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Report: “In Digital-First Era, NJ Librarians Demand More Affordable E-Books”
From the New Jersey Monitor: New Jersey librarians and lawmakers who joined forces to fight book-banners a few years ago have a new target: publishers whose restrictive e-book licensing agreements have shrunk digital access for library users. [Clip] Such practices would become a violation of New Jersey’s consumer fraud law [...]
Project Results From COMET: “Unlocking Author-Affiliation Metadata For All of arXiv”
From a COMET Blog Post: The COMET team is pleased to share results from an exciting line of work we have recently completed, focused on unlocking author-affiliation metadata from preprints. Specifically, we have trained a small, open-weight large language model (LLM) that achieves state-of-the-art performance on author-affiliation extraction for arXiv [...]
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Reveal Your Library’s Hidden Collection
In today’s rapidly evolving academic landscape, libraries face the dual challenge of meeting diverse research needs while managing constrained budgets. The recent report from Clarivate, “Current trends in academic library holdings: The evolution towards aggregated content,” offers a timely and data-driven perspective on how libraries are responding to these pressures.
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New Issue of Library Trends (74.3): Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality
Here’s the table of contents for the latest issue of Library Trends (Volume 74, Number 3, February 2026). The issue is titled, “Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality” and was edited by Ben B. Chiewphasa. From the Introduction: The 74 (3) issue of Library Trends examines the intersection of technological hype and practical reality […]
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Releases Marrakesh Monitoring Report 2026
From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): 128 countries are now signed up to the marrakesh treaty, which removes unnecessary copyright barriers to the creation of and access to books and other materials in accessible formats for people with print disabilities. but how far have they aligned their national laws with the […]
Report: Alabama Senate Approves Bill Allowing Firings Of Library Board Members
Media Roundup Alabama Library Board Members Can Be Removed Without Cause Under Senate-Approved Bill (via AL.com) The Alabama State Senate on Tuesday passed a bill allowing local officials to remove library board members without cause. The bill was approved with 26 ayes, four nays and one abstention after discussion from Democrats who opposed the bill. […]
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Preprint Roundup: Campus AI vs. Commercial AI; The Impact of LLMs on Online News Consumption and Production; Semantic Search at LinkedIn; & More
Here are several new or revised preprints posted on arXiv that might be of interest. An Analysis of the Effects Of Open Science Indicators on Citations in the French Open Science Monitor Authorship Drift: How Self-Efficacy and Trust Evolve During LLM-Assisted Writing Campus AI vs. Commercial AI: Comparing How Students and Employees Perceive their University’s […]
Scholarly Publishing: Silverchair Launches Discovery Bridge MCP (Model Context Protocol)
From a Silverchair Announcement: Silverchair, the leading independent technology partner for scholarly publishers, announced the launch of the Discovery Bridge, leveraging Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect end-users to scholarly content directly through AI assistants while maintaining institutional access controls and opening new licensing opportunities. [Clip] The Discovery Bridge integrates with existing AI assistants including […]
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Report: “Could Artificial Intelligence Save Endangered Archives? A Kenyon College Cohort Aims to Find Out”
From The Ohio Newsroom: “[Archives] are crumbling and disappearing and we are losing our history,” said Katharine Elkins, humanities professor at Kenyon College. Deteriorating archives are endangering historical documents across the country. A group of students and faculty at Kenyon College, in rural north central Ohio, believes artificial intelligence could be the key to rescuing […]
Internet Archive Adds Searchable Access to Archived Pages From the CIA World Factbook
Mark Graham at the Internet Archive tells us that searchable access to more than 18,000 archived pages from the CIA World Factbook found in The Wayback Machine’s collection are now available online via this interface. Thanks Mark! Thanks Internet Archive! See Also: More Searchable Collections via The Wayback Machine
