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Monday, September 15
Top o’ the Review
Academic Freedom and the Death of Charlie Kirk
(AAUP: American Association of University Professors)
ACE Survey: Majority of College Presidents “Extremely Concerned” About Federal Policy Direction
(ACE: American Council on Education)
CARL and CFLA Release New Guide on the Canadian Copyright Act for Accessible Content
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries and CFLA: Canadian Federation of Library Associations)
COMET Enrichment Projects: From Ideas to Action
(COMET: Collaborative Metadata)
CRKN Publishes 2024–2025 Annual Report: Charting the Path to Open Knowledge in Canada
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)
Library Publishing Coalition Releases 2024–2025 Annual Report
(LPC: Library Publishing Coalition)
Registration Open: UNLOCK INNOVATION at the 2026 ARL President’s Institute
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
The ChatGPT Gender Gap Is Closing
(Axios)
See also: Anthropic Economic Index: Tracking AI’s Role in the US and Global Economy (Anthropic)
ARL Member Libraries
ARL Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2025
(Several ARL members via ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Beyond the Stacks: Ecofeminist Expressions Collaborative Book Collection
(Arizona State University Library via College & Research Libraries (C&RL) News)
ARL member library authors
John Unsworth on Libraries, Higher Education, and Anti-Fascism
(University of Virginia (UVA) Library via ARL)
Also from UVA: Film Uses UVA Archive to Illuminate the Life of Cartoonist Patrick Oliphant
Library of Congress Names Arthur Sze the Nation’s 25th US Poet Laureate
(Library of Congress)
Mizzou Libraries Launch a New Library Catalog Option
(University of Missouri (Mizzou) Libraries)
MSU Libraries Hollander Makerspace Celebrates 10 Years of Innovation & Creativity
(Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries)
OCUL’s Latest Efforts in Academic Library Innovation Through AI
(OCUL: Ontario Council of University Libraries)
Part Petting Zoo, Part Adoption Drive: Help UK Libraries Determine Which New Furniture “Critters” to Keep
(University of Kentucky (UK) Libraries)
University Libraries Launches Geospatial Data Repository, Opening New Opportunities for Research, Teaching, Collaboration
(The University of Arizona University Libraries)
Upcoming Virtual Event: 2025 ACRL/SPARC Forum: Library Leadership in Navigating Public Access Funder Mandates (Tuesday, October 7)
(Queen’s University Library, University of Virginia Library, and University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries via ACRL: Association of College & Research Libraries and SPARC)
Scholars & Scholarship
ChatGPT Fails to Flag Retracted and Problematic Articles
(The Scientist)
Fragments, Not Prompts: Five Principles for Writing History in the Age of AI
(Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice)
See also: Publisher’s news release
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Tuesday, September 16
Top o’ the Review
Apply for Blixrud Scholarship to Attend ARL President’s Institute—Deadline Friday, November 7
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
ARL Comments on NIH “Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs”
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
See also:
- ASAPbio Response to NIH Request for Information on “Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs”
- Association of American Medical Colleges, Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and COGR Joint Comments to NIH on Publication Cost Limits
- openRxiv Response to NIH Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
- Rapid Science/ICOR Response to NIH RFI
- STM Submission to NIH RFI Allowable Publishing Costs Sept 2025
Creating Fair Game, an Online Computer Game on Fair Use
(Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship)
Lessons from a Year of College Admissions Redesign
(Lumina Foundation)
National-Scale Study Demonstrates Open Science Could Increase Citation Chances for Researchers
(French Ministry of Higher Education and Research)
New STM Resource: Presenters Inclusivity Guide
(STM)
Quarter of Students “Believe AI-Assisted Work Will Go Undetected”
(THE: Times Higher Education)
Open archived version available
Science Must Go On: How Courageous Scientists Are Meeting the Moment
(UCS: Union of Concerned Scientists)
Trump Orders National Park to Remove Famed Photograph of Formerly Enslaved Man
(ARTnews)
US Economy Needs 5.25 Million Additional Workers with Education and Training Beyond High School Through 2032, 4.5 Million of Whom Will Need at Least a Bachelor’s Degree
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce)
See also:
- Education Level and Projected Openings, 2024–34 (US Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- New Report: As Skills Gap Grows, Job Market for College Grads at Five-Year Low (Forbes)
ARL Member Libraries
AUC Woodruff Library Awarded $49,000 Recordings at Risk Grant to Digitize Morehouse College Archives
(Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library)
Becoming a More Confident AI User
(Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries & University Museums)
Five Years Through the Lens of Discovery: UC San Diego Library Celebrates Art of Science Anniversary
(UC San Diego Library)
Illustrating War: A Digital Collection of Medical Illustrations
(University of Cincinnati (UC) Libraries)
Also from UC: UC Libraries Launches Youtube Channel
New Era, New Olin: Library Unveils Sweeping Interior Renovations
(Cornell University Library)
UCLA Library Funds 34 International Cultural Preservation Projects
(UCLA Library)
Virginia Tech Press Launch Builds on Decades of Open Access Innovation
(Virginia Tech University Libraries)
“We Don’t Like Unanswered Questions”: Information Practices of Students Transitioning to Clinical Education
(University of Utah Eccles Health Sciences Library via EBLIP: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice)
ARL member library authors
Scholars & Scholarship
Help or Hindrance? Peer Review in the Age of AI
(DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
Why Searching for Research Data Deserves More Attention
(OpenAIRE)
See also: A Survey on Open Dataset Search in the LLM Era: Retrospectives and Perspectives (preprint) (arXiv)
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Wednesday, September 17
Top o’ the Review
ARL Annual Salary Survey 2024 Reports Data on Professional Positions in Member Libraries
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Broad Coalition of Faculty, Staff, Students, and Unions Unite to Defend University of California System From Trump-Vance Administration Assault
(Democracy Forward)
See Also:
- University of California Leaders to Meet as Trump Increases Pressure (The New York Times)
- University of California Students, Professors and Staff Sue the Trump Administration (AP: The Associated Press)
How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society
(Pew Research Center)
NIH Grant Cuts Throw Science into a “Downward Spiral,” Researchers and Advocates Say
(Georgia Recorder)
Rising to the Challenge: How the SHARES Resource-Sharing Community Navigated A Global Disruption to International Shipping
(Hanging Together: The OCLC Research Blog)
The Economic Impact of Open Science: A Scoping Review
(Royal Society Open Science)
The Library as a Third Place: Amsterdam’s New Model for Civic Life
(AEI: American Enterprise Institute)
Thirteenth Annual High School Benchmarks Report Released
(National Student Clearinghouse Research Center)
What Will AI Look Like in 2030?
