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From KQED: For decades, the Internet Archive has preserved our digital history. Lately, journalists and ordinary citizens have been turning to it more than ever, as the Trump administration undertakes an ideologically-driven purge of government websites. But the Archive itself faces an existential threat. In this episode, Close All Tabs Senior Editor Chris Egusa joins […]
From Here & Now: Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with American Library Association president Cindy Hohl, a Kansas City, Missouri, librarian, about concerns her organization has about cuts that the Trump administration wants to make to the only federal agency that provides funds to libraries. Source
News Roundup Arkansas Restrictions on Use of Arkansas State Library Funds Fail in Budget Subcommittee (via Arkansas Advocate) Florida Senate Committee Clarifies the Ways Books Can be ‘Harmful to Minors’ in Schools (via Florida Phoenix) North Dakota North Dakota Legislators Hear Extensive Testimony on Controversial Library Bill (via Bismarck Tribune) ||| Archived Version Virginia Lynchburg […]
The inaugural Climate Fiction Prize shortlist and the Jhalak Prize longlists are announced. The Virginia Festival of the Book kicks off tomorrow. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins. Plus, interviews with Karin Slaughter, Connie Briscoe, Jason De León, and Emma Donoghue and title suggestions for Women’s History Month.
AM has once again produced an impressive archive of important primary documents that give users a firsthand glimpse into the perspectives and mindsets of an underrepresented but essential group in UK and Irish history. The accounts of daily life and the roles and responsibilities of women since 1600 are riveting to read and hear.
This unique and expansive resource offers exciting opportunities for educators seeking to facilitate discussions centered on race and racism, identity, power, and culture. Materials are curated and presented by exceptional scholars and teachers who offer nuanced understandings and thoughtful writings across a range of topics.
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.
From AI tools to a music encyclopedia to nonprofit financial information, the range of truly excellent free resources on the Internet reminds users of the best intentions of technology—to make knowledge accessible and useful to all.
Resources for study, developing knowledge, and exploring issues—created by experts and designed to illuminate—are critical tools. The year in reference showcases how essential facts-based resources are and how they can be harnessed for endeavors as profound as saving lives or as soul-satisfying as fixing a bike.
Fee-based databases offer scholars and general readers access to authoritative, fact-based research. These tools further study, enable discovery, and highlight key archival collections around the world.
From The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)/Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS): Is Brussels really that rainy? Is Sevilla as warm as we think? And how do both cities compare? Based on the Copernicus Climate Change (C3S*) reanalysis dataset the new ERA Explorer app puts key global climate data at your fingertips. With a fast […]
From Cambridge University Press: Cambridge University Press is to conduct a “radical, community-led” review of the open research publishing ecosystem. The review aims to identify bold and workable solutions that support innovation and researchers’ needs in a manner that’s sustainable for all major stakeholders. Cambridge University Press is inviting researchers, librarians, publishers, funders, and publishing […]
From a Leiden Madrtics Post by Lutz Bornmann: When it comes to making sense of data, visualizations rule. But what about translating data into sound? This blog post explores the origins of ‘data sonification’ and its many applications in science and demonstrates how even bibliometric data can be turned into sound. [Clip] So, what exactly […]
From Science: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday told staff members it has canceled subscriptions carried by its National Agricultural Library as part of a drive by President Donald Trump’s administration to cut federal spending. The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including many prominent in various […]
Colorado Trump Order Threatens Federal Funding For Colorado’s Libraries, Museums (via 9News) Washington Washington Libraries Concerned Over Trump’s Executive Order (via KING5) Last Update: March 18, 2025, 6:15am
Colorado Trump Order Threatens Federal Funding For Colorado’s Libraries, Museums (via 9News) Washington Washington Libraries Concerned Over Trump’s Executive Order (via KING5) Last Update: March 18, 2025; 6:15am
Another Roundup: Statements in Response to Executive Order Impacting the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Alabama Trump Order Threatens Funding For Alabama Libraries (via ALPR) Colorado Trump Order Threatens Federal Funding For Colorado’s Libraries, Museums (via 9News) Missouri Local Libraries React to Executive Order Aimed at Reducing Funds to State Libraries (via KOMU) […]
Finalists for the Publishing Triangle Awards and the shortlist for the Kurd Laßwitz Preis are announced. PEN America’s World Voices Festival and Literary Awards events will return this year after being cancelled in 2024. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer postpones his book tour. Reviews arrive for Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins. April’s LibraryReads list features top pick The Sirens by Emilia Hart. Eoin Colfer’s best-selling novel Artemis Fowl will be adapted as a stage musical, while Julie Satow’s When Women Ran Fifth Avenue is making its way to TV. Norwegian novelist Dag Solstad has died at the age of 83.
