
Big Ten Academic Alliance Welcomes UCLA, USC, Oregon, and Washington
(UCLA, USC: University of Southern California, University of Oregon, and University of Washington via BTAA: Big Ten Academic Alliance)
Charting the Course of Digital Art History: UC San Diego Library from Artstor to JSTOR
(UC San Diego Library)
HBCU Students and Mentors Visit Princeton University Library for REACH Program
(PUL: Princeton University Library)
Also from PUL: Princeton University Library Co-sponsors the 2024 Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium
New UGA Special Collections Exhibit Lets Fans Picture Athens Musicians at Home
(University of Georgia (UGA) Libraries)
Surviving Not Thriving…Yet: Utilizing Lived Experiences to Improve Onboarding in an Academic Library (abstract only)
(LSU Libraries via Journal of Library Administration)
Want to Learn More About Appalachia?
(The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) Libraries)
Also from UTK Libraries: New Libraries Storage Annex
Western Launches Comprehensive Digitized Tornado Archive
(Western Libraries)
Higher Ed
COVID-19 Guidance for Academic Year 2024–25
(ACHA: American College Health Association)
Advocacy & Public Policy
ACE Issue Brief Explores How Campus Leaders Can Prepare for a Potentially Tumultuous Fall
(ACE: American Council on Education)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Academic Librarians with Disabilities: A Literature Review
(The Southeastern Librarian)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
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Tuesday, August 6
Top o’ the Review
Clarivate Appoints Former ProQuest CEO Matti Shem Tov as the Company’s Next CEO
(Clarivate)
How America Pays for College 2024
(Sallie Mae)
JSTOR Announces “Artstor on JSTOR”
(JSTOR)
New NEH-NEA Partnership Will Expand Data Available on Humanities and Arts and Cultural Organizations
(NEA: US National Endowment for the Arts and NEH: US National Endowment for the Humanities)
New Report Shows the Truth of How People Actually Use AI Chatbots
(PCWorld)
Smithsonian-Gallup Study Uncovers Gaps in How US Science Standards Are Preparing Students to Meet Sustainability Challenges of the Future
(Smithsonian Institution and Gallup)
The Challenge of Aligning AI Chatbots
(HAI: Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
The Changing College President: Aligning Experience with Necessity
(ACE: American Council on Education and TIAA Institute)
ARL Member Libraries
Big Ten Academic Alliance Groups Mobilize to Further Digital Accessibility
(BTAA: Big Ten Academic Alliance)
Building Collections & Building Community with Temple Libraries
(Temple University Libraries)
Coming August 7: Re-Designed McGill Libraries Homepage
(McGill Library)
Grant Will Preserve Richmond Civil Rights–Era Films
(VCU Libraries, Virginia Commonwealth University)
Hispanic Voices from Our Collections
(Duke University Libraries)
Also from Duke Libraries: Economist Jack L. Treynor Papers Open for Research
2024 WEST Member Meeting Recap: Harnessing the Value of Shared Print Through Local Action
(CDL: California Digital Library, University of California)
Libraries—Other
As LGBTQ Library Material Comes Under Fire, California May Ban Book Bans
(Cal Matters)
See also: It’s Official: These 13 Books Are Now Banned from All Public Schools in Utah (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Higher Ed
Peer Mentoring for Student Success
(APLU: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities)
UF Writing Courses Redefine the Role of AI
(UF: University of Florida)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Investing in Universities Is an Investment in Canada’s Future
(Universities Canada)
More Detailed Data Could Help Us Better Track Hate Crimes on College Campuses
(Urban Institute)
Schumer Pushes Harder for AI Regulation: “Deepfakes Are a Serious, Serious Threat”
(The Hill)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Largest-Ever Gift to the Nation’s Four Historically Black Medical Schools
(Bloomberg Philanthropies)
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Wednesday, August 7
Top o’ the Review
A Publishing Platform That Places Code Front and Center
(Nature)
Also from Nature: Scientists Are Falling Victim to Deepfake AI Video Scams—Here’s How to Fight Back
As Colleges Grapple with AI’s Pitfalls, U of Delaware Uses Technology to Transform Faculty Lectures into Interactive Study Aides
(The Philadelphia Inquirer)
CLIR Announces Call for Submissions: Grants for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives
(CLIR: Council on Library and Information Resources)
Fighting Disinformation with Sunshine: Promoting Funding Transparency in Science
(ISC: International Science Council)
Not a Blank Space: Policy Considerations for AI in Research
