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New Data From OverDrive: Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2025 with Over 820 Million Checkouts and Over 1 Billion Minutes Streamed – OverDrive
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,
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Journal Article: Generative AI in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Review of Emerging Trends, Power Dynamics, and Global Research Landscapes
The article linked below was recently published by Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence. Title Generative AI in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Review of Emerging Trends, Power Dynamics, and Global Research Landscapes Authors Kun Dai The Chinese University of Hong Kong Yabing Liu The Education University of Hong Kong Xiaofan Zhang The Chinese University of Hong
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Library Materials: State Library of Oregon Releases Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse (OIFC) 2025 Report
From the State Library of Oregon: The 2025 OIFC Annual Report lists 50 official challenge incidents in public libraries, special libraries, and schools. The number of challenges is tied with 2001 as the fifth highest reported since the State Library began keeping track. The incidents included challenges to 66 unique titles and 68 items, the fourth highest
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Latest PEN America Report Finds “Disturbing Normalization” of Book Bans in Public Schools; Nearly 23,000 Cases of Book Bans Across 45 States and 451 School Districts Since 2021
From PEN America: In a new report documenting public school book bans over the 2024-2025 school year, PEN America cites alarming censorship pressures on school districts including: new federal efforts to restrict education that amplify rhetoric from state and local efforts to ban books; persistent attacks conflating LGBTQ+ identities as “sexually explicit;” and state-mandated bans
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“With New Grant, “On The Books” Uses AI To Make Historical Records More Accessible” – UNC University Libraries
From UNC University Libraries: The University Libraries’ On the Books initiative is expanding its scope and exploring how artificial intelligence can make it easier to find and use materials from the archives. A $765,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation will support three case studies using AI to improve access to materials related to groups historically underrepresented in
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Journal Article: The Librarian Skillset and the Needs of Artificial Intelligence
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.
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Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Members Vote in Favor of Merger – InfoDocket
Here’s the Full Text of the Announcement (via SLA; 8/21): The Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) today announced that their members have cleared the way for the organizations to merge. SLA members voted overwhelmingly to accept the dissolution plan proposed by their Board of Directors. Separately, ASIS&T
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Research Tool: American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) State Immunization Information System | LJ infoDOCKET
“From the Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP): The AAFP has developed a web-based map that displays immunization rates and exemption laws in all 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. In addition, our searchable IIS Registry database provides state-by-state regulations for immunization registries across the U.S. These tools provide immunization data that…
