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Monday, June 23
Top o’ the Review
Arcadia Joins the IOI Fund for Network Adoption as a Founding Contributor
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure)
CARL Releases 2024 Annual Report
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal
(DRP: Data Rescue Project)
Lessons from the 2025 Trust in Practice Summit: Practicing Trust, Building Change
(Aspen Institute)
Not Enough: Open Infrastructure Funding and the Future of Knowledge Futures
(Knowledge Futures)
The HBCU Library Alliance Invites Applications for an Executive Director
(HBCU Library Alliance)
Webinar Video: Knowledge Stewardship—Richard Ovenden, University of Oxford
(RLUK: Research Libraries UK)
ARL Member Libraries
Carla Hayden on Her Time as a Pioneering Librarian of Congress and Getting Fired by Trump
(Library of Congress via PBS News Hour)
Gale Etschmaier Reflects on Her Wide-Ranging Career and the Profession
(Florida State University (FSU) Libraries via ARL)
Mapping Member Strategic Priorities
(University of California CDL: California Digital Library)
New Open-Access Journal from LibraryPress@UF Focuses on Space
(University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries)
The CNI Interviews Podcast: Collaboration Fuels Digital Transformation at Washington University (WashU)
(WashU Libraries via CNI: Coalition for Networked Information and EDUCAUSE)
The Invention of the Stethoscope and a Featured Book from the John Martin Rare Book Room
(University of Iowa Libraries)
UC Berkeley’s Engineering Library Reopens in Innovative New Campus Hub
(UC Berkeley Library)
Higher Ed
AI Adoption Across the Institution: A Debrief of the EDUCAUSE Summit
(EDUCAUSE Shop Talk Podcast, EDUCAUSE Review)
Advocacy & Public Policy
LCA Comments on the May 29, 2025, Framework for the American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA) Discussion Draft
(LCA: Library Copyright Alliance)
Moratorium on State AI Regulation Clears Senate Hurdle
(TechCrunch)
SAA Statement on FY2026 National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Funding
(SAA: Society of American Archivists)
Scholars & Scholarship
Citation Issues Cost These 20 Journals Their Impact Factors This Year
(Retraction Watch)
PAIGE: Examining Student Learning Outcomes and Experiences with Personalized AI-Generated Podcasts
(Google Research)
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Tuesday, June 24
Top o’ the Review
Anthropic Wins on Fair Use for Training Its LLMs; Loses on Building a “Central Library” of Pirated Books
(Authors Alliance)
See also: Anthropic Wins a Major Fair Use Victory for AI—but It’s Still in Trouble for Stealing Books (The Verge)
ARL Comments on Draft FAIR Cost Models Developed by Joint Associations Group (JAG) on Indirect Costs
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Ethics Is the Edge: The Future of AI in Higher Education
(EDUCAUSE Review)
How Language Bias Persists in Scientific Publishing Despite AI Tools
(HAI: Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
How Much Will Cuts to NIH Funding Affect Scholarly Publishing Activity?
(Delta Think)
Interests, Concerns, and Knowledge Gaps Around Open Licenses
(AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science)
See also: What Scientists Need to Know About Sharing—and Protecting—Their Published Work (Science)
Invitation: Strategic Foresight in Research Computing: Leveraging the ARL/CNI AI Scenarios (Thursday, June 26)
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information and EDUCAUSE)
New ALA Report Spotlights Prison Libraries’ Strategic Role in Reentry
(ALA: American Library Association)
Direct link to report
PKP Annual General Meeting (AGM) Recap and Recording Now Available
(PKP: Public Knowledge Project)
The Palace Project, an Audio and Ebook App for Libraries, Moves to Nonprofit Lyrasis
(Lyrasis)
ARL Member Libraries
After 42 Years at Emory, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library Director Sandra Franklin Retires
(Emory University Libraries)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Transition Update #2: Call for Support Now Open
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University Library)
IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Standing Committee Election Results are Final
(University of Michigan Library and WashU Libraries via IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Lesliediana Jones to Serve as Director of the Wayne State University Arthur Neef Law Library
(Wayne State University Library System)
Librarian Peter Zhou Helped Put UC Berkeley’s East Asian Library on the Map
(UC Berkeley Library)
Rutgers University Libraries Welcome Paige Morgan as Assistant Vice President for Collections and Digital Strategies
(Rutgers University Libraries)
Todd Grappone Appointed University Librarian
(UC Santa Barbara Library)
UCLA Film & Television Archive Welcomes Ariel West as 2025 Artist-in-Residence
(UCLA Library)
US Copyright Office Replaces Online Public Catalog with Copyright Public Records System
(US Copyright Office, Library of Congress)
Why CDL Is Investing in COMET: A Community-Centered Path to Richer Metadata
(University of California CDL: California Digital Library)
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Wednesday, June 25
Top o’ the Review
AI, Peer Review, and the Human Activity of Science
(Nature)
See also: Envisioning the Future of Peer Review: Investigating LLM-Assisted Reviewing Using ChatGPT as a Case Study (CHIWORK ’25: Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work)
An Update on University-Based Publishing Futures Work
(LPC: Library Publishing Coalition)
Also from LPC: LPC Adds Its First Consortial Membership: Welcome VIVA!
