Library Link of the Day

September 2024

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  1. Moms for Liberty goes to war with New York school over five library books [The Independent]
  2. This Election Will Determine the Fate of Libraries [Time]
  3. Embracing Conversational AI Agents: The Agentic Future of Libraries [Computers in Libraries]
  4. Censorship Throughout the Centuries [American Libraries]
  5. The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case [Wired]
  6. ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine [404 Media]
  7. Public libraries in 'crisis' as councils cut services [BBC News]
  8. New College of Florida’s Dean of the Library terminated following book disposal [ABC7 WWSB]
  9. Publishing nightmare: a researcher’s quest to keep his own work from being plagiarized [Nature]
  10. Google faces a new antitrust trial after ruling declaring search engine a monopoly [Associated Press]
  11. Why Scholars Should Stop Studying ‘Misinformation’ [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
  12. Russian publishers in exile release books the Kremlin would ban [NPR]
  13. Censorship Through Centuries: Rebecca L. Davis on the Long Fight for Queer Liberation [Literary Hub]
  14. Community Time and Enoughness: The heart of slow librarianship [Information Wants To Be Free]
  15. Florida county restoring dozens of books to school libraries after ‘book ban’ lawsuit [Politico]
  16. Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries [MIT Technology Review]
  17. What Happens When a School Closes Its Library? [EdSurge]
  18. Publishers try skinnier books to save money and emissions [BBC News]
  19. Why I’m So Desperate for the Return of Microsoft Word to Our Prison Library [Slate]
  20. Archives and Special Collections exhibition tests AI as curator [Nebraska Today]
  21. Salem librarians report patrons trashing, hiding LGBTQ+ books in past year [Salem Reporter]
  22. Milwaukee mom shocked to learn child sex offenders can have Free Little Libraries at their homes [WTMJ-TV]
  23. In Case Humans Go Extinct, This Memory Crystal Will Store Our Genome for Billions of Years [Smithsonian Magazine]
  24. The Prestige Factor Propping Up Academic Publishers [Inside Higher Ed]
  25. Film on American Jews’ time in Israel canceled after Northbrook Library receives 8,000 emails [Chicago Tribune]
  26. Banned Books Week starts with mixed messages as reports show challenges both up and down [Associated Press]
  27. How A Copyright Case Is Shining A Spotlight On SCOTUS Ethics Issues [HuffPost]
  28. “Anne Frank” Copyright Dispute Triggers VPN and Geoblocking Questions at EU’s Highest Court [TorrentFreak]
  29. How to Effectively Message Against Book Bans [Library Journal]
  30. Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it [Ars Technica]

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