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Weekly News Digest
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January 6, 2026 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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PLA Convenes Transformative Technology Task Force
ALA announced the following:The Public Library Association (PLA) has established the Transformative Technology Task Force to advise the association on the evolving role and impacts of transformative technology on library work and to identify and recommend priority training topics relevant to public library staff and users. The PLA Board of Directors voted in June to sunset the previous Technology Advisory Group and shift focus to artificial intelligence in public libraries for the first two years of the new task force. … Join the conversation with task force members in a PLA Town Hall on January 27 at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time when we consider the questions: How might libraries and library workers lead in relation to artificial intelligence in our communities? How might PLA be a resource and a partner with public libraries in this effort? For more information, read the press release.
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