Library Link of the Day

August 2025

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  1. Johns Hopkins Press Plans to License Books to Train AI [Inside Higher Ed]
  2. Trump's impeachments have been removed from a Smithsonian exhibit, for now [NPR]
  3. Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down [Axios]
  4. Trump has fired the head of the Library of Congress, but the 225-year-old institution remains a 'library for all' - so far [The Conversation]
  5. My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet [BBC]
  6. How Science Is Gamed [The Scholarly Kitchen]
  7. Govt. Website 'Glitch' Removes Trump's Least Favorite Part of Constitution [Rolling Stone]
  8. Broward schools remove books from libraries, citing state order [South Florida Sun Sentinel]
  9. After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide-and suffers psychosis [Ars Technica]
  10. Trump executive order gives politicians control over all federal grants, alarming researchers [Associated Press]
  11. AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified [Ars Technica]
  12. AI-Enabled Cheating Points to 'Untenable' Peer Review System [Inside Higher Ed]
  13. Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI [Morning Edition]
  14. White House reviewing Smithsonian exhibits to make sure they align with Trump's vision [NBC News]
  15. Man arrested for allegedly stealing rare Chinese manuscripts from UCLA libraries [Daily Bruin]
  16. Freedom to Read Advocates Cheer Decision in 'PRH v. Gibson' [Publishers Weekly]
  17. Journal Impact Nonsense [In the Pipeline]
  18. A look at how fan fiction is changing publishing and reading [Weekend Edition Saturday]
  19. Have men really stopped reading? We take a deeper dive into the data [The Guardian]
  20. Education Minister cut Māori words from future junior books, documents show [1News]
  21. Christian Nationalists in this town don't want people to read certain library books - so they're stealing them [Americans United]
  22. Using an AI chatbot for therapy or health advice? Experts want you to know these 4 things [PBS News]
  23. Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work [Nature]
  24. White House lists 20 objectionable Smithsonian exhibits, artworks [The Hill]
  25. 'State-driven censorship': new wave of book bans hits Florida school districts [The Guardian]
  26. What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks [Nature]
  27. The little library battle [CTV News]
  28. RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted - the journal said no [Nature]
  29. Reading for Pleasure Has Declined by a 'Deeply Concerning' 40 Percent Over the Past Two Decades [Smithsonian Magazine]
  30. Research suggests doctors might quickly become dependent on AI [NPR]
  31. New AI tool identifies 1,000 'questionable' scientific journals [CU Boulder Today]

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