The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of New Librarianship. Title Making an Open Information Literacy Textbook: A Case Study in OER Collaborations Among Four Oklahoma Academic Librarians Authors Calantha Tillotson University of Tennessee Knoxville Adam Brennan Tulsa Community College S R Whittle Northeastern State University Jamie Holmes Tulsa Community College Source […]
Ed. Note: infoDOCKET would like to thank Sandi Caldrone for contributing the op/ed shared below. When Funding Feeds Starvation by Sandi Caldrone Assistant Professor, University Library Research Data Librarian University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign caldron2@illinois.edu In a misguided quest for efficiency, the NIH recently announced it was limiting indirect costs to 15 percent of grant award funds. […]
We will continue to update this roundup as we learn of additional statements. Latest Additions (Last Update: 6:30am; March 19, 2025) American Assocication of Law Libraries (AALL) Defend the Institute for Museum and Library Services (via American Folklore Society) FAQ: Executive Order Targeting IMLS (via ALA) Maine Library Association Understanding the Institute of Museum and Library […]
AI Silverchair’s AI Lab Delivers Oxford Academic AI Discovery Assistant for Dynamic Research Support Arkansas Arkansas Senator Continues Mission to Eliminate State Library Board, Cites Unfulfilled Bargain DC (District of Columbia) DC Public Library to Introduce New Online Catalog (via DCPL) Iowa How Des Moines Public Library is Navigating Librarian Cuts, Possible Iowa Law Changes […]
Some AI tools are making newsrooms more efficient; others are generating incorrect headlines and news summaries, presenting new information literacy challenges.
Included with any subscription to or purchase of content on Oxford Academic, our AI Discovery Assistant helps to make your discovery of scholarship quicker, whatever your specialism, as it identifies the ten pieces of content most relevant to your research.
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins leads holds this week, with appeal across age levels. Also in demand are titles by John Green, Susan Mallery, Laurie Gilmore, James Patterson and J.D. Barker, and Tess Gerritsen. ALA releases a statement on a Trump administration executive order which calls for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park by Randall K. Wilson wins the New York Historical’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize. Plus, Canada Reads kicks off today.
On Friday night, March 14, President Trump issued an Executive Order that called for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and six other agencies. In FY24, the IMLS budget was $294.8 million, of which more than $211 million was dedicated to library services through the Library Services Technology Act (LSTA), the leading source of federal funding for America’s libraries. According to a statement from the American Library Association (ALA), “Libraries translate .003 percent of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 billion people each year.”
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 […]
Latest UPDATE (March 17): “What Happens to Libraries If IMLS Goes Away?” (by Hallie Rich, Library Journal) On Friday night, March 14, President Trump issued an Executive Order that called for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and six other agencies. In FY24, the IMLS budget was $294.8 million, of […]
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 Imaging the Digital Future / Elon University: Half of Americans now use artificial intelligence (AI) large language models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot, according to a national survey conducted in January 2025 by Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center. Since the launch of ChatGPT on Nov. 30, 2022, the spread of LLM […]
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. […]
This book glides through the complex, networked entanglements of power that are the infrastructure of our existence in space and time among computational devices designed to foster certain types of belonging.
This novel that will be most appreciated by readers who are content with the journey being more important than the destination. Book clubs will find much to discuss.
This parallel-narrative story will be popular with readers of literary fiction and women’s fiction. Fans of Sue Miller and Jacquelyn Mitchard will also enjoy.
This fascinating story can be read as a stand-alone, but readers unfamiliar with Morelli’s works may want to follow it up with her other novels based on art and art history.
Harper skillfully blends cozy mystery elements with the unique premise of professional proposal planning, creating an engaging read that will keep readers guessing.
Fans of Anna Lee Huber’s Verity Kent books or Clara McKenna’s “Stella and Lyndy” series will welcome this equally entertaining addition to the genre of historical mystery.
Murphy establishes a palpable sense of foreboding as these unexplainable mysteries begin to accrue. He is less successful, or less interested, in resolving them, however, and the book’s final impact is dulled as a result.
Evans’s latest (after The Traitor Beside Her) misses the mark, failing to engross readers in the Ecker family secrets and the turmoil of World War II. Despite numerous intriguing elements, too many details dull the edge of the mystery.
A fizzy and fun follow-up to Gamez’s debut, The Next Best Fling. Press into the hands of readers who are looking for more asexual rep in their romance reads and those who enjoyed Alison Cochrun’s Kiss Her Once for Me or Anita Kelly’s How You Get the Girl.
An unsettling novel about the corrosive power of wealth and the slippery nature of class, race, and social constructs. Recommended for readers of Yasmin Zaher’s The Coin or Romesh Gunesekera’s Suncatcher.
This fictionalized portrait of Katharine Wright captivates and is recommended for fans of aviation and women’s history. Pair with Patty Dann’s The Wright Sister, which has a different take on Katharine’s life.
Bringing to mind Emma McLaughlin’s The Nanny Diaries and Amy Poeppel’s Small Admissions, this is highly recommended for those who enjoy stories about how one’s love for one’s children can make any parent lose track of priorities and self.
An intricate portrait of one family’s struggles and triumphs over nearly four generations. Recommended for fans of contemporary Jewish American fiction and authors such as Lynda Cohen Loigman, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and Nicole Krauss.
While fans of Moreno-Garcia’s supernatural, horror-tinged novels may be surprised by the author’s foray into atmospheric historical fiction, this intricately plotted book about stardom, passion, and betrayal delivers.
AI Silverchair’s AI Lab Delivers Oxford Academic AI Discovery Assistant for Dynamic Research Support Arkansas Arkansas Senator Continues Mission to Eliminate State Library Board, Cites Unfulfilled Bargain DC (District of Columbia) DC Public Library to Introduce New Online Catalog (via DCPL) Iowa How Des Moines Public Library is Navigating Librarian Cuts, Possible Iowa Law Changes […]
Together with the Audio Publishers Association (APA), in September 2024 Library Journal and School Library Journal fielded a survey about audiobooks in the United States’ public libraries. Nearly 500 librarian respondents provided insight into audio format demand, budgeting, licensing terms, and selection influences.
