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Monday, November 18
Top o’ the Review
Cronk, Jamison, McCauley Seek 2026–2027 ALA Presidency; Neal, Thornton to Run for 2025–2028 Treasurer
(ALA: American Library Association)
Also from ALA: ALA Nominating Committee Announces Councilors-at-Large Candidates
Digital Data Demand and Renewable Energy Limits: Forecasting the Impacts on Global Electricity Supply and Sustainability
(Energy Policy)
See also: Gartner Predicts Power Shortages Will Restrict 40% of AI Data Centers by 2027 (Gartner)
EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: AI in Communications Applications
(EDUCAUSE Review)
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI
(BNN Bloomberg)
See also: Inside Microsoft’s Struggles with Copilot (Business Insider via MSN)
Public Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in Policymaking
(Pew Research Center)
See also: APLU & Pew Release Report on Fostering a Public Impact Research Ecosystem (APLU: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities)
Stewarding the Collective Collection: An Analysis of Print Retention Data in the US and Canada
(OCLC Research)
Web of Science Index Plans to End elife’s Journal Impact Factor
(Science)
ARL Member Libraries
ASU Preservation Facility Serves as Test Bed for Rooftop Heat Mitigation
(Arizona State University (ASU) Library)
Boston Public Library Announces New Entrepreneur-in-Residence
(BPL: Boston Public Library)
Emory Libraries Appoints Elizabeth Ott as New Rose Library Director
(Emory University Libraries)
Kornhauser Library Becomes Kentucky’s First Patent and Trademark Resource Center
(University of Louisville (UofL) Libraries)
Lawrence Retires as Director of Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
(University of Iowa Libraries)
Natalie Waters Appointed Associate Dean, Research & Scholarship
(McGill University Libraries)
No Researcher Is an Island
(The University of Chicago (UChicago) Library)
Robert Rosen, Pioneering Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive, Dies at 84
(UCLA Library)
“The Gold Standard”: Voter Data Acquired by the UC Berkeley Library Fuels Research into How Our Political System Works—and When It Fails
(UC Berkeley Library)
The MIT Press Releases Report on the Future of Open Access Publishing and Policy
(MIT Libraries)
Watson Library Centennial Time Capsule to Be Displayed, Archived
(The University of Kansas (KU) Libraries)
What Care Looks Like
(Assessment on the Ground Blog, Temple University Libraries)
Advocacy & Public Policy
CARL Statement on Bill C-244: An Act to Amend the Copyright Act (Diagnosis, Maintenance, and Repair)
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
New White Paper on Open Access and US Federal Information Policy
(Authors Alliance)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Recording Available: Women Leaders in Scholarly Publishing: Empowering Self and Inspiring Others
(C4DISC: Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications)
Scholars & Scholarship
Analyzing the Consistency of Retraction Indexing (preprint)
(MetaArXiv Preprints)
National Academies President on How to Use Generative AI Responsibly in Scientific Research
(JAMA)
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Tuesday, November 19
Top o’ the Review
Ai2 OpenScholar: Scientific Literature Synthesis with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
(Ai2: The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
APLU Releases Report on Advancing Career Readiness
(APLU: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities)
Author Awareness Survey: AAAS Seeks Opinions on Open License Models
(AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Call for Expressions of Interest: Indigenous Leadership Circle in Research
(CRCC: Canada Research Coordinating Committee)
See also: Government of Canada Is Strengthening Research and Innovation Across Canada (Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat)
Championing Intellectual Freedom—Structuring and Focusing Library Efforts: Survey Results
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Community Infrastructure to Further Open Research Software
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure via Zenodo)
Cultivating Openness: From Community Resources to Institutional Acceptance
(Upstream, FORCE11)
Open Movement’s Common(s) Causes: Threats and Opportunities
(Creative Commons)
Project Briefing Details Now Available for CNI Fall 2024 Membership Meeting
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
The State of the Humanities
(Ithaka S+R)
Webinar Recording and Resources: Post-Election Briefing on Higher Education and Immigration
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
ARL Member Libraries
“Believe in Auburn and Love It”
(Auburn University Libraries)
Digital Stories and Documentaries
(Dartmouth Libraries, Dartmouth College)
Grant Will Expand Resources for Open Education
(University of Virginia Library)
Meet the New University Librarian
(UC Davis Magazine)
$3 Million Gift to UC Irvine Libraries Supports High-Priority Initiatives and Innovation
(UC Irvine Libraries)
Unraveling Finnegans Wake at the Fisher Library
(University of Toronto Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Enhancing Scientific Research Through Project Metadata and Persistent Identifiers (PIDs)—Tackling the “How Might We” Challenges
(DataCite)
See also: COAR Launches Task Force on Sustainable and Interoperable PIDs Models (COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories)
Let’s Chat: Leveraging Chatbot Outreach for Improved Course Performance
