Last Updated on October 27, 2025, 2:39 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.
Do you work for an ARL member library and have news you want us to share in our Day in Review and Weekly News Roundup? Please email your news link(s) to dir@arl.org.
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Monday, October 20
Top o’ the Review
ACRL Releases AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers
(ACRL: Association of College & Research Libraries via infoDOCKET)
Higher Education Associations Oppose Trump Administration Compact
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries and others via ACE: American Council on Education)
See also: How Scientists Are Pushing Back Against Trump’s Funding “Deal” for Universities (Nature)
100 Million DataCite DOIs: More Than Just a Number
(DataCite)
Open Access Week 2025: Who Owns Our Knowledge? Update from LIBER Open Access Working Group
(LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries)
Proposed Rule & Other Changes to H-1B Visa: What Campuses Need to Know
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
Also from Presidents’ Alliance: Webinar Recording and Resources: Updates on Policies & Programs for Refugee and Displaced Students
Scoping Review: The Contributions of Open Science to Research Culture
(Science Europe)
Six States Lead Nation in Anti-DEI Legislative Push, New Report Finds
(The EDU Ledger)
The State of Local News 2025
(Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University)
Trump Administration Continues to Cancel and Suppress Information—What You Can Do
(UCS: Union of Concerned Scientists)
Trump Moves Closer to Eliminating Education Department Amid Shutdown
(The Washington Post via MSN)
ARL Member Libraries
ARL Libraries Celebrate Open Access Week 2025
(Many member libraries via ARL)
Beloved Children’s Book Illustrator’s Works Donated to Baldwin Collection
(University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries)
Bilingual Press Relaunches with a New Open Access Initiative
(Arizona State University (ASU) Libraries)
Also from ASU: Celebrating the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas
Content Access via Resource Sharing Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from Nine Health Science Libraries
(Temple University Libraries and The University of Oklahoma University Libraries via Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship)
ARL member library authors
Hamilton Library Brings Hawaiʻi’s Congressional History Online
(University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library)
McGill Libraries Partners with Abu Dhabi on Exhibition of Ancient Islamic Manuscripts
(McGill University Libraries)
Also from McGill: Canadian Collection Development Projects—Ontario Historical County Atlases Now Online
UB Libraries Debut Digital Collection of Rare Macdonald Watercolors
(University at Buffalo (UB) Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Agentic AI’s OODA Loop Problem
(Schneier on Security)
The Ripple Effects of China’s College Expansion on American Universities (working paper)
(National Bureau of Economic Research)
Web Archive 96: How the Smithsonian Helped Create One of the First Wayback Machine Collections
(Internet Archive)
Also from Internet Archive: Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
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Tuesday, October 21
Top o’ the Review
ALA Implements Workforce Changes to Strengthen Organization for Future
(ALA: American Library Association)
CNI Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series Call for Proposals Winter 2026
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Cuts PhD Seats by More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles
(The Harvard Crimson)
International Research and Study Programme—Application Period for 2026 Starts
(IATUL: International Association of University Libraries)
LIBER Journées for Library Directors 2026: May 27–29 in Copenhagen, Denmark—Apply by Monday, December 15
(LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries)
Also from LIBER: Shaping the Library’s Future: Why and How Should Libraries Seize the Opportunity of Publishing Their Strategic Vision
Market Sizing Update 2025—Has OA Recovered Its Mojo?
(Delta Think)
UC Awarded $66 Million GEAR UP Grant for Comprehensive Seven-Year Student Success Initiative
(UC: University of California)
Universities to Deliver Better Outcomes in Return for Full Fees (white paper)
(Government of the United Kingdom)
Widening College Access Gap: Pell Grant Disinvestment and Declining Student Enrollment in the South 2011–2022
(SEF: Southern Education Foundation)
Wikipedia Seems Pretty Worried About AI
(New York Magazine)
ARL Member Libraries
Make an ORCID Bracelet or Keychain
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
New Collection: College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services (CECH) Library Study & Focus Tools
(University of Cincinnati Libraries)
19 Million Items: Cornell Contributions Expand the Collection
(Cornell University Library via HathiTrust)
STEM Faculty Perceptions of Library Research Support and Bibliometric Services: A Qualitative Study
(Kent State University Libraries via Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship)
ARL member library authors
UNT Libraries Acquires Rare First Edition of Nuremberg Chronicle
(University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries)
Vanderbilt University IT Tech Hub Now Open in Central Library
(Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries)
Wayne State Economics Professor Trades Spreadsheets for Archives
(Wayne State University Library System)
Scholars & Scholarship
CARL Celebrates International Open Access Week 2025
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Deep Learning Approaches to Author Name Disambiguation: A Survey
(International Journal on Digital Libraries)
Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books over Expert Human Writers (preprint)
(arXiv)
