Day in Review (January 22–25)

Last Updated on March 1, 2024, 7:32 am ET

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Monday, January 22

Top o’ the Review

CFLA-FCAB and CFE Joint Challenges Database
(CFA: Centre for Free Expression and CFLA-FCAB: Canadian Federation of Library Associations)

Join the Brand New IFLA ARL LinkedIn Group Now
(ARL: Academic & Research Libraries Sections, IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)

National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Seeks Expressions of Interest for New Host Organization
(DLF: Digital Library Federation)

Navigating the Extended Reality (XR) Educational Landscape: Privacy, Safety, and Ethical Guidelines
(EDUCAUSE)

Paper Mills Are Bribing Editors at Scholarly Journals, Science Investigation Finds
(Science)

Science’s Fake-Paper Problem: High-Profile Effort Will Tackle Paper Mills
(Nature)
See also: COPE Position Statement (COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics)

ARL Member Libraries

Awards

Emory Libraries Receives Insight into Diversity Magazine’s 2024 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award
(Emory University Libraries)
NYU Libraries Is a 2024 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award Recipient
(NYU Libraries, New York University)

Celebrate 10 Years of Trading Libraries Fines for Food
(Texas A&M University Libraries)

Harvard Library Supports Authors Alliance
(Harvard Library)

High Schoolers Learn the Basics of Orthopaedic Surgery in UMN Makerspace
(University of Minnesota Libraries)

How Do University of Michigan Press Book Authors and Readers Perceive Open Access?
(University of Michigan Library)

Libraries Plans Migration to New Integrated Library Services Platform
(Syracuse University Libraries)

Library of Congress Launches New Website for Americans to Share COVID-19 Stories
(Library of Congress)

University Archives Preserves Student Organization History
(The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian

Tuesday, January 23

Top o’ the Review

BHL Technical Development: Year in Review
(BHL: Biodiversity Heritage Library, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)

Boston Library Consortium and NISO Announce Membership Agreement
(NISO: National Information Standards Organization)

Registration Open for the RLUK24 Conference
(RLUK: Research Libraries UK)

7 Things You Should Know about Data De-identification and Anonymization
(EDUCAUSE Review)

Upcoming Virtual Event: A Right to Read without Being Read: Data Collection and the Scholarly Record (Thursday, January 25)
(United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library)

US Department of Education Releases 2024 National Educational Technology Plan
(US Department of Education)

ARL Member Libraries

Announcing the 2022-2023 UC Libraries Annual Report
(University of Cincinnati Libraries)

How Do University of Michigan Press Book Authors and Readers Perceive Open Access?
(University of Michigan Library)

Outstanding Publisher Participation Elevates Project MUSE S2O Program. 88 Journals From 24 Publishers Participating to Date
(Project MUSE, Johns Hopkins University)

Report on Impact of Open Monographs Fund
(UC Davis Library)

Supporting Student Success: Libraries’ Ongoing Commitment to Affordable Course Materials
(Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies)

UGA Libraries Welcomes New Leaders
(UGA: University of Georgia)

University Libraries Represented on NEH Grant Project Advisory Board
(University of Arizona Libraries)

Libraries—Other

EBSCO Information Services CEO Tim Collins to Retire on June 30, 2024
(EBSCO)

Higher Ed—Other

Critics Say Public Universities Are Spending Too Much Outside the Classroom
(Stateline)

Advocacy & Public Policy

College Cost Reduction Act: Bill Summary
(ACE: American Council on Education)

US R&D Increased by $72 Billion in 2021 to $789 Billion; Estimate for 2022 Indicates Further Increase to $886 Billion
(NCSES: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF: US National Science Foundation)

Scholars & Scholarship

AI Hallucinations: A Misnomer Worth Clarifying
(arXiv)

Artificial Intelligence to Automate the Systematic Review of Scientific Literature
(arXiv)

WHO Releases AI Ethics and Governance Guidance for Large Multi-Modal Models
(WHO: World Health Organization)

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian

Wednesday, January 24

Top o’ the Review

An Open Approach for Classifying Research Publications
(Leiden Madtrics)

Democratizing the Future of AI R&D: NSF to Launch National AI Research Resource Pilot
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)

