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“Dr. Carla Hayden Continuing to Advance Public Knowledge as New Senior Fellow at Mellon Foundation” (Interview on WYPR’s Midday Program)
| Awards, Interviews, Jobs, Management and Leadership, News, Profiles
The interview (listen online and/or download) with Dr. Hayden aired today (September 29, 2025) on WYPR’s Midday program. From the WYPR Website: Tom’s first guest today is Dr. Carla Hayden. She was named the 14th Librarian of Congress in 2016 by then-President Barack Obama. Prior to her nomination, she led Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library for 23 years. […]
Liblicense-l to Join the Charleston Hub
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Scholarly Communications
From a Charleston Hub Release: Charleston Hub is pleased to announce that, effective today, Liblicense-l, a long-running, distinguished mail group and archive in the library and scholarly communications space, will be joining its family of resources. For nearly 30 years, Liblicense-l has connected libraries, publishers, academics, and many other members of the information community with announcements and discussion about […]
Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit (New, Free Resource From ARL and CNI)
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
From an ARL Release: Research suggests nearly half of all tasks in the information services sector could be transformed by AI. This isn’t a distant future scenario—it’s happening now. What can we do to shape the impact of AI on libraries and library workers? The free Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit will help you and your colleagues plan, […]
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Releases Salary Survey 2024 Reports Data
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Reports
From ARL: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2024, which analyzes salary data for professional staff working in 123 of the 125 ARL member libraries during 2024. Data are reported for 11,256 professional staff from 118 university ARL libraries in Canada and the United States and for 2,040 professional […]
From the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): Asking a chatbot for help on any number of issues has become part of daily life for many. But today’s query-based AI tools built on large language models (LLMs) are limited to responding to questions users ask. These tools can pull queried info from a database, but […]
University of California Curation Center (UC3): Exploring How AI Can Help Research Data Management
| Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Management and Leadership, News
From a UC3 Post: At UC3, several of our latest initiatives involve integrating AI tools, with a particular focus on improving metadata and assisting researchers with creating best practice DMPs. [Clip] One key application of AI we are exploring is enhancing the quality and scale of our metadata curation activities, including those for the Research […]
Coalition For Networked Information (CNI) Posts Edition Guide For Summer 2025 Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series
| Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users
From CNI: We invite you to explore the summer 2025 edition of CNI’s Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series. This collection comprises contributions covering a range of topics, including open infrastructure, digital literacy, identity management, and more. Several sessions report on community-driven efforts to examine how emerging technologies and external pressures are shaping the research and higher education ecosystem. […]
Journal Article: The Librarian Skillset and the Needs of Artificial Intelligence
| Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Elsevier, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users
The article (full text) linked below was recently published by Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Title The Librarian Skillset and the Needs of Artificial Intelligence Authors Corey A. Harper Elsevier Discovery Lab Paul Groth University of Amsterdam Source Cataloging & Classification Quarterly DOI: 10.1080/01639374.2025.2539787 Abstract New roles in AI are emerging throughout Industry, Academia, and Government. […]
Funding: Getty Invests $2.6 Million to Support Black Visual Arts Archives Across the U.S.
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation, Profiles, Public Libraries, Video Recordings
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 […]
