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Tuesday, August 8
Top o’ the Review
CLIR Announces Publication of Remotely Useful: Practical Lessons for Northern Community Archiving
(CLIR: Council on Library and Information Resources)
Mid-2023 Community Letter
(ITHAKA)
NDL Image Bank: English Version Now Available
(NDL: National Diet Library, Japan)
OpenAI Introduced GPTBot Web Crawler to Index Websites
(Voicebot.AI)
See also: Here Is How to Block OpenAI from Using Your Web Content for ChatGPT (The Decoder)
The Limits of Inclusion in Open Access: Accessible Access, Universal Design, and Open Educational Resources
(UCLA Library via JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
Video and Slides: Works in Progress Webinar: Why Don’t Research Impact LibGuides Include Bias-Related Resources?
(The Ohio State University Libraries via OCLC Research)
ARL Member Libraries
Archive Tucson Interview Featured on Arizona Public Media
(The University of Arizona University Libraries)
Boughida Named Chair of National Information Standards Organization
(Stony Brook University)
Digital Collections Relaunch
(University of Louisville Libraries)
Display Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop
(Cornell University Library)
Gifts to UMD Libraries Establish the Sarah M. Pritchard Endowment and Fund for Librarian Professional Development
(University of Maryland University Libraries)
The Library Program Saving Students $183,000
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
Libraries–Others
Developing Policies and Infrastructure for Data-Centric Research
(Jisc)
Higher Ed
Study Explores the Students Who Start, but Never Finish, the Common App
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
Study Finds State Protection Policies Need Improvement to Reduce Student Harms Associated with College Closures
(SHEEO: State Higher Education Executive Officers Association)
Advocacy & Public Policy
US House and Senate Far Apart on Education Funding for Fiscal Year That Begins October 1
(ACE: American Council on Education)
Data & Analytics
Code of Practice for Learning Analytics, July 2023
(Jisc)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
All about Accessibility: How We’re Working to Make ORCID an Inclusive Experience for Researchers
(ORCID)
Report: Latino Degree Attainment Uneven across US but Critical to Nation’s Future
(NCAN: National College Attainment Network)
Scholars & Scholarship
Impact and Development of an Open Web Index for Open Web Search
(JASIST: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)
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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
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Wednesday, August 9
Top o’ the Review
ALA Upholds Its Support for LGBTQIA+ Library Workers and Reaffirms Its Commitment to Equity and Inclusivity
(ALA: American Library Association)
CLIR Announces Call for Submissions: Grants for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Awards
(CLIR: Council on Library and Information Resources)
Nature Index: China
(Nature)
Red-Teaming Finds OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard Still Spread Misinformation
(NewsGuard)
Some US Government Agencies Are Testing Out AI to Help Fulfill Public Records Request
(NBC News)
ARL Member Libraries
Coming in Late September: Interactive Media Zone
(Georgia Tech Library)
Letter from Martha Whitehead: Initial Guidelines on Generative AI
(Harvard Library)
Libraries Announce Access to Open-Publishing Platform Pressbooks
(The University of Texas Libraries)
Sonic Strategies in the Library
(Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)
Libraries—Other
Microdosing Information Literacy: Embedding Information Literacy to Improve Research Skills
(Journal of Creative Library Practice)
(Lyrasis via SurveyMonkey)
Advocacy & Public Policy
New PEN America Report Warns against Canceling Books due to Outrage
(PEN America)
The Fully OA Group Respond to the House Appropriations Committee
(The Fully OA Group)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
(OECD: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)
Scholars & Scholarship
To Preprint or Not to Preprint: A Global Researcher Survey (preprint)
(SocArXiv Papers)
In Other News
ChatGPT Gets Several New Features, Including Multi-document Chat
(The Decoder)
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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
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Thursday, August 10
Top o’ the Review
Addressing Rigor in Scientific Studies
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health)
Paper Exams, Chatbot Bans: Colleges Seek to “ChatGPT-Proof” Assignments
(AP: Associated Press)
ReShare Update: Scoping, Membership, Finances, and Commitment to the Vision
(Project ReShare)
The Hip-Hop Historians Who Are Racing to Preserve Its Story
(Cornell University Library in WIRED)
Varying Degrees 2023: New America’s Seventh Annual Survey on Higher Education
(New America)
Who Re-uses Data? A Bibliometric Analysis of Dataset Citations (preprint)
(arXiv)
ARL Member Libraries
Behind the Scenes: Digitization
(The US Caribbean & Florida Digital Newspaper Project, University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries and partners)
Collections Management, Writ Large: Inside the UI Libraries Annex
(University of Iowa Libraries)
EnglishUSA Journal Transitions to Publication at Syracuse University Libraries
(Syracuse University Libraries)
NERL Steering Committee Seeks Chair and Vice-Chair
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
Peer Community In (PCI) and Digital Open-Access Academic Publication: A Discussion with Professor Matthieu Boisgontier
(University of Ottawa)
PUL and HBCUs Collaborate to Revitalize Summer Archives Research and Collaborative History (ARCH) Program
(PUL: Princeton University Library)
Upcoming Virtual Panel (Tuesday, August 29): Safeguarding Intellectual Freedom—How to Counter Censorship and the Criminalization of Librarianship in America
(University of Maryland University Libraries)
Wayne State Names Paul Bracke Dean of School of Information Sciences and University Libraries
(Wayne State University)
Libraries—Other
2024 African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Eligibility Review for South Africa Post-Hearing Brief of the Library Copyright Alliance
(Library Copyright Alliance)
Upcoming Online Event (Thursday, August 24): Enabling Open Science with HELIOS—Perspectives from Four Universities
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Higher Ed
Pulse Survey Highlights: Insights into Fall 2023 Campus Plans for COVID-19 Management
(ACHA: American College Health Association)
Scholars & Scholarship
All Presentations and Slides from the Open Science Conference 2023 Now Available Online
(ZBW: Leibniz Information Centre for Economics)
PKP Annual General Meeting (AGM) Recording Now Available
(PKP: Public Knowledge Project)
The Missing Link: The Capacity Development for Academic Librarians to Sustain Citizen Science at University Libraries
(Library Management)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