ITHAKA in 2024: A Letter from Kevin Guthrie
(ITHAKA)
See also: Expanding ITHAKA’s Impact: 2023 Year in Review

Misinformation and Irresponsible AI—Experts Forecast How Technology May Shape Our Near Future
(Lancaster University)

Registration Open: IDEAL 2024—Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Libraries & Archives
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)

Training Generative AI Models on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)

ARL Member Libraries

A Lincoln Trove Lands at the Library (Pie Safe Included)
(New York Public Library via New York Times)

An Overview of the “All of Us” Researcher Workbench and the Role of the Library
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine)

Awards

CWRU Campus Libraries Receive LEAD Award
(CWRU: Case Western Reserve University)
UK Libraries Honored with Insight into Diversity Magazine’s 2024 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity Award
(UK: University of Kentucky)

GPO Completes the Law Library of Congress Historical Reports Records
(Library of Congress via FDLP: Federal Depository Library Program, GPO: US Government Publishing Office)

MIT Press’s Direct to Open Reaches Annual Funding Goal, Opens Access to Full List of 2024 Monographs
(MIT Press)

More Obstacles for the Graduate Student Author: Open Access ETDs Trigger Plagiarism Detectors
(University of Saskatchewan Library via Journal of Graduate Librarianship)

Unique UNT: Comic Book Studies, Willis Library’s Collection, and Going “Into the Archieverse”
(UNT: University of North Texas via Denton Record-Chronicle)

University Libraries Acquire the Kenneth Cooper Papers
(Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries)

University of Pennsylvania Libraries Will Provide Comprehensive Access to American Institute of Indian Studies Image Collection
(Penn Libraries)
Also new from Penn: A Penn Libraries and Penn Dental Medicine Collaboration

Higher Ed

Current Term Enrollment Estimates: Fall 2023 (Expanded Edition)
(National Student Clearinghouse Research Center)

The Key Attributes Employers Are Looking for on Graduates’ Resumes
(NACE: National Association of Colleges and Employers)

Scholars & Scholarship

Whistleblowers Flagged 300 Scientific Papers for Retraction. Many Journals Ghosted Them
(Science)

Will Our Educational System Keep Pace with AI? A Student’s Perspective on AI and Learning
(EDUCAUSE Review)

In Other News

USGS Expands National Map Digital Offerings, Putting Mountain-Scale Topography at User’s Fingertips
(USGS: US Geological Survey)

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian

Thursday, January 25

Top o’ the Review

Announcing NISO’s New Strategic Plan
(NISO: National Information Standards Organization)

OASPA Members Pass the 1 Million Articles Annual Output Milestone for the First Time in a Calendar Year
(OASPA: Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association)

Open-Access Papers Draw More Citations from a Broader Readership
(Science)

Registration Open: National Community of Practice for AI and Machine Learning in Academic Libraries
(OCUL: Ontario Council of University Libraries)

The Sleepy Copyright Office in the Middle of a High-Stakes Clash Over AI
(New York Times)

US Senate Hearing Video and Prepared Testimony: The Use of Artificial Intelligence at the Library of Congress, Government Publishing Office, and Smithsonian Institution
(US Senate Committee on Rules & Administration via infoDOCKET)

ARL Member Libraries

Athena Jackson Named UCLA University Librarian
(UCLA Library)
See also: University of Houston Libraries’ news of this transition

Atlanta University Center (AUC) Library CEO & Director, Loretta Parham, to Retire This Year
(Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library via PR Newswire)

Carrying the Momentum from a Year of Open Science Forward in 2024
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine)

Know Your Nosh: Exhibition on Jewish Food Opens at the University Libraries
(University of Colorado Boulder University Libraries)

Students Gain Experience Inspecting Film at the Indiana University (IU) Moving Image Archive
(Indiana University Bloomington Libraries via Indiana Public Media)

Libraries—Other

CLIR Awarded US State Department Grant for Algerian Library Preservation Project
(CLIR: Council on Library and Information Resources)

Crossref DOIs, Persistent Discovery, and the Digital Preservation of 7.5 Million Items
(CLOCKSS)

Higher Ed—Members

Welcome to AI University
(ASU: Arizona State University via Politico)
For more on the ASU partnership with OpenAI, the Hechinger Report Higher Education Newsletter includes comments from University of New Mexico’s Leo Lo