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Monday, July 8
Top o’ the Review
LIBER and DFFU Report: Public-Private Partnerships and Collaborations in the Context of Library Technology
(LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries)
Nominations Now Open for 2025 IMLS National Medal for Museum and Library Service
(IMLS: US Institute of Museum and Library Services)
Renowned Tech Analyst Urges Higher Ed Leadership in AI
(IHE: Inside Higher Ed)
Survey on Potential CARL Canadian BIPOC Library Leadership Programming
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
The Paper Mill Crisis Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Science: What Can Librarians Do About It?
(Insights: The UKSG Journal)
Three Areas of Needed Research Discovered at DCN All Hands Meeting (AHM) ’24
(DCN: Data Curation Network)
Transformative Journals: Analysis from the 2023 Reports
(cOAlition S)
Upcoming In-Person Event: Open Data—Challenges and Opportunities for Change (Thursday, October 3, in Brisbane, Australia)
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Upcoming Virtual Event: Announcing the Global Diamond Open Access Alliance (Wednesday, July 10)
(UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
ARL Member Libraries
A New Libraries Endowment Preserves Two Important Legacies
(NC State University Libraries)
Alice Winn Wins the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for “In Memoriam”
(VCU Libraries)
CRKN and University of Alberta Library Add Select Volumes of Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers to Canadiana
(University of Alberta Library with CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)
Emmy Award Goes to UGA Libraries-Linked Documentary
(University of Georgia Libraries)
Hemingway Letters Project Produces New Volume of Iconic Writer’s Correspondence
(Penn State University Libraries)
Michelle Cawley Will Be Next Health Sciences Library Leader at UNC-Chapel Hill
(UNC University Libraries)
New Evidence Synthesis Course Available to Learners Everywhere
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
Royal Canadian Mint Celebrates L.M. Montgomery
(University of Guelph Library)
South Caroliniana Library Earns Preservation Honor Award
(University of South Carolina University Libraries)
UNT Libraries Releases the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy Collection
(University of North Texas (UNT) University Libraries)
Higher Ed
College Credit for Working Your Job? Walmart and McDonald’s Are Trying It
(NPR)
University Students’ Knowledge of Potentially Predatory Journals: A Focus Group Analysis
(The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
Scholars & Scholarship
Crossmark Community Consultation: What Did We Learn?
(Crossref)
Detecting LLM-Assisted Writing in Scientific Communication: Are We There Yet? (preprint)
(arXiv)
Upcoming Webinar: The Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF): Practical Guidelines for FAIR Interoperability (Thursday, July 25)
(CODATA: Committee on Data of the International Science Council)
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Tuesday, July 9
Top o’ the Review
Asian American Students Lose More Points in an AI Essay-Grading Study—but Researchers Don’t Know Why
(The Hechinger Report)
Call for Expressions of Interest: New Expert Group for Shared Repositories Infrastructure (“Scholaris”)
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Characteristics of Selected Open Infrastructures: A Recap of IOI’s Community Conversation
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure)
Court Ruling Suggests AI Systems May Be in the Clear as Long as They Don’t Make Exact Copies
(The Decoder)
HathiTrust Research Center’s First Hackathon: What We Learned and Built
(HathiTrust)
Internet Archive Canada Launches Digitization Project with Library and Archives Canada
(Internet Archive Canada)
Is AI the Bitter End—or the Lucrative Future—of Book Publishing?
