Last Updated on November 20, 2025, 2:26 pm ET
Day in Review highlights news and other stories of interest to the research library community in the US and Canada. Released Monday through Thursday, Day in Review is curated by Gary D. Price, co-founder and editor of Library Journal’s infoDOCKET, and edited and produced by Kaylyn Groves, ARL director of Member Communications.
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Monday, November 17
Top o’ the Review
DPLA’s Roundtable Series: Exploring the Move from Information to AI Literacy
(DPLA: Digital Public Library of America)
Empowering Networks, Advancing Openness: Invest in Open Infrastructure Announces Inaugural Grantees of the IOI Fund for Network Adoption
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure)
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s NEH
(The New York Times)
Open archived version
How to Send a Message to Future Civilizations
(Scientific American)
See also: Inside the Old Church Where One Trillion Webpages Are Being Saved (CNN)
NIH Funding Cuts Have Affected Over 74,000 People Enrolled in Experiments, a New Report Says
(AP: The Associated Press)
Podcast: What Tech Leaders Need to Know About Federal Policy and Higher Ed
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Publishers’ Lawsuit Against Cohere Over Copyright Infringement Allowed to Proceed
(BNN Bloomberg)
The Case for Viewing Libraries as Research Infrastructures
(KR21: Knowledge Rights 21)
Tri-Agency Interdisciplinary Peer Review Committee Announces Its Fourth-Year Results
(SSHRC: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, CIHR: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and NSERC: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council)
ARL Member Libraries
Digitizing “The Dagligtale,” Augustana’s Student Newspaper
(University of Alberta Library)
From Boxes to Albums: Feminist Struggles in Images, Now More Accessible
(University of Ottawa Library)
Highlights from Celebrating Research 2025
(Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies)
Also from Purdue: Highlights from Purdue GIS Day 2025: Unlocking GeoAI Data and Tools
Margaret Meserve Named Edward H. Arnold Dean of Hesburgh Libraries
(Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame)
Milton Murayama Papers Collection: Preserving the Legacy of Hawaiʻi’s Nisei Vets and Plantation Workers
(University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library)
Also from University of Hawaiʻi: Cartographies of Skin & Soil: Philippine Tattoos, Resistance & Colonial Maps
MSU Libraries, Press Win 2025 State History Awards
(Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries)
NYPL Names New Uris Director, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Library and Vice President of Public Programs and Exhibitions for Research Libraries
(NYPL: New York Public Library)
Ohio University Press Quadruples Open Access Titles with Support from University Libraries, Partners
(Ohio University Libraries)
Pathways for Diverse Data in AI: A Conversation with Professor Ruth Okediji, Moderated by Greg Leppert
(Harvard Law School Library)
Unwind at the Libraries: Relax, Reflect, and Create
(University at Buffalo (UB) University Libraries)
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Tuesday, November 18
Top o’ the Review
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
(404 Media)
AI + Google Scholar: Say Hello to Google Scholar Labs
(Google via infoDOCKET)
See also:
- Google Launches Gemini 3 with State-of-the-Art Reasoning, “Generative UI” for Responses, More (9to5Google)
- Don’t Blindly Trust What AI Tells You, Says Google’s Sundar Pichai (BBC)
Colleges Ease the Dreaded Admissions Process as the Supply of Applicants Declines
(The Hechinger Report)
Global Number of Internet Users Increases, but Disparities Deepen Key Digital Divides
(ITU: International Telecommunication Union)
Meet Merrilee Proffitt, Director of Democracy’s Library US
(Internet Archive)
Research Integrity Conference Hit with AI-Generated Abstracts
(Retraction Watch)
SCOSS Publishes 2026 Expression of Interest Call. Apply Now!
