Last Updated on September 25, 2025, 5:35 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.
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Monday, September 22
Top o’ the Review
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
(HBR: Harvard Business Review)
ARL/CNI Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Can Help You Thrive in the AI Landscape
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries and CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Censorship Returns to the CDC: At Least 22 Websites Are Down
(MedPage Today)
Creating a Sense of Belonging for Culturally Diverse Students
(University of Victoria)
International Students Studying in the United States: Trends and Impacts 2025
(Boundless)
See also: US Student Applications to Colleges in Europe, UK, and Asia Jump amid Rising Costs and Political Turmoil (CBS News)
Intersecting Classifications: The Landscape of Dual- and Multi-Designated Hispanic-Serving Institutions
(ACE: American Council on Education)
Legendary Actor/Author/Activist George Takei Named Honorary Chair of Banned Books Week 2025
(ALA: American Library Association)
ARL Member Libraries
A Single UCLA Collection Inspires a Book on Post-War Holocaust Memory in America
(UCLA Library)
Also from UCLA: Library Resources Bring Campus Architecture to Life
AI Influencers: Libraries Guiding AI Use
(Oklahoma State University Libraries and UNC University Libraries via Library Journal)
Built for You: LSU Libraries Impact Report 2024–2025
(LSU Libraries, LSU: Louisiana State University)
Library Rev Renewed by Spa Retreat at Preservation Department
(Texas A&M University Libraries)
New and Improved Website for Library Digital Collections
(UC Santa Cruz University Library)
Robert Redford’s Mysterious, and Little-Known, Tie to Boston University
(Boston University (BU) Libraries)
SFU Library Joins the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities
(Simon Fraser University (SFU) Library)
Stewards of a National Treasure: 100 Years of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy
(Dartmouth Libraries, Dartmouth College)
Two New Archival Collections Illuminate Southern California’s Religious and Cultural Transformations
(USC Libraries, USC: University of Southern California)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI and the Future of Academic Peer Review (preprint)
(arXiv)
Also from arXiv: Prestige over Merit: An Adapted Audit of LLM Bias in Peer Review (preprint)
Researchers Customize AI Tools at Global “Hackathon”
(Science)
Upcoming Webinars and Workshops: The RDA Knowledge Base Launch (Monday, October 6)
(RDA: Research Data Alliance)
Video: OpenAlex Townhall with CEO Jason Priem, Q4 2025
(Our Research)
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Tuesday, September 23
Top o’ the Review
AI and the Future of Education: Disruptions, Dilemmas, and Directions
(UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
AI’s Retracted Papers Problem
(The Download, MIT Technology Review)
As Scientists Show They Can Read Inner Speech, Brain Implant “Pioneers” Fight for Neural Data Privacy, Access Rights
(The Record)
California Issues Historic Fine over Lawyer’s ChatGPT Fabrications
(CalMatters)
Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore $500 Million in Federal Grant Funding to UCLA
(AP: The Associated Press)
New AAUP Report Analyzes Weaponization of Title VI in US Department of Education Investigations
(AAUP: American Association of University Professors)
The AI Tsunami Is Here: Reinventing Education for the Age of AI
(EDUCAUSE Review)
The Future of Artificial Intelligence Policy Is the Future of Competing Demands
(RAND)
ICPSR and Make Data Count collaborate to elevate the impact of data in the social sciences
(Make Data Count and ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Recommendations for a Classification of AI Use in Academic Manuscript Preparation
(STM)
See also: Classifying AI Use in Manuscript Preparation—A Recommendation (The Scholarly Kitchen)
ARL Member Libraries
Call for Proposals: Locating Downtown
(NYU Libraries, NYU: New York University)
Enter the Miinkaanensing: Indigenous Student Art Competition
(York University Libraries)
Libraries Improve Database Finder Based on User Feedback
(WashU Libraries, University of Washington in St. Louis)
Also from WashU: Extending Borrowing Periods and Loan Limits
New Exhibit on the Black Arts Movement Opens at UH Libraries
(University of Houston (UH) Libraries)
Nobody Would Edit Shakespeare, Right? Right?
