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Tuesday, May 30
Top o’ the Review
ACE, Associations Tell Congress That Food Insecurity Remains a Problem for Students
(ACE: American Council on Education)
Lyrasis in a Landscape of Radical Interdependence
(Lyrasis)
OpenAI’s Altman and Other AI Giants Back Warning of Advanced AI as “Extinction” Risk
(TechCrunch)
Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project
(OCLC Research)
Upcoming Satellite Conference (Friday–Saturday, August 18–19, Rotterdam, Netherlands): Inclusiveness through Openness
(IFLA ARL: Academic and Research Libraries Section, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
See also: Welcome to Our New IFLA ARL Committee Members
Video: “Copyright and Fair Use for Libraries,” Four-Part Series
(METRO: Metropolitan New York Library Council on YouTube)
ARL Member Libraries
Award-Winning Author Charlotte Gray Donates Archive to McMaster University Library
(McMaster University Library)
Japanese American Family’s History Now Part of ASU Library Archives
(ASU: Arizona State University)
Mattke Named to National Geospatial Advisory Committee
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
New Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Project: Researching Accessibility in Open-Source Digital Preservation Applications
(Library of Congress)
Provide Feedback on Open Science to White House
(Duke Universities Libraries)
Teaching at Pitt: Innovative and Effective Teaching―the Heart of Open Lab’s Mission
(University of Pittsburgh)
Upcoming Mini-Conference (Wednesday, July 19, Georgia Tech): ASERL BIPOC Leadership Development
(ASERL: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries)
Higher Ed
Constellate Makes It Easier for Faculty to Teach Text Analysis and Computational Literacy
(ITHAKA)
Survey: 30% of College Students Used ChatGPT for Schoolwork This Past Academic Year
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
The ACT Is Evolving
(ACT)
Advocacy & Public Policy
British Columbia (BC) Creates Anti-racism Data Committee, Releases Research Priorities
(CBC/Radio-Canada)
US Department of Education Delays Target Release of Title IX Rulemaking to October
(CUPA-HR: College and University Professional Association for Human Resources)
Scholars & Scholarship
Good Data Practices: Removing Barriers to Data Reuse with CC0 Licensing
(Dryad)
Too Official to Be Effective: An Empirical Examination of Unofficial Information Channel and Continued Use of Retracted Articles
(Research Policy)
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Wednesday, May 31
Top o’ the Review
AI: UNESCO Mobilizes Education Ministers from around World for Coordinated Response to ChatGPT
(UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization)
Aspen Institute Launches Council for a Fair Data Future
(Aspen Institute)
Assessing the Publishing Priorities and Preferences among STEM Researchers at a Large R1 Institution
(University of California via Heliyon)
How Scientific Publishers’ Extreme Fees Put Profit Over Progress
(The Nation)
One Year In: A Look at the PNAS Consultative Peer Review Pilot
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
What ARL’s Quick Poll Reveals About AI in the Library
(CHOICE)
ARL Member Libraries
CIFNAL Members to Participate in Congress AIFBD (Association Internationale Francophone des Bibliothécaires et Documentalistes) 2023
(CIFNAL: Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections, CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
Live! at the Library: NASA and US Poet Laureate Ada Limón Unveil Her Poem for Europa
(Library of Congress)
Visualizing the Impact of the University of Michigan Press Fund to Mission Initiative
(University of Michigan Press)
Libraries—Other
May 2023 Meetings of RDA Board and RDA Steering Committee
(RDA: Resource Description and Access)
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Sound Recordings of US Supreme Court Now Fully Digitized
(NARA: National Archives and Records Administration)
Paper Planner People: A Unique Subculture in Academic Librarianship
(Charleston Hub)
Webinar Recap: Digital Badges and Micro-Credentials
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Higher Ed—Members
This Program Dedicated to Boosting First-Gen Success Rates Is Tripling Down
(UB: University Business)
Higher Ed—Other
The Assessment of Students’ Creative and Critical Thinking Skills in Higher Education across OECD Countries
(OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Advocacy & Public Policy
NSTC: Equity and Law Enforcement Data Collection, Use, and Transparency
(NSTC: National Science And Technology Council, The White House)
OPC Launches New Guidance on Workplace Privacy
(OPC: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada)
Scholars & Scholarship
Reference Rot in the Digital Humanities Literature: An Analysis of Citations Containing Website Links in DHQ
(DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly)
Speak, Memory: An Archaeology of Books Known to ChatGPT/GPT-4 (preprint)
(arXiv)
In Other News
(MIT Technology Review)
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Thursday, June 1
Top o’ the Review
Building Effective Outreach Strategies for Open-Access Book Initiatives: Lessons Learned from the Open Book Collective
(COPIM: Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs)
COAR Community Consultation On Managing Non-English And Multilingual Content In Repositories
(COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories)
Coordinating Research Data Services: Key Barriers and Questions
(Ithaka S+R)
CDT Releases Best Practices for Companies to Protect Reproductive Health Data
(CDT: Center for Democracy & Technology)
New Report Comprehensively Reviews the State of Extended Reality (XR) Research
(Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania)
The Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI): First Year Momentum Leads to Exciting Future Plans
(NIH: National Institutes of Health)
ARL Member Libraries
A Better Understanding of Atlas Bookbinding Techniques
(Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)
National Indigenous History Month
(University of Ottawa Library)
Libraries—Other
Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) Added to New Version of the Persistent Identifier (PID) Guide
(ARK Alliance)
Webinar Video: Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries | Can the Archives Be Decolonized?
(RLUK: Research Libraries UK)
Higher Ed—Members
Six Leading Research Universities Join the Association of American Universities
(AAU: Association of American Universities)
Stony Brook University to Receive $500 Million, a Rare Sum for a Public School
(The New York Times)
This ChatGPT-Inspired Large Language Model Speaks Fluent Finance
(JHU: Johns Hopkins University)
Higher Ed—Other
Advocacy & Public Policy
(US Copyright Office, Library of Congress)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Scholars & Scholarship
DataChat: Prototyping a Conversational Agent for Dataset Search and Visualization
(arXiv)
Fighting Reviewer Fatigue or Amplifying Bias? Considerations and Recommendations for Use of ChatGPT and Other Large Language Models in Scholarly Peer Review
(Research Integrity and Peer Review)
Preprint Clubs: Why It Takes a Village to Do Peer Review
(Nature)
In Other News
Technology Deep Dives: Immersive Technologies
(OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
