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New Issue of Library Trends (74.3): Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality
Here’s the table of contents for the latest issue of Library Trends (Volume 74, Number 3, February 2026). The issue is titled, “Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality” and was edited by Ben B. Chiewphasa. From the Introduction: The 74 (3) issue of Library Trends examines the intersection of [...]
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Releases Marrakesh Monitoring Report 2026
From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): 128 countries are now signed up to the marrakesh treaty, which removes unnecessary copyright barriers to the creation of and access to books and other materials in accessible formats for people with print disabilities. but how far have they aligned [...]
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What 171 academic libraries reveal about equity, funding, and research support. In the U.S., R1 universities provide access to an average of 498 distinct databases — more than triple the number available at most Baccalaureate and Associate’s institutions.
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Preprint Roundup: Campus AI vs. Commercial AI; The Impact of LLMs on Online News Consumption and Production; Semantic Search at LinkedIn; & More
Here are several new or revised preprints posted on arXiv that might be of interest. An Analysis of the Effects Of Open Science Indicators on Citations in the French Open Science Monitor Authorship Drift: How Self-Efficacy and Trust Evolve During LLM-Assisted Writing Campus AI vs. Commercial AI: Comparing How Students and Employees Perceive their University’s […]
Scholarly Publishing: Silverchair Launches Discovery Bridge MCP (Model Context Protocol)
From a Silverchair Announcement: Silverchair, the leading independent technology partner for scholarly publishers, announced the launch of the Discovery Bridge, leveraging Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect end-users to scholarly content directly through AI assistants while maintaining institutional access controls and opening new licensing opportunities. [Clip] The Discovery Bridge integrates with existing AI assistants including […]
Report: “Could Artificial Intelligence Save Endangered Archives? A Kenyon College Cohort Aims to Find Out”
From The Ohio Newsroom: “[Archives] are crumbling and disappearing and we are losing our history,” said Katharine Elkins, humanities professor at Kenyon College. Deteriorating archives are endangering historical documents across the country. A group of students and faculty at Kenyon College, in rural north central Ohio, believes artificial intelligence could be the key to rescuing […]
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Internet Archive Adds Searchable Access to Archived Pages From the CIA World Factbook
Mark Graham at the Internet Archive tells us that searchable access to more than 18,000 archived pages from the CIA World Factbook found in The Wayback Machine’s collection are now available online via this interface. Thanks Mark! Thanks Internet Archive! See Also: More Searchable Collections via The Wayback Machine
Journal Article: “What Undergraduate Students Need to Know and Actually Know About Generative AI”
The article linked below (full text) was published today by Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence. Title What Undergraduate Students Need to Know and Actually Know About Generative AI Authors Sina Rismanchian University of California, Irvine Eesha Tur Razia Babar University of California, Irvine Shayan Doroudi| University of California, Irvine Source Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence […]
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Marco Rubio No Longer Serving as Acting Archivist of the United States
From Politico: Marco Rubio is no longer serving as the acting archivist of the United States, relieving the Trump administration official of one of several roles, a spokesperson for the National Archives and Records Administration confirmed to POLITICO. Rubio — who serves as interim national security adviser in addition to his duties as secretary of […]
Digital Collections: Newly Digitized Papers Shed Light on WWII Internment
From the Stanford Report Stanford University Libraries have digitized the Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, an “extraordinary collection” of letters and photographs that expand the historical record of wartime incarceration in the United States. The Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, comprising digital scans of correspondence, photographs, and related materials created and collected by Stanford University graduate Kazuyuki “Kaz” Takahashi and […]
