October 19, 2026 by Gary Price
From a CMU Libraries Announcement: Carnegie Mellon University Libraries has launched the Open Index Project, a new initiative designed to make the evolution of open knowledge easier to discover and understand. Over the last few decades, open access publishing, open data, open source and other open practices have changed how knowledge moves from discovery to […]
October 19, 2026 by Gary Price
The poster linked below was presented at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2026. Title Bridging the AI Divide: A Collaborative Framework for Critical AI literacy in Public Libraries Authors Minseo Kim UNC SDIS Shelby Kruger UNC SDIS Abstract As Generative AI transforms the information landscape, public libraries play a pivotal role in […]
October 16, 2026 by Gary Price
From The Star Tribune: Two Minnesota schools have been among the national leaders in library book bans the past two years, despite a law here that first banned book bans in 2024. So, if it’s illegal, how did these books get pulled from shelves? The law lacks teeth, legal experts say, because it doesn’t lay […]
October 15, 2026 by Gary Price
From an OpenAlex Post: Trust in science is under more pressure than it has been in a long time. Paper mills, hijacked journals, citation rings and a flood of machine-written manuscripts mean that “is this a real journal?” is now a question every reader, reviewer, funder and university has to ask. And the tools for […]
October 15, 2026 by Gary Price
From Make Data Count: Make Data Count and Digital Science have released a first-of-its-kind open, contextualized collection of linkages between research articles and the datasets they cite or reuse. This effort builds on Make Data Count’s decade-long endeavors to make all connections between data and papers publicly accessible, with Digital Science contributing their expertise and […]
October 14, 2026 by Gary Price
From ZBW (Leibniz Information Centre for Economics) MediaTalk: Students in economics and business studies today draw on a wide range of information environments when searching for academic literature. Google Scholar, library catalogues and generative AI are part of their everyday research routines. But what role do traditional subject-specific databases still play? And how well do […]
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October 13, 2026 by Gary Price
Direct to Full Text Report: The State of U.S. Academic Libraries: Findings From the ACRL 2025 Annual Survey 25 pages; PDF. From an ACRL Post: This report focuses on U.S. academic libraries in fiscal year 2025 (the 2024–25 academic year). With the sunset of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Academic Libraries component after […]
October 9, 2026 by Gary Price
Direct to Complete Table of Contents NASIG Proceedings, Volume 40 (2026) Concurrent Session Excel Mastery: Effective Data Visualization and Trend Analysis for Database Renewals Assessment Amy Castillo (University of Texas at Arlington) Enhancing E-Resource Management: Leveraging Bibliographic Rank for Quality and Workflow Optimization Erin Calhoun (University of Toronto), Alexandra Landy (University of Toronto), […]
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October 8, 2026 by Gary Price
Buffeted by Change, Researchers Seek Continuity and Investment: Results from the Ithaka S+R US Researcher Survey was written by: Chelsea McCracken Dylan Ruediger Ruby MacDougall From the Report’s Executive Summary: The research enterprise in the United States, established after the second world war, is experiencing massive disruption. US colleges and universities are grappling with federal […]
October 8, 2026 by Gary Price
The article linked below was recently published by JASIST (Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology). Title The Future of Scholarly Blogs: Scholarly Bloggers’ Perspectives on Long-Term Preservation Authors Catharina Ochsner Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Heinz Pampel Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin […]

