Library Link of the Day
June 2024
- Reasons to Love Libraries: 23 Notable Authors and Public Figures Share Their Joy [School Library Journal]
- A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm [CNN]
- The New Empress of Self-Help Is a TikTok Star [The Atlantic]
- Seeking Sanctuary [American Libraries]
- The US librarian who sued book ban harassers: ‘I decided to fight back’ [The Guardian]
- Ohio attorney general vows to stop sale of rare books at Hebrew Union College [The Cincinnati Enquirer]
- After publishing an article critical of Israel, Columbia Law Review's website is shut down by board [ABC News]
- Texas library must reinstate books with 'butts and farts,' court says [Houston Chronicle]
- Digital Dilemma: Can Restrictive Licensing of Ebooks Destroy the Spirit of Libraries? [MediaDecision]
- Ohio GOP proposes bill that would defund libraries over materials government deems 'harmful' [News 5 Cleveland]
- What’s a book ban anyway? Depends on who you ask [All Things Considered]
- A Reviewer’s Life [The Yale Review]
- Towards Conversational Discovery: New Discovery Applications for Scholarly Information in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence [The Scholarly Kitchen]
- Banishing Captain Underpants: An investigation of the 3,400 books pulled in Iowa. [USA Today]
- AI Copyright Issues ‘on Shifting Sands’ but Legal Protections Are Coming, Experts Tell PGA Produced By Conference [TheWrap]
- Should we give school librarians more control over book selection, while limiting the say of school committees and parents? [CommonWealth Beacon]
- Police investigating bomb threat at Woodstock Library [NEWS10 ABC]
- What Can You Read in Prison? [Esquire]
- Empowering knowledge through AI: open scholarship proactively supporting well trained generative AI [UKSG Insights]
- The Schools That Are No Longer Teaching Kids to Read Books [The Atlantic]
- Has the DEI Backlash Come for Publishing? [The Atlantic]
- The Librarians Sequel Show Gets Premiere Date From The CW [Screen Rant]
- Federal judge to decide if St. Tammany library board members will continue to serve their terms [4WWL]
- How to Fix “AI’s Original Sin” [O'Reilly]
- No computers. Keep books. Seattle library network outage nears a month [The Seattle Times]
- ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books [The Guardian]
- MTV News website becomes the latest casualty of our Digital Dark Age [The A.V. Club]
- The RIAA versus AI, explained [The Verge]
- LGBTQ+ librarians grapple with attacks on books - and on themselves [Associated Press News]
- The Encyclopedia Project, or How to Know in the Age of AI [Public Books]
These links are not updated for accuracy; older links may be dead.
