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Weekly News Digest
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November 4, 2025 — 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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The Scholarly Kitchen Explores Academic Librarians' Hopes and Fears About AI
Mark McBride writes the following in “Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI?” for The Scholarly Kitchen:What libraries and publishers hope for is clear. … Generative AI, at its best, could act as a kind of conversational bridge between user and collection, helping a first-year undergraduate craft a bibliography or assisting a medical researcher in scanning unfamiliar literature across disciplines. … Libraries worry most about truthfulness: hallucinations, fabrications, summaries that mislead more than they inform. They fear the opacity of the machine, and what it might mean for students who may lack the critical skill set to parse good information from bad. … Libraries have long served as sanctuaries of trust, institutions where truth is pursued as a public good rather than a commodity. In a fragmented information environment, this credibility remains one of their most valuable assets. Generative AI now complicates that role, offering efficiency and new forms of access while simultaneously introducing risks of misrepresentation, opacity, and diminished user confidence. The challenge is not AI itself, but how it is integrated and governed. For more information, read the blog post.
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