Last Updated on December 4, 2025, 3:22 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, December 1
Top o’ the Review
A New Paradigm for Librarianship: A Review of Library Associations’ Work and AI from 2019 Until the Present
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Campus Compact Secures $600,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation to Advance Campus Action Planning for Civic and Community Engagement
(Campus Compact)
How Trump 2.0 Upended Education Research and Statistics in One Year
(The Hechinger Report)
Poll: In a Dramatic Shift, Americans No Longer See Four-Year College Degrees as Worth the Cost
(NBC News)
See also: Move Over, Computer Science. Students Are Flocking to New AI Majors. (The New York Times; open archived version)
The Internet’s Vanishing Act
(The Gazette, Western University)
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
(Humane Ingenuity)
See also: Vast Trove of Medieval Jewish Records Opened Up by AI (Reuters)
Video: RLUK Digital Shift Forum: AI, Research, and the Research Library
(RLUK: Research Libraries UK)
Where Most People Trust Others and Where They Don’t Around the World
(Pew Research Center)
White Paper: A Thorny Question in Copyright
(Authors Alliance)
ARL Member Libraries
AI Literacy Champions: How Library Sciences Are Connecting New Tech, Academic Publishing, and Campus Communities
(Cornell University Library)
College Is Stressful. Here’s How the Libraries Can Help.
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
How Do You Measure Up? A Study of Experience, Confidence, and Expertise by Canadian Academic Librarians Supporting Chemistry Instruction and Research (abstract only)
(McGill University Libraries and University of Toronto Libraries via Science & Technology Libraries)
ARL member library authors
New Digitization Lab Improves Workflows for Cultural Heritage Imaging
(UC Riverside Library)
NYPL’s Best Books of 2025
(NYPL: New York Public Library)
Penn State University Press Announces New Series Titled “Troubling Democracy”
(Penn State University Libraries)
Podcast: Nunn Center Director Dives into the Discipline of Oral History
(University of Kentucky Libraries via Historically Thinking Podcast)
Preserving the Ocean’s Flora: Collaborative Effort Enhances Discovery of Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Specimens
(UC San Diego Library)
UCLA Library Enriches Creative Activity Across Los Angeles Through Region-Wide Getty Initiative
(UCLA Library)
Also from UCLA: East West Players AV Collection Materials Now Available to Researchers
Higher Ed
Podcast: Higher Education’s AI Problem
(Up First from NPR, National Public Radio)
See also: Is Higher Education Ready for AI (Communications of the ACM)
Shared Vision, Unified Voice: Universities and Research Institutes in Europe Propose Joint FP10 Amendments
(EUA: European University Association)
Also from EUA: Sustainability and Greening in European Higher Education
Updating the Generative AI Product Tracker: An Evolving Product Landscape
(Ithaka S+R)
Scholars & Scholarship
A Trustworthy AI Assistant for Investigative Journalists
(HAI: Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
Altmetrics in the Evaluation of Scholarly Impact: A Systematic and Critical Literature Review
(Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics)
DeepSeek Debuts New AI Models to Rival Google and OpenAI
(Bloomberg via MSN)
Research Knowledge and Its Transmission: Key Case of Women in Science and Engineering
(Innovative Higher Education)
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Tuesday, December 2
Top o’ the Review
Commission Launches Consultation on Protocols for Reserving Rights from Text and Data Mining Under the AI Act and General-Purpose AI Code of Practice
(European Commission)
See also: Creative Grey Zones: Copyright in the Age of Hybridity (The Alan Turing Institute)
Global Research Collaboration Is Changing: Key Insights from Latest ISI Report
(ISI: Institute for Scientific Information, Clarivate)
Market Sizing Supplement 2025—Your Mileage May Vary
(Delta Think)
Publishing Cultural Heritage Data in the Age of AI
(Europeana Foundation and Open Future Foundation)
Selling Student Success: A Critical Analysis of Predictive Analytics Vendors in Higher Education (working paper)
(EdWorkingPapers, Annenberg Institute at Brown University)
Showcase and Inspire: Share Your AI Expertise with OCUL Members
(OCUL: Ontario Council of University Libraries)
Strategic Analysis of the Scholarly Communications Landscape
(COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories)
These New AI Models Are Built to Work Anywhere in Many Languages
(CNET)
Why Universities Need to Radically Rethink Exams in the Age of AI
(Nature)
ARL Member Libraries
Book Club Programs in United States Academic Libraries: A Survey
(University at Buffalo University Libraries via The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
ARL member library authors
McGuigan Named Inaugural Associate Dean of Libraries for Research at UW–Madison
(University of Wisconsin (UW)–Madison Libraries)
New PALABRA Archive Recordings Released for Digital Streaming
(Library of Congress)
New Series of Research Guides Launched at McMaster
(McMaster University Libraries)
Temple Libraries Celebrates 5 Years of TUScholarShare
(Temple University Libraries)
The Libraries AI Funhouse: Unlocking AI One Mini-Session at a Time
(Stony Brook University Libraries)
The Long View: Protecting the Past for the Future
(University of Texas Libraries)
