Eric Stroshane writes: “ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom is receiving reports of bots conducting automated spam searches of library catalogs. This behavior is nefarious and a security concern requiring immediate action. Bot activity during normal business hours can also negatively impact catalog performance for legitimate users. Imperva’s 2025 Bad Bot Report indicates that bot traffic is ‘infiltrating industries, bypassing security measures, and disrupting digital ecosystems,’ and that AI is rendering bot activity more pervasive and damaging, a trend that has only gotten worse in 2026.”