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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 […]

Video recordings of the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) series “Copyright and Fair Use for Libraries” were recently made available online. Each webinar recording is embedded below and also available in this playlist. Series Description Why does copyright and fair use matter for libraries and librarians? This series of presentations features lawyers and librarians […]

From the Yale Library: The library’s digital archive of Yale Daily News (YDN)—the nation’s oldest continuously published college daily—has expanded to include 3,306 more issues than it had just two years ago. There are now approximately 23,929 issues of YDN available in digital format—including occasional special issues and supplements—that users can search, view, and download in PDF […]

From the Arkansas Advocate: Three Crawford County parents have sued the county judge, quorum court, library board and interim library director, alleging “unlawful censorship of materials,” specifically children’s books with LGBTQ+ topics, in the county’s five library branches. Rebecka Virden, Nina Prater, Samantha Rowlett and their minor children are all Crawford County residents and library […]