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Monday, June 16
Top o’ the Review
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally
(The New York Times)
AI Chatbots Need More Books to Learn From. These Libraries are Opening Their Stacks
(infoDOCKET)
AUPresses Welcomes New President, Board Members
(AUPresses: Association of University Presses)
Release of ‘IFLA Entry Point to Libraries and AI’ Document
(IFLA)
Joint Associations Group (JAG) on F&A costs (updated with June 12 Town Hall recording)
(APLU: Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities)
Opportunities In Open Science, Metascience, and Artificial Intelligence
(CSET: Center For Security And Emerging Technology)
Prospects of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for Academic Library Search and Retrieval
(ITAL: Information Technology and Libraries)
The Debate Over State Level AI Bans Misses the Point
(Fast Company)
ARL Member Libraries
‘Biographers Heaven’: Author Ron Chernow spotlights UC Berkeley’s Mark Twain Papers & Project Amid Funding Crisis
(UC Berkeley Library)
Boston Public Library Receives National Grant to Expand Workforce Support for English-Language Learners
(Boston Public Library)
Construction Begins on New Home for Special Collections at Morris Library
(Southern Illinois University Carbondale Morris Library)
CRL Launches Initiative to Create a New Model for Cooperative Cataloging
(Center For Research Libraries)
Inside Hillman Library’s $130M makeover at the University of Pittsburgh
(University of Pittsburgh University Library System via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
‘Small But Mighty’: UT Libraries Celebrates Groundbreaking for New Storage Annex
(The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Libraries)
UK Librarian Discusses Monographs & Affordability Initiatives on Against the Grain Podcast
(University of Kentucky Libraries)
Thank You for Your Suggestion! Analyzing Patron Purchase Requests at the University of Alberta Library
(University of Alberta Library via Evidence Based Library and Information Practice)
Virginia Tech Drone Park offers lending program in partnership with University Libraries
(Virginia Tech University Libraries)
Higher Ed
ACE, Other Higher Ed Associations Back Legal Challenge to the Executive Branch’s Efforts to Control Harvard
(ACE: America Council on Education)
How Trump is Changing Higher Education: The View From 4 Campuses
(The Hechinger Report)
See also:
- Shattered Science: The Scientific Research Lost Amid the Trump Administration’s NIH Cuts
(ProPublica) - Education Department Reinstates Some Research and Data Activities
(The Hechinger Report)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Comments Received in Response to Request for Information on the Development of a 2025 (NITRD: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development)
Fair Use Isn’t Optional: Judges Can Help Reclaim It for Creators
(Authors Alliance)
Scholars & Scholarship
Generative AI in Higher Education: Demographic Differences in Student Perceived Readiness, Benefits, and Challenges
(TechTrends)
Webinar Recording: RLUK Digital Shift Forum | Knowledge Stewardship – Richard Ovenden, University of Oxford
(RLUK: Research Libraries UK)
Report on the 24th RDA Plenary (VP24) released
(RDA: Research Data Alliance)
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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
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Tuesday, June 17
Top o’ the Review
Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?
(Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law)
See Also: Library IT vs. the AI Bots
(UNC University Libraries)
CNI Interviews Podcast: Developing AI Literacy for Faculty and Librarians
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Designing Libraries Conference Sept. 28-30, 2025 at U. Rochester
(CNI: Coalition For Networked Information)
How Changes to ADA Title II Impact Libraries – And What We Can Do to Respond
(The Scholarly Kitchen)
Judge Rules Some NIH Grant Cuts Illegal, Saying He’s Never Seen Such Discrimination In 40 Years
(AP: Associated Press)
New AAUP Report Highlights Trends in Faculty Compensation and other Key Economic Indicators
(AAUP: American Association of University Professors)
Transparent Peer Review to Be Extended to All of Nature’s Research Papers
(Nature)
2025 DLF Forum Program Now Available
(DLF: Digital Library Federation)
2025 EDUCAUSE Cybersecurity and Privacy Workforce in Higher Education
(EDUCAUSE)
ARL Member Libraries
American Record Companies and Producers (2nd ed.) Now Available
(UCSB Library)
Archives Preserve Atlanta Through Rebecca Ranson’s Plays, Writings
(Emory University Libraries)
How Language Revitalization Boosts Indigenous Health
(The University of British Columbia Library)
FSU Libraries Takes to Preserving Memorials for Shooting Victims
(Florida State University Libraries)
Preserving the Past, Inspiring the Future: University of Saskatchewan Archives and Special Collections Move to a State-of-the-Art Facility
(University of Saskatchewan University Library)
Leo Lo Named UVA Librarian and Dean of Libraries
(University of Virginia Library)
The MIT Press Acquires University Science Books from AIP Publishing
(MIT Press)
Rubenstein Library Acquires Records of Hammacher Schlemmer
(Duke University Libraries)
UMass Amherst Libraries Announce New Journal, Counseling Scholarship and Practice in Educational Communities (CSPEC)
(University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries)
Advocacy & Public Policy
How DHS’s New Social Media Vetting Policies Threaten Free Speech
(Just Security)
To Protest Budget Cuts, Young Scientists Try Letters to the Editor
(New York Times)
Scholars & Scholarship
Generative AI in Higher Education: Demographic Differences in Student Perceived Readiness, Benefits, and Challenges
(TechTrends)
What Language Are We Speaking?: Marketing Information Literacy on University Library Websites
(Communications in Information Literacy)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
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Wednesday, June 18
Top o’ the Review
Behind The Turmoil Of Federal Attacks on Colleges, Some States are Going After Tenure Tenure
(The Hechinger Report)
Charting the Future: OCUL’s Strategic Plan to Enhance Innovative, Collaborative Library Services
(OCUL: Ontario Council of University Libraries)
Concern About Misinformation: Connections to Trust in Media, Confidence in Institutions, Civic Engagement, and Hopefulness
(Statistics Canada)
See Also: Fostering Trustworthy Information: Countering Disinformation When There are No Bare Facts
(Royal Society Open Science)
RECAP Search Alerts for PACER Are Now Live
(Free Law Project)
Study: ChatGPT’s Creativity Gap
(Axios)
U.S. National Academies Adopts New Business Model to Weather a Financial Storm
(Science)
Webinar Recording: Building a HathiTrust Resource Sharing Service
(HathiTrust)
ARL Member Libraries
Announcing the Tommy Tune Collection at UH Libraries
(University of Houston Libraries)
Georgetown Hires Alexia Hudson-Ward as New University Librarian and Dean of the Library
(Georgetown University Library)
New Endowment Supports the Libraries’ Open Knowledge Center
(NC State University Libraries)
New Website Launched for Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
(The Ohio State University Libraries)
That’s MY book! The William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection
(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press)
Tiffany Moxham Appointed Interim University Librarian
(UC Riverside Library)
UK Libraries Preserves Photographs Documenting Labor Across Kentucky
(University of Kentucky Libraries)
University of Miami Libraries at 100
(University of Miami Libraries)
Advocacy & Public Policy
California Senate Approves Bill To Curb Online Privacy Suits
(MediaPost)
New York May Soon Require AI Giants to Publish Safety Protocols Before Releasing LLMs
(The Decoder)
Scholars & Scholarship
An APC Trap? Privilege and the Perception of Reasonableness in Open Access Publishing
(JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
Data Curation: Introducing a Competency Framework for the Social Sciences
(IJDC: International Journal of Digital Curation)
Sustainably Critical Cataloging: Maximizing the Impact of Term Funding with the Black Bibliography Project
(RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