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health)
Also from NIH: Learn About Research Misconduct Through Revamped Webpage
Report from CHORUS Forum: “Linking from Datasets to Content”
(CHORUS)
The Future of Open Research Policy Should Be Evidence Based
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
Upcoming Virtual Event: Current & Future Literacies: Libraries Leading Literacy Development (Tuesday, August 13)
(Academic and Research Libraries Section, IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Using ROR for Funder Identification
(ROR: Research Organization Registry)
ARL Member Libraries
CRL Welcomes Newest Member: Saint Louis University
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
From the Archives: Documenting Ferguson
(Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries)
Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) Awarded National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) Grant to Preserve Important Footage from Its Fox Movietone News Collection
(University of South Carolina University Libraries)
Rebranding the Library Through Engineering Outreach: Three Case Studies at the University of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo Library via ASEE: American Society for Engineering Education)
What’s Nearby on the Shelf? A Visual Shelf-Browse Widget
(University of Michigan Library)
When Copyright and Contracts Collide: Advocacy for Library and User Rights
(University of California (UC), Berkeley Library)
Higher Ed
Engaging Students in Higher Education with Educational Technology
(Education and Information Technologies)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Entertainment Industry Contraction Affects Inclusion
(USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California)
Scholars & Scholarship
Documenting “Database as Book and Lively Community Archive” Project
(Copim)
Trends in Information Behavior Research, 2016–2022: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology Paper
(JASIST: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)
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Thursday, August 8
Top o’ the Review
ARL Leadership and Career Development Program 2024 Fellows Selected
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
See also: ARL, CNI Moving Offices This Month (ARL and CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Augmented Course Design: Using AI to Boost Efficiency and Expand Capacity
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Best Practice Guidance: Syndicated Usage
(COUNTER Metrics)
GPT-4o System Card
(OpenAI)
Information Literacy Skill Mastery Across the Undergraduate Degree: An Examination of First-Generation and Continuing-Generation Students
(Texas A&M University via The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
Move Over, LLMs. Small AI Models Are the Next Big Thing.
(BNN Bloomberg)
Open Research Is the Key to Unlocking Safer AI
(Ai2: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Perspectives on the Future of Community-Driven Open Access Publishing
(Research Group Information Management @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Research Software, Citation, and FAIR at FORCE2024
(Upstream)
Upcoming Community Calls with CARL Library Publishing Community Engagement Team (Thursday, September 12; Tuesday, December 17; Wednesday, February 26)
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
ARL Member Libraries
Before the Libraries Can Preserve History, the Processing Archivists Get to Work
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
Explore Beyond Collections with Music in the Stacks
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
How Changing a Subject Heading in UBC Library’s Catalog Can Support Indigenous Research
(The University of British Columbia (UBC) Library)
Libraries—Other
Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 Call for Papers
(Diff)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Promoting Reproductive Health Care Access on Campus: Implementation Toolkit
(ACHA: American College Health Association)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Artificial Intelligence Impacts on Privacy Law
(RAND)
Statement on Harnessing Science and Technology to Address the Challenges of Today and Open Doors to the Future
(OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House)
The 2023 Federal Broadband Funding Report
(NTIA: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of Commerce)
Scholars & Scholarship
Challenges in Building Scholarly Knowledge Graphs for Research Assessment in Open Science
(QSS: Quantitative Science Studies)
Simplifying Scholarly Abstracts for Accessible Digital Libraries (preprint)
(arXiv)
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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
