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Day in Review (July 26-27)

Last Updated on August 2, 2023, 2:31 pm ET

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Wednesday, July 26

Top o’ the Review

Coalition of Local and National Booksellers, Authors and Publishers File Suit to Challenge New Censorship Law and Defend the Right of Free Expression in Texas
(AAP: Association of American Publishers)

FACT SHEET: President Biden Designates Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument
(The White House)

Generative AI and the Future of Work in America
(McKinsey Global Institute)

Introducing the New www.hathitrust.org Website
(HathiTrust)

Mellon Foundation Funds Digitizing Hidden Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices
(CLIR: Council on Library and Information Resources)

Upcoming IFLA WLIC Event (Tuesday, August 22): “From Gutenberg to ChatGPT: Will AI Change the Mission of Academic and Research Libraries?”
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions WLIC: World Library and Information Congress)

 

ARL Member Libraries

A Year of Open Science, A Lifetime Commitment for NLM
(NLM: National Library of Medicine)

Bibliotoxicology
(Indiana University Bloomington Libraries)

University Archives Receives Peter Oberlander Archives
(University of British Columbia Library)

Upcoming Virtual Event (Wednesday, August 23): Learn about the World of Open Access in the Lecture Circus—an Academic Exercise in Interdisciplinary Discourse and Discovery
(Penn Libraries)

 

Libraries—Other

Designing Libraries Conference Registration Open
(CNI: Coalition For Networked Information)

eLife and PREreview to Enhance the ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ Ecosystem Through Adoption of COAR Notify
(eLife)

Invitation to Comment: Dryad’s Revised Membership Model For Academic and Research Institutions
(Dryad)

Now Available: OCUL Collaborative Futures Impact Report 2021-2022
(OCUL: Ontario Council of University Libraries)

Transformative Journals – An Experiment in OA Acceleration
(Delta Think)

 

Higher Ed—Members

Advisory Report Begins Integration of Generative AI at U-M
(University of Michigan)

 

Higher Ed—Other

First Look Report Presents Findings From the 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20)
(NCES: National Center For Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Startup Form Body to Regulate AI Development
(The Guardian)

HELIOS Members Co-Author Research Software Policy Recommendations to Federal Agencies
(HELIOS: Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship)

Secondary Publishing Rights Can Improve Public Access to Academic Research
(The Conversation)

 

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian


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Thursday, July 27

Top o’ the Review

IMLS Announces $20 Million Investment in U.S. Library and Archive Initiatives
(IMLS: Institute of Museum and Library Services)

Just Released: 2023 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report Calls For Appropriate Use of Technology in Education
(UNESCO)

Nearly 76% of Fall 2021 Freshman Class Returned to College by Fall 2022
(National Student Clearinghouse)

2023 All Hands Meeting Recap: You Better Work(flow)
(DCN: Data Curation Network)

U.S. Should Create a Federal Entity Responsible for Advancing Racial, Ethnic, and Tribal Health Equity, and Implement a Health Equity Policy Audit and Score Card
(US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)

Welcome to the C4DISC DEIA Community of Practice!
(C4DISC: Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications

 

ARL Member Libraries

Carolina Librarians Edit “Perspectives on Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries”
(UNC University Libraries)

High Overall Satisfaction Among Library Users: LibQUAL+ Survey Results
(University of Ottawa Libraries)

UC San Diego Library’s 2023 Art of Science Exhibit Opens July 28
(UCSD: UC San Diego Library)

 

Libraries—Other

Announcing the 2023 Community Insights Report
(Diff, Wikimedia Foundation)

Finding Out More About the Use of the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation
(DLF: Digital Library Federation)

Managing Open and FAIR Research Projects
(DataCite)

ROR as Community-Supported Infrastructure
(ROR: Research Organization Registry)

 

Higher Ed

Disability, Accessibility, and Higher Education in Prisons
(Ithaka S+R)

More Than Half of College Class of 2023 Grads Took Part Internships—The Majority Were Paid
(NACE: National Association of Colleges and Employers)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

CMSI Announces New Report on Academic Advising Practices at Minority Serving Institutions
(CMSI: Rutgers Center For Minority Serving Institutions, Rutgers Graduate School of Education)

OpenStax Unveils New Project to Drive Equity in Education
(OpenStax, Rice University)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

AI Model GPT-3 (Dis)informs Us Better Than Humans
(Science Advances)

A Survey of Expert Views on Misinformation: Definitions, Determinants, Solutions, and Future of the Field
(Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review)

Bibliometric Analysis of Publisher and Journal Instructions to Authors on Generative-AI in Academic and Scientific Publishing (preprint)
(arXiv)

 

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian


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