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Monday, March 31
Top o’ the Review
Amazon’s AGI Lab Reveals Its First Work: Advanced AI Agents
(WIRED)
See also: Amazon Makes It Easier for Developers and Tech Enthusiasts to Explore Amazon Nova, Its Advanced Gen AI Models (Amazon)
Bloomberg Has a Rocky Start with AI Summaries
(The New York Times)
Call for Expressions of Interest—CARL Visiting Program Officer for Digital Preservation
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Hurricane Musk: How to Think About—and Oppose—the Obliteration of the US Scientific Infrastructure
(UCS: Union of Concerned Scientists)
IFLA WLIC 2025—Call for Papers—Perspectives on Open Science
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Association and Institutions, WLIC: World Library and Information Congress)
Issue Brief: Contingency Planning for State Budgets for IMLS Funding Uncertainty
(EveryLibrary Institute)
Local “Trusted Messenger” Trainings Shown to Be an Effective Tool Against the Global Challenge of Disinformation
(PEN America)
President Trump Signs Executive Order on American History
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
See also: Roundup: Statements/Responses to Executive Order on “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”(infoDOCKET)
2U/edX Implements Another Round of Layoffs amid Ongoing Financial Struggles
(Class Central)
What Do the Massive US Education Department Layoffs Look Like? See for Yourself.
(Higher Ed Dive)
ARL Member Libraries
Adaptive Data Governance for Research Data Management
(University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library via IASSIST Quarterly)
ARL member library authors
Archive of Cristina Rivera Garza, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Acquired by Benson Latin American Collection
(University of Texas Libraries)
Editorial: UNC Libraries Makes a Great Wealth of Resources Available to Us. We Should Use Them.
(UNC University Libraries via The Daily Tar Heel)
Source: UC Libraries Newsletter (March 21, 2025)
(University of Cincinnati (UC) Libraries)
Support for Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software in ARL Libraries
(University of Calgary Library via IASSIST Quarterly)
ARL member library authors
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Accessible AI Requires Involving and Collaborating with People with Disabilities
(Every Learner Everywhere)
At Black Colleges, a Stubborn Gender Enrollment Gap Keeps Growing
(The New York Times)
How Latinos Pay for College: 2025 National Trends
(Excelencia in Education)
Scholars & Scholarship
Introducing CodeScientist: A Step Toward Automated Scientific Discovery
(Ai2: The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
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Tuesday, April 1
Top o’ the Review
A Constant Priority, but Changing Responsibilities: Results of the Survey on IFLA’s Code of Ethics
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
EFF, ARL, Others Urge Third Circuit to Join the Legal Chorus: No One Owns the Law
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries, EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public.Resource.Org, Watch Duty, iFixit, ALA: American Library Association, Public Knowledge, and Library Futures)
(See also: Amicus brief in the case)
IMLS Staff Placed on Administrative Leave
(infoDOCKET)
I’ve Spent Fifty Years in Libraries. Here’s What I See in Their Future
(Katina)
Meeting the Moment Facing America’s Research Universities
(AAU: Association of American Universities)
NASA Finds Generative AI Can’t Be Trusted
(Computerworld)
Nearly 2,000 Top Researchers Call on Trump Administration to Halt “Assault” on Science
(STAT)
See also: National Science Foundation (NSF) Has Awarded Almost 50% Fewer Grants Since Trump Took Office(Science)
The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment Continues to Gain Traction in Canada
(University Affairs)
Trump’s NIH Ditches Its Scientific Integrity Policy. That’s Bad News for Public Trust in Government Science.
