April 23, 2024 by Gary Price
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 […]
April 18, 2024 by Gary Price
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 […]
April 15, 2024 by Gary Price
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 […]
April 7, 2024 by Gary Price
From an EveryLibrary Institute Blog Post: We are celebrating an important milestone: The one-year anniversary of Fight for The First, the only online digital advocacy platform that provides tools to local communities who want to take action against book bans in public libraries and school libraries around the United States. Supported by generous donations from […]
March 29, 2024 by Gary Price
From the Louisiana Illuminator: With veto-proof majorities in both legislative chambers and the backing of a new governor, some Louisiana Republicans are taking aim at public libraries with legislation that could criminalize librarians. Four conservative lawmakers have filed five bills that play off the library culture war currently raging across the nation, including in Louisiana. […]
March 28, 2024 by Gary Price
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 […]
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March 14, 2024 by Gary Price
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 […]
March 7, 2024 by Gary Price
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 […]
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March 4, 2024 by Gary Price
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, […]
February 21, 2024 by Gary Price
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 […]