https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/en-usCopyright (C) 2026 newslocker.comThu, 04 Jun 2026 22:17:00 +0200 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has launched a new state-wide two-year collaborative planning and pilot study aimed at understanding how North Carolina communities are encountering generative artificial intelligence and how local libraries can support AI literacy in meaningful, locally relevant and sustainable ways.
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The project, “Local Libraries and Generative AI,” emphasizes listening, assessment and co-design as the foundation for equita]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/unc-chapel-hill-launches-statewide-study-on-libraries-and-generative-ai-in-localcommunities/Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:17:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/unc-chapel-hill-launches-statewide-study-on-libraries-and-generative-ai-in-localcommunities/ Wiley today announced it has acquired Emerald Publishing Limited (“Emerald”) from Cambridge Information Group (CIG) in an all-cash transaction valued at £337 million, or USD 452 million. The acquisition expands Wiley’s journal portfolio to approximately 2,500 titles and establishes it as a leader in the social sciences — particularly economics, business, and finance.
In addition to strengthening Wiley’s sca]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/scholarly-publishing-wiley-acquires-emerald-for-452-million-in-all-cash-transaction/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:47:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/scholarly-publishing-wiley-acquires-emerald-for-452-million-in-all-cash-transaction/ Today, ten cultural organizations, including the American Library Association (ALA),  called on Congress to expand federal funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in its fiscal year (FY) 2027 appropriations bills, which are scheduled for markup by a House Appropriations Subcommittee later this week.
Addressed to members of the House and Senate Appropriations Labor-Health and Human Services-Education and Related Agencie]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/ala-arl-cosla-everylibrary-saa-ulc-and-others-call-on-congress-to-fund-imls/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/ala-arl-cosla-everylibrary-saa-ulc-and-others-call-on-congress-to-fund-imls/ The eBook Study Group (ESG) celebrates a historic milestone for public digital access as District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser has officially signed B26-0490, the “Library E-book Pricing Fairness Amendment Act of 2025.” The legislation, which was drafted by the eBook Study Group, marks a decisive legislative victory for public libraries, school systems, and taxpayers over restrictive digital licensing models driven by major publishing houses and private]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/district-of-columbia-e-book-fairness-act-signed-by-mayor-defying-corporate-pressure-and-private-equity-lobbying-statement-from-ebook-study-group/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/district-of-columbia-e-book-fairness-act-signed-by-mayor-defying-corporate-pressure-and-private-equity-lobbying-statement-from-ebook-study-group/ Last Updated: June 2, 2026; 11:25]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/roundup-federal-research-funding-proposed-rule-media-coverage-statements-and-submissions/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/roundup-federal-research-funding-proposed-rule-media-coverage-statements-and-submissions/ Synthetic Sources?: Auditing Generative Search Engine Citations for Evidence of AI-Generated Sources
Authors
Mowafak AllahamNorthwestern University
Nicholas DiakopoulosNorthwestern University
Source
via arXivDOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2605.23684
Abstract
The growing accessibility of Large Language Models via conversational interfaces capable of responding to users’ questions by drawing on, synthesizing, and citing information from the w]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/preprint-synthetic-sources-auditing-generative-search-engine-citations-for-evidence-of-ai-generated-sources/Mon, 25 May 2026 15:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/preprint-synthetic-sources-auditing-generative-search-engine-citations-for-evidence-of-ai-generated-sources/ Title
Students’ Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy: An Exploratory Study
Authors
Mor DeshenRamat Gan Academic College, IsraelBar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Noa AharonyBar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Journal of Librarianship and Information ScienceDOI: 10.1177/09610006261442178
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This research aims to uncover the factors that might be associated with higher]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/new-journal-article-students-artificial-intelligence-ai-literacy-an-exploratory-study/Thu, 21 May 2026 14:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/new-journal-article-students-artificial-intelligence-ai-literacy-an-exploratory-study/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/nlm-colloquia-single-cell-cartography-of-plasticity-with-yogesh-goyal-phd/Wed, 20 May 2026 19:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/nlm-colloquia-single-cell-cartography-of-plasticity-with-yogesh-goyal-phd/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/spotlights-and-events/Wed, 20 May 2026 19:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/spotlights-and-events/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/spotlight-archives/Wed, 20 May 2026 19:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/spotlight-archives/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/openaire-and-alien-intelligence-announce-partnership-to-bring-ai-agents-to-the-openaire-graph/Wed, 20 May 2026 13:40:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/openaire-and-alien-intelligence-announce-partnership-to-bring-ai-agents-to-the-openaire-graph/ Total revenues across all categories for the first quarter of the year were up 0.9% as compared to the first three months of 2025,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/association-of-american-publishers-aap-releases-statshot-report-for-first-quarter-2026-overall-industry-was-up-09-professional-amp-scholarly-publishing-up-57/Mon, 18 May 2026 17:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/association-of-american-publishers-aap-releases-statshot-report-for-first-quarter-2026-overall-industry-was-up-09-professional-amp-scholarly-publishing-up-57/ Based on the work of an expert panel using the STEEP framework, the report highlights how artificial intelligence, enrollment pressures, policy shifts, and sustainability concerns are reshaping instructional practice and institutional strategy.
