Library Link of the Day

July 2024

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  1. Libraries brace for new law restricting ‘harmful’ library materials [East Idaho News]
  2. ALA 2024: Librarians Rally for the Right to Read [Publishers Weekly]
  3. The paper mill crisis is a five-alarm fire for science: what can librarians do about it? [UKSG Insights]
  4. The End of Libraries as We Know Them? with Brewster Kahle and Kyle Courtney [Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast]
  5. Backlash as Routledge withdraws book chapter on sexual misconduct in academia [EduCeleb]
  6. The Misplaced Incentives in Academic Publishing [Undark Magazine]
  7. Security may be increased at Memphis Public Libraries after attempted rape [FOX13]
  8. The curse of influencer publishing [The New Statesman]
  9. Resurgent ALA Annual Conference Draws More than 13,000 to San Diego [Publishers Weekly]
  10. How a 3D printer became the most powerful weapon in “Warhammer” [Sherwood News]
  11. New Public Library Technology Survey report details digital equity roles [ALA]
  12. New Alabama Bill to Criminalize Librarians Filed for 2025 Legislative Session [School Library Journal]
  13. Let’s Wonder Together: Book Inspiration to Get Outside with Kids [Public Libraries Online]
  14. New Idaho Law Criminalizes Librarians Who Allow LGBTQ Books to Stay on Their Shelves [Truthout]
  15. River Forest Public Library facing threats, hires private security [ABC Chicago]
  16. RIP Redbox: DVD Kiosk-Rental Business Is Shutting Down With Parent’s Bankruptcy Liquidation [Variety]
  17. How Does the World’s Largest Library Decide What Becomes History? [Scientific American]
  18. Why revelations of dark truths about Alice Munro, Neil Gaiman should enrage us [The Federal News]
  19. Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that [The Guardian]
  20. The Case for Probabilistic Metadata [The Scholarly Kitchen]
  21. The State Library of Victoria controversy shows what can happen when institutions cling to ‘neutrality’ [The Conversation]
  22. It May Soon Be Legal to Jailbreak AI to Expose How it Works [404 Media]
  23. Why you should buy physical copies of your favorite books [Popular Science]
  24. Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas [NBC News]
  25. Is AI the Bitter End—or the Lucrative Future—of Book Publishing? [Esquire]
  26. How They Defend the Freedom to Learn [Human Rights Watch]
  27. Which city will house Joe Biden’s presidential library? [The Philadelphia Inquirer]
  28. Giving Up the Good Fight?: Librarians and Information Literacy [Choice 360]
  29. ‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken? [The Guardian]
  30. An academic publisher has struck an AI data deal with Microsoft – without their authors’ knowledge [The Conversation]
  31. Why your local indie bookstore might not have Hillbilly Elegy in stock this week (or ever). [Literary Hub]

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