From the Columbia Missourian: Workers at Daniel Boone Regional Library made state history on Monday, becoming the first library staff to unionize in Missouri. The results of the vote showed 101 employees in favor of unionizing to 55 opposed, for 65% approval, per the Missouri State Board of Mediation. The approval of the motion to […]
Via Email, by Peter Berkery, Executive Director, Association of University Presses (AUPresses): The past year has been a difficult one, and yet there were many things for our Association to learn from and to celebrate. Despite a host of disruptions, chronic and emergent, our global community of mission-driven publishing professionals—158 member presses, 19 volunteer committees, […]
From NPD: The number of books banned last year in various states in the U.S. reached the highest levels in the history of tracking by The American Library Association. In the public square, the surge in bans and community challenges against specific titles, like “Maus,” “Antiracist Baby,” and “Gender Queer” have been covered widely by […]
From a Joint Announcement: The City’s three public library systems are taking a stand against censorship with a new Banned Books Challenge: 10 banned or challenged books that expert librarians recommend New Yorkers borrow and read. To get the city started, Brooklyn Public Library, The New York Public Library (which serves the Bronx, Manhattan, and […]
Introducing the 2022 Authenticity Project Fellows (via CLIR) King County Judge Agrees With AG Ferguson, Denies Google’s Attempt to Dismiss Location Tracking Lawsuit (Washington State Office of the Attorney General) Knowledge Rights 21 Calls for Action on Library Rights (via Internet Archive) Why Preprints are Good for Patients (via Nature Medicine)
From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions: IFLA Green Library Award was a success also this year. To our great delight ENSULIB received 31 submissions from around the world, including Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, India, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, USA. All applications were checked to […]
From the Salt Lake City Tribune: Ask most people what the oldest book made with movable metal type is, and they likely will say the Gutenberg Bible, printed around 1455 in Mainz, Germany. That isn’t the case, and a University of Utah librarian is part of a research project to give proper due to what […]
From the Endangered Archives Programme Blog: In this month’s round-up we have a collection of portrait photographs from Lima, Peru (EAP1234), and two collections from Sri Lanka, palm-leaf manuscripts from the Jaffna, Vanni, and Mannar districts (EAP1056), and Tamil Protestant records from the Jaffna Peninsula (EAP971). You can read more about each of the projects […]
The article linked below was published today by Scientometrics. Title Measuring Publication Diversity Among the Most Productive Scholars: How Research Trajectories Differ in Communication, Psychology, and Political Science Authors Manuel Goyanes University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain Márton Demeter National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary Zicheng Cheng Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA Homero Gil […]