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@lemmy.mlhttps://epgn.com/2024/09/17/report-project-2025s-probable-impact-on-libraries/
The EveryLibrary Institute has put out a report titled “Project 2025 and Its Consequences for Libraries” to illustrate its effect.
https://popculturelibraries.wordpress.com/2024/09/17/love-learning-and-all-the-rest-fictional-libraries-in-fruits-basket-and-beyond/
Before watching Fruits Basket, an anime which mixes the romantic comedy, slice-of-life, and supernatural genres, I knew there was a librarian character (voiced by Sayumi Watabe). I was not aware, h…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-public-libraries-union-tentative-agreement-1.7322775
https://localnewsmatters.org/2024/09/12/big-award-for-little-library-mendocino-county-branch-is-named-best-of-its-class-in-america/
The Round Valley branch of the Mendocino County Library, located in the unincorporated community of Covelo, has won Library Journal’s 2024 Best Small
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2024-09-12-what-happens-when-a-school-closes-its-library
Around this time last year, the education news landscape was buzzing about one school district’s plan to improve test scores that included closing ...
https://www.museumnext.com/article/how-the-cleveland-public-librarys-chatbot-initiative-could-inspire-museums/
The John G. White Collection at the Cleveland Public Library is the world’s largest collection of chess literature and artifacts, encompassing items from the 14th...
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/29/nx-s1-5091277/e-books-are-expensive-for-libraries-some-states-are-trying-to-change-that
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/11/1103838/why-a-ruling-against-the-internet-archive-threatens-the-future-of-americas-libraries/
The decision locks libraries into an ecosystem that is not in readers' interests. Congress must act.
https://www.al.com/news/2024/09/prostitution-adultery-eunuchs-library-dispute-in-mobile-as-one-official-ponders-bible-ban.html
Councilman William Carroll, on Tuesday, responded to calls for banning books within the Mobile Public Library System with questions on whether those bans should extend to the Bible.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12003819/internet-archives-open-library-faces-uncertain-future-after-court-sides-with-publishers
The San Francisco-based nonprofit is weighing next steps as an online petition to restore hundreds of thousands of titles that were removed from its online collection gathers steam.