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Day in Review (March 13–16)

Last Updated on March 17, 2023, 2:51 pm ET

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Monday, March 13

Top o’ the Review

Call for Proposals: Canadian Library Assessment Workshop 2023
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)

Dear Colleague Letter: Planning Grants for the Historically Black College and University Excellence in Research (HBCU-EiR) Program
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)

Higher Ed’s Student Mental Health Crisis: Supporting the Counseling Center to Support the Students
(ACE: American Council on Education)

The Technology Career Ladder
(LorcanDempsey.net)

Upcoming Event (Monday–Tuesday, April 17–18): Digital Initiatives Symposium 2023 (in-person)
(Copley Library, University of San Diego)

Video Playlist: Sunshine Week 2023
(NARA: US National Archives and Records Administration)

 

ARL Member Libraries

ChatGPT and Fake Citations
(Duke University Libraries)

Video: The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening
(University of Maryland Libraries YouTube Channel)

 

Libraries—Other

LIBER 2023 Annual Conference—Registration Now Open
(LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries)

The SWHAP Days 2022 Webpage Is Out!
(Software Heritage)

 

Higher Ed—Members

College Students’ Anxiety, Depression Higher Than Ever, but So Are Efforts to Receive Care
(School of Public Health, University of Michigan)

 

Higher Ed—Other

NACUBO and Commonfund Partner on Higher Education Endowment Research
(Commonfund and NACUBO:  National Association of College and University Business Officers)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Remarks of OSTP Director Arati Prabhakar at Event on President Biden’s FY 2024 Budget
(OSTP: US Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

A DEI Course-Design Rubric: Supporting Teaching and Learning in Uncertain Times
(EDUCAUSE Review)

Communities of Practice in Higher Education: A Playbook for Centering Equity, Digital Learning, and Continuous Improvement
(Achieving the Dream (ATD), Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and Online Learning Consortium (OLC) in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Introducing Our New Logo and Visual Identity
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure)

Seeing ChatGPT through Students’ Eyes: An Analysis of TikTok Data (preprint)
(arXiv)

What Are You Reading? From Core Journals to Trendy Journals in the Library and Information Science (LIS) Field
(Scientometrics)

 

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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
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Tuesday, March 14

Top o’ the Review

A New Model for Computational Book Publishing
(COPIM: Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs)

Cambridge Launches AI Research Ethics Policy
(Cambridge University Press)

Making AI Generative for Higher Education
(Ithaka S+R)

Open Access Charges—Continued Consolidation and Increases
(Delta Think)

OpenAI Introduces GPT-4
(OpenAI)

VIVA Libraries Join EAST and Expand Consortia Participation in Shared Print
(EAST: Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust and VIVA: Virginia’s Academic Library Consortium)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Explore Library Impact in 2022
(Georgia Tech Library)

Penn State, Franklin County Library System Team Up to Expand Borrowing Options
(The Pennsylvania State University)

The University of Illinois Privacy Conference 2023
(University of Illinois Library)

Upcoming Online Event (Wednesday, March 15): Is Misinformation the Problem? Re-examining the Infodemic
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine)

We’ve Acquired the Archive of Jazz Legend Sam Rivers
(University of Pittsburgh Library System)

 

Libraries—Other

A Plan for Securing IFLA’s Future—February 2023 Update
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)

Stanford Libraries Launches Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945–46
(Stanford Libraries)

 

Higher Ed

Designing Virtual Edtech Faculty-Development Workshops That Stick: 10 Guiding Principles
(EDUCAUSE Review)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

ACHA Releases Statement on Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Services
(ACHA: American College Health Association)

Biden-Harris Administration’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Includes $211 Million for NEH
(NEH: US National Endowment for the Humanities)

 

Data & Analytics

New Resources Available on Protecting Participant Privacy When Sharing Scientific Data
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Researchers Need to Rethink and Justify How and Why Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry Labels Are Used in Genetics and Genomics Research, Says New Report
(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)

The Clash of Academic Hierarchy and Inclusive Leadership: Evolution of Leadership in a Nationwide Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiative (preprint)
(bioRxiv)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

ChatGPT and a New Academic Reality: Artificial Intelligence–Written Research Papers and the Ethics of the Large Language Models in Scholarly Publishing (abstract only)
(JASIST: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)

People Don’t Know What a Preprint Is. Here’s Why That Matters
(University of Georgia)

 

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Information Industry Analyst
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Wednesday, March 15