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Wednesday, October 22
Top o’ the Review
AHA Submits Public Comment on Patriotic Education Priorities
(AHA: American Historical Association)
Anti-Science Bills Hit Statehouses, Stripping Away Public Health Protections Built over a Century
(AP: The Associated Press)
How to Spot Fake Scientists and Stop Them from Publishing Papers
(Nature)
Judge Orders US Department of Defense to Restore Books Removed from Schools over “Wokeness”
(USA TODAY)
See also: Statement from PEN America
Making the Canada Research Chairs Our Next Major Project
(University Affairs)
New Tracker: Federal Funding Cuts and Research Universities
(Ithaka S+R)
University of Virginia Nears Deal with Trump Officials to End Investigations
(The Washington Post via MSN)
US Commerce Department Moves to Take Cut of Research Patents
(FYI: Science Policy News, AIP: American Institute of Physics)
With $1.6 Million Mellon Grant, Fisk University Launches Digital Archive of Black Education History
(The Tennessean)
Open archived version
ARL Member Libraries
Building Community and Care: A Student Wellness Partnership at the Nahum Gelber Law Library
(McGill University Libraries)
Dean Melissa Just Named Next President of Association of Research Libraries
(USC Libraries, University of Southern California)
New Open Access Journal: Tulane Maritime Law Journal
(Tulane University Libraries)
Also from Tulane: Public Domain Music Remix Contest: Tulane Libraries and WTUL Are Looking for Creative Music Made by You
UCSB Library Hosts “From the Airwaves to Archives”
(UC Santa Barbara Library via KEYT)
Undergrads Invited to Imagine Future of Libraries in New Contest
(University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) Libraries)
University Libraries, Albany Public Library Strengthen Connections Through Library Card Drives, Internships
(University at Albany University Libraries)
Welcome to LIL’s Data.gov Archive Search
(LIL: Library Innovation Lab, Harvard Law School)
Scholars & Scholarship
Slow, Painful, and Expensive: Current Challenges in Text-Mining Corpus Construction for the Digital Humanities
(DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly)
Universities Are Embracing AI: Will Students Get Smarter or Stop Thinking?
(Nature)
See also: New Survey of 4,800 Global Students Highlights Digital Disconnect (Jisc)
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Thursday, October 23
Top o’ the Review
CGS Flash Survey Findings: 2025 International Graduate Student Admissions
(CGS: Council of Graduate Schools)
DOAJ and the Diamond Discovery Hub: Working with the Community to Support Open Access
(DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
EPIC Publishes New Report Highlighting Growing Importance of State Attorneys General in Protecting Americans’ Privacy
(EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center)
Library Bridges: Building Inclusive Communities Through Libraries
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
New Research: Majority of High School Students Use Generative AI for Schoolwork
(College Board)
Sakana AI’s CTO Says He’s “Absolutely Sick” of Transformers, the Tech That Powers Every Major AI Model
(VentureBeat)
Texas’s “READER” Act Ruled Unconstitutional by a Federal Court for Third Time
(KXAN)
See also: Federal Judge Rules Texas Book Ratings Law Unconstitutional (PW: Publishers Weekly)
The Use of Open Models in Research
(CSET: Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University)
Upcoming Event: Digital Trust Convention 2025—Rebuilding Digital Trust in the Age of AI (Montréal, Québec, Thursday–Friday, November 6–7)
(OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
What Americans Think About the Environmental Impact of AI, According to a New Poll
(The Associated Press–NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago)
ARL Member Libraries
Announcing the 2025 NDSA Excellence Award Winners
(Indiana University Libraries Bloomington, MIT Libraries, Penn Libraries, Princeton University Library, and University Libraries at Virginia Tech via NDSA: National Digital Stewardship Alliance)
See also: Tyler Walters Receives National Award for Digital Preservation Efforts (Virginia Tech)
BYU Alumni Share Precious Memories at the Founder’s Day Time Capsule Unveiling
(BYU Library, Brigham Young University via The Daily Universe)
Code4Lib 61 (October 2025)
ARL member library authors
- Extracting a Large Corpus from the Internet Archive, a Case Study (University of Kentucky (UKY) Libraries)
- From Notes to Networks: Using Obsidian to Teach Metadata and Linked Data
(University Libraries at Virginia Tech) - Liberation of LMS-Siloed Instructional Data (University of New Mexico (UNM) University Libraries)
- Mitigating Aggressive Crawler Traffic in the Age of Generative AI: A Collaborative Approach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries (UNC University Libraries)
- What It Means to Be a Repository: Real, Trustworthy, or Mature? (Arizona State University (ASU) Library)
Librarian Luminaries—David Banush
(University of South Carolina University Libraries via Charleston Hub)
Higher Ed
A More Human University: The Role of AI in Learning
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Also from EDUCAUSE Review: Dialogue at Scale: AI, Soft Skills, and the Future of Assessment
Reimagining STEMM Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Career Development: Proceedings of a Summit—in Brief
(NASEM: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
Scholars & Scholarship
Call for Applications for 2026 DataCite Steering and Working Groups
(DataCite)
Does GenAI Rewrite How We Write? An Empirical Study on Two-Million Preprints (preprint)
(arXiv)
OR2026 Call for Proposals Now Open
(OR2026: Open Repositories 2026)
Striking The Right Balance: Opportunities and Challenges of AI In Metadata Workflows
(Hanging Together: The OCLC Research Blog)
Also from Hanging Together: Examining the Role of AI in Institutional Repository Workflows
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