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Report: Harvard Law School Digitization Project Publishes Nearly 7 Million Court Cases Online (Caselaw Access Project)
Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, School Libraries
|From The Harvard Crimson: The Caselaw Access Project published nearly seven million cases from the Harvard Law School’s collections online on March 8, concluding a nine-year process to digitize the HLS Library’s archive of court cases. The Caselaw Access Project, also known as CAP, aimed “to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to […]
New Data: American Library Association (ALA) Reports Record Number of Unique Book Titles Challenged In 2023, Public Libraries Saw 92 Percent Increase in Number of Titles Targeted for Censorship Over the Previous Year
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Reports, School Libraries
|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s ALA Announcement: The number of titles targeted for censorship surged 65 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest levels ever documented by the American Library Association (ALA). The new numbers released today show efforts to censor 4,240 unique book titles* in schools and libraries. This tops the previous high […]
Bills Introduced in Michigan Senate Look to Restore the State’s School Libraries; Nature Publishes Too Few Papers From Women Researchers — That Must Change; & More News Headlines
Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Scholarly Communications, School Libraries
|CORE CORE at Open Repositories 2024 (via CORE) Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) IMLS and Council of American Jewish Museums Partner to Address Antisemitism Michigan Bills Introduced in Michigan Senate Look to Restore the State’s School Libraries (via Michigan Public Radio) Oklahoma Metropolitan Library CEO Larry Nash White Announces Resignation in May (via […]
From 60 Minutes/CBS News: With election season upon us, the forces of politics are pulling us apart and among the sharpest battles recently is a campaign to ban certain books from public schools. There were more than 3,000 book bans in schools last year, a thousand more than the year before. That rise is inspired, […]
From the CBC: As Canada marks the 40th anniversary of Freedom to Read Week — first founded amid an uproar against Ontario high school seniors studying Margaret Laurence’s novel The Diviners — authors, teachers and librarians are highlighting the importance of students’ access to different perspectives in their school libraries and the need for schools to have (and stick […]
San Francisco Wants to Offer Free Drug Recovery Books at its Public Libraries; Investigation Into Full Extent of Ransomware Attack on Toronto Public Library Still Underway; & More Headlines
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries
|California San Francisco Wants to Offer Free Drug Recovery Books at its Public Libraries (via SF Chronicle) Georgia Bill to Potentially Ban SomeLibrary Books Passes Legislative Hurdle (via Georgia Senate Considers Controls on School Libraries and Criminal Charges For Librarians (via AP) Web Archives/Computational Research Introducing ARCHWay – A Free to Use ARCH Service Tier […]
Alberta: Pride-Themed Library Books Returned to Calgary Public Library Branch with ‘Significant Damage,’ Prompting Police Response; Illinois: Chicago Library to Digitize Largest Set of African American History, Literature in Midwest; & More Headlines
Data Files, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries
|AI Amazon Unveils Largest Text-To-Speech Model Ever Made (via Tech Explore) Reddit Signs $60 Million Annual Deal For Training Data, Capitalizing on AI Boom (via The Decoder) Alabama Alabama Senate Approves Bill to Make It Easier to Remove Library Board Members (via AL.com) Alberta Pride-Themed Library Books Returned to Calgary Public Library Branch with ‘Significant […]
AI: “States are Introducing 50 AI-Related Bills Per Week”; “South Carolina Board of Ed Approves Order to Give State Final Say Over Books in Local Libraries”; & More News Headlines
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Lecture, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Reports, School Libraries
|AI States are Introducing 50 AI-Related Bills Per Week (via Axios) Alabama Alabama Lawmakers Want to Change Archives Oversight After Dispute Over LGBTQ+ Lecture (via AP) Coherent Digital Coherent Digital and Trojman Acquire Major Canadian Micropublisher to Create Neww Digital Collections EveryLibrary EveryLibrary Institute Announces New Editorial Board Members for The Political Librarian HathiTrust HathiTrust’s […]
Law Review Article: “Book Banning Goes Digital: Libraries Suspending Their E-Book Services and the Complications It Poses For First Amendment Doctrine”
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|The article linked belowa was recently published by the Stanford Technology Law Review. Title Book Banning Goes Digital: Libraries Suspending Their E-Book Services and the Complications It Poses for First Amendment Doctrine Author Catherine E. Ferri Source Stanford Technology Law Review, Stanford Law SchoolVolume 27 Issue 1 Abstract Book banning predates the United States and […]
EveryLibrary Releases Final Report on Parent Perceptions Survey & New Whitepaper on Demographics of Book Bans Released
Data Files, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries
|From EveryLibrary: The Parents’ Perception Survey Series, developed in conjunction with Book Riot, the largest independent editorial book site in North America, is the final report in a three-part series detailing the findings of national surveys of parents about their perceptions of libraries and librarians during the current book ban crisis. This report gathered insights from […]