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From the New Jersey Monitor: New Jersey librarians and lawmakers who joined forces to fight book-banners a few years ago have a new target: publishers whose restrictive e-book licensing agreements have shrunk digital access for library users. [Clip] Such practices would become a violation of New Jersey’s consumer fraud law under a bill Sen. Andrew Zwicker (D-Middlesex) […]

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From a COMET Blog Post: The COMET team is pleased to share results from an exciting line of work we have recently completed, focused on unlocking author-affiliation metadata from preprints. Specifically, we have trained a small, open-weight large language model (LLM) that achieves state-of-the-art performance on author-affiliation extraction for arXiv works. With this approach, we […]

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Iowa Iowa Bill Advanced Monday Would Remove Library Exemptions From Obscenity Restrictions (via The Gazette) Exemptions from restrictions on obscene materials would be lifted from Iowa public libraries under legislation advanced by state lawmakers Monday. The bill, Senate File 2119, would repeal a section of Iowa code that provides exemptions from restrictions on obscene materials that […]

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Here’s the table of contents for the latest issue of Library Trends (Volume 74, Number 3, February 2026). The issue is titled, “Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality” and was edited by Ben B. Chiewphasa. From the Introduction: The 74 (3) issue of Library Trends examines the intersection of technological hype and practical reality […]

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From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): 128 countries are now signed up to the marrakesh treaty, which removes unnecessary copyright barriers to the creation of and access to books and other materials in accessible formats for people with print disabilities. but how far have they aligned their national laws with the […]

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Media Roundup Alabama Library Board Members Can Be Removed Without Cause Under Senate-Approved Bill (via AL.com) The Alabama State Senate on Tuesday passed a bill allowing local officials to remove library board members without cause. The bill was approved with 26 ayes, four nays and one abstention after discussion from Democrats who opposed the bill. […]

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Here are several new or revised preprints posted on arXiv that might be of interest. An Analysis of the Effects Of Open Science Indicators on Citations in the French Open Science Monitor Authorship Drift: How Self-Efficacy and Trust Evolve During LLM-Assisted Writing Campus AI vs. Commercial AI: Comparing How Students and Employees Perceive their University’s […]

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From a Silverchair Announcement: Silverchair, the leading independent technology partner for scholarly publishers, announced the launch of the Discovery Bridge, leveraging Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect end-users to scholarly content directly through AI assistants while maintaining institutional access controls and opening new licensing opportunities. [Clip] The Discovery Bridge integrates with existing AI assistants including […]

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From The Ohio Newsroom: “[Archives] are crumbling and disappearing and we are losing our history,” said Katharine Elkins, humanities professor at Kenyon College. Deteriorating archives are endangering historical documents across the country. A group of students and faculty at Kenyon College, in rural north central Ohio, believes artificial intelligence could be the key to rescuing […]

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