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Day in Review (April 17–18)

Last Updated on April 18, 2023, 3:40 pm ET

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Monday, April 17

Top o’ the Review

ALA Calls for National Day of Action to Protect Freedom to Read, Designates Right to Read Monday for 2023 National Library Week
(ALA: American Library Association)

American College President Study: 2023 Edition
(ACE: American Council on Education)

EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: Adopting and Adapting to Generative AI in Higher Ed Tech
(EDUCAUSE Review)

Europe’s Academic Publishing System Must Become Sustainable and Equitable
(The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities)

Findings from OSI’s Global Survey of Researchers
(OSI: Open Scholarship Initiative)

Higher Ed Leaders Have Largely Kept Mum about Anti-DEI Bills. A New Campaign Changes That.
(USA Today via Yahoo News)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Archive of Dan’s Papers Donated to Stony Brook University Libraries
(Stony Brook University Libraries)

Art and Community: Africana Library Exhibits Quilts
(Cornell University)

Big Ten Academic Alliance and JSTOR Announce Multi-year Agreement for Path to Open Pilot
(JSTOR)

FSU Libraries Names New Associate Dean of Technology and Digital Scholarship
(FSU: Florida State University)

U of T Researchers Uncover “Hidden Stories” Found in Centuries-Old Books
(University of Toronto Libraries)

Upcoming Hybrid Event Series (Thursday, April 20; Tuesday, April 25; Friday, April 28): Invisible Influencers: Examining Absence in Popular Narratives
(Tulane University Libraries)

 

Libraries—Other

CARL Welcomes Elizabeth Kalbfleisch and Graham Lavender as New Project Officers
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)

LPC Quarterly Update (April 2023)
(LPC: Library Publishing Coalition)

Revolutionary Publication Marketplace: the bloxberg Blockchain Will Power OpenSci.net
(MPDL: Max Planck Digital Library)

 

Higher Ed

Trade Programs—Unlike Other Areas of Higher Education—Are in Hot Demand
(Hechinger Report)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Centering Students with Disabilities: An Accessible User Experience Study of a Library Research Guide
(Weave)

Diamond Open Access 2023 Roadmap
(cOAlition S)

Video: Listening Session on NIH Public Access Plan
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health)

 

In Other News

ChatGPT’s AI to Power Chegg Study Buddy as Educators Wrestle with Tech
(Reuters)

 

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


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Tuesday, April 18

Top o’ the Review

AI Language Models: Technological, Socio-economic, and Policy Considerations
(OECD Digital Economy Papers)

Assessing the Racial Diversity of Librarians
(Ithaka S+R)

Leaders Gather at ACE2023 to Discuss Higher Education’s Challenges and Successes
(ACE: American Council on Education)

Louisiana Academic Library Workers and Workplace Bullying
(Library Leadership & Management)

Sustaining Art Research Collections: Case Studies in Collaboration
(OCLC Research)

 

ARL Member Libraries

A Deep Dive into the Moshe Safdie Archive
(McGill University Library)

A Stitch in Time: Preserving Websites Related to Sustainability in the Fashion Industry
(Cornell University Library via Archive-It)

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant to Transform UChicago’s Creation and Delivery of Digital Collections and Research Data
(The University of Chicago Library)

Renowned Experimental Filmmakers Donate Papers to the University Libraries
(University of Colorado Boulder Libraries)

Unreadable: Challenges and Critical Pedagogy to Optical Character Recognition Software
(Commons Knowledge, University of Illinois Library)

When Middle East Met West
(Unbound, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)

 

Higher Ed

Higher Ed Braces for Historic SCOTUS “Affirmative Action” Decision
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)

Leading with Resilience: COVID-19 Learnings
(IIE: Institute of International Education)

Ohio Higher Education Enrollment Drops 12% over Decade
(Ohio Capital Journal)

Racial Disparities in the High School Graduation Gender Gap
(Brookings Institution)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Student Loan Cancellation under the HEROES Act
(CRS: US Congressional Research Service)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

First-Generation Students’ Experiences and Perceptions of an Academic Library’s Physical Spaces
(Weave: Journal of Library User Experience)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

A Decade of Resilience for University Presses
(AUPresses: Association of University Presses)

No Deal: German Researchers’ Publishing and Citing Behaviors after Big Deal Negotiations with Elsevier
(Quantitative Science Studies)

 

In Other News

Using GPT for Market Research
(Harvard Business School Working Paper Series)

 

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


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