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Wednesday, August 20
Top o’ the Review
AI Industry Horrified to Face Largest Copyright Class Action Ever Certified
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries via Ars Technica)
See also: Anthropic Copyright Case Sparks Alliance Between Tech and Publishing Groups (eWeek)
ARL Leadership Fellows Selected for 2025 Cohort
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Also from ARL: Save the Date! ARL President’s Institute 2026
Historians Defend the Smithsonian
(AHA: American Historical Association)
See also: “History Is Not A Hallmark Card.” Scholars Condemn Trump’s Smithsonian Review. (Forbes)
How to Become a Critical Reader of Academic Research
(MIT Sloan Management Review)
MIT Report: 95 Percent of Generative AI Pilots at Companies Failing
(Fortune)
New Survey Report Shows How Library Workers Use AI
(OCUL: Ontario Council of University Libraries)
NSF-NVIDIA Partnership Enables Ai2 to Develop Fully Open AI
(NSF: US National Science Foundation, NVIDIA, and Ai2: Allen Institute for AI)
See also: OECD Report on AI Openness (PDF) (OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
#RLUK26 Call for Papers
(RLUK: Research Libraries UK)
The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era
(WIRED)
ARL Member Libraries
Announcing Duke’s AI Ethics Learning Toolkit
(Duke University Libraries and Duke CARADITE: Center for Applied Research and Design in Transformative Education)
Also from Duke: Duke Students Report Frequent AI Use, Call for Instructor Guidance in New Research by CARADITE
Boston Public Library Teams Up with Grammy-Winning Artist Laufey for Special-Edition Library Card with Her Book Club
(BPL: Boston Public Library and Laufey)
See also: BPL Aims to Increase Access to a Vast Historic Archive Using AI (NPR: National Public Radio)
Designing Libraries XII Conference Program Now Online—Registration Open Until Saturday, September 13
(University of Rochester River Campus Libraries)
Exploring Accessibility at U-M Libraries: Lessons from the 2023 Library Campus Survey
(University of Michigan (U-M) Library)
The Vital Role of Sustainability in Academic Libraries
(The University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library and UC San Diego Library via SLI: Sustainable Libraries Initiative and ARL)
Total Garbage by Edward Humes Named Winner of Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
UC Berkeley Library Acts to Minimize Potential Health Risks of 19th-Century Books
(UC Berkeley Library)
UCLA Library Makes Room for New Books Through Weeding Process, Recycling
(UCLA Library via Daily Bruin)
UGA Opens Creative Hub for Collaboration and Innovation
(University of Georgia (UGA) Libraries)
University Libraries Partners with Networks to Impact Pennsylvania Residents
(Penn State University Libraries)
Higher Ed
ACLS Launches New Doctoral Futures Initiative to Assess and Reimagine Humanities Graduate Education
(ACLS: American Council of Learned Societies, AHA: American Historical Association, MLA: Modern Language Association, and SBL: Society of Biblical Literature)
DEI Closures at Colleges Leave Students with “a Different Reality”
(The Hill)
Scholars & Scholarship
After 17 Years Project Information Literacy (PIL) Is Coming to An End, Archive of All PIL Output Now Available
(infoDOCKET)
The AI Agents of Tomorrow Need Data Integrity
(IEEE Spectrum)
The Current State of Academic Ebook Business Models
(Ithaka S+R)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
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Thursday, August 21
Top o’ the Review
ACLS Statement Regarding the White House Review of Smithsonian Institution Museums
(ACLS: American Council of Learned Societies)
ASIS&T and SLA Members Vote in Favor of Merger
(SLA: Special Libraries Association and ASIS&T: Association for Information Science and Technology)
In a First, Google Has Released Data on How Much Energy an AI Prompt Uses
(MIT Technology Review)
See also: Our Approach to Energy Innovation and AI’s Environmental Footprint (Google)
Insights into AI’s Transformative Role in Higher Education: WCET’s 2025 Survey
(WCET: WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies, WICHE: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education)
See also: New ACT Study: Gen Z Male Students Are More Optimistic About AI Than Female Students (ACT)
NEH Announces Reorganization of Its Grantmaking Offices, Programs, and Personnel
(NEH: US National Endowment for the Humanities)
What Counts as Plagiarism? AI-Generated Papers Pose New Risks
(Nature)
What Do Librarians Look Like? Stereotyping of a Profession by Generative AI
(Journal of Librarianship and Information Science)
ARL Member Libraries
Contractual Override: How Private Contracts Undermine the Goals of the Copyright Act for Libraries and Researchers, and What We Can Do About It
(UC Berkeley Library via Authors Alliance)
ARL member library authors
CRL Pilots AI to Accelerate Metadata Production
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
Getty Invests $2.6 Million to Support Black Visual Arts Archives Across the US
(Emory University Libraries, NYPL: New York Public Library, and Temple University Libraries via Getty)
Illinois Newspaper Project Receives NEH Grant
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University Library)
New Special Collections & Archives Collection Strengths Support Emerging Research Areas
(University of Waterloo Library)
Olin Library to Hold Reopening Celebration August 27
(Cornell University Library)
UMD Libraries Receives Gift of Rare Books and Ephemera Relating to American Writer Sarah Josepha Hale
(University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries)
Upcoming Hybrid Event Series: Understanding AI (Friday, September 5; Tuesday, September 23; Wednesday, October 29; Thursday, November 20)
(NYPL: New York Public Library and Data & Society)
Video: Penn Reading Project: Revolution at Penn
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
Welcome UCLA’s Athena Jackson to Board of Governors
(UCLA Library via HathiTrust)
Scholars & Scholarship
A New Scholarly Ebooks Model: Publisher Collections on JSTOR
(JSTOR)
Application of the Cyberinfrastructure Production Function Model to R1 Institutions
(Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics)
David Bowie Had It Right: Challenges and Opportunities in Research Data Management
(Journal of eScience Librarianship)
Deep Research: A Survey of Autonomous Research Agents (preprint)
(arXiv)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
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