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New Report From ALA: “Leverage Libraries to Receive Digital Equity for All”
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|From the American Library Association (ALA): Today the American Library Association (ALA) released Leverage libraries to Receive Digital Equity for All, which illustrates libraries’ longstanding work to advance digital equity and makes the case for policymakers to draw on the expertise of library professionals in designing state and local digital equity plans required to receive the […]
Colorado: Libraries Add Museums, Tool Rentals and Job Centers to Help Meet Community Needs and Stay Relevant
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|From Colorado Public Radio: Creating an interactive in-house museum. Renting out saws, cake pans and vegetable seeds. Providing job centers to connect the unemployed to companies with jobs to fill. These are some of the innovative, mission-expanding ways that libraries are staying relevant around the country and in Colorado, as the internet, smartphones and other […]
eLife Ends Accept/Reject Decisions Following Peer Review, Will Publish Every Paper it Reviews as a Reviewed Preprint
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|Here’s the Full Text of an eLife Announcement: eLife is pleased to announce a major change in editorial practice. Building on its 2021 shift to exclusively reviewing preprints, the organisation is ending the practice of making accept/reject decisions following peer review. From January 31, 2023, eLife will instead publish every paper it reviews as a […]
Kicking Off Publishing Ethics Week! Community Resources; New Initiative to Publicize and Summarize Research on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; and More News Headlines
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|Author Interview: Nine Best Practices for Software Repositories and Registries (PeerJ) Disinformation is a Growing Crisis. Governments, Business and Individuals Can Help Stem the Tide (via World Economic Forum) Introducing Reservoir, the Module Behind ReShare’s Shared Inventory (via Project ReShare) Kicking Off Publishing Ethics Week! Community Resources New Initiative to Publicize and Summarize Research on […]
From The State: A Travelers Rest man filed a report with the Travelers Rest Police Department, saying the local Greenville County library branch was committing a crime for distributing sexually explicit content. Albert Hill, in his late 30s, wrote an email to police earlier this week saying books listed on the LGBTQ and Banned Books […]
From The Washington Post: Libraries are in the crossfire yet again, as conservative groups mount a historic number of challenges to books to remove from public book shelves literature dealing with race, racism and LGBTQ identity. The book-ban campaigns have turned so nasty that some librarians have lost or left their jobs. But it’s not the first time library workers […]
Free Expression: Best-Selling Author James Patterson Donates $2 Million to PEN America
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|From a PEN America News Release: James Patterson, the best-selling author, has donated $2 million to PEN America to build communications capacity and help the premier writers’ organization speak louder in defense of free expression against evolving threats in the United States, online, and around the world. The gift to PEN America from the Patterson […]
Politico Reports on Brooklyn Public Library’s “Books Unbanned” Program
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|From Politico: Far from the trenches in states like Florida and Texas, organizations in deep-blue New York are stepping into the fray by directly lending 25,000 books to non-residents since spring, including thousands of students living under the bans. The Brooklyn Public Library’s “Books Unbanned” program provides access to its eBook collection and learning databases for […]
Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) Publishes “Antiracism Toolkit for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color”
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|From the Introduction: The Toolkits for Equity project emerges as one such mechanism to work toward a more equitable, affirming, and just industry. In the larger scope of an increasingly unequal world where racialized people suffer in many different ways, this particular toolkit, the Antiracism Toolkit for Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), is […]
From The NY Times: Over the last year, campaigns to ban books have erupted throughout school districts and local libraries across the country. The American Library Association, which tracks challenges to library books or resources since 1990, previously documented roughly 300 to 350 complaints annually, with most challenges targeting a single title each. But in 2021 […]