Bologna Meeting Report Is Now Available
(Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information)
Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
(Creative Commons)
Royal Society of Chemistry Changes Direction on Open Access Rollout Following Discussions with Community
(Chemistry World)
2025 Community Week: Session Registration (Monday–Wednesday, July 14–16)
(HathiTrust)
Wake Up Call for AI: Computer-Vision Research Increasingly Used for Surveillance
(Nature)
Will Gates and Other Funders Save Massive Public Health Database at Risk from Trump Cuts?
(Nature)
See also: International Scientific Collaboration: Vital yet Vulnerable (ISC: International Science Council)
ARL Member Libraries
Disclosing Generative AI Use for Writing Assistance Should Be Voluntary
(Northwestern University Libraries via Research Ethics)
ARL member library authors
Impacting Scholarly Communication: From Cells to Society
(Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries via ARL)
Indigenous Mural Unveiled in Dana Porter Library
(University of Waterloo Library)
Library of Congress Acquires Manuscripts and Papers of Award-Winning Composer and Lyricist Stephen Sondheim
(Library of Congress)
Where Open Access Collections Meet the Publishing Integrity Crisis, an Opportunity for Libraries
(Iowa State University Library via Katina)
ARL member library authors
Higher Ed
Project Infuse Launched to Democratize Digital Credentials in Higher Education
(AACRAO: American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers)
Understanding the Federal Role in Higher Education Accreditation
(Ithaka S+R)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Re:Create Comments on May 29 Discussion Draft Framework for American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA)
(Re:Create Coalition)
Scholars & Scholarship
Funding by Algorithm: A Handbook for Responsible Uses of AI and Machine Learning by Research Funders
(RoRI: Research on Research Institute)
That Chatbot May Just Be Telling You What You Want to Hear
(WSJ: The Wall Street Journal via MSN)
Theme for Open Access Week 2025 Asks “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”
(SPARC)
Trends and Patterns of Artificial Intelligence Research in Libraries: A Bibliometric Analysis
(SAGE Open)
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Thursday, June 26
Top o’ the Review
Access and Preservation in the Audiovisual Age
(The CNI Interviews Podcast, EDUCAUSE and CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
AI Makes Research Easy. Maybe Too Easy.
(WSJ: The Wall Street Journal via MSN)
AI’s Growing Role in News: No Turning Back
(Aspen Digital)
How Are US Institutions Putting Public Access into Practice? Insights from Our “Reasonable Costs” Institutional Research
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure)
Howard University, Google Partner to Enhance AI Recognition of African American English
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
Meta Fends Off Authors’ US Copyright Lawsuit over AI
(Reuters)
Report: Privacy Harms from AI Necessitate Robust Risk Assessments
(EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center)
The US Department of Education Is Far Behind on Producing Key Statistics
(Brookings Institution)
The Wikipedia Test
(Wikimedia Foundation Policy via Medium)
Trump’s War On Knowledge Requires Re-inventing Academic Publishing
(TechDirt)
ARL Member Libraries
Data Literacy in Undergraduate Research: A Case Study from Student Poster Competitions
(Brigham Young University (BYU) Library via IASSIST Quarterly)
ARL member library authors
From Building a First-Generation Digital Library Infrastructure to Reimagining Discovery
(Harvard Library via IJDC: International Journal of Digital Curation)
ARL member library authors
ONE Archives at the USC Libraries Receives $4.2 Million in Gifts Endowing Curator, Director Positions
(USC Libraries, University of Southern California)
Tamara Sumner Appointed Interim Dean of University Libraries
(University of Colorado Boulder Libraries)
Higher Ed
California Colleges Spend Millions to Catch Plagiarism and AI. Is the Faulty Tech Worth It?
(The Markup)
Postsecondary Students in Canada, by Indigenous Identity and Racialized Group, 2014 to 2022
(Statistics Canada)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI Assessment Changes Human Behavior
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to Integrate ORCID into Convergence Platform
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)
Also from CRKN: Canada Foundation for Innovation Joins ORCID Canada Consortium
Understanding the Patterns and Magnitude of Life Science Publication Retractions in the Last Four Decades
(International Journal for Educational Integrity)
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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
