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Florida: Miami’s Oldest Public Library, in Little Haiti, Closes For Makeover; Amid Budget Cuts, These Eight Fort Worth Independent School District Schools Will Lose Full-Time Librarians; & More Headlines
Academic Libraries, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|Association of Southeastern Research Libraries ASERL and De Gruyter Create Partnership to Support University Presses Florida Miami’s Oldest Public Library, in Little Haiti, Closes For Makeover (via WLRN) National Library of Medicine MTIX: the Next-Generation Algorithm for Automated Indexing of MEDLINE Public Domain Debut Issue of the “The Public Domain Newsletter” (April 2024) From the […]
Cynthia Hudson Vitale Appointed Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Digital Services; Op/Ed: Policy-Making and the Future of Scholarly Monographs; & More News Headlines
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|Data Management and Sharing Plans Connecting DMSPs to Research Outputs (via University of California Curation Center (UC3)) France French National Library Quarantines ‘Poisonous’ Books (AFP via France 24) Iowa Iowa City Launches Book Donation and Recycling Program to Promote Sustainability (via Des Moines Register) Johns Hopkins University Libraries Cynthia Hudson Vitale Appointed Associate Dean of […]
From the Montgomery Advertiser: The Alabama House approved HB385 Thursday, which would allow for the prosecution of librarians who fail to remove the challenged materials in a timely manner. The vote came after the House added more context to the legal term “sexual conduct” and defined the distribution of materials considered harmful to minors on […]
Houston Public Library’s New Director Cynthia Wilson Talks Fixing Morale, Other Big Changes; OCLC CEO Skip Prichard on “Connecting with Libraries, Reaffirming Our Mission”; & More Headlines
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|Authors Statement From EveryLibrary on the Cancellation of Author Maulik Pancholy’s Visit to Mountain View Middle School Book Bans Book Banning County Commissioners Censor Honor for Girl Scout’s Banned Book Library International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF-C) Martin R. Kalfatovic Named Director of the IIIF Consortium (IIIF-C) Louisiana Lafayette Public Library Board President Defends Book Display […]
Alabama Library Employees Call Proposed Bill ‘Potential Slippery Slope,’ Consequences ‘Frightening’; ALA Announces State Intellectual Freedom Helpline Program Grants to Support Libraries Addressing Censorship Attempts; & More Headlines
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|Alabama Alabama Library Employees Call Proposed Bill ‘Potential Slippery Slope,’ Consequences ‘Frightening’ (via CBS42.com) American Library Association ALA Announces State Intellectual Freedom Helpline Program Grants to Support Libraries Addressing Censorship Attempts (via ALA) Book Bans Librarians, Students, and Lawmakers Have a New Strategy. Ban the Book Bans (via Christian Science Monitor) Copyright/Intellectual Property Creative Commons […]
University of Colorado Boulder: Norlin Library Now Host of Martin Scorsese’s Public VHS Archive; Louisiana: Bill Would Apply Obscenity Laws to Louisiana Public School Libraries; ARL to Congress: No One Can Own the Law; & More Headlines
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|Association of Research Libraries (ARL) ARL to Congress: No One Can Own the Law (via ARL) Louisiana Bill Would Apply Obscenity Laws to Louisiana Public School Libraries (via The Acadiana Advocate) Misinformation/Fake News The Geography of Corporate Fake News (via PLOS One) North Carolina Beta Version of the New UNC University Library Website Now Available […]
Washington Post: “Red States Threaten Librarians With Prison — as Blue States Work to Protect Them”
|From The Washington Post: The bill in Connecticut, pending before an education committee, is one of a raft of measures advancing nationwide that seek to do things like prohibit book bans or forbid the harassment of school and public librarians — the first such wave in the country, said John Chrastka, director of library advocacy […]
Funding: NEH Announces $26.2 Million for 238 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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|From the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $26.2 million in grants for 238 humanities projects across the country. Grants awarded today will underwrite a new permanent exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh on how the Nile River shaped ancient Egyptians’ ideas of […]
Tennessee: Democrats Oppose Bill to Have Books Removed From School Libraries; North Carolina: Durham County Main Library Evacuated Because Of Bomb Threat Before LGBTQ Story Hour; & More News Headlines
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|AI Google’s New Technique Gives LLMs Infinite Context (via Venture Beat) AR/VR Meta Wants to Put Students and Teachers in Quest VR Headsets (via Axios) ||| Official Meta Blog Post Digital Science/Metaphacts Metaphacts and Dimensions Launch the Dimensions Knowledge Graph, Powered by metaphactory Iowa Five Publishers Join PRH in Its Lawsuit of Iowa (via Publishing […]
Alabama NPR: Why Aren’t Some Librarians In Alabama in a Celebratory Mood? CHORUS CHORUS Forum: 12 Best Practices for Research Data Sharing – Event Summary, Comments ||| Slides & Video OCLC OCLC Global Council Elects Xuemao Wang, Re-Elects Anja Smit to Board of Trustees Toronto Public Library What is the Cost of Ransomware Attack on […]