Leadership and Career Development Program 2026 Fellows Selected

The ARL Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP) Task Force has chosen 16 fellows for the 2026 LCDP cohort. The LCDP is a 13-month fellowship designed to remove barriers and cultivate leaders grounded in integrity and inclusivity by developing skills to navigate change, build supportive relationships, share power, engage communities, communicate with impact, and engage in critical inquiry, self-awareness, and leadership visioning. Meet the fellows. » 

Join ARL and CARL for a Charleston Preconference Workshop: The Right to Research in the Age of AI

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) are hosting a workshop before the 2026 Charleston Library Conference on Tuesday, November 3, to define conditions for advanced computational research, identify red-flag license terms, and develop shared negotiation strategies, including approaches for engaging faculty and administrators. Learn more & register! » 

Elaine Kong and Violeta Duncan Receive Paul Evan Peters Scholarships

Doctoral student Elaine Kong and master’s student Violeta Duncan are the 2026 recipients of the Paul Evan Peters Scholarship for graduate study in information science or closely related fields. The scholarship honors the memory of Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) founding executive director Paul Evan Peters. Learn more about Elaine & Violeta. » 

“A Whole Weird Time”: A Qualitative Investigation of COVID-19’s Impact in Enduring Change and Interpersonal Relationships in Academic Library Reference »

(University of Minnesota Libraries via The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
 ARL member library authors 

ARL Leadership Fellows Explore Research Library Leadership at UH Mānoa »

(University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library) 

Breaking New Ground: UB Librarians Join College in Prison Program »

(UB Libraries, UB: University at Buffalo) 

Clarivate Enhances SkyRiver to Help Libraries Share, Reuse, and Create Trusted Metadata »

(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press via Clarivate) 

CRL Advances Collaborative Investment in Open Scholarly Infrastructure »

(CRL: Center for Research Libraries) 

“Lost in Transcription?”: A Case Study of Using AI and Humans-in-the-Loop to Create Captions and Transcripts for a Library Symposium »

(University of Waterloo Libraries via IFLA World Library and Information Congress Papers and Presentations)
 ARL member library authors 

University Libraries Dean Faye A. Chadwell Honored by Her Alma Mater »

(Penn State University Libraries) 

“Cutting Through the AI Noise: Practical Pathways for Academic Libraries”—Webinar Takeaways and Video »

(ARL: Association of Research Libraries and CNI: Coalition for Networked Information via Springer Nature)
See also: Communicating the Social Implications of AI: A Framing Toolkit (FrameWorks)

Leading Place-Based Community Engagement Initiatives in Higher Education »

(Campus Compact)
See also: “What Was College Made for?” Exploring College Students’ Civic Engagement Outcomes by College Major (Innovative Higher Education)

National Call to Action Briefing: Wednesday, August 19, on Zoom »

(US Department of Education)
ARL’s Scholarship and Policy Team will be tuning in

US Economy Stands to Lose $3.4 Billion from Precipitous Drop in International Students »

(NAFSA: Association of International Educators)
See also: Undocumented Students in US Higher Education (American Immigration Council)

Video: Is AI Burning the Library of Alexandria? »

(Taylor Lorenz YouTube channel)
See also: Booksellers Suspect AI Firms Are Buying and Then Destroying Rare Books (Ars Technica)

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