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From a Make Data Count Blog Post by Clare Dean: Libraries play an important role in driving adoption of open data, and they have an increasing focus on understanding dataset usage and impact. This information is key in order for institutions to gain information about the diverse research outputs contributed by their researchers, and to […]

From Getty Images: Getty Images has announced a first‑of‑its‑kind genealogy‑focused partnership with Ancestry, the global leader in family history. As part of Getty Images’ HBCU Grants Program, this initiative will focus on the digital preservation and accessibility of historical documents, records and the photographic archives of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Once digitized, these invaluable archives […]

AI AI and Copyright: The Training of General‑Purpose AI (via European Parliament Research Service) Are University Teachers Ready for Generative Artificial Intelligence? Unpacking Faculty Anxiety in the ChatGPT Era (via Education and Information Technologies) Trust, Attitudes and Use Of Artificial Intelligence (Report) |||  Summary/Release (via KPMG and University of Melbourne) Wiley Position Statement on Illegal […]

The article linked below was recently published by Scientometrics. Title Understanding ORCID Adoption Among Academic Researchers Authors Stephen R. Porter North Carolina State University Source Scientometrics (2025) DOI: 10.1007/s11192-025-05300-7 Abstract Just over a decade ago, the ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier) was created to provide a unique digital identifier for researchers around the world. […]

From MSNBC: As part of an Executive Order signed in mid-March, the Trump Administration ordered several governmental entities be stripped down. One of them is called the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The IMLS is a tiny, independent federal agency with just about 70 employees. It provides funding for public libraries in every single […]

From the University Daily Kansas (U. of Kansas): A crowdsourced database is helping researchers at the University of Kansas and other institutions in the U.S. make sense of contradictory information put out by news agencies and the National Science Foundation after the federal government began canceling N.S.F. research grants last week. The public database, compiled by […]

From The Washington Post: The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, accusing the tax-exempt organization of “allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public.” In the letter dated April 24, Ed Martin, said he sought to determine whether the […]

The article (preprint) linked was recently posted on arXiv. Title Metadata Augmentation Using NLP, Machine Learning and AI-Chatbots: A Comparison Authors Alfredo González-Espinoza University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University Dom Jebbia University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University Haoyong Lan University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2504.17189 Abstract Recent advances in machine learning and artificial […]

Alabama Alabama Porn Filter Bill Closer to Becoming Law: ‘This Is Far Worse Than Library Books’ (via AL.com) Arkansas Crawford County Library System Votes to Foot the Bill for Legal Fees From Lawsuit (via 5NewsOnline) Maine Maine Libraries Face Uncertainty Amid Potential Federal Funding Cuts (via Livermore Falls Advertiser) North Carolina NC Senate to Review […]