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| Sessions Galore at ALA Annual 2025 |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| The 2025 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition was held June 26–30 in Philadelphia. Here's a look at some of the sessions that made an impression during my time in the City of Brotherly Love. |
Weekly News Digests |
| AI Lawsuit Updates |
| "AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified." |
| New Executive Order Aims to Reshape Federal Grant Processes |
| "An executive order signed by President Donald Trump [on Aug. 7] aims to give political appointees power over the billions of dollars in grants awarded by federal agencies. Scientists say it threatens to undermine the process that has helped make the U.S. the world leader in research and development." |
| NISO Releases Findings From a Survey on AI's Impact on Content Discovery |
| The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) published "Generative Artificial Intelligence and the NISO Open Discovery Initiative," which is "a report on the 2024 AI in web-scale library discovery services survey undertaken by the NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) Standing Committee." |
| Zendy Introduces an App for On-the-Go Research |
| The Zendy digital library has launched the Zendy app for iOS and Android devices. "With the power of ZAIA, your AI research assistant, within Zendy App, you can now carry 40+ million scholarly articles wherever you go." |
| The Big Ten Open Books Project Unveils Indigenous North Americans Collection |
| The Big Ten Academic Alliance expanded its Big Ten Open Books project with a second 100-book collection, this one centered on Indigenous North Americans. |
NewsBreaks |
| Bibliotheca Webinar Shares Actionable Ways to Fight Book Bans |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Bibliotheca's solution consultant Lisa Stamm moderated a free webinar, Protecting Access: Concrete Ways to Prepare for and Respond to Book Challenges, on Aug. 6, 2025, that featured speakers from PEN America and EveryLibrary. "Get the facts and the tools to protect access in your library and support your community's right to read," the summary states. The webinar did indeed provide these facts and tools for fighting book bans by focusing on the experiences of school libraries and public libraries, explaining why tracking book bans is important, sharing what library workers can do, offering resources for where they can find help, and showing why book-removal policies are essential. |
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