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Missouri: A Kansas City Library System Has Banned LGBTQ Pride Book Displays in Children’s Areas; Texas: “Seems Obscene” Says Federal Appeals Court Judge During Hearing For Llano County Library Book Removal Case; & More News Headlines
Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) ACRL Executive Director Robert “Jay” Malone is Leaving Organization, Will Be Succeeded by Interim Executive Director Allison Payne (via ALA) Databases CiteScore 2022 Update is Live in Scopus Libraries and Book Bans Florida: ‘People are Frightened.’ Florida’s Book Rules Cause A Chilling Effect In Miami-Dade Schools (via Miami […]
Scholarly Communication: “Why Nature Will Not Allow the Use of Generative AI in Images and Video”
From a Nature Editorial: Why are we disallowing the use of generative AI in visual content? Ultimately, it is a question of integrity. The process of publishing — as far as both science and art are concerned — is underpinned by a shared commitment to integrity. That includes transparency. As researchers, editors and publishers, we […]
Indiana School Librarians Worry New Law Banning ‘Obscene’ Books Will Harm Their Work and Students; Chicago Sun-Times Introduces a ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Policy; & More News Headlines
Bloomsbury: Survival of Publishers Points to AI Prophecy Overkill (via FT, Subs Only) ||| Archived Version Indiana School Librarians Worry New Law Banning ‘Obscene’ Books Will Harm Their Work and Students (via Chalkbeat Indiana) Library Futures Releases 2022 Annual Report Library Organizations and Publishers File Amicus Briefs in Little v. Llano County Lawsuit Freedom to […]
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Report: Lawsuit Challenges Arkansas Law Allowing Librarians to Be Criminally Charged Over ‘Harmful’ Materials; Freedom to Read Foundation Releases Statement
From the Arkansas Times A group of public libraries and supporters filed a federal lawsuit Friday to challenge a new state law that aims to censor what books children can get to in libraries and puts librarians in danger of criminal charges if they allow young people access to content deemed harmful. The suit asks a federal […]
Association of American Publishers (AAP) Reports Publishing Revenues Totaled $28.10 Billion for 2022, Revenues Down 2.6% on Year-Over-Year Basis
Here’s the Full Text of an AAP StatShot Report Posted Today: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released the StatShot Annual report covering the calendar year 2022, estimating that the U.S. book publishing industry generated $28.10 billion industry-wide during the year, a decline of 2.6% as compared to 2021. In spite of the slight […]
Standards: EPUB 3.3 Becomes a W3C Recommendation
Here’s the Complete Announcement From the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): W3C has just published the newest version of EPUB, EPUB 3.3, as a W3C Recommendation (an international Web Standard) as part of the Digital Publishing activity (established with the merger of IDPF and W3C in 2017). EPUB defines a distribution and interchange format for digital publications and […]
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Coko’s Open Source Publishing Tools, Flax and Paged.js, Power the Creation of the Louvre’s Newest Catalogue Raisonné
From a Coko Announcement: Coko, known for its commitment to open source software in publishing, proudly announces that its innovative publishing tools, Flax and Paged.js, have been used in the creation of the Musée du Louvre’s latest publication, “Antoon Van Dyck: Catalogue Raisonné des Tableaux du Musée du Louvre.” The catalogue is available to view […]
Washington Post: “School Librarians Face a New Penalty in the Banned-Book Wars: Prison”
From a WaPo Article: Librarians could face years of imprisonment and tens of thousands in fines for providing sexually explicit, obscene or “harmful” books to children under new state laws that permit criminal prosecution of school and library personnel. At least seven states have passed such laws in the last two years, according to a […]
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Hong Kong Public Libraries Pull Most Books Related To Tiananmen Square Crackdown as 34th Anniversary Approaches; IIIF Consortium Announces New Extensions For Working With Digitized Maps; & More News Headlines
Hong Kong Public Libraries Pull Most Books Related to Tiananmen Square Crackdown as 34th Anniversary Approaches (via SCMP) IIIF Consortium Announces New Extensions For Working With Digitized Maps (via IIIF) Texas: Ransomware Attack Has Dallas Library Telling Residents to Keep Overdue Books (via DMN) Library of Congress: Connecting Communities Digital Initiative Announces Next Round of […]
Association of University Presses (AUPresses) Joins in Supporting Ukrainian Publishers; Rebuilding Libraries. Restoring Hope: OpenAire Stands in Solidarity With the Wider and Librarian Community in Turkey; and More News Headlines
American Library Association (ALA) Announces 240 Recipients of Library Accessibility Funding For Small and Rural Libraries Association of University Presses (AUPresses) Joins in Supporting Ukrainian Publishers EIFL Releases 2022 Annual Report Open Access Publisher Frontiers Moves to Counter Platform for Article Metrics Initiative Supporting Ukrainian Publishing Resilience and Recovery (SUPRR) Receives Grant From De Gruyter eBound […]
