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ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee Releases “New Guidelines to Support Library Staff in Evaluating Digital Content Vendors”
Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Publication Announcement: The Intellectual Freedom Committee today announced the release of “Content Controls and Access Guidelines for Vendors,” a new guiding document designed to help library staff make informed, principled decisions when selecting third‑party digital content providers. Adopted on May 5, 2026, the guidelines equip library workers [...]
OCLC Releases “America’s 250-Year Bookshelf” Shaped by What Libraries Collect
From OCLC: As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, OCLC today introduces America’s 250-Year Bookshelf, a collection of 250 nonfiction books about America—one for every year since 1776—identified through data from WorldCat, the world’s most comprehensive source of information about library collections. The list reveals which books, from among the vast [...]
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What the Academic AI Impact Study Shows About Productivity, Capacity and Human Oversight in Library Workflows
Academic libraries are being asked to do more with the same, or fewer, resources. Staff capacity is stretched. Metadata backlogs persist. Course support workflows face recurring time pressure. In that environment, academic AI in libraries is no longer being explored only as a future possibility. For some libraries, it is already being used as practical operational support inside everyday workflows.
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A Look at the “Story of Crossref’s Metadata Development”
From a Crossref Post by Patricia Feeney: A significant update is nearly here. Schema 5.5 will expand contributor metadata to support multiple roles per contributor, and will introduce support for CRediT — the ANSI/NISO taxonomy for contributor roles. This means that an individual’s complete contribution to a research output can finally be described in our metadata, rather […]
Standards: Say Hello to the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification
From PC World: That chaotic, 1995-era state of the web is similar to where we are now with the “agentic” web. Just like users struggled to find URLs back in those days, so do AI agents struggle to find the tools they need to actually get things done online. When you ask an AI agent […]
Report: “Dozens Object to Rule Requiring Arkansas Libraries To Restrict ‘Sexually Explicit’ Materials”
From the Arkansas Advocate: Dozens of Arkansans told the Department of Education that they oppose requiring public libraries to restrict children’s access to “sexually explicit materials” in order to receive state funding. At least 62 people submitted concerns in writing by Friday about the draft rule requiring libraries to ensure patrons age 16 or younger cannot check out materials that […]
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After Rhode Island Victory, Connecticut Libraries Call on More States to Address Predatory E-Book Pricing (Statement by the Connecticut Library Consortium)
Here’s the Full Text of a Statement by the Connecticut Library Consortium: The Connecticut Library Consortium (CLC) today congratulated Rhode Island lawmakers on passing legislation to address unfair e-book and audiobook licensing practices and called on additional states to pursue similar reforms. Rhode Island’s action comes as libraries across the country continue to struggle under […]
More Perfect and Urban Libraries Council (ULC) Select Eight Public Libraries Selected for Local News Partnership Project
From an Urban Libraries Council Announcement: Today, More Perfect, an American alliance dedicated to revitalizing democracy, and the Urban Libraries Council (ULC), an organization dedicated to strengthening libraries as dynamic civic institutions, announced that eight ULC members have been selected for a national pilot program to connect public libraries to local news organizations. The program […]
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Ithaka S+R Introduces a New LibGuide: Understanding the Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence (New Research Resource)
From a Post by Claire Baytas, Ithaka S+R: As colleges and universities increase their adoption of artificial intelligence, and particularly generative AI, there is a parallel, rising need for AI literacy instruction. Since librarians are experts in information literacy and technology, they are often on the frontlines of providing training in AI literacy. Indeed, this […]
Report: House Votes to Take Over Librarian of Congress Appointment Power
From Roll Call: House lawmakers passed a bill Monday aimed at preventing future executive branch interference in some legislative branch agencies, a year after President Donald Trump fired the librarian of Congress. It would allow House and Senate leaders to appoint the heads of both the Library of Congress and the Government Publishing Office, removing […]
