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#Libraries: Searching for Library Design Inspiration Across the Pond (via @nyulibraries.bsky.social) www.nyu.edu/about/news-p... #librarydesign
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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California Digital Library (CDL) Shares Details About the Upgraded Version of the Online Archive of #California (#OAC) (via @caldiglib.bsky.social) cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2025... #libraries #archives #history
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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NYU #Libraries Completes Multi-Year Project to Digitize "Daily Worker" and "Daily World" Negatives Collection (via @nyulibraries.bsky.social) guides.nyu.edu/blog/NYU-Lib... #digitization #photographs #digitalcollections #newspapers
November 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Still deciding if you want to join us for the 2026 ARL President’s Institute #PI26 in Chicago? Join M.J. D'Elia, founder of Thirdway Think & PI26 co-facilitator, for a FREE 30-minute Flash Session & get a sneak preview of PI26. Tue Dec 2 3:00pm EST youtu.be/HfypWFaAKxM
#innovation #libraries
PI26: Inventive Thinking Flash Session Preview
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November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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New from Authors Alliance: An Interview w/Kate McCready (BTAA) and Charles Watkinson (UM) re Big Ten Open Books Program
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#ScholComm #Libraries #OpenBooks #OpenAccess #OA

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Big Ten Open Books: An Interview with Kate McCready (BTAA) and Charles Watkinson (UM)
Authors Alliance has had a longstanding interest in helping authors see their older books reinvigorated with new life by making them available online for free on an open access basis. One of the mo…
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November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Our latest #ARLImpactReport highlights work done at @ualberta.bsky.social to collaboratively honor #IndigenousDataSovereignty

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#DecolonizingResearch #EthicalResearch @calloftheloon.bsky.social @runningmancan.bsky.social @daskey.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
Honouring Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Ceremony and Practice: A Collaborative Pathway at the University of Alberta — Association of Research Libraries
Over the past few years, a number of Canadian postsecondary institutions have begun initiating Indigenous data sovereignty initiatives. However, very few have moved beyond the development of a webpage...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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New Report from @cca-reports.ca :
The State of #Science, #Technology, and #Innovation in #Canada 2025
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The State of Science, Technology, and Innovation in Canada 2025
Over the last 20 years, the CCA has carried out a series of assessments evaluating...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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AI + Google Scholar: Say Hello to Google Scholar Labs!
www.infodocket.com/2025/11/18/a... #scholcomm #libraries #LLMs #GoogleScholar
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Research Paper (preprint): "GRIN Transfer: A Production-Ready Tool For #Libraries to Retrieve Digital Copies From Google #Books" (via arXiv) arxiv.org/abs/2511.11447 #GoogleBooks
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GRIN Transfer: A production-ready tool for libraries to retrieve digital copies from Google Books
Publicly launched in 2004, the Google Books project has scanned tens of millions of items in partnership with libraries around the world. As part of this project, Google created the Google Return Inte...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Visual art has been a rich playing field for fair use, and this #fairusefriday we celebrate that impact. Artists who want to flex their rights should check out the CAA Code of Best Practices: www.collegeart.org/pdf/fair-use...
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Still deciding if you want to join us for the 2026 ARL President’s Institute #PI26 in Chicago? Join M.J. D'Elia, founder of Thirdway Think & PI26 co-facilitator, for a FREE 30-minute Flash Session & get a sneak preview of PI26. Tue Dec 2 at 3:00pm EST bit.ly/PI26flash
#innovation #libraries
ARL PI26—Join a FREE Flash Session! 30-min Inventive Thinking Experience — Association of Research Libraries
Inventive Thinking—Everyday Innovation for Everyone Still deciding if you want to join us for the 2026 ARL President’s Institute (PI26) in Chicago? Join M.J. D’Elia, founder of Thirdway Think and PI26...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Goes Live on TIND #ILS for Print #Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR) blog.tind.io/press/center...
Center for Research Libraries goes live on TIND ILS for Print Archives Preservation Registry
The Center for Research Libraries goes live with the Print Archives Preservation Registry, PAPR, on TIND ILS.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Big Ten Open Books #Publishers #TeamUP to Unlock Vital Subject Collections

https://press.umich.edu/Blog/2025/11/Big-Ten-Open-Books-Publishers-TeamUP-to-Unlock-Vital-Subject-Collections

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Big Ten Open Books Publishers #TeamUP to Unlock Vital Subject Collections
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November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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University of Pittsburgh Library System: Pitt’s #Archives and #SpecialCollections Preserve Pittsburgh’s History
https://pittnews.com/article/199098/news/pitts-archives-and-special-collections-preserve-pittsburghs-history/
#libraries #preservation
Pitt’s Archives and Special Collections preserve Pittsburgh’s history
Hillman Library’s Archives and Special Collections give students and researchers access to millions of rare materials.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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New @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social blog post on what the US withdrawal from @unesco.org could mean for #OpenScience
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Congratulations @lindsonmars.bsky.social !

