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Report From Missouri: St. Charles County Libraries Ban LGBTQ Flags, Other ‘Personal Belief’ Decor
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Library employees here have been ordered to remove flags — including LGBTQ pride flags— and other decor that “promotes personal beliefs” from their workspaces, officials said on Tuesday. St. Charles City-County Library CEO John Greifzu said the move is part of a push to make the [...]
Cleveland Public Library and Digital Public Library (DPLA) Formally Announce New Partnership To “Chart a New Vision For the National Digital Collection”; Four Foundations (Sloan, Mellon, MacArthur, Ford) Contribute $3.25 Million Towards Expansion of Collection
Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement: Cleveland Public Library (CPL) and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) today announced a partnership to chart a new vision for the national digital collection. The collection comprises over 50 million books, photos, maps, videos and more that document America’s cultural heritage. [...]
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As digital collections expand in both scale and complexity, the challenge of managing, showcasing and preserving these resources grows ever more urgent. The latest whitepaper from Clarivate, “Turning Hidden Gems into Strategic Assets,” explores how forward-thinking librarians are leveraging academic AI to enhance their digital special collections that drive research, teaching and institutional identity.
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Repositories: SocArXiv Releases AI Policy
From a Post by Philip N. Cohen, SocArXiv Director: In November 2025, we paused new submissions about AI topics. For about three months, we turned away papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI and so on. We accepted some empirical social science research about AI in […]
Research Paper (preprint): Consensus and Fragmentation in Academic Publication Preferences
The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Consensus and Fragmentation in Academic Publication Preferences Authors Ian Van Buskirk University of Colorado Boulder Marilena Hohmann University of Copenhagen Ekaterina Landgren University of Colorado Boulder Stanford University Johan Ugander Yale University Aaron Clauset University of Colorado Boulder Santa Fe Institute Daniel B. Larremore University […]
Video Recording of Yesterday’s Research Libraries UK (RLUK) Forum: “Research Library Strategy For Imagined Futures: The ARL/CNI Futurescape AI Experience”
From Research Libraries UK: Throughout the second half of 2025, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) held a series of workshops for research library leaders on using the Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit—a modular resource for integrating the ARL/CNI AI Scenarios into institutional strategy and planning work. Judy Ruttenberg, […]
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At the University of North Carolina, “AI Powers Research Into Film’s Past”
From the UNC College of Arts and Sciences: More than a decade ago, Carolina film historian Martin Johnson stumbled upon an archive documenting more than 10,000 forgotten films at the Library of Congress. The collection contained an index of films made in the span of just six years, 1915–1920, but held a dizzying amount of data to […]
Final Report Available: Five University Libraries (UC Davis, Cornell, Ohio State, University of Michigan, and Rutgers) Collaborate on Mass Book Digitization Pilot Project
From a UC Davis Library Post: During 2023-2025, UC Davis, Cornell University, Ohio State University, University of Michigan, and Rutgers University coordinated to contribute scholarly content in two topic areas to the Google Books project. This content is then contributed to the HathiTrust Digital Library. The two topics, bees & insect pollinators and Puerto Rico, met a number […]
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New From Allen Institute For Artificial Intelligence (Ai2): Understanding Usage and Engagement in AI-Powered Scientific Research Tools: The Asta Interaction Dataset (preprint)
The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Understanding Usage and Engagement in AI-Powered Scientific Research Tools: The Asta Interaction Dataset Authors Dany Haddad, Dan Bareket, Joseph Chee Chang, Jay DeYoung, Jena D. Hwang, Uri Katz, et al. Source via arXiv Abstract AI-powered scientific research tools are rapidly being integrated into research workflows, […]
New Analysis From Clarivate: “Highly Cited Researchers: Key Trends 2015-2025”
From Clarivate/Institute for Scientific Information: Last year, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) released an interactive visualization highlighting trends in the Highly Cited Researchers lists from 2014 to 2024. Following strong engagement from the academic community, we are pleased to share an updated version incorporating data from the 2015-2025 lists. Key insights from a decade of […]
