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NewsLink Spotlight |
| 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 |
| Article Galaxy Integrates With ChatGPT and Copilot in a New Platform Update |
| "Article Galaxy can now be found in the ChatGPT plugin directory and in Microsoft Copilot Marketplace. This accompanies a whole host of platform updates, covering how you order content, read it, organize references, and confirm your permissions." |
| OCLC Spearheads a Project to Update the Competency Index for the Library Field |
| OCLC announced that WebJunction and several partners received an IMLS grant to update the Competency Index for the Library Field. |
| Banned Books Week 2026 Sets Its Honorary Chairs |
| ALA announced that authors Bess Kalb and Tony Weaver Jr. are the honorary chairs for Banned Books Week 2026, which will be held Oct. 4–10. |
| Axiell Adds New Extension Focused on Library Spaces to Its Quria LSP |
| Axiell introduced Quria Rooms & Resources, which "enables libraries to manage bookable rooms, spaces, and equipment in one integrated solution." |
| Clarivate Shares Its List of 2026 Citation Laureates |
| Clarivate rolled out its list of the latest Citation Laureates, "a distinguished group of 22 researchers whose work is of Nobel class." |
| A Law Librarian Examines the Implications of the GPO Modernization Act of 2026 |
| Retired New York principal law librarian David Badertscher writes "The GPO Modernization Act of 2026: What It Could Mean for Libraries and Public Access to Information" for the Criminal Law Library Blog. |
| OverDrive Shares the Results of a White Paper About Multilingual Learners |
| Sora from OverDrive and Instructure published a new white paper, "From Dependency to Independence—Rethinking Reading Supports for Multilingual Learners." |
| The New IEEE Xplore AI Research Suite Provides AI Summaries From Trusted Sources |
| IEEE launched the IEEE Xplore AI Research Suite, which uses the full text of millions of peer-reviewed IEEE publications ... to provide researchers with answers that are "answers grounded in complete, verified science, delivering a significantly high level of accuracy and trust." |
NewsBreaks |
| A Review of Peer Review Week 2026 |
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by Barbie E. Keiser
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| A poll of 2,115 researchers, reviewers, editors, publishers, librarians, and organizations determined this year's theme, Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed, and Quality. Peer Review Week 2026 events addressed the challenges posed by increasing submissions, faster decision-making expectations, and reviewer availability remaining limited. |
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 Four Defining Trends in Agentic AI In this clip from his keynote at Data Summit 2026, Designing the Data-Driven AI Foundations author Sanjeev Mohan discusses four key trends in the evolution of AI that will ensure that some foundational elements will endure while others fall by the wayside.
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