Last Updated on November 25, 2025, 10:24 am 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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Scheduling Note: Day in Review (DiR) will be on hiatus Wednesday, November 26–Sunday, November 30. DiR will be back in your inbox on Monday, December 1.
Monday, November 24
Top o’ the Review
Coalition for Secure AI Releases Two Actionable Frameworks for AI Model Signing and Incident Response
(OASIS Open)
Court Permanently Blocks Trump’s Executive Order to Dismantle Federal Agency for America’s Libraries
(ALA: American Library Association)
In Red States, Many Academic Researchers Feel Fear—and Resolve
(Science)
It’s Not the AI—It’s Each of Us! Ten Commandments for the Wise & Responsible Use of AI
(arXiv)
Students’ Motives for Restricting Academic Freedom: Viewpoint Discrimination and Prosocial Concerns
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
The Public Interest Corpus Update—Oakland Edition
(Authors Alliance)
“This Is Censorship.” Conference Requires Abstracts to Comply with Trump Anti-DEI Order
(Science)
Toward Integrating AI Chat and Search: A User-Centered Perspective Across Age Groups
(TiiS: ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems)
Upcoming Webinar: What Is Fiction’s Role in Imagining Better Social Policies? (Thursday, December 4)
(Issues in Science and Technology)
Why College Students Prefer News Daddy Over The New York Times
(The Verge)
Open archived version
Workshop Report: Resilience in Time of Crisis
(Research Group Information Management @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
ARL Member Libraries
From Conferences to Community: APTrust Highlights for World Digital Preservation Day 2025
(Several ARL member libraries via APTrust)
GIS Lab Story Map Celebrates 150 Years of Place, Progress, and Possibility at Vanderbilt
(Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries)
Lilly Library Raises the Roof on a Presidential Mystery
(Duke University Libraries)
NYU Libraries Completes Multiyear Project to Digitize “Daily Worker” and “Daily World” Negatives Collection
(NYU Libraries, New York University)
Online Archive of California (OAC) Update
(CDL: California Digital Library, University of California)
“Outlander” Author Diana Gabaldon Donates Literary Archive to Texas A&M
(Texas A&M University Libraries)
Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies Opens at Hamilton Library, Strengthening Its International Profile
(University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library)
Talking Responsible AI Use with University of Minnesota
(University of Minnesota (UMN) Libraries)
Also from UMN: Opinion: The UMN Libraries’ Online Resources Are Underrated (The Minnesota Daily)
We Made FETCH Happen: A New Improved Inventory Management System
(Library of Congress)
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Tuesday, November 25
Top o’ the Review
A New AI Benchmark Tests Whether Chatbots Protect Human Well-Being
(TechCrunch)
AI Agents Break Rules Under Everyday Pressure
(IEEE Spectrum)
arXiv Receives $7 Million in Gifts and Grants from Schmidt Sciences and NASA
(arXiv)
Canada’s Leading Social Sciences and Humanities Scholars Celebrated for Achievements in Research and Impacts on Society
(Government of Canada)
Cyber Humanities for Heritage Security
(Communications of the ACM)
First Time Online: Charles Darwin’s Address Book: A New Window into His Private World
(NUS: National University of Singapore)
Preserving Culture in Times of Crisis—Webinar Summary and Video
(CLOCKSS)
The Interview: Jimmy Wales on How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars
(The New York Times)
Upcoming Online Event: AI Litigation Update (Friday, December 5)
(Authors Alliance and OCEAN: Open Copyright Education Advisory Network)
Upcoming Webinar: Libraries as Builders of Peace: Fostering Understanding Through Access, Dialogue, and Knowledge (Wednesday, December 10)
(ALA: American Library Association)
University of Washington Pumps $10 Million Donation into AI
(The Seattle Times)
ARL Member Libraries
International Association of University Libraries (IATUL) Awards Lifetime Membership to Dean of Libraries Charles Eckman at 45th Annual Conference
(University of Miami Libraries)
Live D&D at UNT—The Music
(University of North Texas (UNT) University Libraries YouTube channel)
See also: Live D&D at UNT—The Performance
Minnesota Institute Now Accepting Applications for 2026—Deadline January 12
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage (Fall 2025)
ARL member library authors
- “If This Book Should Chance to Roam”: The Importance of Children’s Marginalia in Rare Books Collections (University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill University Libraries)
- Navigating Social Networks at the Margins: Women in Science Archives, Then and Now (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University Library)
- Neutrality Unbound: the Value of Rare Book Collections in STEMM Classrooms (University of Louisville University Libraries)
UC Regents Approve Infrastructure Funding Request, Budget and Financial Plans
(UCLA Library via Daily Bruin)
University Libraries Project Helps Athletes “Train and Play Smarter”
(University Libraries at Virginia Tech)
Scholars & Scholarship
Impact of Generative AI on the Novel
(Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy)
Just Asking Questions: Doing Our Own Research on Conspiratorial Ideation by Generative AI Chatbots
(arXiv)
SemanticCite: Citation Verification with AI-Powered Full-Text Analysis and Evidence-Based Reasoning
(arXiv)
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