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Monday, October 28
Top o’ the Review
Archivists Say Fortnite Developer Threatens “Cultural Heritage”
(404 Media)
CARL Welcomes Three New Visiting Program Officers
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Centres de Recerca de Catalunya (CERCA) Publishes the Research Impact Glossary
(Research Impact Canada)
Global Privacy Authorities Issue Follow-Up Joint Statement on Data Scraping After Industry Engagement
(Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada)
Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Surge Again to New Record in 2023
(WMO: World Meteorological Organization)
See also: AI Will Add to the E-waste Problem. Here’s What We Can Do About It. (MIT Technology Review)
Librarian of Congress Expands DMCA Exemption for Text and Data Mining
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Meta Builds AI Search Engine to Cut Google, Bing Reliance, the Information Reports
(Reuters)
OPEN TO ALL—Ignite Collaboration: Thriving Multigenerational Libraries
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Peer-Reviewed Preprints and the Publish-Review-Curate Model
(cOAlition S)
Also from cOAlition S: Reflections on Diamond Open Access and cOAlition S
Researcher Q&A: A Conversation About the Better Poster Project
(COS: Center for Open Science)
Studying Wikipedia Browsing Habits to Learn How People Learn
(University of Pennsylvania)
TikTok’s Innovative New Idea: Printing Books on Paper
(Business Insider via AOL)
ARL Member Libraries
Crossroads of Culture: Stories of Mixed-Race Identity
(University of Michigan (U-M) Library via Mutually Inclusive with WGVU via YouTube)
See also the U-M exhibit discussed in the video: Being Mixed Race in a Mono-racially Organized World
Heard Libraries’ LGBTQ+ Collections Give Voice to a Community by Preserving Its Past
(Vanderbilt University Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries)
Libraries’ Float Makes a Superhero Splash in the 2024 Homecoming Parade
(University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries)
Library Card for All Cornell University Library Visitors Now Free!
(Cornell University Library)
Millionth Item Requested for Auxiliary Library Delivery
(Indiana University Libraries Bloomington)
NC State Esports Hits the Big Time at Duke’s Mayo Classic
(NC State University Libraries)
Supporting Community Engagement with Civic Data: The Civic Switchboard Project
(University of Pittsburgh University Library System)
Tretter Collection Holds Second Annual Queer and Trans Zine Fest
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
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Tuesday, October 29
Top o’ the Review
AI Tutors Are Already Changing Higher Ed
(Axios)
Conflicts of Neutrality: Exploring Definitions, Values, and Practices Among Canadian Academic Librarians
(McGill University Libraries via Journal of Academic Librarianship)
Introducing the ECHOES Project
(LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries)
New Research Examines How State Bans on Transcript Withholding Have Impacted Institutions
(Ithaka S+R)
Now Available: #DLFteach Toolkit Volume 4: Critical Digital Literacies
(DLF: Digital Library Federation)
The Open Source Initiative Announces the Release of the Industry’s First Open Source AI Definition
(OSI: Open Source Initiative)
See also: Defining Open Source AI: Current Conversations Within the Academic Community (HELIOS Open)
2025 Library Publishing Forum Call for Proposals
(LPC: Library Publishing Coalition)
Also from LPC: LPC Job Board Policy Change: Salary Info Now Required
Update on the Resourcing Crossref for Future Sustainability (RCFS) Research
(Crossref)
Video: CARL Inclusive Collections Webinar Series: Diversity Statements in Collection Policies
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries via YouTube)
Who Does Science and Technology Policy?
(Issues in Science and Technology)
ARL Member Libraries
Library Launches Accessible Gadgets
(Georgia Tech Library)
New Era Ahead: What’s Changing in the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy
(University of Saskatchewan University Library)
Undergraduate Research Halls Open in Terrell, Owen Libraries, Grand Opening Nov. 8
(Washington State University (WSU) Libraries)
Vivian Li, the Library’s New Innovator in Residence
(Library of Congress)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Ongoing Changes in the Demographic Composition of Postdoctoral Researchers at Federally Funded Research and Development Centers: 2023
(NCSES: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Webinar Video: Immigrant Origin Students in Higher Education: Powering the Future Workforce and Helping to Drive Excellence and Innovation on Our Campuses, in Our Communities, and for Our Country
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Distance to Opportunity: Higher Education Deserts and College Enrollment Choices
(EdWorkingPapers, Annenberg Institute at Brown University)
Fewer Black Men Are Enrolling in HBCUs. Here’s Why and What’s Being Done.