(Esquire)
Shared Print Actions: Terminology (SPA) Finalized and Ready for Use
(Partnership for Shared Book Collections)
Upcoming VIrtual Event: 2024 DLF Forum Program Available & Registration Now Open (Tuesday–Wednesday, October 22–23)
(DLF: Digital Library Federation)
ARL Member Libraries
Collaboration Between Québec, Vanderbilt to Highlight Heard Libraries Collections, Foster Cultural Exchange
(Vanderbilt University Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries)
Libraries Launches New Search Interface as Part of Integrated Library Services Platform
(Syracuse University Libraries)
Library Landscape Pilot: Pollinator Garden
(Emory Libraries, Emory University)
LSU Librarian Randa Lopez Morgan Elected President of US Agricultural Information Network
(LSU Libraries, Louisiana State University)
Promoting Sustainability Through Open Journals Publishing at the Penn Libraries
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
UVA Card Catalog Takes Readers Back in Time
(University of Virginia (UVA) Library via Radio IQ/WVTF)
Libraries—Other
Unveiling the Feed: Academic Libraries’ Instagram Unpacked (abstract only)
(The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
Video Recordings of LIBER 2024 Conference Keynotes and Panel Sessions
(LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries via infoDOCKET)
Higher Ed
US Confidence in Higher Education Now Closely Divided
(Gallup)
Scholars & Scholarship
Preserving Secondary Knowledge: Using Language Models for Software Preservation
(International Journal of Digital Curation)
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Wednesday, July 10
Top o’ the Review
Campus Protests, Federal Funding, and the First Amendment
(CRS: Congressional Research Service)
Galaxy Brain
(Open Syllabus)
Inaugural Issue of The International Journal of Disability Policy and Advocacy (IJDPA): Call for Papers—Deadline July 31
(Information Age Publishing)
Los Alamos National Laboratory Teams Up with OpenAI to Improve Frontier Model Safety
(LANL: Los Alamos National Laboratory)
RLUK25 Conference Call for Papers—Deadline October 25
(RLUK: Research Libraries UK)
2024 Scholar Metrics Released
(Google Scholar Blog)
Upcoming Virtual Event: Implementing for Impact: Measuring Open Science for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Wednesday, July 17)
(United Nations (UN) Dag Hammarskjöld Library)
White House OSTP Releases Guidelines for Research Security Programs at Covered Institutions
(OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House)
ARL Member Libraries
Adventures in Book-Buying: Librarians Traverse the Globe to Bring the World to UC Berkeley
(University of California (UC), Berkeley Library)
Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress: For the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2023
(Library of Congress)
Brethren Mennonite Council for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Interests Donates Organizational Archive to the Tretter Collection
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
Can One Question Do the Job?
(Temple University Libraries via Against the Grain)
UBC Asian Library Renovations Create Dynamic Spaces for Collaboration
(The University of British Columbia (UBC) Library)
UIC Library of the Health Sciences Selected for Data Training Program
(University of illinois Chicago University Library)
Higher Ed
Student Privacy in the Datafied Classroom: Facilitating Conversations with Campus Stakeholders
(College & Research Libraries News)
Advocacy & Public Policy
COSSA Releases Preview of FY 2025 House Spending Bills Analysis
(COSSA: Consortium of Social Science Associations)
Higher Education Associations Raise Concerns over New Cyber Incident Reporting Requirements
(ACE: American Council on Education)
Scholars & Scholarship
Analytical Code Sharing Practices in Biomedical Research
(PeerJ Computer Science)
Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World Data
(arXiv)
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Thursday, July 11
Top o’ the Review
Adam E. Berkowitz and Sofía Isabel Crespo Maldonado Receive Paul Evan Peters Scholarships
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information, ARL: Association of Research Libraries, EDUCAUSE)
All Hands 2024: How We’ve Grown Since 2018
(DCN: Data Curation Network)
An Introduction to Disentangling Digital Preservation Risk with CHARM
(DPC: Digital Preservation Coalition)
CARL and CFLA Publish Code of Best Practices for Navigating Copyright for Crown-Published Works
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Exploring the Complex Ethical Challenges of Data Annotation
(HAI: Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
ISC Annual Report 2023
(ISC: International Science Council)
NSF Announces Groundbreaking Leadership-Class Computing Facility Project
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Operational Diamond OA Criteria for Journals
(DIAMAS: Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication)
Study: Algorithms Used by Universities to Predict Student Success May Be Racially Biased
(AERA: American Educational Research Association)
Upcoming Virtual Event: IFLA Academic & Research Libraries (ARL) Section “Hot Topics” Session (Tuesday, August 13)
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
ARL Member Libraries
Brown University’s John Hay Library Acquires Former US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s Papers
(Brown University Library)
Collecting UCLA: The 75th Anniversary of the University Archives
(UCLA Library)
Fort Worth Families Turn Out to Help Build Digital Archive of Black History
(University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries via NBC DFW)
Library of Congress Releases 2024–2025 Recommended Formats Statement (RFS)
(Library of Congress via infoDOCKET)
New Book Amplifies Voices of Incarcerated Veterans
(Virginia Tech University Libraries)
OSU Library Works to Keep Former US Senator Jim Inhofe’s Legacy Alive with Extensive Collection
(Oklahoma State University (OSU) Library via KOCO News ABC)
Higher Ed
Higher Education in the Canadian Context: A Time of Digital Transformation
(WCET—the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies)
Advocacy & Public Policy
New Report Finds the Majority of California College Students Who Are Eligible for CalFresh Benefits Don’t Participate
(California Policy Lab)
Position Statement: Integrity at the Heart of Healthy and Effective Research Cultures
(Science Europe)
Scholars & Scholarship
The Role of ChatGPT in Developing Systematic Literature Searches: An Evidence Summary
(Journal of EAHIL—European Association for Health Information and Libraries)
See also: Screening Articles for Systematic Reviews with ChatGPT (Journal of Computer Languages)
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Information Industry Analyst
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