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American Library Association (ALA) Releases List of Top 11 Most Challenged Books of 2025; Patricia McCormick’s “Sold”, Tops List
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From the Associated Press: The ALA on Monday issued its annual list of the books most challenged at the country’s libraries, part of the association’s State of America’s Libraries Report. Patricia McCormick’s “Sold,” a 2006 novel about sex trafficking in India, topped the list for 2025. Others targeted include Stephen Chbosky’s high school novel “The […]
Statement From ALA: Trump Administration Withdraws Appeal, Securing Historic Victory For Libraries and IMLS
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Here’s the Full Text of an American Libraries Association (ALA) Statement: On April 6, a federal court granted the Trump Administration’s request to withdraw its appeal of a federal judge’s earlier ruling that struck down the Administration’s dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)—the only federal agency dedicated to providing funding for […]
American Library Association (ALA) Announces Recipients of the I Love My Librarian Award For 2026
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From the American Library Association: The American Library Association (ALA) is thrilled to announce this year’s 10 recipients of the coveted I Love My Librarian Award. Serving communities across the nation, the 2026 honorees are exceptional librarians from academic, public, and school libraries who were nominated by community members for their expertise, dedication, and profound impact […]
404 Media: “‘BLOCKADE’: The Right is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning”
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From 404 Media (by Claire Woodcock): Conservative parents’ advocacy groups have been experimenting with using commercially available artificial intelligence tools to help them flag more books they’ve deemed pornographic to be removed from public schools and libraries. Even though LLMs are notoriously error-prone, and the books in question aren’t pornographic, these groups continue to explore […]
Funding: “Sustainable Libraries Initiative Awarded $175,000 for Operationalizing Community Resilience: Creating a Training and Partnership Model for Libraries”
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From SLI: The Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI) has been awarded a $175,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge program to lead a 15-month project titled Operationalizing Community Resilience: Creating a Training and Partnership Model for Libraries. The grant will be administered by Educopia, SLI’s fiscal sponsor. The Sustainable Libraries Initiative (founded in 2015 and now […]
Ithaka S+R Publishes Library Partnership Development Framework
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From an Ithaka S+R Blog Post by Melissa Blakenstein: Public and academic libraries often serve the same populations through different institutional structures. In both settings, libraries regularly serve students balancing coursework, jobs, and family responsibilities, as well as community members seeking reliable internet access, workforce resources, or a place to study and connect. These shared […]
New Report From IFLA: Connecting Libraries to Empower Communities
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From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): A new report presents the key findings of the Libraries Boosting Connecitivity (LBC) initiative launched in 2024 to collect crucial data on how libraries are navigating and adapting to the digital landscape. The report offers insights from the selected pilot countries and provides an analysis of library […]
New Resource: “ORION Dashboard: Bringing Open Research Data Within Reach”
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From a Leiden Madtrics Post by Juan Pablo Bascur Cifuentes The ORION dashboard enables easy exploration of CWTS OpenAlex data on BigQuery, letting users analyse institutions, funders, and research topics via interactive visualisations and reproducible SQL queries without any coding skills required. [Clip] What the dashboard does The current version centres on two types of […]
Video Recording of Yesterday’s Research Libraries UK (RLUK) Forum: “Research Library Strategy For Imagined Futures: The ARL/CNI Futurescape AI Experience”
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From Research Libraries UK: Throughout the second half of 2025, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) held a series of workshops for research library leaders on using the Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit—a modular resource for integrating the ARL/CNI AI Scenarios into institutional strategy and planning work. Judy Ruttenberg, […]
New Report From IFLA: “Weak Signals: Emergent and Potential Trends Shaping the Future of Libraries”
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From an International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Releases Blog Post: IFLA’s new Weak Signals Report brings together insights into developments across our field that have the potential to become trends in future. Created by recipients of our Emerging Leaders’ Grants at WLIC2025, it draws on ideas and experiences shared at our annual […]