(SCOSS: Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services)
To Solve the Deepfake Problem, People Need the Rights to Their Own Image
(Scientific American)
Trump Administration Launches Plan to Dismantle Education Department
(Politico)
See also: “We Need to Be Worried”: Three University Leaders on the Fate of Higher Education in the Trump Era (paywall) (The New York Times) ; open archived version)
Upcoming Webinar: The State of US Academic Libraries: Findings from the ACRL 2024 Annual Survey (Thursday, December 4)
(ACRL: Association of College & Research Libraries)
ARL Member Libraries
GRIN Transfer: A Production-Ready Tool for Libraries to Retrieve Digital Copies from Google Books (preprint)
(Harvard Law School Library via arXiv)
IMLS-Funded Project Expands AI Training for Librarians
(Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies)
The Perfect Piece of Public Art Comes to the Hill Library’s Ground Floor Reading Room
(NC State University Libraries)
University Piloting AI-Powered ASL Interpreting Service Sign-Speak
(Syracuse University Libraries)
Why Is Knowledge Getting So Expensive? Jeffrey Edmunds at TEDxPSU
(Penn State University (PSU) Libraries via TEDx Talks YouTube channel)
WKAR-TV Programs from 1950s Now Available to Stream Online After MSU Digitization Project
(Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Do Cover Papers Have Higher Disruption and Citations? Evidence from Nature and Science
(Scientometrics)
DR Tulu: An Open, End-to-End Training Recipe for Long-Form Deep Research
(Ai2: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
New Framework Helps College Leaders Embed Responsible AI into Culture
(Jisc)
Rethinking Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
(arXiv)
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Wednesday, November 19
Top o’ the Review
Bigger Datasets Aren’t Always Better
(MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Exploring AI Futures in Libraries with the Futurescape Workshop Community
(Springer Nature on ARL: Association of Research Libraries and CNI: Coalition for Networked Information workshop)
How to Get Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Wrong
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
New National Study Offers Fresh Insight into the Lives and Livelihoods of US Artists
(The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and NORC at the University of Chicago)
New Search Tool: GovScape
(GovScape)
See also: GovScape: A Public Multimodal Search System for 70 Million Pages of Government PDFs (preprint) (arXiv)
Podcast: When the Hotspots Go Dark, Who Connects the Unconnected? Conversation with ALA President Sam Helmick
(The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton via Apple Podcasts)
The State of Science, Technology, and Innovation in Canada 2025
(CCA: Council of Canadian Academies)
See also: Canada-France Partnership to Support Research on AI (NSERC: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)
2025 Edelman Trust Barometer—Flash Poll: Trust and AI at a Crossroads
(Edelman)
Webinar Video, Resources, and Summary: Fostering Belonging and Well-Being for Refugee and Displaced Students in US Higher Ed
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
What We’re Missing About Gen Z’s Civic Energy
(Institute for Citizens & Scholars)
ARL Member Libraries
Celebrating the Acquisition of a First Edition of Pride and Prejudice
(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press)
Database Coverage for Graduate Students in Sociology: Coverage of Cited Periodical Literature in Disciplinary Versus Multidisciplinary Databases
(University of Nebraska–Lincoln University Libraries via Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship)
ARL member library authors
Honouring Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Ceremony and Practice: A Collaborative Pathway at the University of Alberta
(University of Alberta Library via ARL Views blog)
ARL member library authors
Keeping Up With…AI Ethics
(University of Colorado Boulder University Libraries via ACRL: Association of College & Research Libraries)
ARL member library authors
Lyrasis, Big Ten Academic Alliance Libraries, and California Digital Library Receive Grant to Advance Diamond Open Access in the United States
(Several ARL members via Lyrasis)
McGill Libraries Publishes 2024–2025 Annual Report
(McGill University Libraries)
This Must Be the Place: How Maps and Atlases Foretold South America’s Deadliest War of the 20th Century
(Duke University Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Beyond Citations: A Cross-Domain Metric for Dataset Impact and Shareability (preprint)
(arXiv)
Beyond Simple Metrics: How AI and Open Data Reveal the True Complexity of Research Impact
(OpenAIRE)
2025 CRKN Member Summit and Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Review
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)
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Thursday, November 20
Top o’ the Review
AI Use Widespread in Research Offices, Global Survey Finds
(Research Professional News)
Americans’ Social Media Use 2025
(Pew Research Center)
CNI Fall 2025 Meeting Program
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
COS Awarded Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Preserve and Safeguard Publicly Funded Scientific Data
(COS: Center for Open Science)
New Funding Opportunity to Help Digitize Arctic Collections Across Canada
(Internet Archive Canada)
Outline for a European Books Data Commons
(Open Future)
Most AI Initiatives Fail. This 5-Part Framework Can Help.
(HBR: Harvard Business Review)
See also:
- A Socio-Technical Approach to AI Literacy: A Quick Guide (OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
- Upskilling Playbook: AI, Skill Development, and the Workforce (Aspen Institute)
“We Could Have Asked ChatGPT”: Students Fight Back Over Course Taught by AI
(The Guardian)
White House Prepares Executive Order to Block State AI Laws
(Politico)
ARL Member Libraries
Big Ten Open Books: An Interview with Kate McCready (BTAA) and Charles Watkinson (U-M)
(University of Michigan (U-M) Library with Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) via Authors Alliance)
CARL Honors Geoff Harder with Award of Merit
(University of Alberta Library via CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Also from CARL: Announcing Library Publishing Community Coffee Chats
Harvard Law School Library Releases First Complete Set of Digitized Nuremberg Trials Records
(Harvard Library)
Also from Harvard: Paul Deschner Discusses Decades-Long Effort to Make Full Archive of Nuremberg Trials Records Available Online
US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze to Launch Laureateship with Inaugural Reading, Translation Programs
(Library of Congress)
Your Personal Librarian Knows Every Trick in the Book
(Princeton University Library via The Daily Princetonian)
Higher Ed
AALS Study Explores the Experiences and Challenges of Women Attorneys in Higher Education Leadership
(AALS: Association of American Law Schools)
Canadian Postsecondary Enrollments and Graduates, 2023/2024
(Statistics Canada)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI Unreliable in Identifying Retracted Research Papers, Says Study
(Retraction Watch)
How Are Faculty and College Students Embracing AI?—a Multi-informant Mixed Method Study
(Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence)
SocArXiv Submission Rule Changes
(SocArXiv)
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