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Funding Unclear For Indiana’s Dolly Parton Library, But Signups Still Open Statewide (via Indianapolis Star)MassachusettsPortuguese Library in New Bedford Lives to See Another Day (via Boston Globe)MichiganMichigan Library Association Launches Petition to ‘Protect the Freedom to Read’ (via WLNS)
New BrunswickNo Conversations About Impact Before School Library Positions Eliminated (via CBC)TexasNorth Texas School Boards Begin Forming Councils To Recommend Which Boo
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Library news
Special Issue of Journal of the Copyright Society: Libraries and Collections, and the Annual Review of Selected Copyright Cases (Volume 72, Issue 3; 2025)
Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Releases “Open Resilience: Building Infrastructure Together (ORBIT)” Landscape Scan
Preprint: “Comparing Five Generative AI Chatbots’ Answers to LLM-Generated Clinical Questions with Medical Information Scientists’ Evidence Summaries”
Just Released: 2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Building Skills and Literacy for Teaching with GenAI
Media Roundup & Statements: “Judge Approves $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement Between AI Company Anthropic and Authors”
U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Names University of North Texas With Best Federal Depository Website
HathiTrust Launches Resource Sharing Project Launches Pilot with Nine Member Libraries
News From UNC University Libraries: “With New Grant, “On The Books” Uses AI To Make Historical Records More Accessible”
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Adds More Than 500 New Words, Phrases, and Senses, Including Hidden Gem, Tumbleweed, Origin Story, and Al Desko (September 2025 Update)
Liblicense-l to Join the Charleston Hub
Survey Results From Delta Think: “What 13,000 Researchers Revealed About the Fallout From US Funding Cuts
Journal Article: “Generative Artificial Intelligence and University Libraries in Latin America”
Report: “SF-Based Internet Archive is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?”
Report: “UK’s RELX Says Generative AI Tools Will Keep Driving Growth”