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#Massachusetts Lawmakers Send Governor Healey Bill “That Establishes #Guidelines For How #Schools and Public #Libraries Make Decisions About the Availability and Appropriateness of #Books” infodocket.com/2026/08/01/mas… #publiclibraries #schoollibraries #legislation

Patricia Hswe and Michael Vandenburg Named At-Large CNI Steering Committee Members (via @cni_org) news.cni.org/archive/hswe-a… #scholcomm #infotech #libraries

Arkansas: Federal Judge Rules That Library Book 'Obscenity' Law Can Be Enforced, Reversing Previous Decision infodocket.com/2026/07/30/ark… #libraries #books #legal

Coalition for Resilient Research #Data Infrastructure (#CRRDI) Announces Strategic Plan (via @OSFramework) Post cos.io/blog/announcin… Draft zenodo.org/records/214974… #openscience #researchdata #datainfrastructure #scholcomm

arXiv Appoints Inaugural CEO and Establishes Board of Directors infodocket.com/2026/07/30/arx… #scholcomm #libraries #preprints #repositories @arxiv

Now Available: Video Recording/Slides From the Ontario Council of University #Libraries 2026 Collaborative Futures Mini Conference (via #OCUL) ocul.on.ca/2026-mini-conf…

New Journal Article: "Tracking the Retracted Paper Mill Articles: a Bibliometric Study" infodocket.com/2026/07/28/jou… #scholcomm #publishing #journals #papermills #retractions

#Librarians are Hosting Viral 'Avoiding #AI' Workshops For People Who are Fed Up With Big Tech infodocket.com/2026/07/25/tec… #GenAI #libraries #publiclibraries

New Journal Article: "Personal Data #Privacy Literacy and Library Privacy Awareness and Concern Among Academic Library Employees" infodocket.com/2026/07/24/new… #dataprivacy #privacyliteracy #libraries

New Journal Article: "Phantom #Citations: An Empirical Study of Non-Existent and Unverifiable #References in Scholarly Literature" (New Journal Article via #JASIST) asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/as… #journals #scholcomm #verification #libraries #ASIST

NEW Journal Article: “Understanding Generative AI-Mediated User Engagement with Academic Library Resources” (preprint) infodocket.com/2026/07/23/jou… #libraries #AI #GenAI #LLMs

Boston Library Consortium (BLC) & Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation (PALCI) Launch Joint Report: Consortial Collaboration Framework for Resource Sharing Release blc.org/blog/blc-palci… Rpt drive.google.com/file/d/1LBQ33w… #libraries @BLC_Inc @palcilibraries

Edmonton Public Library Appoints Sharon Day as Chief Executive Officer (via @EPLdotCA) epl.ca/news/new-ceo-a… #libraries #librarians #publiclibraries @UrbanLibCouncil

Statement From @EveryLibrary on Senate Book Ban Bill (S.4925) everylibrary.org/statement_on_t… Background: National Book Ban Bill Introduced in Senate Committee (via @PublishersWkly) publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in… #books #bookbans #libraries

Report: AI Companies are Buying Tons of Old #Books Because They're Free of #AI Slop (via @404mediaco) 404media.co/ai-companies-a…

New Journal Article: Automated #Indexing in #MEDLINE and the Medical Text Indexer (MTI), 2000–2025: a Scoping Review (via #JMLA) jmla.pitt.edu/ojs/jmla/artic… #MeSH #PubMed #medical #automation #libraries

Report: "Anthropic to Pay $1.5 Billion #Copyright Settlement to #Authors, #Publishers" (via @CourthouseNews) courthousenews.com/anthropic-to-p… #lawsuits #legal

Canada: Alberta Government Gives Public #Libraries Jan. 1 Deadline to Comply with New Restrictions (via @CBCNews) cbc.ca/news/canada/ca… #publiclibraries

Why #PID Strategies Need More Than #PIDs: Our First Position Paper (New From #Crossref) Position Paper crossref.org/publications/p… Blog Post/Highlights crossref.org/blog/why-pid-s… #metadata #libraries #researchinfrastructure #scholcomm