Welcome to the March edition of the Libfocus link-out, an assemblage of library-related things we have found informative, educational, thought-provoking and insightful on the Web over the past while.
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Why every scientist needs a librarian.
Amber Dance makes the case in the Career Feature of Nature that librarians can be key research partners who help to scour the literature, manage data and make science open.
Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud.
Elizabeth Gibney finds in Nature that all major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science.
Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library.
Neely Tucker's article for the Library of Congress blogs describes how a long-lost film by the iconic French filmmaker George Méliès was uncovered in 2025. Library technicians in the Library of Congress digitised the 45-second film which has not been seen by anyone in more than a century.
Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text.
In this Science article, Joshua Sokol describes a significant discovery made by historian Ivan Malara in January 2026. While reading a 16th Century printing of The Algamest by Ptolemy in Italy’s National Central Library he recognised the handwritten annotations in the book as Galileo's. Malara’s discovery promises new insights into one of the most famous ideological transitions in the history of science: the moment when Earth was thrust from the centre of our universe.
AI Fatigue and Vocational Awe in Academic Libraries.
Greyson Pasiak examines the expanded workloads and academic burnout in the age of Generative AI, viewed through a vocational awe perspective.
New Report From IFLA: “Weak Signals: Emergent and Potential Trends Shaping the Future of Libraries”.
The latest IFLA report focusing on emergent and potential trends shaping the future of libraries,
The art of the steal: U of A exhibit showcases famous forgeries that duped scholars and the public.
A University of Alberta exhibition looks at fake identities, counterfeit content and deceptive dupes that have been with us for centuries.
Harvard Library Tests AI Tools to Help Researchers Navigate Collections.
Shalini N. Ramchune writes for The Crimson, on Harvard’s integration of AI tools into its systems and searches.
The Impact of Transformative Agreements on Reading and Publishing Behavior.
Leila Belle Sterman, Hannah McKelvey and Rachelle McLaind analysed collection development decisions by assessing the outcomes of a six-year period of contracts between a big-five publisher and an academic library that culminated in a transformative agreement.
To Build Trust in the Open Knowledge Era, Think Accountability, Not Disclosure.
Maryam Sayab argues that as scholarly communication has evolved into a global, digitally accelerated ecosystem, a deeper tension has emerged, particularly within the open knowledge landscape. What if transparency alone is no longer sufficient to sustain trust? And what if, in certain contexts, full operational openness may even weaken the systems it is meant to protect?
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