<< September 2019 | November 2019 >>
- Chicago to become largest U.S. public library system to go fine-free for overdue materials that get returned [Chicago Tribune]
- The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong? [The New York Times]
- Student Needs Are Academic Needs [Ithaka S+R]
- Down With Dewey [Slate]
- After Uproar About Accessibility, Hunters Point Library Will Relocate Fiction Section [Gothamist]
- Ancient scrolls charred by Vesuvius could be read once again [The Guardian]
- How Much Coffee Do Librarians Drink? [Library Journal]
- The Authoritarian’s Worst Fear? A Book [The New York Times]
- "Me Before You" Author Jojo Moyes Has Been Accused Of Publishing A Novel With "Alarming Similarities" To Another Author's Book [Buzfeed News]
- Why Libraries Are Eliminating Late Fees for Overdue Books [CityLab]
- Laundromat Libraries Aim To Boost Literacy In Milwaukee [WUWM]
- A professor spoke about whiteness at Georgia Southern University. Students burned her book. [USA Today]
- Facebook Shouldn't Give Politicians More Power Than Ordinary Users [EFF]
- Shorewood Public Library, other branches get rid of toxic receipt paper [WTMJ]
- Exploring Students’ Decision-Making Processes in Information Literacy [School Library Journal]
- Why Helsinki's Library Robots Aren't Important [Tom Scott]
- The battle for the future of e-books is happening at your local library [Fast Company]
- Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor [The Guardian]
- Climate Change Could Erase Human History. These Archivists Are Trying to Save It [Vice]
- The Little-Known ‘Slow Fire’ That’s Destroying All Our Books [Literary Hub]
- Changing Libraries — But Not Too Much [The Crimson]
- Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand? [Quanta Magazine]
- Major Public Library System Will Boycott Macmillan E-books [Publishers Weekly]
- When doing more than your job calls for gets you fired [The Buffalo News]
- 50 Fictional Librarians, Ranked [Literary Hub]
- Bag of snakes brings new library policy in Madison County [The Citizen-Times]
- Feminist author to have book pulped over her claims UK executed dozens of gay men [The Telegraph]
- The Complicated Role of the Modern Public Library [Humanities]
- Where Research Meets Profits [Inside Higher Ed]
- Newsmaker: Megan Rosenbloom [American Libraries]
- The fight to keep the internet free and open for everyone [Inside Higher Ed]
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