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Monday, June 17
Top o’ the Review
A Survey on Student Use of Generative AI Chatbots for Academic Research
(EBLIP: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice)
Anthony Cond Takes Office as AUPresses President
(AUPresses: Association of University Presses)
Call for Papers: Current Issues In Scholarly Publishing
(The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science)
National Archives Awards $4 Million for Historical Records Projects, Launches Programs for Congressional Papers and HBCU Archives
(NARA: US National Archives and Records Administration)
Registration Open: Library Assessment Conference 2024—Save with Advance Rates through August 15
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
RLUK25 Conference Call for Papers
(RLUK: Research Libraries UK)
Webinar Video: Inside HathiTrust’s Strategic Vision
(HathiTrust via YouTube)
ARL Member Libraries
And the Results Are In! Framing the Future
(University at Albany University Libraries)
Columbia University Libraries Selects FOLIO as New Library Services Platform (LSP)
(Columbia University Libraries)
Enriching Bibliographic Records Using AI—a Pilot by Ex Libris (abstract only)
(Rutgers University Libraries via Internet Reference Services Quarterly)
Iconic Olin Library “Call Board” to Get a (Literal) Glow-Up
(Cornell University Library)
No Laughing Matter: History Graduate Student Curates Exhibition on Jackie Gleason
(University of Miami Libraries)
Register Now for the Designing Libraries XI Conference, October 27–29
(NC State University Libraries)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Request for Information on the National Institutes of Health Draft Public Access Policy
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health via Federal Register)
Data & Analytics
Academic Library Expenditures and Graduation Rates: Evidence from Four-Year Colleges and Universities in the US (abstract only)
(Studies in Higher Education)
Beyond Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science: An Evaluation of the Backward and Forward Citation Coverage of 59 Databases’ Citation Indices
(Research Synthesis Methods)
Scholars & Scholarship
Data Science and AI in Context: Summary and Insights
(HDSR: Harvard Data Science Review)
Reacting to Generative AI: Insights from Student and Faculty Discussions on Reddit
(WEBSCI ’24: Proceedings of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference)
In Other News
Hybrid Work Has Changed Meetings Forever
(HBR: Harvard Business Review)
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Tuesday, June 18
Top o’ the Review
College Instructors Feeling the Strain of Mental Health Crisis
(Wiley)
Contracts in Publishing: A Toolkit for Authors and Publishers
(WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization)
Cost Leading Reason College Students Are Stopping Out
(Gallup)
Emerging Themes and Priority Areas for the Repository Community: Outcomes of the COAR Meetings
(COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories)
New UNESCO Report Warns That Generative AI Threatens Holocaust Memory
(UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
Recap, Slides, Video: Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) Webinar
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
The Realities of Increasing Open Access Charges
(Delta Think)
ARL Member Libraries
Books Taking on Historic Racial Injustice in Tulsa, Charleston Named as Winners of Lillian Smith Book Awards
(University of Georgia Libraries)
Expanding Discoverability for Architecture Treasures
(University of Texas Libraries)
International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Announces Winners of 2024 Library Interior Design Awards
(University of Toronto Libraries and Western University Libraries via ALA: American Library Association)
New “Handbook for European Studies Librarians” Provides Practical Guidance and Fosters Collective Knowledge
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
Tunnel of Love: The First Makerspace Residency
(Temple University Libraries)
Vanderbilt University’s Heard Libraries Join OCLC Research Library Partnership
(Vanderbilt University Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries)
Higher Ed
Sector of Employment of Science and Engineering (S&E) Doctorate Recipients with Definite US Commitments
(NCSES: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Advocacy & Public Policy
AAU Expresses Support for Innovative Approach to Providing Needed NSF Funding
(AAU: Association of American Universities)
Introducing ProPublica’s 527 Explorer: Browse Finances of Nonprofit Political Organizations Known as 527s
(ProPublica)
Scholars & Scholarship
Carbon Emissions in the Tailpipe of Generative AI
(HDSR: Harvard Data Science Review)
Disciplinary Differences and Scholarly Literature: Discovery, Browsing, and Formats (preprint)
(portal: Libraries & the Academy via ISU ReD: Illinois State University Research and eData)
Researchers Optimistic about Distributed Peer Review
(RoRI: Research on Research Institute)
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Thursday, June 20
Top o’ the Review
Georgetown Law COO David Mao, L’93, Named Librarian of US Supreme Court
(Georgetown Law)
How Are Faculty Using Generative AI in the Classroom? Findings from a National Survey
(Ithaka S+R)
Is Your AI Hallucinating? New Approach Can Tell When Chatbots Make Things Up
(Science)
Lyrasis Announces the 2024 Catalyst Fund Recipients and Their Projects
(Lyrasis)
National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Updates Strategic Activities
(DLF: Digital Library Federation)
Research Data Alliance (RDA) and Software Heritage Supported by Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) in Fifth Funding Round: French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) Grants RDA €400K and Software Heritage €450K
(French Ministry of Higher Education and Research)
Toward Enhanced Reusability: A Comparative Analysis of Metadata for Machine Learning Objects and Their Characteristics in Generalist and Specialist Repositories
(UC San Diego Library via Journal of eScience Librarianship)
UC President Drake and Provost Newman Affirm the University’s Commitment to Protect Author, Researcher, and Reader Rights
(UC: University of California)
ARL Member Libraries
Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) Launches Revitalized Platform
(University of Texas Libraries)
Fondren Library Invests in Diamond Open Access Journal to Support Foucault Studies
(Rice University Fondren Library)
New York’s First Black Librarians Changed the Way We Read
(NYPL: New York Public Library and Howard University Libraries via The New York Times)
Penn State University Press Names David Aycock Executive Director
(Penn State University Libraries)
Robert Janke Appointed Deputy University Librarian, Okanagan Campus
(The University of British Columbia (UBC) Library)
Advocacy & Public Policy
New Report Finds the US Has a Lot of Catching Up to Do When It Comes to Data Governance
(GW: The George Washington University)
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Public Accommodations in Web Services
(CRS: US Congressional Research Service)
The World’s First Binding Treaty on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law: Regulation of AI in Broad Strokes
(FPF: Future of Privacy Forum)
Scholars & Scholarship
Generative AI Is Spamming Up Academic Journals
(TechCrunch)
The Many Publics of Science: Using Altmetrics to Identify Common Communication Channels by Scientific Field (abstract only)
(Scientometrics)
Three of the fifty articles published in the new issue of Information Research:
- COVID-19 Information Spaces, Boundaries, and Information Sharing: An Interview Study
- Exploring Scholarly Perceptions of Preprint Servers
- Trends in Data Literacy, 2018–2023: A Review of the Literature
In Other News
Anthropic Has a Fast New AI Model—and a Clever New Way to Interact with Chatbots
(The Verge)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