UMD Libraries Now Accepting Applications for 20th Century Japan and Katherine Anne Porter Research Awards
(University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries)
UNL Libraries Efforts for Digital Accessibility
(University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Monitoring Open Science with Scholarly Content Providers: What OSMI’s Survey Tells Us
(Upstream, FORCE11)
OpenDORS: A Dataset of Openly Referenced Open Research Software (preprint)
(arXiv)
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Wednesday, December 3
Top o’ the Review
ALA, ARL, and CARL Join the Fight to Defend Our Future Memory
(ALA: American Library Association, ARL: Association of Research Libraries, and CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Another Bid to Block State AI Regulation Has Failed…for Now
(TechCrunch)
In Westlaw Copyright Dispute, Legal Tech Backs ROSS While Media Groups Back Thomson Reuters
(Law.com)
Learning as Infrastructure: Building a State That Learns at the Speed of AI
(Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
MIT Study Finds AI Can Already Replace 11.7% of US Workforce
(CNBC)
Releasing The Public Interest Corpus Principles and Goals
(Authors Alliance)
Trust in Science: Ethical Responsibilities for Scientists and Universities
(ISC: International Science Council)
Why Does AI Write Like…That? (paywall)
(The New York Times)
Open archived version
See also: Estimating the Prevalence of LLM-Assisted Text in Scholarly Writing (preprint) (arXiv)
Young Adults and the Future of News
(Pew Research Center)
Youth, Loneliness, and Political Violence in the US
(Gallup)
See also: FIRE Poll: 90% of Undergrads Believe Words Can Be Violence Even After Killing of Charlie Kirk (FIRE: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)
ARL Member Libraries
American Music Research Center Acquires Harry Tuft Collection
(University of Colorado Boulder University Libraries)
Open Digital Publishing Guidelines
(Texas A&M University Libraries)
Publisher Highlight: City Lights
(UC Berkeley Library)
Serving Up Culinary History in New Cookbook
(Iowa State University Library)
University Libraries Appoints Chris Vidas as Assistant Dean for Content and Access
(Ohio University Libraries)
Higher Ed
The World of Higher Education–Year in Review 2025
(Higher Education Strategy Associates)
Webinar Video: Selecting a Graduate or Professional Program: Considerations for Undocumented Students
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
Scholars & Scholarship
Assessing Data Sharing Under Preprints: Value and Contribution of Data Repositories
(ASAPbio)
Deep Research: A Systematic Survey (preprint)
(arXiv)
OpenAI Has Trained Its LLM to Confess to Bad Behavior
(MIT Technology Review)
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Thursday, December 4
Top o’ the Review
Bringing Governance into the ODI Framework for AI-Ready Data
(ODI: Open Data Institute)
Copyright, GenAI, and the Future of Academic Publishing
(Leiden Madtrics)
CopyrightX: Libraries—Spring 2026 Application Due Friday, December 12
(CopyrightX: Libraries)
Deep Revenue Losses Concentrate Among Large Organizations, Others See Slowing Growth (2025 National Trends Report)
(SMU DataArts)
Google’s New AI Image Generator Is a Misinformation Superspreader
(NewsGuard’s Reality Check)
How Students Are Trying to Save Local News
(CJR: Columbia Journalism Review)
IMLS Restores Competitive Grant Funding
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries via PW: Publishers Weekly)
International Community Convenes in Pisa to Advance Coordinated Reform in Publishing and Research Assessment
(DORA: Declaration on Research Assessment)
Also from DORA: Building the Evidence Base for Narrative CVs
New Agreement to Promote Policy, Research, and Practice-Relevant Knowledge
(ISC: International Science Council and IAU International Association of Universities)
New Tracker from Tow Center for Digital Journalism “Monitors Developments Between News Publishers and AI Companies”
(infoDOCKET)
ARL Member Libraries
A New Look for the Largest Library on Campus
(Queen’s University Library)
Behind-the-Scenes: UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections and University Archives Upgrades
(The University of British Columbia (UBC) Library)
CRL and Its NERL Licensing Program Joins Open Journals Collective as US Billing Agent
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
Libraries and CIRES Partner to Transform 19th-Century Tsunami Records into Open Data
(University of Colorado Boulder University Libraries)
New Pilot Initiative to Enhance Shared Print Collaboration Across Libraries
(Many ARL members via HathiTrust, WEST: Western Regional Storage Trust, and CDL: California Digital Library)
Try Out the New Technical Bulletin
(NLM: National Library of Medicine)
2024–2025 UCLA Library Impact Report: Intersections of Knowledge
(UCLA Library)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI Reviewers Are Here—We Are Not Ready (paywall)
(Nature)
Open archived version
Research Data Management Practices Across the Research Data Lifecycle and Their Potential for Collaboration in an International Higher Education Alliance
(Data Science Journal)
What We Achieved Together in 2025: IOI’s Year in Review
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure)
Also from IOI: Beyond Funding: Building the Capacity for Sustainable and Resilient Open Infrastructure
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
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