- Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Celebrating 200 Million Books With Once-In-A-Lifetime Giveaway [Southern Living]
- Elizabeth Gilbert was review bombed on Goodreads. Amazon could do something to help. [Slate]
- A Censorship Language Primer [Book Riot]
- This was your chance to see a loud librarian — annual ALA conference in Chicago over the weekend took on book banning [Chicago Tribune]
- Generative AI, scholarly and cultural language models, and the return of content [Lorcan Dempsey]
- A Georgia teacher’s plight exposes the essence of anti-woke MAGA fury [The Washington Post]
- Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say. [The Scholarly Kitchen]
- Speaking To the Issues | ALA Annual 2023 [Library Journal]
- Campaign to restock Pride displays at San Diego libraries, patrons say they won't return books [CBS News 8]
- “I Have a Problem With the Stealing of My Material”: A Common Rallying Cry Emerges On AI [The Hollywood Reporter]
- Dad tosses chicken feed before SC school board for being 'too afraid' to take action on explicit library books [FOX News]
- Sotomayor’s staff pushed library, colleges to buy her books: report [The Hill]
- Montana State Library withdraws from national association [Montana Free Press]
- "Shadow libraries" are at the heart of the mounting copyright lawsuits against OpenAI [Quartz]
- North Carolina Republicans Want to Help Parents Prosecute Librarians [Rolling Stone]
- Academic Movers Q&A: Emma Molls, Championing Open Access Publishing in the Library [Library Journal]
- Lawsuit Challenges Montana's Sweeping New Ban on Drag Performances [Publishers Weekly]
- Obama Condemns ‘Profoundly Misguided’ Book Bans in Letter to Nation’s Librarians [National Review]
- Opinion: ChatGPT is this generation’s Wikipedia. We have an opportunity to learn from the past. [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
- ‘There’s an industry-wide mental health crisis’: authors and publishers on why the books sector needs to change [The Guardian]
- Though Cleared of Misconduct, Stanford President Resigns [Inside Higher Ed]
- The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy [Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy]
- Episode 85: The Colorful World of Comics [Call Number]
- Gov. Evers signs sweeping reading literacy bill into law [Wisconsin Public Radio]
- Temecula Valley school board adopts textbooks that include Harvey Milk after warnings from Newsom [KABC]
- Public libraries are the latest front in culture war battle over books [The Washington Post]
- The Generative AI Battle Has a Fundamental Flaw [Wired]
- City leaders criticize Houston ISD superintendent Mike Miles over plans for school libraries [Houston Public Media]
- Secondary publishing rights can improve public access to academic research [The Conversation]
- The possible impact of AI on search and discovery? [Aaron Tay]
- How book-banning campaigns have changed the lives and education of librarians [LLRX]
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