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From The Wall Street Journal: An advanced LLM might fail at complex multiplication, for example, while the cheapest, oldest model can ace the test if it has a calculator tool. But there is another hurdle: Agents will need permission to access apps, APIs and websites if they are ever going to call an Uber or […]

The article linked below was recently published by The Journal of Academic Librarianship. Title What We Need Now: Leadership Skills, Strategies, and Competencies in Today’s Academic Libraries Authors Laura Wiegand McBrayer University of North Carolina Wilmington Source The Journal of Academic Librarianship Volume 51, Issue 4, July 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103068 Abstract To remain effective, academic library […]

The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). Title Assessing The Societal Influence Of Academic Research with ChatGPT: Impact Case Study Evaluations Authors Kayvan KoushaUniversity of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK Mike ThelwallUniversity of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Source Journal of the Association for Information Science and […]

From a Recently Published Article From PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) by Carolyn Beans: Historians today can perform computational tasks as they dig for insights—using, for example, computational models to reveal how often two words appear together in texts, launching network analyses to link individuals who […]

The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv.  Title Campus AI vs Commercial AI: A Late-Breaking Study on How LLM As-A-Service Customizations Shape Trust and Usage Patterns Authors Leon Hannig University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Annika Bush TU Dortmund University, Germany Meltem Aksoy TU Dortmund University, Germany Steffen Becker Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Max Planck […]

The article linked below was published today by the Journal of Librarianship & Scholarly Communication (JLSC). Title Podcasting as Open Access: A Review and Discussion of Potential Impact on Scholarly Communication and Promotion Authors Allison Symulevich University of South Florida Matt Torrence University of South Florida Jason Boczar University of South Florida Jessica Szempruch University […]

The article linked below was recently published by JASIST (Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology). Title Data Sources Used In Bibliometrics 1978–2022: From Proprietary Databases To The Great Wide Open Authors Camilla Hertil Lindelöw Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden Björn Hammarfelt Swedish School of Library […]

From IFI CLAIMS: Here at IFI CLAIMS, we’re always looking for signals in patents to leading edge technologies. Agentic AI is still nascent and has a long way to go, but with any revolutionary technology, it’s always worth knowing who the first movers are when it comes to protecting inventions. We did that last year […]

Update 3 (5/16; 11:30am) Statement From Ebook Study Group: Connecticut House Passes Landmark eBook Bill The eBook Study Group, a national coalition of legal and policy experts focused on fair digital access for libraries, applauds the 106–38 passage of long-awaited legislation by the Connecticut House of Representatives that will make eBook licenses more consistent with the library mission […]