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From WBUR: Massachusetts Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey sent a letter Tuesday evening to the Institute of Museum and Library Services Acting Director Keith E. Sonderling demanding answers on funding cuts to museums and libraries across the country. Sen. Warren’s office shared the letter exclusively with WBUR on Monday. In the document, Warren and […]

From an ACRL Announcement: ACRL announces the publication of The Open Science Cookbook, edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee, a collection of lesson plans and activities for supporting openly accessible, reproducible research.   [Clip] The Open Science Cookbook provides a wide variety of lesson plans and learning activities for supporting […]

From a NISO Release (Full Text): Last month, NISO convened two workshops to explore how the scholarly communication community can collectively respond to challenges arising from the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in publishing and content distribution infrastructure. The workshops brought together participants from publishing houses, platform developers, and research technology teams to focus on […]

From an International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Blog Post: The ‘IFLA Entry Point to Libraries and AI’ is intended to be a tool to support librarians in the assessment of ethical AI use. The document provides librarians with a list of key considerations and scenarios to evaluate and discuss the benefits and risks of adopting AI […]

From the Carnegie Corporation of New York: Eleven public library systems across nine states will receive grants of up to $500,000 each from Carnegie Corporation of New York, the foundation established by Andrew Carnegie, who funded the construction of more than 2,500 libraries worldwide. The libraries were selected through a competitive request for proposals as […]

The research article (preprint) linked below was recently posted on arXiv. Title Research Knowledge Graphs: the Shifting Paradigm of Scholarly Information Representation Authors Matthäus Zloch GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Köln, Germany Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany Danilo Dessì Jennifer D’Souza Leyla Jael Castro Benjamin Zapilko Saurav Karmakar Brigitte Mathiak Markus Stocker Wolfgang Otto […]

From the  Oregon Capital Chronicle: A bill to protect access to school library books that discuss different religions, sexualities, disabilities and a number of other topics, and to ensure they are not banned on the basis of those themes, is headed to Gov. Tina Kotek’s desk, where she’s expected to sign it. Senate Bill 1098 passed […]

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From the University of Texas Libraries: The University of Texas at Austin announces the appointment of Robert H. McDonald as Senior Vice Provost and Director of the University of Texas Libraries, effective August 16, 2025. McDonald currently serves as Dean of University Libraries and Senior Vice Provost of Online and Extended Education at the University […]