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Monday, June 3
Top o’ the Review
A Framework for AI Literacy
(EDUCAUSE Review)
ACLS Convenes China Studies Libraries Working Group to Build Common Access Plan
(ACLS: American Council of Learned Societies)
An Update on Our Process and Progress, and a Look at Our Amazing Advisors
(DPLA: Digital Public Library of America)
ARL President’s Institute Program Planning Task Force—Deadline for Expressions of Interest Extended to June 10
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
IFLA Joins Creative Commons in Outlining a Roadmap Towards Open Culture
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Introducing the Authors Alliance’s First Zine: Can Authors Address AI Bias?
(Authors Alliance)
Librarians Grapple with Diverse Archiving in a Digital World
(ARL, NC State University, Princeton University, and Washington University in St. Louis via IHE: Inside Higher Ed)
Universities Try Three-Year Degrees to Save Students Time, Money
(Stateline)
ARL Member Libraries
ASU Collection Preserves Legacy of Modern Architects, Buildings in the Southwest
(Arizona State University (ASU) Library)
DOI Service Now Available from UChicago Library
(The University of Chicago Library)
Jay Starratt to Step Down as Dean of Libraries
(Washington State University Libraries)
Libraries to Launch a New Homepage Design
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
Live from a Dark Room: From Exhibit to Digital Collection
(University of Louisville Libraries)
PubMed Update: Wildcard Search Improvements
(NLM Technical Bulletin)
See also: The Modernized ClinicalTrials.gov Will Become the Singular Website Experience: Classic Website to Retire on June 25, 2024 (NLM: US National Library of Medicine)
The Libraries Levels Up with the New Gaming and Esports Lab
(NC State University Libraries)
2024 Images of Research Winners
(University of Alberta Library)
Higher Ed
A Scoping Review on How Generative Artificial Intelligence Transforms Assessment in Higher Education
(International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We Need More Data on Undocumented AAPI Students in Higher Education
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
Scholars & Scholarship
Biomedical Paper Retractions Have Quadrupled in 20 Years—Why?
(Nature)
Foundations of Narrative Bibliometrics
(Journal of Informetrics)
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Tuesday, June 4
Top o’ the Review
Assessing the Civic Campus: The Link Between Higher Education and Democracy
(Ithaka S+R)
Collective Constructions: Open Peer Review of an Article on Indigenous Literature
(SciELO in Perspective)
Deception Abilities Emerged in Large Language Models
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
Flickr Commons: Call for Expressions of Interest from Cultural Memory Institutions
(Flickr Foundation)
Also from the Flickr Foundation: New Grant from the Mellon Foundation
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
(404 Media)
OpenAI, Google DeepMind’s Current and Former Employees Warn About AI Risks
(Reuters)
See also: OpenAI Insiders Warn of a “Reckless” Race for Dominance (The New York Times)
Publication of the Report “Software Pillar of Open Science”
(Committee for Open Science, French Ministry of Higher Education and Research)
The Archives and Libraries Interest Group Welcomes Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) Members
(Software Heritage)
See also: CRKN and National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) Join IIIF Consortium (IIIF: International Image Interoperability Framework)
ARL Member Libraries
Saving Stories: Kentucky Soldier Gives Harrowing Account of D-Day Landing
(University of Kentucky Libraries)
Stanley Elkin’s “Wall of Respect”
(Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries)
UCR Library Archives Inspire Literary and Arts Magazine
(University of California, Riverside (UCR) Library)
University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection June 2024 Impact Report
(University of Michigan Press)
Libraries—Other
19th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC), February 17–19, 2025, The Hague, the Netherlands
(IDCC via CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Higher Ed—Members
Government of Canada Invests $18.4 Million In Quantum Research at Waterloo
(University of Waterloo)
Advocacy & Public Policy
ACE Issues Guide to Help Colleges Navigate New Overtime Rule
(ACE: American Council on Education)
HACU Releases Its Platform Issues and Recommendations for 2024 Presidential Candidates
(HACU: Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities)
The Global Call on Science Missions for Sustainability Closes with 250 Submissions
(ISC: International Science Council)
White House Shares Government, Private Sector, Academic, and Nonprofit Actions to Accelerate Progress on Mental Health Research
(OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Representation Matters in AI-Generated Images
