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West Michigan Library Defunded Over LGBTQ Books Wins Tax Support on 3rd Try; Voters Pass Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library Levy; & More Headlines
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|California New San Diego Library Master Plan Calls for New Branches, New Priorities, More Equity (via San Diego Union Tribune) Center for Open Science OSF Preprints to Pilot Post-Moderation Policy Elections Election Night 2023 Library Wrap-Up (via EveryLibrary) Florida Florida Moms for Liberty Member Offers Up Teen Novel to Santa Rosa Sheriff as Pornography Public […]
FEDLINK Library of Congress Opens Award Nominations for Outstanding Federal Libraries, Librarians and Library Technicians CLOCKSS, OAPEN OAPEN Books Preserved with CLOCKSS Open Science CERN-NASA Summit Convenes Open Science Thought Leaders Seeking to Promote Greater Collaboration (via SPARC) SAGE Sage Has Acquired IOS Press
New PEN America Report: U.S. Prisons Ban Staggering Numbers of Books
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|From PEN America: Prisons censor staggering numbers of books and other reading materials, not just for their content but for a stunning range of capricious reasons including the size of a book or the color of mailed wrapping paper, according to a new report by PEN America. Reading Between the Bars: An In-Depth Look at […]
OCLC: Libraries and Open Access Discovery; Wall Street Journal: Libraries Are the New Front Line in America’s Mental-Health Crisis; & More News Headlines
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|Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) CLIR Receives Grant to Launch CLIR Climate Resiliency Program New York State Library State Library Awards $186,000 in Grants to Preserve Library Research Materials OCLC Libraries and Open Access Discovery Open Library of Humanities (OLH) Dawn of the Zombie Journal: New Poster Celebrates History, of OA Community Activism […]
Springer Nature Announces Transformative Agreement (TA) in Hong Kong With All Member Libraries of Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee; ‘Hadestown’ Comes to the Library of Congress To Make Music and History; & More News Headlines
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|British Museum British Museum to Digitise Collectiona as Over Two Million Objects are Found to be Undocumented (via The Art Newspaper) Colorado Denver Post Report: “Garfield County Leaders Tell Library to Keep ‘Pornographic Materials’ Away From Kids in Latest Salvo Over Japanese Graphic Novels” Germany Wiley and German DEAL Consortium to Sign New 5-Year Agreement […]
Longlist For 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Announced, List Includes 21 Fiction, 24 Nonfiction Titles
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|From the American Library Association: Forty-five books (21 fiction, 24 nonfiction) have been selected for the longlist for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The list is now available on the awards’ website. The six-title shortlist—three each for the fiction and nonfiction medals—will be chosen from longlist titles and announced […]
Oregon Libraries Take 2023 Federal Depository Library of the Year Honors
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|From the Government Publishing Office (GPO): The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) names the State Library of Oregon and Portland State University Library as the Federal Depository libraries of the year for increasing access to Government information throughout the Pacific Northwest. Both libraries worked together over the last couple of years to make more than […]
Register to Attend the Delta Think Open Access Market Sizing Webinar (Wednesday, October 23, 2023); Now Open: Call for Proposals For 46th Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting; & More News Headlines
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|Book Fairs NY Times: “For Book Fairs, Scholastic Will Separate Titles That Deal With Race and Gender” ||| Additional Coverage From The Daily Beast California California State Library to Award $172 Million In Additional Facilities Improvement Grants For Local Libraries (via State Library of California) Delta Think Register to Attend the Delta Think Market Sizing Webinar […]
American Library Association (ALA) Executive Director Tracie D. Hall is Leaving the Organization, Interim Director Will Be Named in the Coming Weeks
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|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From ALA: The American Library Association (ALA) announced today that Tracie D. Hall will resign from her role as executive director following nearly four transformative years at the Association. Her last day will be Friday, October 6. During her tenure, Hall brought ALA greater public recognition, private funding, […]
Indiana: Educators, Librarians Could Face Criminal Prosecution And a Level 6 Felony Over Controversial Books; Internet Archive to Honor Supervisor Connie Chan with 2023 Hero Award; & More Headlines
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|Book Bans USA Today Report: “What’s Behind The National Surge in Book Bans? A Low-Tech Website Tied to Moms For Liberty” Funding Columbia University Libraries Awarded Grant from the Arcadia Fund to Support Anticaste Archives Project (via CUL) Indiana Educators, Librarians Could Face Criminal Prosecution And a Level 6 Felony Over Controversial Books Internet Archive […]