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Monday, January 6
Top o’ the Review
Announcing Make Data Count and HELIOS Open Collaboration: “Implementing Data Evaluation at Institutions” Working Group
(HELIOS Open and Make Data Count)
Call for Proposals to Community-Based Archives
(The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
Examining Library Structures to Scale Research Support Services: Insights from an OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) Leadership Roundtable
(Hanging Together: The OCLC Research Blog)
New Enrollment Trends
(AGB: Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges)
NSTC: Guidelines for Federal Research Agencies to Reduce Sex-Based and Sexual Harassment Involving Award Personnel
(NSTC: National Science and Technology Council, The White House)
Preprints Often Make News. Many People Don’t Know What They Are.
(Science)
Also from Science: US Science Funding Agencies Roll Out Policies on Free Access to Journal Articles
Rise of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Science (preprint)
(arXiv)
Scholarship Deadline Extended to Friday, January 10, for ARL President’s Institute—Open to All
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Selected CNI Meeting Videos Available
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Upcoming Webinar: Shaping Resilient Futures: Open Science and Data Policies for Crisis Preparedness, Response, and Recovery (Thursday, January 16)
(CODATA: Committee on Data, International Science Council)
ARL Member Libraries
Evaluation of a PDA Pilot Program to Address Equity and Diversity in Academic Library Acquisitions
(Stony Brook University Libraries via International Journal of Librarianship)
McNeil to Step Down as Dean of Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies, Effective January 2025
(Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies)
MSU Libraries Newly Renovated Special Collections Space Now Operational, Including Previously Paused Services
(Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries)
New Year, New Library Homepage!
(UC Santa Cruz University Library)
Planet of the APCs: A Decade of Progress and Setbacks in Open Access
(The University of Kansas (KU) Libraries via JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
Redesigned and Updated Website Launches
(Dartmouth Libraries, Dartmouth College)
UCSB Library Receives John Steinbeck First Editions and Audio Recordings
(UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) Library)
UGA and Liverpool Libraries Strengthen Ties in Virtual Symposium
(University of Georgia (UGA) University Libraries with University of Liverpool Libraries, Museums, and Galleries)
Also from UGA Libraries: Music Memorabilia Installed by UGA Libraries at Akins Ford Arena
Scholars & Scholarship
“As of My Last Knowledge Update”: How Is Content Generated by ChatGPT Infiltrating Scientific Papers Published in Premier Journals?
(Learned Publishing)
College Students’ Credibility Assessments of GenAI-Generated Information for Academic Tasks: An Interview Study
(JASIST: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
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Tuesday, January 7
Top o’ the Review
AI Means the End of Internet Search as We’ve Known It
(MIT Technology Review)
CAUL Expands Horizons: Council of Australian University Librarians Becomes Council of Australasian University Librarians
(CAUL: Council of Australasian University Librarians)
IIIF Executive Committee Election Results
(IIIF: International Image Interoperability Framework)
It Costs So Much to Run ChatGPT That OpenAI Is Losing Money on $200 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions
(The Byte, Futurism)
Librarians Gain Protections in Some States as Book Bans Soar
(Stateline)
Meta Is Ending Its Fact-Checking Program in Favor of a “Community Notes” System Similar to X
(NBC News)
Predatory Journals: What Can We Do to Protect Their Prey?
(The Lancet)
ARL Member Libraries
Beta Release of Library of Congress Web Archives Playback Services
(Library of Congress)
Cuba on the Labels: A Selection of Cuba-Themed Cigar Labels Printed Outside of Cuba
(LibraryPress@UF, University of Florida (UF) Press and UF George A. Smathers Libraries)
Digital Scholarship at PUL: Building Digital Collections
(PUL: Princeton University Library)
Duke University Libraries Magazine Fall/Winter 2024 Issue Now Online
(Duke University Libraries)
First-Year and First-Gen: Assessing the Information Literacy Skills of First-Year, First-Generation College Students
(Texas A&M University Libraries via C&RL: College & Research Libraries)
Higher Ed
GenAI-101: What Undergraduate Students Need to Know and Actually Know About Generative AI (preprint)
(EdWorkingPapers, Annenberg Institute at Brown University)
Rachel Davis Mersey Named Executive Vice President and Provost
(The University of Texas at Austin)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Higher Education in Prison and Return to Title IV (R2T4)
(Ithaka S+R)
Stop Campus Hazing Act Signed into Law
(ACHA: American College Health Association)
US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Launches Initiative to Double Check Biomedical Studies
(Science)
Scholars & Scholarship
Register Now for the RDA 24th Plenary Meeting
(RDA: Research Data Alliance)
Teaching Counts! Open Educational Resources as an Object of Measurement for Scientometric Analysis
(Quantitative Science Studies)
Use of Large Language Models as Artificial Intelligence Tools in Academic Research and Publishing Among Global Clinical Researchers
(Nature)
Also from Nature: “Precocious” Early-Career Scientists with High Citation Counts Proliferate
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Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
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Wednesday, January 8
Top o’ the Review
AI Has Changed Student Cheating. But Strategies to Stop It Remain Consistent.
(EdSurge)
As Academic Bluesky Grows, Researchers Find Strengths—and Shortcomings
(Science)
Faculty Report Declining Academic Freedom
(AAUP: American Association of University Professors)
Future of Jobs Report 2025: The Jobs of the Future—and the Skills You Need to Get Them
(World Economic Forum)
See also: Research Librarian Ranks #20 on the LinkedIn Jobs on the Rise 2025 List (LinkedIn)
Library of Parliament Joins the Canadian Association of Research Libraries
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Report: Housing Crisis Threatens Student Parents’ College Dreams
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
The Number of 18-Year-Olds Is About to Drop Sharply, Packing a Wallop for Colleges—and the Economy
(The Hechinger Report)
2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Mental Health Supports
(EDUCAUSE)
UC Riverside Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) Team Builds Promising Communication Prototype
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
View Online: IFLA Environment, Sustainability, and Libraries Section (ENSULIB) Webinar Series: Developing Sustainable Digital Scholarship Projects and Services in Academic Libraries
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
What’s Next for AI in 2025
(MIT Technology Review)
Also from MIT Technology Review: 10 Breakthrough Technologies
ARL Member Libraries
Behind the Scenes of Cultural Heritage Imaging
(University of Virginia (UVA) Library)
$500,000 Boost for York’s Portuguese Canadian History Project
(York University Libraries)
Follow the Evolution of Our Future Website
(The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Libraries)
Purdue Libraries Relocates Nearly One Million Items to New Off-Campus Facility
(Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies)
Smathers Libraries Centennial
(University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries)
The Impact of the Research Data Management Toolkit: Assessing a RoadShow Workshop
(University of Illinois Chicago and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign via C&RL: College & Research Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Boosting Data Findability: The Role of AI-Enhanced Keywords
(IASSIST Quarterly)
How and Why Funders Support Engaged Research (abstract only)
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
Navigating Knowledge: Patterns and Insights from Wikipedia Consumption (preprint)
(arXiv)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
