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ALA Announces 2024 Recipients of the “I Love My Librarian” Award
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, School Libraries
|Congrats to all ten recipients! Here’s the full text of the ALA announcement: Today the American Library Association (ALA) announced 10 recipients of the coveted I Love My Librarian Award. Honorees are exceptional librarians from academic, public, and school libraries who were nominated by patrons nationwide for their expertise, dedication and profound impact on the people […]
Global Press Archive CRL Alliance Launches Open-Access Liberian Newspaper Archive; New Book: Rethinking Institutional Repositories: Innovations in Management, Collections, and Inclusion; & More Headlines
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, New Issue, News, Open Access, School Libraries
|AI/GPT An Analysis of Microsoft’s Bing Chat Generative AI and Elections: Are Chatbots a Reliable Source of Information For Voters? Report News Release/Summary Media Coverage (via WaPo) Center for Research Libraries Global Press Archive CRL Alliance Launches Open-Access Liberian Newspaper Archive File Formats File Formats Team at the Library of Congress Shares Update (via LC) […]
From PEN America: In a cumulative data summary released today, PEN America reflects on the nearly 6,000 book bans in public schools documented from July 2021 to June 2023. Spineless Shelves: Two Years of Book Banning illustrates the spread of copycat book bans and an apparent “Scarlet Letter” effect, where several works from an author’s […]
Books Freedom Reads, National Book Foundation, Center for Justice Innovation Launch First Major US Book Prize to be Judged Exclusively by Incarcerated People Europe EU: Commission Launches New Database to Track Digital Services Terms and Conditions Colorado Mapping Colorado: Libraries Supporting Their Communities (via Library Research Service) Florida ‘That’s Authoritarianism’: Florida Argues School Libraries Are […]
From the Associated Press: She refused to ban books, many of them about racism and the experiences of LGBTQ+ people. And for that, Suzette Baker was fired as a library director in a rural county in central Texas. “I’m kind of persona non grata around here,” said Baker, who had headed the Kingsland, Texas, library […]
Increased Circulation: “Book Bans May Have Unintended Consequences in Increasingly Polarized United States” (Working Paper)
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, School Libraries
|nFrom Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University: In the United States, amid increasing political polarization, book banning has grown in prevalence. A new study using a large-scale data set of U.S. library book circulations evaluated the impact of book bans on demand for banned books. The study found that circulations of books rose after being banned, […]
Florida: Nearly 80 Book Titles Pulled From Charlotte County Public School Libraries For District Review; ALA Donates $3,500 To Assist Vermont Libraries Damaged by Floods, Encourages More Donations & More Headlines
Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, News, School Libraries
|Illinois A Library Grant Tied to Illinois’ Anti-Book-Ban Law Raises Red Flags For Huntley District 158 School Board (via Northwest Herald) Florida Nearly 80 Book Titles Pulled From Charlotte County Public School Libraries For District Review (via WUSF) Maryland Challenged Books in Carroll County Largely Written by Women, Feature LGBTQIA+ Characters (Capitol News Service, UMD) […]
ProPublica: “Book Bans in Texas Spread as New State Law Takes Effect”
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|From a ProPublica Article: As a new Texas law further restricting what books students can check out of school libraries takes effect, local bans are gaining steam in districts across the state — in some cases going in startling directions. [Clip] The local censorship efforts come as courts wrestle with a new Texas law that requires booksellers […]
PEN America, ALA, Children’s Book Council, Leading Publishers, Teacher Groups, and Other Organizations Launch Letter-Writing Campaign to Oppose Censorship
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|Here’s the Full Text of a Release From PEN America: For Banned Books Week 2023, PEN America and We Believe gathered a consortium of the nation’s leading publishers, teacher and librarian groups, and nonprofit organizations to rally behind the freedom to read by signing a joint open letter and launching a public letter-writing campaign opposing book bans. The […]
Boston Public Library Joins Books Unbanned Initiative to Fight Censorship
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|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Boston Public Library Announcement: The Boston Public Library (BPL) is joining the Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned initiative to fight censorship and book banning by offering teens and young adults across the nation free access to the books in its digital collection. The BPL is the third library to enter the growing network, […]