Library Link of the Day

September 2025

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  1. Ohio library showcases late man's massive reading list with thousands of books [CBS Evening News]
  2. Generative AI is Turning Publishing Into a Swamp of Slop [Paste Magazine]
  3. Papers continue to face retractions for failure to license pricy tool [Retraction Watch]
  4. How an Academic Archive Became a Tech Juggernaut [The Chronicle of Philanthropy]
  5. Books by Bots [American Libraries]
  6. Antarctic Press, Korero Press & Class Comics, Hit By New U.S. Tariffs [Bleeding Cool News]
  7. Introduction and summary: Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward [Lorcan Dempsey]
  8. Documenting humanity [WashU Magazine]
  9. The Shocking Cancellation of a Special Issue [Inside Higher Ed]
  10. Judge: Anthropic's $1.5B settlement is being shoved "down the throat of authors" [Ars Technica]
  11. Trump vs. Higher Education [Last Week Tonight with John Oliver]
  12. When the Scoreboard Becomes the Game, It's Time to Recalibrate Research Metrics [The Scholarly Kitchen]
  13. AI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose [The Conversation]
  14. DC cancels comic book series after writer posts about Charlie Kirk's death on social media [CNN]
  15. How thousands of 'overworked, underpaid' humans train Google's AI to seem smart [The Guardian]
  16. What is AI slop? A technologist explains this new and largely unwelcome form of online content [The Conversation]
  17. Books about slavery could be removed from NPS museums, gift shops [Morning Edition]
  18. 'They said I should be purged and killed': The librarians who stood up for free speech [The Telegraph]
  19. Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel [Vox]
  20. Taliban ban books written by women from Afghan universities [BBC News]
  21. Can AI chatbots trigger psychosis? What the science says [Nature]
  22. Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books [404 Media]
  23. How Academic Publishing Exploits Public Science [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
  24. The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search [Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship]
  25. ChatGPT isn't great for the planet. Here's how to use AI responsibly. [MSN]
  26. E-Book Contracts Are a Big Cost for Public Libraries. One Harvard Librarian Is Fighting to Change That. [The Harvard Crimson]
  27. FCC plans end to school bus internet and library hotspot lending [USA Today]
  28. Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? [Freakonomics Radio]
  29. Chatbot Assessment: Best Practices for Artificial Intelligence in the Library [portal: Libraries and the Academy]
  30. Why this Portland library is a flashpoint in the debate over downtown safety, and what can be done [The Oregonian]

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