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Scholars & Scholarship
The Spread of Synthetic Media on X
(Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review)
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Wednesday, June 5
Top o’ the Review
Introducing DOAS: The Benchmark for Diamond Open Access Quality
(DIAMAS)
Libraries, AI, and the Messy Middle
(LorcanDempsey.net)
NARA’s Looming Digitization Deadline for Agencies Means the End of Paper
(Federal News Network)
Need a Policy for Using ChatGPT in the Classroom? Try Asking Students
(Nature)
NSF Enhances Research Security with New TRUST Proposal Assessment Process
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Project ReShare Launches ReShare Digital Software Development Initiative and Pledge Drive
(Project ReShare)
Responsible Adoption of Generative AI in Higher Education: Developing a “Points to Consider” Approach Based on Faculty Perspectives
(University of Pittsburgh via arXiv)
Understanding the Revised ADA Title II: Implications for Library Publishing
(LPC: Library Publishing Coalition)
ARL Member Libraries
A View from the Vault: Bridgerton Meets Special Collections
(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press)
Associate Dean of Collections Daniel Mack Appointed Interim Dean of Libraries
(University of Maryland Libraries)
New Archives Database Now Live
(University of Guelph (UG) Library)
Also from UG Library: Celebrating One Million Views on YouTube
(University of Guelph Library)
Cross-Searching Simplified & Traditional Chinese
(University of Michigan Library)
Mayor Wu Appoints New Members, Chair of BPL Board of Trustees
(BPL: Boston Public Library)
University of Houston Archivists Save Decades of Local LGBTQ Radio Show Episodes
(University of Houston Libraries via NPR: National Public Radio)
Libraries—Other
Origin and Evolution of the “Publish or Perish” Phenomenon
(Leiden Madtrics)
PKP Becomes a Supporter of the Barcelona Declaration
(PKP: Public Knowledge Project)
Higher Ed—Members
Re-imagining Higher Education: Time, Learning, and Risk
(McMaster University via Journal of Teaching and Learning)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Double Pell Alliance Urges Increase in Maximum Federal Grant Funding
(AAUP: American Association of University Professors)
Scholars & Scholarship
Misinformation Poses a Bigger Threat to Democracy Than You Might Think
(Nature)
Also from Nature: What We Do—and Don’t—Know About How Misinformation Spreads Online
Know Your Source: RAGE Tool Unveils ChatGPT’s Sources
(University of Waterloo)
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Thursday, June 6
Top o’ the Review
Announcing a New Report on Assessing the Civic Campus
(Ithaka S+R)
Call for Expressions of Interest to Join CARL’s Continuing Education Working Group
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
How AI Can Make Make Us Better Leaders
(HBR: Harvard Business Review)
The Library Beyond the Library
(Hanging Together: The OCLC Research Blog)
The Impossibility of Fair LLMs (preprint)
(arXiv)
Universities Need More Than Off-the-Shelf AI Solutions
(ARL and CNI via LSE Impact Blog, LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science)
Upcoming Event (Thursday, June 13, 2024): DEIA Community of Practice Call – Accessibility
(C4DISC: Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications)
ARL Member Libraries
Bow & Arrow Press Finds Permanent Home at Harvard Library
(Harvard Library)
Brigitte Weinsteiger Named H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of the Penn Libraries
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
News Corp and OpenAI’s Partnership: Implications for Publishing, Open Access, and Libraries
(Leo S. Lo, The University of New Mexico, via LinkedIn)
The University of Minnesota Hosts the 2024 Library Publishing Forum
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
Webinar Recording: The NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy for Non-Data Librarians
(Network of the National Library of Medicine, US National Library of Medicine)
Higher Ed
Some College, No Credential Student Outcomes: 2024 Report for the Nation and the States
(National Student Clearinghouse Research Center)
Advocacy & Public Policy
New NTIA Data Show 13 Million More Internet Users in the US in 2023 than 2021
(NTIA: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of Commerce)
Scholars & Scholarship
Ethical Implications of ChatGPT in Higher Education: A Scoping Review (preprint)
(arXiv)
Rebuilding and Strengthening Ukrainian Science and Innovation in Support of Economic Recovery: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief
(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
Scaling Neural Machine Translation to 200 Languages
(Nature)
In Other News
DuckDuckGo Announces Free, Private Access to Some AI Chatbots
(CNET)
Google’s NotebookLM Gets Gemini 1.5 and Extra Tools
(Engadget)
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