Library Link of the Day
February 2025
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- CDC site scrubs HIV content following Trump DEI policies [NBC News]
- How an AI-written book shows why the tech 'terrifies' creatives [BBC News]
- Mystery around top-ranked Rockefeller book grows as university publisher denies involvement [CNBC]
- Montgomery County commissioners fire library director [Houston Chronicle]
- Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office [The Verge]
- A Luminous, Brave, and Unputdownable Article about Blurbs [Counter Craft]
- Romantasy and BookTok driving a huge rise in science fiction and fantasy sales [The Guardian]
- Their Copyrights Expired. The Legal Threats Keep Coming. [Copyright Lately]
- First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years [BBC News]
- Facing 'unsustainable' costs, St. Louis County Library issues limits on Hoopla and Libby use [St. Louis on the Air]
- Connecticut man steals K worth of library books [WWLP]
- Libraries are already contending with crappy, AI-generated books. [Literary Hub]
- Publishers, a library and others sue over Idaho's law restricting youth access to 'harmful' books [Associated Press]
- Barnes & Noble will open 60 new bookstores in 2025, breaking last year's record as bookstore revival ramps up [Fast Company]
- Trump dismisses head of the National Archives [NBC News]
- Court documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right' [PC Gamer]
- Why Trump's Data Purge is a Digital Book Burning [What Next: TBD]
- Police raid leading bookstore in East Jerusalem, arrest owner, seize books [The Times of Israel]
- Actress Julianne Moore shares 'great shock,' claims her children's book was banned by Trump Administration [Fox News]
- Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter's crusade to save books from Amazon [The Verge]
- Hurry! Download your Kindle eBooks before Amazon won't let you anymore [Tom's Guide]
- Clarivate launches subscription-based access strategy [Research Information]
- Trump's firing of the U.S. government archivist is far worse than it might seem [Fast Company]
- Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding [Ars Technica]
- Digital archivists on the offensive against Trump's 'unprecedented' purge of government websites [Le Monde]
- Sustainable Menstrual Equity: A Case Study on the Success of Low-Cost Menstrual Cup Distribution [In the Library with the Lead Pipe]
- Georgia Senate again tries to expose librarians to legal consequences for giving inappropriate books to kids [Rough Draft Atlanta]
- Relocation of 30,000 Young Adult Books in Louisiana Library Shows Harrowing Impact of Moral Panic Over Obscenity and Vague Laws that Lead to Book Censorship [Pen America]
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