Report ResourcesFull Text Report46 pages]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/just-released-2026-educause-horizon-report-teaching-and-learning-edition/Mon, 18 May 2026 15:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/just-released-2026-educause-horizon-report-teaching-and-learning-edition/ The report was written by Ellen Carroll, Tracy Bergstrom, and Ioana G. Hulbert,
From the Executive Summary:
Key Findings
Leaders are operating under sustained financial and staffing constraints. Mirroring previous cycles, the majority of respondents cite a lack of financial resources as the primary constraint on their ability to make changes in their libraries. Anticipated cancellations of journal]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/new-from-ithaka-sr-us-library-survey-2025-under-pressure/Thu, 14 May 2026 16:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/new-from-ithaka-sr-us-library-survey-2025-under-pressure/https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/preservation-library-of-congress-adds-25-recordings-to-the-national-recording-registry-selections-include-sounds-by-taylor-swift-beyoncthe-go-gos-vince-gill-ray-charles-chaka-kahn-weezer-and-reba-mcentire/Thu, 14 May 2026 12:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/preservation-library-of-congress-adds-25-recordings-to-the-national-recording-registry-selections-include-sounds-by-taylor-swift-beyoncthe-go-gos-vince-gill-ray-charles-chaka-kahn-weezer-and-reba-mcentire/ Produ]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/new-report-from-everylibrary-institute-library-patron-privacy-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/Tue, 12 May 2026 20:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/new-report-from-everylibrary-institute-library-patron-privacy-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/ The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.
Title
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Information Seeking: A Comparative Exploration of AI Chatbots, Search Engines, And Library Resources As Information Sources Among University Students
Authors
Brady D. LundUniversity of North Texas
Zoe Abbie TeelUniversity of North]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/new-journal-article-artificial-intelligence-ai-and-information-seeking-a-comparative-exploration-of-ai-chatbots-search-engines-and-library-resources-as-information-sources-among-university-students/Tue, 12 May 2026 14:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/new-journal-article-artificial-intelligence-ai-and-information-seeking-a-comparative-exploration-of-ai-chatbots-search-engines-and-library-resources-as-information-sources-among-university-students/ Amidst a decline in physical book rentals and in-person visits to its 33 branches, the Ottawa Public Library is doubling down on a rebrand. One that positions it as a “third space” for clients.
In its 2025 end-of-year report, the Ottawa Public Library (OPL) said the last year was spent laying the groundwork to approve and move forward with its new brand, which was officially unveiled in January this year.
This move is meant to go “beyond visua]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/ontario-breaking-down-the-ottawa-public-librarys-rebrand-and-its-numbers/Mon, 11 May 2026 14:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/ontario-breaking-down-the-ottawa-public-librarys-rebrand-and-its-numbers/ Title
Open Scholarly Information Systems: Status Quo, Challenges, Opportunities
Authors
Hannah Bast, Guillaume Cabanac, Paolo Manghi, Jian Wu, and Marcel R. Ackermann
Source
Dagstuhl SeminarDOI: 10.4230/DagRep.15.9.38
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Over the past 30 years, a rich ecosystem of scholarly information systems has developed that openly provide their services to the scientific community. These systems include aggregators of bibliographic metadata (e.g., DBLP, OpenCitations, OpenAIRE Graph, OpenAl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/report-from-dagstuhl-seminar-25381-open-scholarly-information-systems-status-quo-challenges-opportunities/Mon, 11 May 2026 13:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/report-from-dagstuhl-seminar-25381-open-scholarly-information-systems-status-quo-challenges-opportunities/ Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 million papers published as a letter to The Lancet today.
The analysis of articles indexed in PubMed found that about one in 277 papers published in the first seven weeks of 2026 referenced a paper that didn’t exist. That was a jump from 2025’s rate of one in 458 and 2023’s one in 2,828. The researchers, led by&nbs]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/report-one-in-277-pubmed-indexed-papers-in-2026-shows-fabricated-references-says-analysis/Fri, 08 May 2026 01:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/library_news/report-one-in-277-pubmed-indexed-papers-in-2026-shows-fabricated-references-says-analysis/