- Pride Month Children's Library Event Canceled After Proud Boys Disruption [Newsweek]
- Pandemic Boost for Digital Course Materials [Inside Higher Ed]
- Elsevier's Acquisition of Interfolio: Risks and Responses [SPARC]
- Library Futures Releases Policy Statement and Draft eBook Legislative Language: Mitigating the Library eBook Conundrum Through Legislative Action in the States [Library Futures]
- The OCLC v Clarivate Dilemma [Coyle's InFormation]
- The Norwegian library with unreadable books [BBC Future]
- Wisconsin school board panel wants to gloss over mass jailing of Japanese Americans [MSNBC]
- Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’ [The Guardian]
- Print Redux? [Hanging Together]
- Libraries Are Becoming a Battleground for LGBTQ+ People [Motherboard]
- Urban Library Trauma Study Final Report [Urban Librarians Unite]
- With another leader leaving, Vinton Public Library closes for now [The Gazette]
- More than 200 Stuffed Animals Sleepover at the Goleta Valley Library [Santa Barbara Independent]
- Group demands books in Coventry Pride display be burned [Journal Inquirer]
- A copyright lawsuit threatens to kill free access to Internet Archive’s library of books [Popular Science]
- Montana rejects library logo over similarity to pride flag [Associated Press]
- The “Great Publishing Resignation” Exposes the Failings of the Industry [Book Riot]
- What’s Happening With The Vinton Public Library [Iowa Starting Line]
- Lofi Girl disappeared from YouTube and reignited debate over bogus copyright claims [NPR]
- Preservationists say Library of Congress makeover plan is ‘vandalism’ [The Washington Post]
- Libraries are not just for books – they can help in heatwaves too [Big Issue]
- Oklahoma Threatens Librarians: ‘Don’t Use the Word Abortion’ [Motherboard]
- The Crypto Revolution Wants to Reimagine Books [Esquire]
- With Rising Book Bans, Librarians Have Come Under Attack [The New York Times]
- Removing Barriers to Entry [Inside Higher Ed]
- Potential fabrication in research images threatens key theory of Alzheimer’s disease [Science]
- Community gathered in large numbers to support librarian facing termination [KLFY]
- Welcome to the library of the 21st century [CBS News]
- The Professors Who Refuse to Do the “Free Work” Their Older Colleagues Did for Years [Slate]
- Amazon's Book Piracy Problem [Matt Harrison's Blog]
- Meeting MARC: the 50-year-old data format for library records [Ruth Tillman]
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