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Monday, May 12
Top o’ the Review
- See Also: President Fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as White House Continues Purge of Perceived Trump Opponents
(infoDOCKET) - See Also: Trump Fires Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director, U.S. Copyright Office
(infoDOCKET)
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College: ChatGPT Has Unraveled the Entire Academic Project
(New York Magazine)
Exploring the Database Side of the ‘Database as Book’ Pilot Project
(COPIM)
Global Research-Intensive Universities Network issue Ottawa Declaration
(U15 Canada)
IMLS Terminates Next Generation Library Publishing: Pilot to Production Grant
(Educopia)
LCA Comments on the Copyright Claims Board (“CASE Act”) Comments in Response to Copyright Office’s Notice of Inquiry
(Library Copyright Alliance)
Most Americans Disapprove of Trump’s Treatment of Colleges, a New AP-NORC Poll Finds
(Associated Press)
Re:Create Statement on USCO AI Report Pt 3
(Re:Create)
The Authors Guild Files Class Action Lawsuit to Reverse Unlawful NEH Grant Terminations
(The Authors Guild)
- See Also: NEH Announces $9.55 Million for 68 Humanities Projects
(NEH: National Endowment For the Humanities)
Three-Fourths of NSF Funding Cuts Hit Education
(The Hechinger Report)
Trust in Artificial Intelligence: Global Insights 2025
(KPMG)
2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition
(EDUCAUSE)
US Military Ordered to Pull Books on Diversity, Gender Issues
(Reuters)
- See Also: Full Text of Memo From US Department of Defense
(US Department of Defense)
ARL Member Libraries
2024 Annual Report Now Available
(University of Missouri Libraries)
90 Years of Legacy: Honoring Lockwood Memorial Library
(University of Buffalo Library)
Yale Library, Poorvu Center Create New Leadership Role to Further AI Strategies and Policies
(Yale Library)
UBC Library Supports Canadian Research Data Discovery in European Open Scholarship Platform
(University of British Columbia Library)
UCSC University Librarian Elizabeth Cowell to Retire
(University of California Santa Cruz Library)
Scholars & Scholarship
The African Platform for Open Scholarship Advancing Diamond Open Access and Inclusivity
(JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
On Protecting the Data Privacy of Large Language Models (LLMs) and LLM Agents: A Literature Review
(High-Confidence Computing)
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Tuesday, May 13
Top o’ the Review
A Living Archive of the Open Access Movement Approaches Its Next Chapter
(Katina)
Audible Expands Catalog with AI Narration and Translation Services
(Publishers Weekly)
EUIPO Releases Study on Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright
(EUIPO: European Union Intellectual Property Office)
See Also: House of Lords (UK) Pushes Back against Government’s AI Plans
(The Guardian)
Examining the New Carnegie Student Access and Earnings Classification at Four-Year Colleges and Universities
(Ithaka S+R)
GOP Sneaks Decade-Long AI Regulation Ban Into Spending Bill
(Ars Technica)
In a Major Win for Libraries, Federal Judge Orders IMLS to Be Restored
(Words & Money)
Insurers Begin Covering AI Mishap-Related Losses
(PYMNTS)
NSF Pauses Closure of STEM Equity Division Following Court Order, Staff Letter Says
(FedScoop)
Upcoming Webinar (May 19, 2025) How States Are Leading Higher Education Amidst Federal Uncertainty
(American Council on Education (ACE), Brookings Institution’s Brown Center for Education Policy)
Upward transfers: 2 states now look to boost bachelor’s degree completion
(University Business)
The Resilience of Open Science in Times of Crisis
(Upstream)
USDA Reverses Course, Commits to Restore Purged Climate Webpages in Response to Farmers’ Lawsuit
(Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University)
See Also: Farmers Sued Over Deleted Climate Data. So the Government Will Put It Back
(The NY Times)
ARL Member Libraries
McGee Center’s New Home in Vanderbilt’s Central Library Celebrated at Campus Gathering
(Vanderbilt University Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries)
The Heart of the University: A digital exhibition celebrating Parks Library at 100
(Iowa State University Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Automated Semantic Annotation of Data Management Plans: A Systematic Review
(Data Science Journal)
How Do Retractions Impact Researchers’ Career Paths and Collaborations?
(Retraction Watch)
Integrity and Misconduct, Where Does Artificial Intelligence Lead?
