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- Chronicle Books is the quirky publisher that made a big bet on retail [Marketplace]
- 6th-Century Writing Discovered Inside Medieval Bookbinding [Mental Floss]
- The Academic Library and the Promise of NGDLE [EDUCAUSE Review]
- Why You Should Read That Whole Text Book Right Now [Wired]
- UW professor: The information war is real, and we’re losing it [The Seattle Times]
- Libraries and the Art of Everything Maintenance [American Libraries]
- In the ‘Fake News’ Era, Americans Increasingly Value Libraries [CityLab]
- The ‘internet of things’ is sending us back to the Middle Ages [The Conversation]
- Study Looks At How People Think About Free Speech [Morning Edition]
- After a Member’s Ouster from Newbery Medal Committee, a Closer Look at Social Media Rules [School Library Journal]
- The British Library is racing to save archived sounds from decay [Wired]
- A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening to Topple Taxonomy [Smithsonian]
- 'Monkey Selfie' Lawsuit Ends With Settlement Between PETA, Photographer [NPR]
- How the CD-ROM Killed the Physical Encyclopedia [Motherboard]
- Kansas City Libraries Defend Free Speech in Face of Arrests, Resignations [Library Journal]
- German universities plan for life without Elsevier [THE News]
- Information literacy lost: Most CPS schools no longer have librarians [Chicago Tribune]
- Politicians Write Lots Of Books. Here’s How Far Into Them People Read. [FiveThirtyEight]
- Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity: Members of the Association of Research Libraries Employee Demographics and Director Perspectives [Ithaka S+R]
- Meet the Font Detectives Who Ferret Out Fakery [Wired]
- In The Age Of Screen Time, Is Paper Dead? [NPR]
- Keepers of the Secrets [The Village Voice]
- The Fight Over DRM Standards for Streaming Video Is Over and Big Business Won [Gizmodo]
- My Journey to the Heart of the FOIA Request [Longreads]
- Authorship for sale: Some journals willing to add authors to papers they didn’t write [Retraction Watch]
- British News Channel Touts Amazon Bomb Materials Moral Panic That Ends Up Being About Hobbyists And School Labs [Techdirt]
- Press freedom art exhibit partially restored at library [The Sun Chronicle]
- ‘Colonialism’ Article Flap Highlights Push for Transparency in Publishing [Inside Higher Ed]
- Seeking and avoiding information in a risky world [Information Research]
- ‘Racist propaganda’: Librarian rejects Melania Trump’s gift of Dr. Seuss books [The Washington Post]
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