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Wednesday, December 11
Top o’ the Review
Applications Open for 2025 NIH and Data Curation Network Workshop Series
(DCN: Data Curation Network and NIH: US National Institutes of Health)
ARL and CARL Celebrate Human Rights Day with Resources on Marrakesh Treaty and Accessible Books Consortium
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries and CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
CC Open Education: 2024 in Review
(CC: Creative Commons)
Costs of Federally Sponsored Research (infographic, updated December 2024)
(COGR) Also from COGR: Additional Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Cost Reimbursement Educational Materials
Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant
(WIRED)
See also: Google Built an AI Tool That Can Do Research for You (The Verge)
National Archives to Award $2.4 Million for Historical Records Projects
(NARA: US National Archives and Records Administration)
New CGS Report Shows Rebound for Graduate Applications and First-Time Enrollment
(CGS: Council of Graduate Schools)
REF 2029 Open Access Policy and Consultation and Engagement Summary Published
(REF: Research Excellence Framework)
SCOAP3 at Ten: From Open Access to Open Science
(SCOAP3: Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics, CERN)
Will AI Audio Replace Podcasts? Not So Fast (podcast audio and transcript)
(Scientific American)
ARL Member Libraries
Call for Applications: Jay I. Kislak Research Fellowship and Artist-In-Residence
(University of Miami Libraries)
Crowdsourcing Digital Collection Descriptive Metadata Using Zooniverse
(University of Michigan Library)
Jamie Hazlitt Named Director of Arts, Music, and Powell Libraries
(UCLA Library)
Also from UCLA: UCLA Library to Preserve Rare Audiovisual Recordings from the East West Players Theater Company
Locks of the Lilly: Examples of Hair in the Lilly Library
(Indiana University Libraries Bloomington)
New Donation Alert: No Reply Press
(University of Oregon Libraries)
New Year, New Library Homepage! Get a Sneak Preview Now
(UC Santa Cruz University Library)
OCUL Celebrates Five Years of Omni
(McMaster University, Queen’s University, University of Guelph, University of Ottawa, University of Waterloo, Western University, and York University via OCUL: Ontario Council of University Libraries)
Penn Libraries Receives $5 Million Bequest from Medieval Historian Elizabeth A.R. Brown
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
The Google Library Project: Purdue Libraries Partners with Google to Digitize Books
(Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies)
The Open Monograph Distribution and Acquisitions Gap: A Look at TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) Titles
(University of Minnesota Libraries via JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
University Libraries Launches New Data Repository SANDY
(University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Immigration Priorities of the Incoming Trump Administration and Implications for Higher Education
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
Also from Presidents’ Alliance: Overview of Trump Administration Immigration Policies and Their Impact on Students and Campuses, 2017–2021
Scholars & Scholarship
AI Thinks Differently Than People Do. Here’s Why That Matters.
(HBR: Harvard Business Review)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
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Thursday, December 12
Top o’ the Review
Applications Now Open for Evidence Synthesis Institute Canada, Spring 2025 in English; French Institute Planned for Fall 2025
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
CORE (COnnecting REpositories) Receives Funding for Five Years from Microsoft’s Open Data Initiative to Increase Access to Open Scientific Research
(The Open University)
How Knowledge Institutions Can Build a Promethean Moment
(IDI: Institutional Data Initiative, Harvard Law School Library)
See also:
- Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft (WIRED)
- Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab Launches Institutional Data Initiative: Interview with IDI Executive Director Greg Leppert (Harvard Law Today)
Postsecondary Data Partnership Insights: Early Indicators of Timely Completers
(National Student Clearinghouse Research Center)
Sophia Abundo Wins Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship 2025
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Survey Report: Appraising Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Research Organizations
(Science Europe)
Teens, Social Media, and Technology 2024
(Pew Research Center)
TIME Brings Conversational AI to Journalism
(Eleven Labs)
What Is Agentic AI, and How Will It Change Work?
(HBR: Harvard Business Review)
Will ChatGPT Get Tenure?
(Leiden Madtrics)
ARL Member Libraries
Assessing Research Consultations During a Pandemic: A Summary and Reflection
(University of Michigan Library)
Collaborative Project Aims to Digitize Malone Center Archives
(University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries)
New US Elections Web Archive Data Resources Available
(Library of Congress)
Also from Library of Congress: File Format Research Roundup
“Open Access APCs Are Already a Scam”: Knowledge and Opinions of Open Access and Article Processing Charges From Faculty at a Large Public University
(Texas Tech University Libraries via JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
Supporting the Prison Education Project
(WashU Libraries, Washington University in St. Louis)
UCSB and UCSD Libraries Earn 2024 UC Tech Award
(UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) Library and UC San Diego (UCSD) Library)
Unlocking AI in Education: GenAI Quickstart Micromodules for Faculty Now Available
(McGill University Libraries)
Higher Ed
Knocking at the College Door—Insights on WICHE’s New Publication
(WCET: WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies, WICHE: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education)
Student Pathways Through Postsecondary Education, 2011 to 2022
(Statistics Canada)
Advocacy & Public Policy
SAA Joins Leading Archival Organizations in Submitting Recommendations for Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Reauthorization
(SAA: Society of American Archivists)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
