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This Election Should Not Determine the Fate of Libraries
EveryLibrary – (But it Might Have) – “Libraries have never been immune from political and social movements, but we have behaved as if we are somehow a special place, a place apart from these fights. The last three years of censorship and discrimination fights should have been a wake-up call for our library organizations, stakeholders,… Continue Reading
Freedom to Read Advocates Notch a Legal Victory in Alaska
Publisher’s Weekly: “After a favorable legal ruling in August, freedom to read advocates in Alaska have scored a significant victory in court over would-be book banners. In an October 31 filing, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District in Alaska agreed to pay $89,000 to settle claims that the district improperly removed dozens of books, including several… Continue Reading
Books to Distract You From Doom
Bookshop.org: “This is a list of books compiled to help distract you from the state of the election in 2024, or any other dreadful time in your life.” See also Defector – Books You Can Read Tonight To Distract Yourself From Whatever Is To Come Continue Reading
Download 1,600+ Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Books, Guides, Magazines & More
Open Culture: “Many of us in these past few generations first heard of the Metropolitan Museum of Art while reading E. L. Konigsburg’s novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. More than a few of us also fantasized about running away to live in that vast cultural institution like the book’s young… Continue Reading
Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record
Internet Archives Blogs: “In today’s digital landscape, corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and malicious cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared cultural history. The rise of streaming platforms and temporary licensing agreements means that sound recordings, books, films, and other cultural artifacts that used to be owned in physical form, are now at… Continue Reading
AI Audiobook Narrators in OverDrive and the Issue of Library AI Circulation Policy
STBT: “OverDrive is the company that provides a lot of digital content to libraries. If you’ve borrowed an ebook or an audiobook in Libby, or read a magazine in Kanopy, that’s OverDrive. It seems there is some AI weirdness with audiobook narration on OverDrive, and the narrator is only part of the story. On Monday,… Continue Reading
GPO Makes Available Thousands of New US Congressional Serial Set Volumes
U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has added more than 3,000 volumes of the Congressional Serial Set containing more than 45,000 individual documents and reports to GPO’s GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. This comes as part of a multi-year effort with the Library of Congress… Continue Reading
Stream More Than 30,000 Movies for Free With This One Simple Item
CNET – “When I was an undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I decided to add a concentration in film studies as part of my English degree. This choice exposed me to the marvelous world of film scholarship, adding to my already fervent love for movies since I had been… Continue Reading
AALL-SIS White Paper on Continuing Status and Tenure of Law Librarians
Osborne, Caroline and Davidson, Stephanie and Haight, Iantha and Hirsch, Cindy and Lohmeier, Kerry and Quigley, Brian and Whytock, Jessica, AALL-SIS White Paper on Continuing Status and Tenure of Law Librarians (April 15, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4938369 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4938369. “This work provides information to members and prospective members of the law librarian profession on… Continue Reading
The Department of Everything
Hedgehog Review, Stephen Akey – Dispatches from the telephone reference desk – “How do you find the life expectancy of a California condor? Google it. Or the gross national product of Morocco? Google it. Or the final resting place of Tom Paine? Google it. There was a time, however—not all that long ago—when you couldn’t Google it… Continue Reading
Download Over 33,000 Sounds from the BBC Sound Effects Archive
“The BBC Sound Effects Archive is available for personal, educational or research purposes. There are over 33,000 clips from across the world from the past 100 years. These include clips made by the BBC Radiophonic workshop, recordings from the Blitz in London, special effects made for BBC TV and Radio productions, as well as 15,000… Continue Reading
