Welcome to LJAN Resources, our monthly academic content roundup. We’ll be curating standout InfoDocket posts and nonfiction LJ book reviews once every month for quick access to news and reviews you can use.
From Words and Money: Finally, some good news for the library community. On May 13, federal judge John G. McConnell in Rhode Island issued a sweeping preliminary injunction blocking Trump administration officials from acting on the president’s March 14 executive order to dismantle the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Furthermore, the court ordered the administration to immediately takes steps to restore the agency’s employees and grant funding activities.
From EDUCAUSE: Higher education is in a period of massive transformation and uncertainty. Not only are current events impacting how institutions operate, but technological advancement—particularly in AI and virtual reality—are reshaping how students engage with content, how cognition is understood, and how learning itself is documented and valued. Our newly released 2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition captures the spirit of this transformation and how you can respond with confidence through the lens of emerging trends, key technologies and practices, and scenario-based foresight.
Did you know that over 60%* of libraries are actively planning to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their services? A vital aspect of this change is understanding how AI can enhance library services. Advanced applications such as personalized recommendations for users or predictive models for space planning are already delivering impressive outcomes.
From the EUIPO Release: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) relies on the exploitation of existing content to generate new material, and introduces a new paradigm, where not all content is created by human anymore. This essence of GenAI raises urgent questions about the lawful use of copyright-protected content as input to train GenAI systems, and about the ways we can distinguish between content that is protected by copyright and content that is not.
From an AAC&U Blog Post: The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and Elon University have released the second publication in the Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence series. Like the widely adopted first publication, this resource is provided to students and institutions free of charge and is available for download on the guide’s website or via the AAC&U website.
From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): Building on our global climate survey, which collected input from nearly 600 library associations and individual institutions, this new publication offers a look at the scope of library involvement in climate education and communication.
From Project Muse: Project MUSE, a division of Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, announces today a new landmark in the Museum’s longstanding Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 (ECG) series: ECG volumes I-IV are now fully searchable, open access digital publications freely available to everyone around the world.
Academic libraries are essential in supporting student success by expanding access to course materials, a goal often challenged by issues of cost, availability, and gaps in digital integration. Leganto, along with its AI-powered Syllabus Assistant, offers a scalable, efficient solution that transforms syllabus into a dynamic, accessible resource list, fostering deeper faculty collaboration and measurable institutional impact.
Like physics itself, this book blurs the boundaries between the factual and fantastical by describing how scientists established the 10 ideas at its heart, explaining the concepts’ meaning and implications, and suggesting how these universal laws extend across time and space in ways (and worlds) humanity has yet to discover.
A thoroughly researched chronicle of Leonard and his literary career. Likely to be popular where Brian Jay Jones’s and Walter Isaacson’s biographies circulate well.
This belongs in both public and academic libraries and will open a new discussion of Twain’s cultural standing, as Chernow’s previous biographies have also accomplished.
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