Top o’ the Review

Canadian Student Journal Forum and PKP’s Open Journal Systems
(PKP: Public Knowledge Project, Simon Fraser University)

ChatGPT and Higher Education: Initial Prevalence and Areas of Interest
(EDUCAUSE Review)

Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence
(Federal Register)

Creating a Professional Training Program and Research Initiative on theStudy of the Black Web, Archiving the Black Web Receives $2.5 Million Grant from the Mellon Foundation
(The College of Wooster)

Minister of Canadian Heritage Announces Reappointment of Leslie Weir as Librarian and Archivist of Canada
(Government of Canada)

Partnership Accomplishments, Years 1–3
(Partnership for Shared Book Collections)

ARL Member Libraries

Get Literature on Demand with the Short-Story Dispenser
(Emory University)

Upcoming Hybrid Event (Friday, March 31): Democracy and AI—The Encroaching Machine: Reframing Rights in the Age of AI
(The University of Chicago Library)

 

Libraries—Other

Celebrate Living Heritage with Wiki Loves Living Heritage
(Diff, Wikimedia Foundation)

The Librarians Are Not Okay
(The Atlantic)

 

Higher Ed

Lessons from Zoom-University: Postsecondary Student Consequences and Coping during the COVID-19 Pandemic—a Focus Group Study
(PLOS ONE)

Narrative CVs: A New Challenge and Research Agenda
(Leiden Madtrics)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

CFPB Launches Inquiry into the Business Practices of Data Brokers
(CFPB: US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)

Education Department Announces Use of Secret Shopping to Protect Students, Crack Down on Institutions That Lure Students with Lies
(US Department of Education)

GPO’s Response to Recommendation from the Depository Library Council (DLC)
(FDLP: Federal Depository Library Program, GPO: US Government Publishing Office)

Readout of the White House Forum on Campus and Community-Scale Climate Change Solutions
(The White House)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

cOAlition S Appoints Advisory Panel to Further Develop the Journal Comparison Service
(cOAlition S)

EMBO Press to be Fully Open Access
(EMBO)

Video: Open Science Infrastructures—Third Meeting of the UNESCO Working Group
(UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

 

In Other News

Can Chatbots Remember What You Type? UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Issues Warning
(TechHQ)

 

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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
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Thursday, March 16

Top o’ the Review

Canadian Research Data Repositories in re3data: A Collaborative Effort to Increase Visibility and Foster Community Engagement
(re3data COREF Project)

Copyright Office Launches New Artificial Intelligence Initiative
(US Copyright Office)

Open Doors Special Report on International Students with Disabilities
(Open Doors, IIE: Institute of International Education)

Roadmap for the Spring ’23 CNI Meeting
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)

When the Big Deal Gets Smaller: Use of ScienceDirect after Cancellations (preprint)
(portal: Libraries and the Academy)

 

ARL Member Libraries

New York Public Library (NYPL), Vanderbilt, and National Library of Estonia Join IIIF Consortium
(IIIF: International Image Interoperability Framework)

Talia Chung Reappointed to Lead the Library for a Second Five-Year Term
(University of Ottawa)

 

Libraries—Other

How Do You Use the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Levels of Digital Preservation?
(DLF: Digital Library Federation)

 

Higher Ed

Pell Grants Will Return to Prison, but for Many, College Will Still Be Out of Reach
(USA TODAY)

Undergraduate Degree Earners, Academic Year 2021–22
(National Student Clearinghouse Research Center)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Celebrating One Year of the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP)
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)

GPO Director Presents FY 2024 Appropriations Request to Congress
(GPO: US Government Publishing Office)

House Democrats Release a New Citizen’s Guide to the Freedom of Information Act
(Government Executive)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Do Altmetric Scores Reflect Article Quality? Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework 2021
(JASIST: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)

Open Science Knowledge Platform: A Journey to a Dynamic Resource
(Leiden Madtrics)

Perceptions of Accuracy in Online News during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(First Monday)

SciELO MarketPlace—Commercialization Platform for Scholarly Communication Products and Services
(SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online)

Upcoming Event (Wednesday, March 29): Program Published: Towards a FAIRer World Symposium at UNESCO, Paris, and Virtual
(CODATA: Committee on Data, International Science Council)

 

In Other News

New Data Show Economic Activity of the US Arts & Cultural Sector in 2021
(NEA: US National Endowment for the Arts)

New Method Accelerates Data Retrieval in Huge Databases
(MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 

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


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