March 18, 2025 by Gary Price
See Also: 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) California Petaluma Historical Library and Museum Raises Alarm About Local Impact of President Trump’s Executive Order (via Northern CA Public Media) Colorado Trump Order Threatens Federal Funding For […]
March 17, 2025 by Gary Price
We will continue to update this roundup as we learn of additional statements. Latest Additions (Last Update: 1:10pm; March 21, 2025) ALA Warns New IMLS Acting Director Not to Cut Programs Required by Law (via ALA) International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Calls For the Reversal of Cuts to IMLS, Archives, Restrictions On Freedom of […]
March 14, 2025 by Gary Price
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. […]
March 11, 2025 by Gary Price
From a News Release: openRxiv has officially launched as an independent nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openRxiv ensures that researchers worldwide can continue to share discoveries rapidly and openly. With a researcher-led governance model, openRxiv strengthens the foundation of preprint sharing, empowering scientists to […]
March 10, 2025 by Gary Price
From a Law Library of Congress Post: We are pleased to announce the new Congressional Research Service (CRS) products collection that is searchable within Congress.gov. CRS products include coveted CRS reports, testimony by CRS analysts, infographics, and more. Find descriptions for each CRS product type on our About Congressional Research Service (CRS) Products page. Public access to CRS […]
March 10, 2025 by Gary Price
From the Report: In just six months, the consumer AI landscape has been redrawn. Some products surged, others stalled, and a few unexpected players rewrote the leaderboard overnight. Deepseek rocketed from obscurity to a leading ChatGPT challenger. AI video models advanced from experimental to fairly dependable (at least for short clips!). And so-called “vibecoding” is changing who […]
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March 5, 2025 by Gary Price
AI AI Literacy in K-12 and Higher Education in the Wake of Generative AI: An Integrative Review (preprint) (via arxiv) Google is Adding More AI Overviews and a New ‘AI Mode’ to Search (via The Verge) Digitization Utrecht University Library Digitizes Earliest Printed Books (via UU) EBSCO / New York Public Library All-Inclusive Digital Search […]
February 16, 2025 by Gary Price
The article linked below was recently published by Libri. Title Library Leadership in Minority Serving Institutions: Investigating the Backgrounds of MSI Library Directors Authors Brady LundUniversity of North Texas Source Libri, 2025 DOI: 10.1515/libri-2024-0114 Abstract This article reports the findings of a study of the educational backgrounds of library directors at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) in […]
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February 15, 2025 by Gary Price
The report linked below was published by EDUCAUSE. From EDUCAUSE: The higher education community continues to grapple with questions related to using artificial intelligence (AI) in learning and work. In support of these efforts, we present the 2025 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study, summarizing our community’s sentiments and experiences related to strategy and leadership, policies and […]
February 15, 2025 by Gary Price
The article linked below was recently published by the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. Title Intelligent Textbooks Authors Sergey Sosnovsky Utrecht University Peter Brusilovsky University of Pittsburg Andrew Lan University of Massachusetts Source International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (2025) DOI: 10.1007/s40593-024-00451-9 Introduction Textbooks remain one of the main methods of instruction, […]