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Monday, December 18
Top o’ the Review
AI, OpenAI, and the Evolving AI Environment
(LorcanDempsey.net)
CNI Fall 2023 Plenary Videos Ready
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Internet Archive Files Opening Brief in Appeal of Publisher Lawsuit (Hachette et al. v. Internet Archive)
(infoDOCKET)
Note: The infoDOCKET page will be updated with filings in the case, including ARL’s brief, which will be filed December 22.
OpenAI Releases Prompt Engineering Guide
(OpenAI)
Reference Chatbots in Canadian Academic Libraries
(University of Calgary Libraries via ITAL: Information Technology and Libraries)
SCOSS Infrastructures Stronger Together
(SCOSS: Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services)
ARL Member Libraries
Albert Einstein Correspondence Now Available to Researchers
(NC State University Libraries)
Boston Public Library Wraps Up 2023
(Boston Public Library)
CU Boulder Agrees to a Temporary Contract Extension with Academic Publisher Elsevier
(University of Colorado (CU) Boulder University Libraries)
Growing the File Format Fam
(Library of Congress)
Mapping Prejudice Cited by Minnesota Supreme Court in Public School “Racial Imbalance” Case
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
The Scarcity of Comic Books in American Research Libraries (book chapter)
(University of Missouri University Libraries via MOspace Institutional Repository)
Libraries—Other
Call for Proposals for LIBER 2024 Annual Conference Now Open—Deadline January 12
(LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries)
Advocacy & Public Policy
ARL Joins American Council on Education (ACE) Letter to US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Net Neutrality
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
US Education Department Has Conditionally Approved Public Generative AI Systems
(FedScoop)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Call for Expressions of Interest—CARL Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Working Group
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Incoming Class of 2023 Is the Most Diverse Ever, but More Work Remains
(LSAC: Law School Admission Council)
Scholars & Scholarship
A Year beyond Boundaries: DataCite’s 2023 Recap
(DataCite)
Announcing the Results of ORCID’s 2024 Board Election
(ORCID)
In Other News
E-readers Were Supposed to Kill Printed Books. Instead, They’re Booming
(CBC Radio)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
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Tuesday, December 19
Top o’ the Review
From Transition to Transformation: Insights from the 2023 Digital Education Outlook
(OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Also from OECD: Opportunities, Guidelines, and Guardrails for Effective and Equitable Use of AI in Education
January 1, 2024, Is Public Domain Day: Works from 1928 Are Open to All, As Are Sound Recordings from 1923
(Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke University School of Law)
Reaffirming Openness and Collaboration As We Say Goodbye to the Year of Open Science—Highlights from CNI Fall ’23
(DCN: Data Curation Network)
Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative Releases Updated Data Management and Sharing Activities
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries with DCN: Data Curation Network)
We Must Fix the Lack of Transparency around the Data Used to Train Foundation Models
(HDSR: Harvard Data Science Review)
What’s New with COAR Notify?
(COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories)
ARL Member Libraries
Experiences of Visible Minority Librarians and Students in Canada from the Visible Minority Librarians of Canada Network (ViMLoC) Mentorship Program
(University of Ottawa Library and York University Library via EBLIP: Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice)
Upcoming Webinars: 2024 Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Classes: Highlights, Changes, and PubMed Searching (Wednesday, January 10, and Thursday, January 25)
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine)
User Research: Interface for Audio and Moving Image Digital Collections
(University of Michigan Library)
Welcome Barbara Kern, AUL
(Queen’s University Library)
Windows Magazine Fall/Winter 2023
(UNC University Libraries)
Libraries—Other
Registration Open for NDSA’s Virtual Event
(NDSA: National Digital Stewardship Alliance, DLF: Digital Library Federation)
Higher Ed—Members
NSF Invests Over $16 Million in Six Academic Institutions for Cybersecurity Scholarships
(Brigham Young University and University of Delaware via NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Higher Ed—Other
Student Pathways through Postsecondary Education, 2011 to 2021
(Statistics Canada)
Advocacy & Public Policy
FTC Staff Report Details Key Takeaways from AI and Creative Fields Panel Discussion
(FTC: US Federal Trade Commission)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Supporting Indigenous Students at Public and Land-Grant Institutions
(APLU: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and Cornell University)
Scholars & Scholarship
Controlling Large Language Model Outputs: A Primer
(CSET: Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University)
Faster arXiv with Fastly
(arXiv, Cornell University)
Image Recognition Accuracy: An Unseen Challenge Confounding Today’s AI
(CSAIL: Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Preprinting and Open Peer Review at the STI 2023 Conference: Evaluation of an Open-Science Experiment
(Leiden Madtrics)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
