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Title Open Resilience: Building Infrastructure Together (ORBIT) Source Invest in Open Infrastructure Authors Sarah Lippincott Lauren Collister Katherine E Skinner Chrys Wu DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17193778 From the IoI Blog: US-based library consortia provide an essential collaborative framework that enables academic institutions to achieve preservation, access, innovation, and educational goals that would be impossible individually. The report […]
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Adds More Than 500 New Words, Phrases, and Senses, Including Hidden Gem, Tumbleweed, Origin Story, and Al Desko (September 2025 Update)
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From OED/Oxford University Press: The autumn is upon us in the Northern Hemisphere. We’re back at work after the summer break, the new school year has begun, and we’re once more getting up early, or at crack of sparrow’s song (or, more humorously, crack of sparrow’s fart,or simply crack of sparrow’s) to get ready for the day. ‘What fresh […]
Journal Article (preprint): “What’s Working and What Isn’t: An Exploratory Study of Current Reference Models in Large Academic Libraries”
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The article (approved for publication, preprint) is scheduled to appear in portal: Libraries and the Academy (Volume 25, Number 4). Title What’s Working and What Isn’t: An Exploratory Study of Current Reference Models in Large Academic Libraries Authors William H. Weare Wichita State University Jaena Alabi Auburn University John Fullerton Texas A&M University Source portal: […]
From the CBC: A major report on modernizing the education system in Newfoundland and Labrador is peppered with fake sources some educators say were likely fabricated by generative artificial intelligence (AI). Released last month, the Education Accord NL final report, a 10-year roadmap for improving the province’s public schools and post-secondary institutions, includes at least 15 […]
Report: “Nathan Lambert’s ATOM Project Seeks American Open Source AI Models”
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From The New Stack: On the 4th of July, Nathan Lambert launched “The American DeepSeek Project,” a plan to counter the open-weight AI large language models (LLMs) from China’s DeepSeek with support for an American “fully open source model at the scale and performance of current (publicly available) frontier models, within two years.” It’s an issue dear to his heart. Lambert […]
From a WCET (WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies) Post: Artificial Intelligence Is No Longer A Distant Possibility On The Higher Education Horizon. It’s Here. And It Is Reshaping How Institutions Operate, Teach, And Support Learners (In Fact, I’d Say It Is Changing The Way Most Places Operate, Whether They’re Ready For It Or Not). Since […]
Funding: Getty Invests $2.6 Million to Support Black Visual Arts Archives Across the U.S.
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Here’s the full text of today’s announcement from Getty: Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From Getty:The Getty Foundation announced today it has awarded $2.6 million for 12 grants to libraries, museums, and universities across the United States through its Black Visual Arts Archives program. Designed to increase access to archival collections across the country that […]
AI Roundup: “Prompt Engineering is So 2024. Try These Prompt Templates Instead”; “Navigating the Artificial Intelligence Frontier on Cataloguing and Metadata Work in Libraries”; “Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?”; & More
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Autonomous Agents The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Autonomous Research: A Survey of Scientific Agents (preprint via TechRxiv) Deep Research: A Survey of Autonomous Research Agents (preprint; via arXiv) Higher Education Understanding Student Attitudes and Acceptability of GenAI Tools in Higher Ed: Scale Development and Evaluation (preprint via arXiv) Large Language Models (LLMs) Do Large Language Models […]
After 17 Years Project Information Literacy (PIL) is Coming to An End, Archive of All PIL Output Now Available
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Ed. Note: The email letter below was shared with infoDOCKET yesterday and is posted with the permission of its author, Project Information Literacy (PIL) Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Alison Head. We would like to thank Alison and the PIL team for their many contributions during the past 17 years and for leaving us with […]
New Research Report From Ithaka S+R: “The Current State of Academic E-Book Business Models: Access Strategies and Budgeting Realities”
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Report Authors: Tracy Bergstrom, Makala Skinner From Ithaka S+R: This study examines academic monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences across the United States and Europe to understand how current business models are functioning for their consumer base, namely libraries and authors. Through interviews with librarians, content aggregators, publishers, and authors, we gathered information on […]
