<< January 2017 | March 2017 >>
- Lawyers are being replaced by machines that read [Quartz]
- Senate panel OKs bill to block pornography on library Wi-Fi [Desert News]
- ALA Opposes New Administration Policies That Contradict Core Values [American Libraries]
- Library cuts reflected in 30% drop in adult visitors over a decade [The Guardian]
- Is technology smart enough to fix the fake news frenzy? [The Guardian]
- No ink required: paper can be printed with light [Phys.org]
- As E-book Sales Decline, Digital Fatigue Grows [Publishers Weekly]
- FBI axes FOIA requests by email, so dust off your fax machine [TechCrunch]
- The Miseducation of Dylann Roof [Southern Poverty Law Center]
- Dallas Library Embraces Role As Haven For The Homeless [All Things Considered]
- Why is vinyl making a comeback? ‘Nostalgia’ doesn’t quite cut it [Los Angeles Times]
- DeVos Confirmed as Education Secretary; Librarians React [School Library Journal]
- New Dead Sea Scrolls cave discovered [BBC News]
- We Tried — And Failed — To Identify The Most Banned Book In America [FiveThirtyEight]
- Why these librarians are protesting Trump’s executive orders [PBS NewsHour]
- Toronto Public Library shedding light on Seasonal Affective Disorder [CBC News]
- Ukrainian librarian under Russian house arrest takes case to court of human rights [The Guardian]
- Publishers Still Fighting to Bury Universities, Libraries in Fees for Making Fair Use of Academic Excerpts [EFF]
- Books are back because Amazon likes them [Financial Times]
- Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs [Atlas Obscura]
- Long Overdue [Slate]
- Simon & Schuster cancels Milo Yiannopoulos' book [Al Jazeera]
- An Elegy for the Library [The New York Times]
- A battle rages for the future of the Web [Ars Technica]
- Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic books are being sold on Amazon [The Independent]
- Is Big Data Getting Too Big? [It's Okay To Be Smart]
- Libraries are a safe haven for homeless people – but locals seek to exclude them [The Guardian]
- Making ALA Great Again [Publishers Weekly]
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