(NPR: National Public Radio)
Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early-Career Faculty at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs)
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
The Influence of Kindness on Academics’ Identity, Well-Being, and Stress
(PLOS ONE)
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Wednesday, October 30
Top o’ the Review
A Message from the Archivist
(NARA: US National Archives and Records Administration)
A Pilot Approach to Replicating Research: The NIH Common Fund’s Replication to Enhance Research Impact Initiative Provides Funding to Support Research Replication Activities
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health)
A Third Transformation?: Generative AI and Scholarly Publishing
(Ithaka S+R)
AI Slop Is Flooding Medium
(WIRED)
Also from WIRED: OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway.
Gen Z Turns to TikTok to Find the Perfect School. Some College Students Are Cashing In.
(Business Insider via MSN)
IARPA Developing New Methods to Anonymize Speech
(Office of the Director of National Intelligence, IARPA: US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity)
Is It AI? Peer Reviewers Struggle to Distinguish LLMs from Human Writing
(Yale School of Medicine)
Research Project on Climate Change and Archives: Final Report for Mellon Foundation, Public Knowledge Program
(Memory Rising)
Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record
(Internet Archive)
ARL Member Libraries
Columbia University Libraries to Host Grant-Funded Forum for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Curators
(Columbia University Libraries)
Hamilton Library 20 Years After the UH Mānoa Flood
(University of Hawaiʻi (UH) at Mānoa Library)
Kristina Rose Appointed Interim Dean of Libraries
(New York University (NYU) Libraries)
NLM and AAHSL Announce 2024–2025 Leadership Fellows and Mentors
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine)
Smathers ’23–’24 Annual Report
(University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries)
Tennessee, National Political History Celebrated in New Heard Libraries Collection
(Vanderbilt University Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries)
University of Cincinnati Libraries Strategic Plan, 2024–2027
(University of Cincinnati Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI- and LLM-Driven Search Tools: A Paradigm Shift in Information Access for Education and Research
(Journal of Information Science)
Celebrating Wikidata’s 12th Birthday with Africa Wiki Women: A Contest to Bridge the Data Gap on African Women
(Diff, Wikimedia Foundation)
See also: Happy 12th Birthday Wikidata! (British Library)
The Challenges of Transitioning from Closed to Open Access Books
(Copim)
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Thursday, October 31
Top o’ the Review
AI & User Privacy: Here’s What You Need to Know
(Mozilla)
An Analysis of the Effects of Sharing Research Data, Code, and Preprints on Citations
(PLOS ONE)
ARL ADA Title II Resources Encourage Licensing Born-Accessible Content
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Librarians Face a Crisis of Violence and Abuse
(The New York Times)
Materials from 5th Global Research Platform Workshop Available
(The Global Research Platform via CNI: Coalition For Networked Information)
National Academies Calls to Change How Biomedical Research Uses Race and Ethnicity
(STAT)
OpenAI’s Search Engine Is Now Live in ChatGPT
(The Verge)
See also: Introducing ChatGPT Search (OpenAI)
Open with Care: Indigenous Researchers and Communities Are Reshaping How Western Science Thinks About Data Ownership
(Science)
See also: Supporting Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Voter Education with North Dakota Native Vote (Data Science Institute, The University of Chicago)
The Cost and Price of Public Access to Scholarly Publications: A Synthesis
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure)
Trusted Identity in Academic Publishing
(STM)
ARL Member Libraries
A Long Time Coming: Building Browse Features for Our Library Catalog
(University of Michigan Library)
An Exciting Chapter for the USC Libraries
(University of Southern California (USC) Libraries)
Library’s New Consultation Service Targets Campus Research Labs
(UC Santa Barbara Library)
Local Data Repository Infrastructure Matters
(Duke University Libraries)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Product Equity 101
(Aspen Digital)
Scholars & Scholarship
A Toolkit to Help You Manage Uncertainty Around AI
(HBR: Harvard Business Review)
Collective Support Sustains the Future of Open Infrastructures
(SCOSS: Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services)
Generative AI in Higher Education: Seeing ChatGPT Through Universities’ Policies, Resources, and Guidelines
(Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
