Library Link of the Day
July 2021
- Cancel culture at work in eruptions over Pride Month, abortion in three Arkansas counties [Arkansas Times]
- The Internet Is Rotting [The Atlantic]
- Assessing the Impact of Sanitizing Products on Collection Items [Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection]
- Memory Laws [The Experiment]
- US officer plays Taylor Swift song to try to block video [BBC News]
- So, Gutenberg Didn’t Actually Invent Printing As We Know It [Literary Hub]
- Gamers Are Better Than Scientists at Catching Fraud [The Atlantic]
- Bloomington PD in spotlight over tweet about 'thefts' from Little Free Libraries [Bring Me The News]
- YouTube’s recommender AI still a horror show, finds major crowdsourced study [TechCrunch]
- Juul: Taking Academic Corruption to a New Level [The American Prospect]
- A Deeper Look: Censorship beyond Books [American Libraries]
- Apple founder Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement [BBC News]
- The pandemic showed remote proctoring to be worse than useless [Cory Doctorow]
- 7 sent back to Canada after using library lawn to enter U.S. from Quebec [CTV News]
- Right-Wingers Are Taking Over Library Boards to Remove Books on Racism [Truthout]
- Library of Congress Looks to AI to Help Users Sift Through Its Collection [The Wall Street Journal]
- Right to Repair explained in under 60 seconds [Louis Rossmann]
- How Fear of Government Surveillance Influences Our Behavior [Literary Hub]
- Two metadata directions [Lorcan Dempsey]
- The True Cost of Acquisitions [Acid Free Magazine]
- Master’s Degrees Are the Second Biggest Scam in Higher Education [Slate]
- How TikTok's Algorithm Figures Out Your Deepest Desires [Wall Street Journal]
- Dismantling the Evaluation Framework [In the Library with the Lead Pipe]
- Demolishing Public Libraries From The Inside: Niles Public Library Is a Warning [Book Riot]
- Future of 600,000 books being culled by National Library saved by digital library [1 News]
- What Cops Understand About Copyright Filters: They Prevent Legal Speech [EFF]
- Hong Kong police arrest authors of a children’s book in latest free speech crackdown [PBS NewsHour]
- Transformative agreements: Six myths, busted [College & Research Libraries News]
- The Chatbot Problem [Th New Yorker]
- Controlled digital lending – is it ‘piracy’? [Newsroom]
- Melissa’s Story and Sharpie Activism [Alex Gino]
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