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The Tragedy of Having a Wikipedia Page—and Then Losing It | WIRED
You Finally Got a Wikipedia Page. Then It Vanished Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not “notable”...
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Texas State Librarian Gloria Meraz on the Power of Libraries
Most people think of libraries as the place where you get books off the shelf, and of course we do that. But there’s so much more....
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If British Library reading rooms become ‘co-working spaces’, what, exactly, is a national library for? | Andy Beckett | The Guardian
Despite this troubled context, and in some ways because of it, the library’s drastic reading room reduction plan has provoked “outrage” from staff, say the Prospect...
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Suit says transgender book got Georgia library manager fired
A Southeast Georgia county and library system are being sued by a local woman who alleges they fired her as the manager of the county’s public...
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Good reading: Prison Book Project connects students, incarcerated individuals, professors and librarians | News | SDSU
From 'Crazy Rich Asians' and John Sandford thrillers to Irish history and Indigenous dark fiction, SDSU provides a literary relief to daily life in prison. Read...
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ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History | WIRED
Attorneys for 15 Minnesota residents facing federal conspiracy charges have obtained evidence of a sweeping, possibly unconstitutional spying operation carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
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McKinney ISD limits library book challenges to parents | McKinney | Community Impact
McKinney ISD residents who do not have a child enrolled in the district will no longer be able to challenge library materials. “Reviewing a challenge requires...
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Sacred stacks: An interview by Allison Nash-Jordan | The Christian Century
Sam Helmick, who served as 2025–2026 president of the American Library Association, is community and access services coordinator at the Iowa City Public Library. A longtime...
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Student Loans for Librarians: Now More Difficult! – ACRLog
The new restrictions are disheartening. I don’t have a solution to this systemic problem. But I encourage everyone to talk about it more. If you’ve been...
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Anthropic illegally trained Claude with Stanford professors’ books
“To put me to work that way, without remittance, is a form of slave labor,” said Wolff, professor emeritus of English and winner of the National...
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New ‘Reading Rainbow’ host talks new kid’s book – Texas Standard Texas Standard
In his new picture book, “I’m So Happy You’re Here,” librarian Mychal Threets lays out all the joys of the library for kids. Threets made a...
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The EPA Is Quietly Killing its Web Archive – Mother Jones
While the usability of the archive has historically been far from perfect—researchers often encountered dead links and frustratingly limited search capabilities—the archive has held a trove...