(Learned Information)
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Wednesday, May 14
Top o’ the Review
Evidence of a Social Evaluation Penalty for Using AI
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
How We Think About Protecting Data
(MIT)
Is It OK for AI to Write Science Papers? Nature Survey Shows Researchers Are Split
(Nature)
See also:The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It (The New York Times)
Joint Letter on Dismissal of Register of Copyrights, Integrity of Copyright Office, and Separation of Powers
(eBook Study Group, Boston Public Library, and others)
“R&D” Means Something Different on Capitol Hill
(Issues in Science and Technology)
Trump Officials Take Steps Toward a Radically Different NSF
(Science)
Also from Science: NSF Board Member Resigns in Protest of Trump Policies at Agency
ARL Member Libraries
Changes in Our Ebooks Holdings
(Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries)
From PubMed to TrialGPT: Exploring the Impact of AI & Large Language Models in Medicine
(NNLM: Network of the National Library of Medicine, NLM: US National Library of Medicine)
Making Science Accessible: Matthew Blair ’26 Is Digitizing Hundreds of Issues of Student-Run Magazine
(Yale University Library)
NEH, IMLS Funding Cuts Drain UI Library
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign via The Daily Illini)
Opening Up Translational Science Data Impact Through the Data Citation Corpus
(Northwestern University Libraries via Make Data Count)
ARL member library authors
Shannon Library Renovation Architects Honored with 2025 Palladio Award
(University of Virginia Library)
Tulane Hosts National Exhibit on Lead Poisoning to Raise Awareness in Greater New Orleans
(Tulane University Libraries)
Unearthing History Through Commerce: A Look at UD’s Trade Catalog Collection
(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press)
University Libraries Receives Gift from the Estate of Renowned Architect Antoine Predock
(University of New Mexico Libraries)
World War II Ends in Europe: Allied Victory in the Hearst Newsreels
(UCLA Library)
Higher Ed
State Funding to Public Colleges Sees a Minimal Increase Beyond Inflation
(SHEEO: State Higher Education Executive Officers Association)
The Development of Policies on Generative Artificial Intelligence in UK Universities
(IFLA Journal)
Scholars & Scholarship
Confident User Prompts Make LLMs More Likely to Hallucinate
(The Decoder)
Updated Version of “How Equitable Is It?” Tool for Assessing Equity in Scholarly Communication Model
(Jisc, Plan S, PLOS)
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Thursday, May 15
Top o’ the Review
ACE, ARL, Others Call on Trump Administration to Reforge Compact with Higher Education
(ACE: American Council on Education, ARL: Association of Research Libraries, and others)
Canadian and US Research Libraries Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day
(ARL and CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Clarivate to Stop Counting Citations to Retracted Articles in Journals’ Impact Factors
(Retraction Watch)
Germany’s Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net
(Absolutely Maybe, PLOS)
See also: Infrastructure Made in Europe (ZB MED)
Journalism Zero: How Platforms and Publishers Are Navigating AI
(Tow Center for Digital Journalism via Columbia Journalism Review)
See also: What Is News? (Pew Research Center)
Report: More Than 600 College Students and Student Groups Punished or Investigated for Speech in Five Years
(FIRE: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)
The Next Chapter: Strengthening the Creative Commons Community Together
(CC: Creative Commons)
ARL Member Libraries
Building Psychological Safety in Academic Libraries: Fostering Innovation, Well-Being, and Engaged Teams
(University of Iowa Libraries via College & Research Library News)
ARL member library authors
Developing Specialized Data Curation Curricula to Meet Growing Demands: A Community-Based and Evolving Approach
(Duke University, Indiana University Bloomington, Princeton University, UC Santa Barbara, University of Minnesota, and Washington University in St. Louis via International Journal of Digital Curation)
ARL member library authors
Harvard Law School’s “Copy” of Magna Carta Revealed as Original
(Harvard Library)
Heard Libraries Host Global Gathering of Digital Preservation Professionals
(Vanderbilt University Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries)
Milestone Gift Names Zilberman Family Center for Global Collections
(Penn Libraries)
Open Access Article Publishing at UBC: Annual Report
(The University of British Columbia (UBC) Library)
Shelves of Support: Penn State Libraries’ Wellness Initiatives for Students
(Penn State University Libraries via College & Research Library News)
ARL member library authors
10 Years of the Engaged Scholar Journal
(University of Saskatchewan University Library)
Traveling on the Same Road While Navigating Different Terrain: Institutional Data Services and Repositories Across the US
(Cornell University, Duke University, Indiana University Bloomington, Princeton University, University at Buffalo, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and Virginia Tech via International Journal of Digital Curation)
ARL member library authors
Libraries—Other
Reappointment of Keith Webster as Helen and Henry Posner Jr. Dean of University Libraries
(Carnegie Mellon University Libraries)
Advocacy & Public Policy
CCIA Statement on Reintroduced Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)
(CCIA: Computer & Communications Industry Association)
See also: Recognizing and Resisting Censorship in Online Safety Bills: A Framework for Libraries (ARL via The Political Librarian)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI Agents in Focus: Technical and Policy Considerations
(CDT: Center for Democracy & Technology)
Listen to This Podcast Episode on Libraries and AI Literacy
(IATUL: International Association of University Libraries via IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
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