(UCS: Union of Concerned Scientists)
See also: Trump Administration Sued over Decision to Rescind Billions in Health Funding (AP: The Associated Press)
USAID’s Demographic Health Surveys
(Data Rescue Project)
ARL Member Libraries
Highlights from Celebration of Teaching 2025
(Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies)
Jewish Culinary Cultures: A Recent Donation of Books in Woodruff Library
(Emory University Libraries)
Libraries Annual Report 2024
(University of Waterloo Libraries)
New Accessible Text Request Service
(WashU Libraries, Washington University in St. Louis)
Scholar Services Program Elevates Research Through Expert Support
(University of Louisville Libraries)
Silverman Library’s New Lego Area
(University at Buffalo University Libraries)
Higher Ed
Art, Liberty, Diverse Voices: Six Poets on Why University Presses Are Critical for Poetry
(AUPresses: Association of University Presses)
Scholars & Scholarship
Model Context Protocol (MCP): The New “USB-C for AI” That’s Bringing Fierce Rivals Together
(Ars Technica)
Teaching Research Integrity: A Manual of Good Practices: An Outline
(International Journal for Educational Integrity)
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Wednesday, April 2
Top o’ the Review
DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment
(The New York Times)
See also: NHA Statement on Threats to the NEH (ARL and others with NHA: National Humanities Alliance)
Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons
(Cambridge University Press)
How Researchers Could Get Their Canceled NIH Grants Back
(IHE: Inside Higher Ed)
Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
(WIRED)
Naval Academy Removes Nearly 400 Books from Library in New DEI Purge Ordered by Hegseth’s Office
(AP: The Associated Press)
Open Repositories 2025 Conference Going Ahead as Planned
(Open Repositories 2025)
PEN America, PEN Canada, and PEN Québec Jointly Call for Books and Literature to Flow Freely Across the Shared Border
(PEN America, PEN Canada, and PEN Québec)
Report Shows Impact of Anti-DEI Law on Texas’s LGBTQ+ College Students
(KERA News)
The Potential Impact of Federal Funding Instability in the United States
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure)
ARL Member Libraries
Brown Librarians, Professors Lead Effort to Archive Government Data Under Threat by Trump Administration
(Brown University Library via The Brown Daily Herald)
Libraries and McMaster Museum of Art Collaborate on New Exhibition
(McMaster University Libraries)
Recent Additions to Chronicling America
(Library of Congress)
Reclaiming Academic Publishing: The Launch of the Open Journals Collective
(Several ARL members via Open Library of Humanities)
Significant Collection of Civil War Letters Between General and His Wife Finds a New Home at Virginia Tech
(Virginia Tech University Libraries)
Libraries—Other
The Candidates’ Perspective on the Academic Library Interview Experience During COVID-19
(Library Leadership & Management)
Higher Ed
Building America’s Future: Higher Education as a Catalyst for Talent and Innovation
(AGB: Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and BHEF: Business-Higher Education Forum)
University of Maryland (UMD) Community Members Voice Concerns on Tightened University Hiring Guidelines
(The Diamondback)
Scholars & Scholarship
Actionable AI in the Humanities Classroom
(Modern Language Association and Conference on College Composition and Communication (MLA-CCCC) Joint Task Force on Writing and AI)
How Crawlers Impact the Operations of the Wikimedia Projects
(Diff, Wikimedia Foundation)
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Thursday, April 3
Top o’ the Review
ARL Advocates for Social Sciences, Library Funding on Capitol Hill
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Black Colleges Ponder Their Future as Trump Makes Cuts to Education Dollars
(Stateline)
Can News and Social Media Attention Reduce the Influence of Problematic Research? (preprint)
(arXiv)
Gender Gap in Research Publishing Is Improving—Slowly
(Nature)
How the US Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence
(Pew Research Center)
Launch: New OONI Explorer Thematic Censorship Pages
(OONI: Open Observatory of Network Interference)
Letter from US National Museum and Library Services Board to IMLS Acting Director Requesting Clarification About Decision to Place IMLS Staff on Administrative Leave and Other Matters
(US National Museum and Library Services Board via infoDOCKET)
See also:
- ALA Responds to the Termination of IMLS Grants in Several States (ALA: American Library Association)
- March 24 Letter from Board to IMLS Acting Director (US National Museum and Library Services Board via infoDOCKET)
- Roundup: Statements in Response to Executive Order Impacting IMLS (infoDOCKET)
Online Tracking Is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight Back
(EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Scientists Sue NIH, Saying Politics Cut Their Research Funding
(AP: The Associated Press)
Training AI Using “Pirated” Content Can Be Fair Use, Law Professors Argue
(TorrentFreak)
ARL Member Libraries
Books & Broadsides from the King Library Press
(University of Kentucky (UK) Libraries)
Direct to Open (D2O)’s Impact on Author Experience, Citations, Usage, and More with Choice Authority File
(MIT Press, MIT Libraries)
Disability Access at University Libraries: Wheelchairs Available
(UNC University Libraries)
Get a Grip! Historical Cartoons at the Fisher Shine a Light on Canadian/US Relations
(University of Toronto Libraries)
Twelve Books from the Bibliothek der Jüdische Gemeinde Berlin
(University of Michigan Library)
Higher Ed
Mapping a Multidimensional Framework for GenAI in Education
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Top Public Policy Issues Facing Governing Boards in 2025–2026
(AGB: Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges)
Where Do the Federal Election Candidates Stand on Postsecondary Education?
(University Affairs)
Scholars & Scholarship
Exploring Open Science Impact: Highlights from the First PathOS Training Sessions
(OpenAIRE)
Publishers Trial Paying Peer Reviewers—What Did They Find?
(Nature)
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Information Industry Analyst
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