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AI  Artificial Intelligence and Communication Technologies in Academia: Faculty Perceptions and the Adoption of Generative AI (via International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education) There’s a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI to Cheat (via WSJ/MSN) Digital Libraries Now Available: Proceedings From JCDL ’24: 24th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Hong Kong Future […]

Note: A statement from EveryLibrary re: IMLS is available here. From the American Library Association (Full Text): An executive order issued by the Trump administration on Friday night, March 14, calls for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the nation’s only federal agency for America’s libraries. The following statement was made by the American […]

The article linked below was recently published by the journal, Marketing Science. Title Book Bans in American Libraries: Impact of Politics on Inclusive Content Consumption Authors Uttara M. Ananthakrishnan Carnegie Mellon University Naveen Basavaraj Carnegie Mellon University Sabari Rajan Karmegam George Mason University Ananya Sen Carnegie Mellon University Michael D. Smith Carnegie Mellon University  Source […]

Full Text of an EveryLibrary Statement re: IMLS Funding: In a new executive order, President Trump has targeted the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients. The Executive Order states that IMLS must be reduced to […]

From a Coalition For Networked Information Post by Cliff Lynch: Today, we release inaugural CNI Senior Scholar Donald J. Waters’s final report: Meeting the Climate Emergency: University Information Infrastructure for Researching Wicked Problems. Written with extensive community input, the report explores how research universities can tackle complex societal challenges, particularly climate change, a “wicked” problem involving […]

From a Library of Congress Email: The Library of Congress regularly receives digitized newspapers from contributors to the National Digital Newspaper Program. Digitized newspapers are delivered in the form of batches, where each batch can contain one to many issues, from one or more newspaper titles. Recently loaded batches can be discovered on the Chronicling America Research Guide. More details […]

From the Arkansas Advocate: The Arkansas State Library Board approved a motion to create “non-binding policies to protect children” in the state’s public libraries at a special meeting conducted via videoconference Thursday afternoon. Lupe Peña de Martinez of Mabelvale, the board member who proposed the motion, said she spoke “at length” with Republican state Sen. […]

From Houston Public Media: The Fort Bend County Libraries system experienced a “cybersecurity incident” that caused a website outage, according to a library news release. Library staff became aware of the cyberattack on Feb. 24. A few days later, the library announced a new website address. Access to Hoopla – a music, video and audiobook […]

The article linked below was recently published by Information Research (IR). Title Promoting AI Literacy Through U.S. Academic Libraries: An Analysis Of LibGuides From ARL and Oberlin Group Libraries Using the EDUCAUSE AI Literacy Framework Authors Ko Chun Ru National Taiwan Normal University Rong Tang Simmons University Source Information Research Vol. 30 No. iConf (2025) […]