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NewsLink Spotlight |
| The Latest Pew Research Center Reports From 2025 |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| ITI NewsBreaks often covers recent surveys and reports from Pew Research Center, "a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world." This Spotlight features some of the latest reports and other analyses from 2025. |
Weekly News Digests |
| JSTOR Announces That Its First 100 Path to Open Books Are Now OA |
| JSTOR's Path to Open reached a milestone: The first 100 books published via the initiative are now openly available globally. |
| HeinOnline Begins Offering Scholarly Impact Rankings |
| HeinOnline launched Scholarly Impact Rankings, "a dynamic new feature spotlighting the most influential voices, journals, and institutions in legal scholarship" across two categories. |
| Law Library of Congress and GPO Reach U.S. Congressional Serial Set Milestone |
| The Law Library of Congress and the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) made the 10,000th volume of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set available via GovInfo. |
| NEH Announces New Grants for Humanities Projects |
| The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is providing $75.1 million in funding for 84 humanities projects in the U.S. |
| IFLA Previews 2026 Activities in President's Message |
| IFLA president Leslie Weir issued a message to kick off 2026, stating in part: "Even in the first days of the year, global events have shown that we cannot expect 2026 to be any less unpredictable or calm than what has come before." |
| Cengage School Rolls Out the Explore Digital Learning Platform |
| Cengage School introduced Explore, "a new digital learning platform designed to simplify teaching and learning while improving student engagement and outcomes." |
NewsBreaks |
| The Heated Rivalry Phenomenon at the Library |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| World events are scary and depressing, so come on in and join the librarians who are at the Heated Rivalry cottage! When I requested interviews for this NewsBreak from a variety of public libraries in the U.S. and Canada, I received the quickest, most enthusiastic response I have ever gotten. One librarian told me that people in her department are "frenzied" over the new show. But what are librarians experiencing from patrons in terms of the popularity of the books the show is based on? |
| What Heated Rivalry Means to Librarians |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| I received such beautifully worded answers to my questions about the importance of libraries providing access to content such as the Game Changers book series and why librarians connect so much to it and to the Heated Rivalry TV show that I wanted to share some of them in their own article. |
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