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Monday, November 13
Top o’ the Review
Generative AI and Libraries: 7 Contexts
(LorcanDempsey.net)
Global Summit on Diamond Open Access: Conclusions & Way Forward
(Science Europe)
How AI Is Shaping Scientific Discovery
(US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
The Registry of Scientometric Data Sources (preprint)
(arXiv)
Transforming the Library Workplace
(Charleston Hub)
ARL Member Libraries
Calling for Recipes! A New Digital Cookbook from UB Libraries Is Coming Soon
(University at Buffalo Libraries)
CRL Board Announcement on Strengthening Global Collections
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
IPLC Response to the Article Development Charge Proposed by the American Chemical Society
(Brown, UChicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Hopkins, MIT, Penn, Princeton, Yale via IPLC: Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Awards $322,532 to UMD Libraries for Historic Maryland Newspaper Digitization
(UMD: University of Maryland Libraries)
Recording the Overlooked History of Marginalized Peoples
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
Rose Library Secures Mellon Grant to Create Virtual Reading Room, Expand Access to Collections
(Emory Libraries)
Seventh Anniversary of Chimney Tops Wildfire: Explore UT Libraries Oral Histories
(The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Libraries)
UBC Library Acquires Rare Japanese Manuscripts and Calligraphy Works
(UBC: The University of British Columbia Library)
University of Arizona Press to Launch “Ready Player Juan” on November 14
(The University of Arizona University Libraries)
University of New Mexico Receives $2.125 Million Federal Grant for Open Educational Resources Consortium
(The University of New Mexico University Libraries)
Advocacy & Public Policy
New Measures of Postsecondary Education Transfer Performance: Transfer-Out Rates for Community Colleges, Transfer Student Graduation Rates at Four-Year Colleges, and the Institutional Dyads Contributing to Transfer Student Success
(Homeroom blog, US Department of Education)
Scholars & Scholarship
ChatGPT Is a Remarkable Tool—for Experts
(Data Intelligence)
Supporting Open Access Publishing for Books: Collective Funding Models Event Summary
(Jisc)
Varieties of Diffusion in Academic Publishing: How Status and Legitimacy Influence Growth Trajectories of New Innovations
(JASIST: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)
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Tuesday, November 14
Top o’ the Review
APLU Releases Roadmap for Advancing Publicly Engaged Scholarship
(APLU: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities)
Booksellers, Publishers Urge Appeals Court to Uphold Block on Texas Book-Rating Law
(Publishers Weekly)
Ginny Steel Elected Chair, Tim Robinson Takes Seat on OCLC Board of Trustees
(OCLC)
The State of Open Data Report 2023: Support for Researchers Still Lacking
(Digital Science, Figshare, and Springer Nature)
The US Department of Education Announces New Tools to Tackle Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and Related Forms of Discrimination and Bias
(US Department of Education)
What Technologies Are at the Core of AI?
(OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
ARL Member Libraries
How the Library’s Protospace Helps Improve the Student Learning Experience
(The University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library)
Hundreds of Photographs Depicting UChicago Student Life in the 1970s Added to Online Archive
(The University of Chicago Library)
MSU Libraries Works to Eliminate Harmful Language across Local and National Catalogs
(MSU: Michigan State University Libraries)
Reflection Room Opens in VCU’s Cabell Library to Promote Student Wellness
(VCU: Virginia Commonwealth University)
Temple Libraries Hosts University’s Inaugural Research Resources Day
(Temple University Libraries)
The Oral History Center Presents the Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Project
(University of California, Berkeley, Library)
Higher Ed—Members
Prison Inmates to Graduate from Northwestern University
(Scripps News)
Higher Ed—Other
College Admissions after Affirmative Action: Catherine Bond Hill on “The Close”
(Ithaka S+R)
Linking Postsecondary Non-completion Rates and Labor Market Outcomes
(Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario)
Report: Students Studying Abroad Makes Rebound
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
Advocacy & Public Policy
DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Releases Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence
(CISA: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, DHS: US Department of Homeland Security)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
(Georgia Library Quarterly)
Scholars & Scholarship
Center for Open Science Expands Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) Program Efforts
(COS: Center for Open Science)
YouTube Issues New Guidelines for Videos Using AI
(Deadline)
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Wednesday, November 15
Top o’ the Review
ALA Appoints Leslie Burger as Interim Executive Director
(ALA: American Library Association)
ARL Leadership Fellows Selected for 2023
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Clarivate Reveals World’s Influential Researchers in Highly Cited Researchers 2023 List
(Clarivate)
New and Revised ACRL Standards and Guidelines on Academic Library Outreach, Loans of Special Collections Materials
(ACRL: Association of College and Research Libraries)
Request for Information: NSF Public Access Plan 2.0: Ensuring Open, Immediate, and Equitable Access to National Science Foundation–Funded Research
(NSF: US National Science Foundation via Federal Register)
Why Teachers Should Explore ChatGPT’s Potential—Despite the Risks
(Nature)
ARL Member Libraries
Faculty Monographs Cost $0 with Funding from Virginia Tech Open-Access Initiative
(Virginia Tech University Libraries)
Getting the Word Out: The Delaware Political Ephemera Collection
(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press)
Historic Printing Press Finds Home at Davis Library
(UNC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries)
Introducing the LC Labs Artificial Intelligence Planning Framework
(LC: Library of Congress)
Library Art Installations Honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Children
(Western Libraries)
New StoryMap Exhibit Dives into UMD Restorative Justice
(UMD: University of Maryland Libraries)
Tribal Treaties Database Continues to Expand & Improve
(OSU: Oklahoma State University Library)
UCSB Library Receives Grant for New Makerspace
(UCSB: University of California, Santa Barbara, Library)
University Libraries Offers Data Analysis and Statistics Support to Researchers across Campus
(USC: University of South Carolina University Libraries)
Higher Ed—Members
(OEN: Open Education Network, University of Minnesota)
Higher Ed—Other
(MLA: Modern Language Association)
Advocacy & Public Policy
IMLS Announces Updated Language Access Plan
(IMLS: US Institute of Museum and Library Services)
Update on UKRI Open-Access Policy and Fund for Books
(UKRI: UK Research and Innovation)
In Other News
Microsoft Rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot, to Better Compete with ChatGPT
(The Verge)
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Thursday, November 16
Top o’ the Review
AUPresses Refreshes Strategic Plan
(AUPresses: Association of University Presses)
Call for Expressions of Interest: CARL Library Publishing Community Engagement Team
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: A Sense of Belonging for Workforce Retention
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Higher Education in Science and Engineering
(NSB: National Science Board, NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Supporting College Teaching
(Ithaka S+R)
ARL Member Libraries
A Resounding Success: Highlights from Purdue GIS Day: Open Science from Outer Space
(Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies)
New Online Exhibit from the Archives: Women & Politics
(University of Ottawa Library)
Open Metadata and Libraries
(Penn State University Libraries via Open Access Books Network)
Scholars Chart New Directions for Cuba
(University of Miami Libraries)
The Future of Shared Print Metadata: Towards a New Shared Print Actions: Terminology
(CDL: California Digital Library)
Video: British Library Chief Executive Sir Roly Keating in Conversation with Librarian Congress Carla Hayden
(Library of Congress YouTube channel)
Why We Need Public Libraries Now More Than Ever
(Boston Public Library via Boston Magazine)
Libraries—Other
LIBER Reflects on the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access
(LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries)
“No One Else Is Saving It”: The Fight to Protect a Historic Music Collection—ARChive of Contemporary Music
(The Guardian)
Higher Ed—Members
After Everything: Projections of Jobs, Education, and Training Requirements through 2031
(CEW: Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Climate Change and Environmental Injustice as Social Determinants of Health
(OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House)
How Are OECD Governments Navigating the Digital Higher Education Landscape?
(OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
These Lawyers Used ChatGPT to Save Time. They Got Fired and Fined.
(Washington Post)
Scholars & Scholarship
Open-Access Movement in the Scholarly World: Pathways for Libraries in Developing Countries
(Journal of Information Science)
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