(Epoch AI)
ARL Member Libraries
Exhibit from the Archives: Beauford Delaney, A Rediscovered Genius
(University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) Libraries)
Also from UTK: UT Press Releases Second Edition of “A Natural History Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park”
Exploring the ABCs of the UVA Library
(University of Virginia (UVA) Library)
Government Information Use by First-Year Undergraduate Students: A Citation Analysis
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University Library via EBLIP: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice)
ARL member library authors
2025 Rescuing Texas History Awarded
(University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries)
UMass Amherst Libraries Awarded CLIR Grant for Black Voices, Black Media: Preserving the Black Mass Communications Project
(University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst Libraries and CLIR: Council on Libraries and Information Resources)
Also from UMass: UMass Amherst Libraries Host Event, “Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory”
VCU Libraries’ New Sensory Room Serves Neurodivergent Students
(Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Learner Beware! Ensuring That Education Is Not Being Used as a Distraction from Copyright Reform
(KR21: Knowledge Rights 21)
Piracy vs. Fair Use: How AI Training Intersects with Copyright Law
(PK: Public Knowledge)
Read COSSA’s Analysis of FY 2026 US House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) Appropriations Bill for Federal Science Agencies
(COSSA: Consortium of Social Science Associations)
Scholars & Scholarship
Cultural Aspects of Research-Data Sharing: A Consumer Culture Theories Perspective (abstract only)
(JASIST: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)
Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI
(Google Research)
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Thursday, September 18
Top o’ the Review
AI-Powered Deception: A Deeper Dimension of Dark Design Patterns in Conversational AI Tools and Platforms
(CDT: Center for Democracy & Technology)
Exclusive: Journal Bans Drug Safety Database Papers as They Flood the Literature
(Retraction Watch)
Invitation to Provide Feedback on Scholaris Digital Preservation Expert Group’s Draft Recommendations
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
New University of Victoria (UVic) Academy Aims to Help Libraries Adapt to a Digital Future
(Times Colonist)
Secrets of DeepSeek AI Model Revealed in Landmark Paper
(Nature)
Toward Political Neutrality in AI
(HAI: Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
2025 Library Technology Immersion Conference—Video Recap
(ASERL: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries )
UKRIO Launches the Authorship Integrity Toolkit
(UKRIO: UK Research Integrity Office)
UN Scientific Advisory Board Adopts Landmark Statement on Open Science
(ISC: International Science Council)
What Exactly Are AI Companies Trying to Build? Here’s a Guide
(The New York Times)
ARL Member Libraries
An Update from the University Librarian: Rethinking the Sustainability of Our Subscription Model
(The University of British Columbia (UBC) Library)
AUC Woodruff Library Is Led by Dr. Kimberley Bugg
(Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library via The Local Take with Kiplyn Primus, Jazz 91.9 WCLK)
Feel Good Incorporated: Using Positively Framed Feedback in Library Instruction Course Evaluations Using a Survivorship-Bias Lens
(University of Illinois Chicago University Library via EBLIP: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice)
ARL member library authors
Introducing the Health and Biomedical Library Services (HBLS) Evidence-Synthesis Service (Brown University Library)
Join the Conversation About Generative Artificial Intelligence at the Library AI Studio
(UNC University Libraries, The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill)
Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books
(University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst via 404 Media)
Shaping CRL’s Future: Member & Stakeholder Survey
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
Students React to Reduced Library Hours, Associated Students Senate Considers Solutions
(Daily Nexus, UC Santa Barbara)
260,000 Volumes from Vanderbilt’s Heard Libraries to Be Digitized by Google Books
(Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries)
We Heard You: Library Survey Results and Next Steps
(Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
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