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Monday, May 20
Top o’ the Review
ACRL Sets 2024–25 Legislative Agenda
(ACRL: Association of College & Research Libraries)
AUPresses 2024 Annual Report
(AUPresses: Association of University Presses)
EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: Leadership Transitions
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Public Pathways: Lessons about PhD Careers from 10 Years of Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows
(ACLS: American Council of Learned Societies)
Safety of Advanced AI Under the Spotlight in First Ever Independent, International Scientific Report
(DSIT: UK Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology)
See also:
- AI Chatbots’ Safeguards Can Be Easily Bypassed, Say UK Researchers (The Guardian)
- Fourth Progress Report (AI Safety Institute, UK DSIT)
- UK-Canada Science of AI Safety Partnership (UK DSIT)
Videos: Practical Approaches to Reparative Description: A Workshop Series with Wide Appeal
(DPLA: Digital Public Library of America)
When Online Content Disappears: 38% of Webpages That Existed in 2013 Are No Longer Accessible a Decade Later
(Pew Research Center)
WIPO Study: Research4Life Program Spikes Research Output by up to 75% in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(Research4Life)
ARL Member Libraries
Evergreen’s New Installation Highlights Designs of Lèon Bakst and Materials from the Levy Collection
(Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries & University Museums)
Five Highlighted Datasets to Celebrate 100 Contributions to The Hive
(The University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library and the Eccles Health Sciences Library)
Four Articles from Library Resources & Technical Services:
- Are Transformative Agreements Worth It? An Analysis of Open Access Publication Data at the University of Kentucky (University of Kentucky Libraries)
- Developing Open Access Resource Management Principles in a Consortial Environment: A University of California Model (University of California Libraries)
- Exploring a Read and Publish Agreement: The Three-Year Taylor & Francis Pilot (The Ohio State University Libraries)
- Navigating Open Access and Transformative Agreements: A Case Study of the University of Maryland (University of Maryland Libraries)
Libraries—Other
An Analysis of Hybrid/Remote Work Eligibility in Academic Librarian Job Advertisements (preprint)
(College & Research Libraries via ValpoScholar, Valparaiso University)
LD42023 III: The Examples, Libraries Using Wikidata
(Diff, Wikimedia Foundation)
Advocacy & Public Policy
AGB Policy Alert: 2024 Title IX Regulations on Sex Discrimination
(AGB: Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Using Research to Empower 2SLGBTQIA+ Leadership in Canadian Institutions
(SSHRC: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)
Video: Dreamers Graduate Loan Program Webinar
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
Scholars & Scholarship
GPTs Window Shopping: An Analysis of the Landscape of Custom ChatGPT Models (preprint)
(arXiv)
PKP Releases Its 2023 Annual Report
(PKP: Public Knowledge Project, Simon Fraser University)
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Tuesday, May 21
Top o’ the Review
ACE Releases 2024 Update to Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education Project
(ACE: American Council on Education)
AI’s Black Boxes Just Got a Little Less Mysterious
(The New York Times)
Dr. Kenvi Phillips Appointed Director of the Barack Obama Presidential Library
(US National Archives)
Folger Shakespeare Library Names Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper as Director
(Folger Shakespeare Library)
Job Advertisements for Data Visualization in Academic Libraries: A Content Analysis of Job Postings (abstract and snippets only)
(The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
New Report Provides Framework for Transparency in AI Systems
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School)
New Research: Scaling Generative AI Datasets Disproportionately Scales Racist Outputs, Especially Against Black Men
(Mozilla Foundation)
Protecting Scientific Integrity in an Age of Generative AI
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
Sunsetting Section 230 Will Limit Free Expression
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
ARL Member Libraries
Free Borrowing Privileges for Native and Indigenous People
(University of Michigan Library)
Hesburgh Library Celebrates 60 Years with 60 Milestones
(University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries)
Libraries Open Doors to The Analog Anthropocene
(Wayne State University Library System)
New Library Service Matches McMaster Instructors with Open Educational Resources
(McMaster University Library)
New Sign in O’odham Unveiled Outside the Main Library
(The University of Arizona University Libraries)
Participate in RESPECT’s 21-Day Antiracism Challenge Against Systemic Racism Beginning Monday, June 3
(University of Cincinnati Libraries)
Libraries—Other
Implementing International Metadata Standards and Requirements in Thoth: An Update
(Copim)
See also: The IFLA Accessibility Metadata Network (IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Higher Ed—Members
Unpacking ASU’s OpenAI Partnership
(ASU: Arizona State University via Inside Higher Ed)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Colorado Becomes First State with Sweeping Artificial Intelligence Regulations
(Colorado Newsline)
See also: Colorado AI Act Two-Pager Cheat Sheet (FPF: Future of Privacy Forum)
Council Gives Final Green Light to the First Worldwide Rules on AI
(Council of the European Union)
Scholars & Scholarship
Generative AI in Higher Education: A Global Perspective of Institutional Adoption Policies and Guidelines (preprint)
(arXiv)
See also: Towards Responsible Development of Generative AI for Education: An Evaluation-Driven Approach (Google DeepMind)
Opinion: Pay Researchers to Spot Errors in Published Papers
(Nature)
