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From The Tennessean: Books on slavery, racism and the Holocaust are among the nearly 3,000 pulled from public library shelves across Rutherford County following a letter from State Secretary Tre Hargett prompting a review of juvenile collections across nearly all state public libraries. Four Anne Frank biographies, more than 30 books focused on the Bible, […]
New today from Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature. From the Release: The report, now in its 10th year, is the longest running study into open research behaviour and attitudes. Combining survey data from more than 4,700 responses across 151 countries with global expert perspectives from researchers, librarians and policy leaders, it provides an unprecedented insight […]
Great News From GDELT Project: “A Transformative New Chapter: Translating The Entire Quarter-Century TV News Archive Through Gemini For Just $54K + All Channels Now Translated”
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
From a GDELT Project Post: Today we are announcing a transformative new chapter in planetary-scale translation and towards our vision of making it possible to see the world through others’ eyes. In collaboration with the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive, we have completed the Gemini-powered machine translation of the Archive’s entire quarter-century archive of more […]
The Atlantic: “Science is Drowning in AI Slop”
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Journal Articles, News, Productivity, Publishing, Reports
From The Atlantic. (via MSN): Scientific publishing has always had its plumbing problems. Even before ChatGPT, journal editors struggled to control the quantity and quality of submitted work. Alex Csiszar, a historian of science at Harvard, told me that he has found letters from editors going all the way back to the early 19th century […]
New Data From OverDrive: Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2025 with Over 820 Million Checkouts and Over 1 Billion Minutes Streamed
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, School Libraries
From OverDrive: In 2025, libraries around the world continued to prove their essential role in connecting communities with stories, information, and entertainment, breaking new digital lending records in the process. As the need for flexible, on-demand access to books and media continued to grow, libraries expanded their digital collections to meet readers where they are, […]
The survey was conducted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities and Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center. Report Resources Direct to Full Text Report (26 pages; PDF) Charts (23 pages; PDF) Methodology and Topline (21 pages; PDF) News Release: National Survey: 95% of College Faculty Fear Student Overreliance on AI and Diminished Critical Thinking […]
The January 2026 Issue (Vol 87, No 1) of College & Research Libraries (C&RL) is Now Available Online
The January 2026 Issue (Vol 87, No 1) of College & Research Libraries (C&RL) is now available online. Table of Contents Articles Finding Their Own Way: A Phenomenological Study of Academic Librarians’ Experiences with Tenure Jolene Cole Interventions for Reducing, Preventing, or Overcoming Librarian Burnout: A Scoping Review Natalie Logue, Jessica C. Garner, Stephanie Hendren […]
Happy Anniversary! Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) Celebrates 70 Years of Advancing Research Libraries in the Southeast
| Academic Libraries, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation
From ASERL: The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) proudly celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2026, marking seven decades of leadership, collaboration, and innovation in support of research libraries and higher education across the southeastern United States. Founded in 1956, ASERL has played a pivotal role in shaping regional and national conversations around access to […]
AI Roundup: De Gruyter Brill, Emerald Publishing, IOP Publishing, Silverchair and Springer Nature Partner With Kudos to Examine Zero-Click and AI Search Risks to the Research Ecosystem & More Headlines
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, News, Open Access, Publishing, Roundup, Springer Nature
Anthropic Anthropic and Teach For AllLaunch Global AI Training Initiative For Educators Conferderation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Mitigating the Impact of AI Bots; New Resource: “Dealing With Bots: A COAR Resource for Repository Managers” Clarivate Clarivate Announces Launch of Alma Specto (An AI-Powered Digital Collection Platform) Guidelines Guidelines and Best Practices for Making Government […]
University of Missouri Libraries Adds Collection of World War II Posters to Digital Library
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
From the University of Missouri Libraries: 25, marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, which took place over six years between 1939 and 1945. In honor of the anniversary, the Digital Initiatives department began digitizing posters from the War Poster Collection housed in our libraries’ Special Collections. This collection offers a […]
