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From an Everett Herald Commentary by Washington Sec. of State, Steve Hobbs and Sara Jones, Washington State Librarian: In 2016, Gov. Jay Inslee prompted state and local agencies to collaborate on improving outcomes for people re-entering society. The State Library’s Institutional Library Services — which has operated libraries in state correctional facilities for more than […]

COAR Community Consultation on Managing Non-English And Multilingual Content In Repositories (via COAR) Coordinating Research Data Services: Key Barriers and Questions (via Ithaka S+R) The DAISY Consortium Publishes 2022 Annual Report

Here’s the Full Text of an AAP StatShot Report Posted Today: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released the StatShot Annual report covering the calendar year 2022, estimating that the U.S. book publishing industry generated $28.10 billion industry-wide during the year, a decline of 2.6% as compared to 2021. In spite of the slight […]

From The Irish Times: There’s a satisfying symmetry to the way Audrey Whitty appears to have stepped from the National Museum of Ireland, where she was deputy director, to the identical-looking home next door, on Kildare Street in Dublin, of the National Library of Ireland. The truth is less neat. For a start, it’s a very significant […]

From KOMU-TV: Libraries across mid-Missouri are adapting to a new rule that took effect Tuesday. The administrative rule, enacted by Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, could limit children’s access to certain books or topics. The rule restricts libraries from putting any “obscene” material on library shelves. It also allows parents to object to materials as inappropriate and […]

From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): The Moving Image and Sound Branch is pleased to announce that the sound recordings of RG 267: Records of the Supreme Court of the United States have been fully digitized and are available for listening and download through the National Archives Catalog. The audio recordings in Record Group 267 […]

The report and additional materials linked below were recently published online by OCLC Research. Title Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project Authors Chela Scott Weber Senior Program Officer Itza A. Carbajal Associate Researcher Lesley A. Langa Associate Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway Executive Director, Research Brooke Doyle Senior Project Coordinator […]

Here’s the Full Text of a Post From BookNet Canada: A survey of leisure time and reading habits from industry non-profit BookNet Canada has found that 81% of Canadians felt they had enough or more than enough free time in 2022. Canadians spent their free time shopping (99%), watching TV, videos, or movies (97%), cooking […]

Constellate Makes It Easier For Faculty to Teach Text Analysis and Computational Literacy (via ITHAKA) EveryLibrary Institute Publishes a New Issue of “The Political Librarian” (Volume 6, Issue 1, Spring 2023)  Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Releases Version 2 of the National Broadband Map (via NTIA) FOLIO Launches Orchid Release (via FOLIO) Good Data Practices: Removing Barriers […]