(EdWorkingPapers, Annenberg Institute at Brown University)
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Wednesday, November 20
Top o’ the Review
ARL Annual Salary Survey 2023 Reports Data on Professional Positions in Member Libraries & ARL Statistics 2023 Publications Describe Resources, Services of Member Libraries
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Creating a Research Agenda for the Archival Profession: Open Call to Participate
(SAA: Society of American Archivists)
Libraries: Anchoring the Future of Software Preservation—Interview with LIBER President Julien Roche
(Software Heritage)
MPDL Launches the Max Planck Decentralized Science Initiative: DeSci Connect
(MPDL: Max Planck Digital Library)
Preparing Students for a Labor Market That Values GenAI Skills
(HEQCO: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario)
Six New Collections Coming to Canadiana through the Call for Canadiana Collection Development Projects
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)
The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff from Using Generative AI
(WIRED)
Upcoming Online Event: RLUK Digital Shift Forum (DSF)—The Open Source Movement and AI (Wednesday, December 4)
(RLUK: Research Libraries UK)
Video: Panel Discussion of Advancing Open Knowledge Dissemination in Africa: Towards a Fully Open Access Future
(RSC: Royal Society of Chemistry via YouTube)
ARL Member Libraries
Archives and Rare Books Library Receives National Grant to Process Historic Cincinnati Schools Desegregation Case Records
(University of Cincinnati Libraries)
Could Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci
(Library of Congress)
Design Work Underway for UB Libraries’ James Joyce Museum
(University at Buffalo Libraries)
NIH-Developed AI Algorithm Matches Potential Volunteers to Clinical Trials
(NLM: National Library of Medicine, NIH: US National Institutes of Health)
UVA Library’s Aperio Press to Begin Publishing “Research In Special Education”
(University of Virginia (UVA) Library)
Higher Ed
Canadian Postsecondary Enrollments and Graduates, 2022/2023
(Statistics Canada)
High School Students’ Perspectives on Academic Preparedness for College
(ACT)
Advocacy & Public Policy
New Report Urges the United States to Adopt a Digital Skills Framework ASAP
(New America)
State Department Reveals New Interagency Task Force on Detecting AI-Generated Content
(FedScoop)
Scholars & Scholarship
Journal Quality Factors from ChatGPT: More Meaningful Than Impact Factors? (preprint)
(arXiv)
Repository (R)evolution: Metadata, Interoperability, and Sustainability
(JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
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Thursday, November 21
Top o’ the Review
AI’s Hunger for Electric Power Is Threatening US Climate Goals
(The Washington Post)
ARL Shines a Light on Native American Heritage During the Month of November
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
CARL Honors Julie Hannaford, Maha Kumaran with Award of Merit
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Also from CARL: Upcoming CARL Canadian Repositories Community of Practice Call—Going to the Source: Contributing to a Healthy Open Infrastructure via Free and Open Source Software Projects (Tuesday, November 26)
Cindy Hohl to Give Opening Keynote at NISO Plus 2025 in Baltimore
(NISO: National Information Standards Organization)
Making Digital Works Accessible Through Publishing (Not Permission)
(ARL, Tulane University Libraries, UC Berkeley Library, and University of Florida Smathers Libraries via Charleston Conference Proceedings 2023)
The Open Book Futures (OBF) National Libraries Network: A Summary of Our First Year
(Copim)
Thirty-Eighth NASIG Annual Conference Proceedings Now Available
(NASIG)
US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Releases New Resource Explaining Civil Rights Implications of Schools’ Use of Artificial Intelligence
(Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Education)
Video: Using AI Technologies to Improve Discovery and Accessibility in Libraries and Archives
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
ARL Member Libraries
Chris Burns Appointed Director of Rare Books and Special Collections
(McGill University Library)
Empowering Independence: 3D Printed Adaptive Technologies at the University of Alberta Library
(University of Alberta Library)
Estate Gift to Benefit Students Connected to University Libraries and Military
(Penn State University Libraries)
Karamu Archives Research Wins Award
(Case Western Reserve University Kelvin Smith Library)
Librarians of the Future Enters Its Second Year
(University of Colorado Boulder University Libraries)
“The Process Is the Product”: Mapping Prejudice Receives $786,000 Grant
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Innovating the Data Ecosystem: An Update of the Federal Big Data Research and Development Strategic Plan
(NSTC: National Science and Technology Council, The White House)
New Research Sets Out How to Make Free Internet Access a Human Right
(University of Birmingham (UK))
Scholars & Scholarship
COS and FORRT Partner to Increase Discoverability and Usability of Replication Evidence
(COS: Center for Open Science and FORRT: Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training)
Introducing MetaROR: An Open Peer Review Platform for Metaresearch
(RoRI: Research on Research Institute)
Lack of Collections as Data: Making Meaning out of the Films We Cannot See
(The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science)
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