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OpenAthens Plans Access Lab Americas 2026
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"OpenAthens invites speaker proposals for Access Lab Americas 2026, a bilingual event for attendees across North, Central, and South America, with sessions in English and Spanish."
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Libby Joins Forces With Perlego for Increased Access to Academic Content
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OverDrive's Libby partnered with Perlego to connect "students at academic institutions to Perlego's extensive collection of academic and professional books through Libby Extras."
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EBSCOhost Adds Two New AI-Assisted Research Features
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EBSCO Information Services introduced two AI-assisted research features into EBSCOhost. AI Conversational Search and Ask This Document (AI Ask) "are designed to help users research more efficiently and gain deeper insights from EBSCO content."
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ProQuest Explores How Students Think About AI
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"For the past two years, much of the conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education has centered on how students are using it. Are they using these tools to learn more effectively, or to bypass the work of learning?"
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Lucidea Shares How AI Is Changing Knowledge Work
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Clare Bilobrk writes "Seven Assumptions AI Is Challenging in Libraries and Knowledge Management" for Lucidea's Think Clearly blog.
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TechCrunch Shares How Libraries Are Helping People Think Critically About AI
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Amanda Silberling writes "Librarians Are Hosting Viral 'Avoiding AI' Workshops for People Who Are Fed Up With Big Tech" for TechCrunch.
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The Scholarly Kitchen Looks at the Types of OA Business Models
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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, founder and principal of Librarian in the Loop, LLC, writes "Categorizing Open Access Business Models" for The Scholarly Kitchen.
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Ithaka S+R Explores Challenging Questions About AI in Higher Education
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Managing director Martin Kurzweil writes "How AI Is Reshaping the Value of Higher Education: A New Issue Brief," a blog post for Ithaka S+R.
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ARL Explores the Loss of Physical Media Ownership in Libraries
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Sally Sax, head of collection strategy and partnerships for MacOdrum Library at Carleton University, writes "Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation." for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) blog.
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Book Riot Exposes the Resources Used by Book Banners
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Kelly Jensen writes "The Tools Book Banners Are Using to Target Books in 2026" for Book Riot.
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Popular Children's TV Brands Join the Hoopla Digital SeasonPass Program
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Hoopla Digital partnered with Moonbug "to expand access to family friendly entertainment through five new SeasonPasses featuring globally recognized children's brands including CoComelon, Blippi and other popular Moonbug franchises."
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Annual Reviews Bolsters Conference Planning With Its Purchase of Underline Science
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Annual Reviews acquired Underline Science to expand its event capabilities and its ability to support scholarly societies and conference organizers around the world.
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GPO Makes 1.2 Million New U.S. History Records Publicly Available
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The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is offering "more than 1.2 million newly available records of historic U.S. Government publications, making it easier than ever to find documents published between 1895 and 1976."
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JSTOR Creates New Initiative to Give Libraries and Archives Digitization Funding
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JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services received support from the Mellon Foundation that will allow it to launch "a new initiative to help libraries and archives create a more public future for their distinctive collections by supporting a fuller pathway from digitization to long-term impact."
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EBSCO Information Services Backs Bodleian Libraries Digital Humanities Fellowship
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EBSCO Information Services is supporting the EBSCO Fellowship in Digital Humanities, North America, which is offered through the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford.
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