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Lindsay Cronk, Dean of Tulane Libraries, Appointed to the Louisiana State Library Board of Commissioners | TU Libraries
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November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Thank you @recreatecoalition.bsky.social !
recreatecoalition.bsky.social Re:Create Coalition @recreatecoalition.bsky.social · 18d
#FairUseFriday 👏Re:Create member @arl.org just released an addendum to its Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: the law has improved to enable library services for people with disabilities. Learn more about fair use and fair information access for all! www.arl.org/news/updated...
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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New proposal/paper & demo notebook from @coar-repositories.bsky.social (#COAR): Can Semantic #Multilingual Search Improve the #Accessibility of #Research Outputs Across Languages?

COAR wants your feedback by Dec. 19!

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Can Semantic Multilingual Search Improve the Accessibility of Research Outputs Across Languages? A COAR Proposal
Today, COAR is published a paper presenting a very promising new approach for multilingual discovery, called multilingual semantic search. We want your opinion! Scholarly knowledge is created and s…
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November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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New from @mcgill.ca Libraries: McGill’s “In Flanders Fields” manuscripts honored by the Canadian Commission for @unesco.org

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McGill’s In Flanders Fields manuscripts honoured by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO - McGill Reporter
One of Osler Library’s four copies is in author John McCrae’s own hand and includes a textual variant; two others predate the poem’s publication
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November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Happy World Digital Preservation Day 2025 #WDPD2025 ! Follow @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy for many more blogs and vlogs celebrating the day.

#libraries #archives #preservation
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It's HERE... World Digital Preservation Day 2025!! We are excited to kick off #wdpd2025 with our traditional opening blog from #dpc Executive Director William Kilbride, writing from the #ipres2025 conference in Aotearoa New Zealand - one of the first places in […]

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November 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Report from a LIBER Europe Workshop—Unlocking Libraries’ Potential: Monitoring Open Science Through Initiatives, Methods, and Tools: https://libereurope.eu/article/unlocking-libraries-potential-monitoring-open-science-through-initiatives-methods-and-tools/
#Libraries #OpenScience #Assessment #APCs
Unlocking Libraries’ Potential: Monitoring Open Science through Initiatives, Methods, and Tools - LIBER Europe
LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) is the voice of Europe’s research library community.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Our friends at the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) are accepting applications for a part-time visiting program officer position focused on #AI and its implications for #ResearchLibraries. Apply by November 28.

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#Opportunities
Call for Expressions of Interest – CARL Visiting Program Officer for AI and Library Strategies - Canadian Association of Research Libraries
November 4, 2025 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is the national voice of Canada’s twenty-nine largest university libraries and three federal institutions. A bilingual not-for-...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Congrats to the @datarescueproject.org!
#DataRescue
datarescueproject.org Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 21d
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has generously awarded us funding to secure our own storage. This critical processing space will be instrumental in ensuring that large datasets can be temporarily stored, curated, and described.

Thank you, MacArthur Foundation, for your support!
Data Rescue Projects receives support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support data rescue efforts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Since launching in February 2025, the Data Rescue Project has grown substantially. At this point, the DRP has enabled the rescue of more than 1,000 datasets from US Federal…
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November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Calling all #MLIS students & recent grads interested in innovating in #libraries! This Friday, Nov 7, is the deadline to apply for the Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship of US$1,000 + registration to attend the ARL President’s Institute (#PI26) in Chicago on “Unlocking #Innovation”: https://bit.ly/JCB25
Apply for Blixrud Scholarship to Attend ARL President’s Institute—Deadline Friday, November 7 — Association of Research Libraries
The Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship supports the attendance of one MLIS student or recent graduate at the annual President’s Institute. The next award recipient will receive a scholarship of US$1,000...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Here's the latest installment of my newsletter for @arl.org, which aims to provide library leaders with intelligence and insight on the research environment. You can also subscribe if you'd like future issues to show up in your inbox.

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Fall 2025 — Association of Research Libraries
Subscribe to the email version of the ARL Monitor. ARL Monitor: Public Edition (Fall 2025) In the Government Affairs section of this issue, research funding on either side of the 49th parallel gets...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM