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NEW Journal Article: “Evaluating Open Access Advantages for #Citations and #Altmetrics (2011-21): A Dynamic and Evolving Relationship Open Access” infodocket.com/2026/03/20/jou… #scholcomm #libraries #publishing

#Librarians Seek Continued #Funding From Congress to Support Local #Libraries spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triad/polit… (via @NY1) #publiclibraries

Alabama #Libraries Must Move All Books With These Characters Out of Children’s Section (via @aldotcom) al.com/politics/2026/…

St. Louis Public Library CEO Waller McGuire to Step Down After 37 Years of Service slpl.org/news/st-louis-… #libraries #librarians

Maryland: Charles M. “Skip” Auld Announces Retirement as CEO of Anne Arundel County Public Library aacpl.net/node/232128 #libraries #librarians

NEW Journal Article: How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Information Literacy in Academic #Libraries: A Global Scientometric Analysis (2020–2025) infodocket.com/2026/03/19/new… #AI #GenAI #infolit #informationliteracy

DataCite Launches New Dashboards to Visualize and Monitor #Metadata Quality datacite.org/blog/visualize… #scholcomm #libraries

Report: San Francisco's Jail Library Service Program Serving as a National Model (via @KPIXtv) cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/n… #libraries

Urban Libraries Council Announces $1M Grant for Civic Labs for Youth from Carnegie Corporation of New York urbanlibraries.org/newsroom/urban… #libraries #fundings @UrbanLibCouncil @CarnegieCorp

NEW! @newsjunkienet Introduces the Guide to Public #Archives, 2nd Edition infodocket.com/2026/03/17/new… #libraries #researchers

#Publishing: "The eLife Model: Three-Year Update" elifesciences.org/inside-elife/7… #scholcomm #publishers @eLife

#Publishing Springer Nature Releases FY 2025 Results ir.springernature.com/news/very-stro… #scholcomm #publishers @SpringerNature #AI

Washington: Timberland Regional Library Lays Off Roughly a Quarter Of Its Staff (via @NisquallyNews) yelmonline.com/stories/timber…

In Rural Central Texas, #Libraries are Stepping Up to Offer Mental Health Support (via @KUTNews) kut.org/health/2026-03… #publiclibraries #mentalhealth

New Book Restrictions Cost Alabama #Libraries Hundreds of Hours, Thousands of Dollars (via #ALReflector) alabamareflector.com/2026/03/16/new…

A New Issue (Vol. 21 No.1) of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (#EBLIP) is Now Available Online infodocket.com/2026/03/16/a-n… #libraries @eblip

Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster Sue OpenAI Over #AI Training Complaint storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… ||| Media Report (via @Reuters) reuters.com/legal/litigati… #LLMs #GenAI

New Journal Article: "From Card Catalogs to Semantic Search Building a Human-Centered Discovery Platform Powered by #AI Technologies" (via ITAL) ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital… #libraries #librarycollections #GenAI

A New Issue (Vol. 45 No. 1; 2026) of Information #Technology and #Libraries (#ITAL) is Now Available Online infodocket.com/2026/03/16/a-n… @core_ala