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| Guiding Students Toward Better Reading Engagement: An Interview With Dr. Molly Ness |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| When a contact at OverDrive reached out to me to suggest a story on literacy, I realized the timing was perfect for info pros who are going back to school to work with students of all ages. |
Weekly News Digests |
| Kudos Project on AI Discovery Enters Its Second Phase |
| Kudos' Taming the Crocodile initiative for "ensuring scholarly and scientific content remains discoverable and used as AI increasingly mediates information discovery" has entered Phase II. |
| Cassyni Seminars Are Now an Attention Source in Altmetric |
| Altmetric and Cassyni joined forces to add published scholarly content that is mentioned in Cassyni research talks as an attention source in Altmetric. |
| TLC Updates Library-Solution With More Flexibility and Accessibility |
| The Library Corp. (TLC) released the latest update to Library-Solution: version 5.10. It offers enhancements for clearer, more flexible, and more accessible library workflows, and it builds on improvements introduced in previous releases. |
| Clarivate Publishes the 'Pulse of the Library 2026' Report on Responses to Tech Changes |
| Clarivate rolled out the "Pulse of the Library 2026" report, which is now in its third year. |
| Census Bureau Unveils Data From the Latest Annual Integrated Economic Survey |
| The U.S. Census Bureau has just published historical time series data as part of the "2024 Annual Integrated Economic Survey." |
| LPP Plans a Free Virtual Conference on Marginalized Groups' Lived Experiences |
| Lived Places Publishing (LPP) is hosting the Lived Experiences Conference, a free virtual event to be held Oct. 22–23, 2026, which features faculty members, scholars, activists, and researchers exploring "how human identities—race, gender, ability, culture, and more—shape the way people live, work and connect." |
| U.S. Copyright Office Hosts a Free, Virtual 50-Year Retrospective on the Copyright Act |
| The U.S. Copyright Office is hosting a 90-minute virtual event, The Copyright Act Turns 50: An Inside View From the Copyright Office, on Sept. 23, 2026. |
| Publishing Gateway Leverages ReviewerOne for Peer Review Services |
| ReviewerOne became part of Publishing Gateway's "partner network as a service provider for peer review. ... ReviewerOne supplies reviewer capacity and manages the reviewer relationship across its full lifecycle." |
| BiblioCommons Partners With Level Access to Overhaul Its Accessibility Approaches |
| BiblioCommons entered into a 3-year partnership with Level Access, a provider of digital accessibility solutions and services. |
| PEN America Releases Report on the Threats Facing Public Libraries |
| "Public libraries nationwide are reaching a breaking point as a result of mounting pressures to censor collections, increased intimidation against library staff, and disruptions to library operations, according to a new report." |
NewsBreaks |
| A Satirical Take on Product Names |
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by Phil Shapiro
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| In a move described by officials as "long overdue," public libraries across the country are gearing up to impose sweeping new fines on companies accused of using ordinary words, names, sounds, fruits, weather conditions, and basic human concepts without first checking them out at the circulation desk. |
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 Seven Business Use Cases for Agentic AI Agentic AI represents a transformative leap forward in organizational operations even beyond the automation that AI and machine learning have enabled in recent years. But what are some specific business goals data professionals can achieve working in tandem with AI agents? Airo Digital Labs SVP of sales and AI enablement Michael Vasicek identifies seven business use cases for agentic AI implemented at Airo Digital, drilling down into two that improve operational efficiency and increase customer satisfaction in this clip from his presentation at Data Summit 2026. |
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