Library Link of the Day

January 2025

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  1. Evolution journal editors resign en masse [Ars Technica]
  2. Kathleen Hanna, Tegan and Sara, More Back Internet Archive in $621 Million Copyright Fight [Rolling Stone]
  3. Did Chicago-area libraries give in to 'heckler's veto'? [Chicago Sun-Times]
  4. Efforts to ban books in Oregon libraries on the rise; library patrons and supporters are pushing back [YachatsNews]
  5. Envy, ego, pride and pain: what I learned from publishing my first book [The Guardian]
  6. Anthropic reaches deal with music publishers over lyric dispute [The Verge]
  7. Are men's reading habits truly a national crisis? [Vox]
  8. Disinformation, fake news, scams? In Finland, young people are learning how to spot them [South China Morning Post]
  9. Science paper piracy site Sci-Hub shares lots of retracted papers [Ars Technica]
  10. "I'll Wait Zero Seconds": Faculty Perspectives on Serials Access, Sharing, and Immediacy [College & Research Libraries]
  11. How 400-Year-Old Books Are Professionally Restored [Masters Of Craft]
  12. Meta eliminates fact-checking in latest bow to Trump [Associated Press]
  13. AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it [MIT Technology Review]
  14. There Is No Safe Word [Vulture]
  15. 19 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do at the Library [Philadelphia Magazine]
  16. Palisades Branch Library goes up in flames [FOX 11 Los Angeles]
  17. "Hopefully, we can sit together and discuss what we consider is appropriate": Inside Two Years of Nonstop Hell for Alpena Public Library [Book Riot]
  18. Transforming Academic Search [CALA AP Chapter Webinar]
  19. Digital Audiobooks Lead Growth In Library Circulation For The Second Year [Audio Publishers Association]
  20. When America’s Top Spies Were Academics and Librarians [Culture]
  21. Why Editors At Scientific Journals Are Resigning En Masse [Science Friday]
  22. AI-Generated Research Takes Over Google Scholar: Is Science World Being Flooded With Fake Studies? [Tech Times]
  23. Readings for people working for the government [Everybody's Libraries]
  24. Inside the Library of Congress's Artificial-Aging Lab [Washingtonian]
  25. Splay: its causes and prevention [Patrick's Rare Books]
  26. Trump's anti-DEI order yanks air force videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female pilots [The Guardian]
  27. Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map [The Conversation]
  28. 'The Librarians' EP Sarah Jessica Parker On The Spread Of Book Banning: "It's A Fear Of Children Having Information" - Sundance Studio [Deadline]
  29. Department of Education dismisses book ban complaints, ends guidance [ABC News]
  30. Neil Gaiman's publisher cancels future works [BBC News]
  31. Can You Read This Cursive Handwriting? The National Archives Wants Your Help [The Smithsonian]

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