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Wednesday, May 22
Top o’ the Review
AI and Libraries: Strengths in a Digital Tomorrow
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Building a Fair Data Future
(Aspen Digital)
Call for Expressions of Interest: CARL Canadian Repositories Community of Practice (CoP) Steering Committee
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
DPLA Outreach & Assessment Working Group Launches Assessment Workshop Series This Summer
(DPLA: Digital Public Library of America)
Official Launch of the IDRC and ISC Project to Explore AI’s Impact on Science Systems in the Global South
(ISC: International Science Council and IDRC: Canada’s International Development Research Centre)
Research Study on E-book Publishing
(Ithaka S+R)
The Foundation Model Transparency Index After Six Months
(CRFM: Center for Research on Foundation Models, HAI: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University )
Video: New Digital Frontiers: AI & Machine Learning in Libraries
(RLUK DSF: Research Libraries UK Digital Shift Forum via YouTube)
ARL Member Libraries
A Woman Ahead of Her Time: The Remarkable Journey of Halina Robinson
(Western Libraries)
National Nonprofit Partners with Princeton University to Open Libraries in New Jersey Prisons
(Princeton University Library via Town Topics)
See also: Freedom Reads Partners with Princeton University Library Open First Freedom Libraries in New Jersey Prisons (New Jersey Department of Corrections)
Higher Ed
Current Term Enrollment Estimates: Spring 2024
(National Student Clearinghouse Research Center)
To Improve Their Courses Educators Should Respond to How Students Actually Use AI
(LSE Impact Blog, LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science)
Advocacy & Public Policy
FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel Unveils First Step in New AI Transparency Effort to Disclose AI-Generated Content in Political Ads on TV and Radio
(FCC: US Federal Communications Commission)
Reed, Whitehouse Seek to Strengthen Federal Pell Grant Program
(US Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse)
Data & Analytics
Reflections on the First COUNTER Conference
(COUNTER Metrics)
Scholars & Scholarship
Amplifying Academic Research Through YouTube: Engagement Metrics as Predictors of Citation Impact (preprint)
(arXiv)
See also:
- Scientific Discourse on YouTube: Motivations for Citing Research in Comments (preprint) (arXiv)
- US Users’ Exposure to YouTube Videos On- and Off-Platform (WEBSCI ’24: Proceedings of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference)
Can Generative AI Improve Social Science?
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
New Major Version of the DOAJ API to Be Released
(DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
Paper Tiger? Chinese Science and Home Bias in Citations (working paper)
(NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research)
In Other News
Google Search’s New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads
(WIRED)
See also: Get Google Search Results Without AI, Ads, or Anything but Links (CNET)
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Thursday, May 23
Top o’ the Review
AI on Trial: Legal Models Hallucinate in 1 out of 6 Queries
(HAI: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University)
Call for Proposals: CNI August Pre-recorded Edition
(CNI:Coalition for Networked Information)
Imagining a World Without Open Infrastructures
(SCOSS: Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services)
Is College Worth It?
(Pew Research Center)
Lawmakers Say Section 230 Repeal Will Protect Children—Opponents Predict Chaos
(ARL & partners via Ars Technica)
Research Libraries Prepare for a World of AI-Influenced Research and Scholarship
(ARL)
The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AI
(Futurism)
See also:
- Meta Walked away from News. Now the Company’s Using It for AI Content. (The Washington Post)
- News Corp. and OpenAI Strike “Multi-Year Global Partnership” Deal to Use Journalistic Content to Improve ChatGPT (CNBC)
Upcoming Webinar: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB) in the Institutional Publishing Ecosystem (Tuesday, June 4)
(C4DISC: Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications)
ARL Member Libraries
Aggie Experts Research Discovery Platform: Campus Pre-release Now Available
(University of California (UC), Davis Library)
Heard Libraries Showcase Pioneering Efforts, Global Leadership in Digital Preservation
(Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries)
Meet UMD Discover: UMD Libraries’ New Integrated Library Management System
(University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries)
Missing Manuscript with Irish Translation of Paradise Lost Is Finally Found at University of Illinois
(University of Illinois via Irish Star)
See also: Irish Translation of Paradise Lost Found Again in University of Illinois Collection (paywall) (The Irish Times)
The University of Arizona Press’s New Open Access Books About Archaeological Expedition
(The University of Arizona University Libraries)
Libraries—Other
First Global Partner: CAVAL Selects ReShare to Support Resource Sharing for Trove Partners
(Project ReShare)
Library Anxiety: How Elements of Morrison’s Fourth Place and the Fast Casual Approach from the Restaurant Industry May Make the Academic Library Space More Inviting
(Georgia Library Quarterly)
Upholding Research Integrity in Preservation and Archiving
(CLOCKSS)
Higher Ed
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Artificial Intelligence and Gender Equality
(UN Women)
Scholars & Scholarship
Guidelines for Academics Aim to Lessen Ethical Pitfalls in Generative-AI Use
(Nature Index)
In Other News
NSF Invests $36 Million in Computing Projects That Promise to Maximize Performance, Reduce Energy Demands
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
See also: AI Is an Energy Hog. This Is What It Means for Climate Change. (MIT Technology Review)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
