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E-Books Can Subvert Book Bans, But Corporate Profit-Seeking Stands in the Way Exorbitant costs and restrictive licenses are obstructing libraries’ efforts to resist book bans via ..read more
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It’s time yet again to take a look back at the memorable library stories from the past year. Two themes dominated headlines in 2023: attacks on ..read more
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The ARChive of Contemporary Music, which houses more than 90m songs and is supported by names such as Martin Scorsese, is in need of a new ..read more
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WSJ about new variations of book clubs, for people who don’t like the traditional ones – and it does feature a cool “not-a-book-club book club” at ..read more
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Moves are spreading in Japan to set up private libraries where each bookshelf is owned by individuals who display books on their hobbies or those that ..read more
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Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our ..read more
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My Books Were Used to Train AI I have said in one of my few forays into nonfiction (On Writing) that you can’t learn to write ..read more
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The Buchanan County party leader threatened not to allow city council members to run as Republicans if they approved the appointment of a gay pastor to ..read more
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Why the smell of vinegar shut down a Toronto library’s historical newspaper archive But in the years since, libraries, archives and collectors have discovered “safety film ..read more
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Statement from Brewster Kahle, digital librarian of the Internet Archive:“When people want to listen to music they go to Spotify. When people want to study sound ..read more