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- Traveling Into the Future on Neural Engines [Jason Griffey]
- Whitefish Bay's library removed a sign addressing systemic racism after community complaints, including from a former Milwaukee Buck [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
- Libraries Across The United States Are Ending Fines For Overdue Books [Forbes]
- From Alone to Together Again: Using Data to Deliver Value [Public Libraries Online]
- Drag Queen Storytime Continue to Stir Up Controversy as Well as Excitement Among Library Patrons [Intellectual Freedom Blog]
- We won’t get to a more equitable knowledge ecosystem if we don’t have more equitable ways to assess research and knowledge [Impact of Social Sciences]
- After a Temple librarian died, coworkers said the sick-leave policy ‘ran her into the ground’ [Philadelphia Inquirer]
- Sell This Book! [The Nation]
- The Ethics of Data: Anonymity Vs Analytics [NISO]
- New York Public Library’s Picture Collection Will Be Archived [The New York Times]
- Apple’s Descent From Privacy Hero To Privacy Villain [Eurasia Review]
- The rise of BookTok: meet the teen influencers pushing books up the charts [The Guardian]
- An Inflection Point for Libraries [Publishers Weekly]
- FTC disputes Facebook reasoning for shutting down NYU disinformation project [ZDNet]
- Can technology help authors write a book? [BBC News]
- Getting Police Out of Libraries Is the Aim of the Abolitionist Library Association [Teen Vogue]
- Exploring Bias and Library of Congress Subject Headings [Unbound]
- A Drug Addiction Risk Algorithm and Its Grim Toll on Chronic Pain Sufferers [Wired]
- As Taliban violence forces schools in Afghanistan to close, mobile libraries give hope to girls [South China Morning Post]
- Attorney asks Retraction Watch to remove post because client has lost out on opportunities [Retraction Watch]
- The Mysterious Figure Stealing Books Before Their Release [Vulture]
- Goodreads' Problem With Extortion Scams and Review Bombing [Time]
- 9 unique library jobs that have nothing to do with books [Shareable]
- 'These people were in bad, bad shape.' A look inside of a Florida library converted to a Covid-19 treatment site [CNN]
- Minecraft library provides gamers with "a safe haven for press freedom" [Dezeen]
- Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics [Reuters]
- When the Public Feared That Library Books Could Spread Deadly Diseases [Smithsonian Magazine]
- 'It's sad to see.' School libraries are increasingly eliminated [New Jersey Herald]
- How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence [Associated Press]
- How 4 college students tried to steal rare books worth millions from a school library — and what got them caught [CNBC]
- How blockchain could have saved the Library of Alexandria [Cointelegraph]
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