(Library of Congress)
portal: Libraries and the Academy 25, no. 4 (preprints)
ARL member library authors
- Fifty Years of Labor History Preservation and Progress: The Evolution of the Walter P. Reuther Library (Wayne State University Library System)
- Gains and Gaps in OER: Using Rubrics to Assess the Impact of OER on Writing and Information Literacy Skills in the Literature Classroom (Texas A&M University Libraries)
- Goodness vs. Greatness: An Analysis of Motivation in Open Access Policies at US Land-Grant Institutions (Texas A&M University Libraries)
- In the Right Place at the Right Time—with the Right Ideas: A Conversation with Jerome Yavarkovsky (Boston College Libraries and Penn State University Libraries)
- Inclusion and Empathy Are Not Enough: Cultivating Student Belonging in the Academic Library Through Compassion (Penn State University Libraries)
- What’s Working and What Isn’t: An Exploratory Study of Current Reference Models in Large Academic Libraries (Auburn University Libraries and Texas A&M University Libraries)
Preserving the Past: First-Edition Cookbooks Join Rare Books & Manuscripts Library Collection
(The Ohio State University Libraries)
UofL Libraries Help Students Build Skills for School, Life, and Wellbeing at Adulting 101
(University of Louisville (UofL) Libraries)
Yale Film Archive Receives Grant to Preserve Experimental Films by Jacqueline Leger
(Yale University Library)
Zine Your Research: A New Podcast from Tulane Libraries Launches Friday, September 26
(Tulane University Libraries)
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Wednesday, September 24
Top o’ the Review
ARL Statistics 2024 Publications Describe Resources, Services of Member Libraries
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Canada Launches a New Task Force to Update Its AI Strategy
(The Logic)
Colleges Have Had a Tough Year. Confidence in Them Is Rising. (paywall)
(The Washington Post)
Global Research Initiative Launched to Advance Open Science Through Evidence-Based Approach
(GRIOS: Global Research Initiative on Open Science)
How LLMs Work: Top 10 Executive-Level Questions
(MIT Sloan Management Review)
See also: Science & Tech Spotlight: AI Agents (GAO: US Government Accountability Office)
Microsoft Looks to Build AI Marketplace for Publishers (paywall)
(Axios)
Open archived version available (Archive.today)
More to Be Done for Canada to Become a Leader in Open Science, Research, and Innovation
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries via The Hill Times)
Open archived version available (Archive.today)
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott Donates $70 Million to HBCUs
(The Guardian)
See also: UNCF Receives Landmark $70 Million Gift, Bolstering $1 Billion Capital Campaign (UNCF: United Negro College Fund)
The College-Graduate Workforce in the Transition to a Post-Pandemic Labor Market: Trends in Employment, Professional Engagement, and Work Arrangements
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Also from NSF: US Nonprofits Spent $31 Billion on R&D Activities in FY 2023
The Future of Universities—A Nature Special
(Nature)
ARL Member Libraries
AI Arcade Launches, Bringing AI Exploration to Shields Media Commons
(Penn State University Libraries)
Big Changes Coming to Morris Library’s Lower Level
(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press)
Illinois Secretary of State Awards $1.3 Million to University of Illinois (UI) System Library Service
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University Library via The Daily Illini)
Two Decades of US Politics Preserved in Tulane’s Gingrich Collection
(Tulane University Libraries)
UNT Special Collections Completes Processing on Winn Morton Collection
(University of North Texas (UNT) University Libraries)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Global Copyright Risks for AI Training
(FAI: Foundation for American Innovation)
The Forgotten Egg: The Importance of Public Federal Data in the United States
(APDU: Association of Public Data Users)
Scholars & Scholarship
Beyond Tool or Threat: GenAI and the Challenge It Poses to Higher Education
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Does Citation Context Information Enhance the Validity of Citation Analysis for Measuring Research Quality?
(QSS: Quantitative Science Studies)
Also from QSS: Mapping the Publisher Types and Collaborations Behind Web of Science Indexed Journals
LIBLICENSE-L to Join the Charleston Hub
(Charleston Hub)
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Thursday, September 25
Top o’ the Review
AI in Libraries—Take This Brief Anonymous Survey
(Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Big Ideas Wanted! Apply Now for CoGen Big Ideas Challenge to Reimagine Higher Education
(CoGenerate)
How AI and Wikipedia Have Sent Vulnerable Languages into a Doom Spiral
(MIT Technology Review)
See also: OpenAI Tested GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini on Real-World Tasks—the Results Were Surprising (ZDNET)
OCUL Publishes 2024–2025 Annual Report Highlighting Collaborative Achievements
(OCUL: Ontario Council of University Libraries)
One in Five Americans Now Regularly Get News on TikTok, Up Sharply from 2020
(Pew Research Center)
Also from Pew: Social Media and News Fact Sheet
When Rescuing Environmental Data, Are We Archiving the Past or Illuminating the Future?
(UCS: Union of Concerned Scientists)
ARL Member Libraries
Bound to Browsable: Unlocking the Historical Media Publications Collection
(Library of Congress)
GPO Honors University of North Texas with Best Federal Depository Website
(University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries via GPO: US Government Publishing Office)
HathiTrust Resource-Sharing Pilot Now Underway
(Brown University Library, Cornell University Library, New York Public Library, The Ohio State University Libraries, UC Berkeley Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries, University of Michigan Library via HathiTrust)
Microcard Metadata Innovation: Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) and JSTOR Digital Stewardship Service
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
National Coming Out Day Celebration: Brown University Library x Stonewall House
(Brown University Library)
Printing Brains and Inspiring Research
(Virginia Tech University Libraries)
UBC Library Expands Collection of Influential Art Periodical Bijutsu Techō
(The University of British Columbia (UBC) Library)
With New Grant, “On the Books” Uses AI to Make Historical Records More Accessible
(UNC University Libraries, The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill)
WSU’s Leonard and Virginia Woolf Library and Their World of Ideas
(Washington State University (WSU) Libraries)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Beyond the Exception: Licensing, Access, and the Realities of Text and Data Mining in the US, UK, and Singapore
(Authors Alliance)
Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Administration Research and Development Budget Priorities and Cross-Cutting Actions
(OMB: Office of Management and Budget and OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House)
Summary of Feedback on Draft Revised Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications (2025)
(Government of Canada)
See also: Open Letter to the Prime Minister (Coalition for Canadian Research via U15 Canada)
Scholars & Scholarship
NISO’s Draft Revision of Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Phase III Recommended Practice Now Open for Public Comment
(NISO: National Information Standards Organization)
Validating Claims About AI: A Policymaker’s Guide
(HAI: Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
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