A mom’s campaign to ban library books divided a Texas town — and her own family
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Twilight of the libraries: What gets lost when books go off-site and online
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Some of the world's most celebrated authors have written manuscripts that won't be published for a century – why?
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Hate crime investigation underway after alleged Proud Boys storm Drag Queen Story Hour at Bay Area library
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Digital archivists race to preserve Ukrainian heritage
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Tennessee school board bans Holocaust graphic novel ‘Maus’ – author Art Spiegelman condemns the move as ‘Orwellian’
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US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools
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Tour of the sacred library
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Charles I's travelling library
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Have a flick through Isaac Newton's notebook
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Want to borrow that e-book from the library? Sorry, Amazon won’t let you.
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The current New York Times Best Sellers list for combined print and e-book fiction, scaled according to demand for the e-book at a selection of US public libraries
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The inside story of the 25-year, $8 million heist of maps, books, and artwork from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library
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Annotated digital archive of historic books
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Ocean Vuong joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in the Future Library to be published in ninety-four years time
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16th century bookwheels, the e-readers of the Renaissance, get brought to life by 21st century designers
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The Boston Public Library needs help transcribing anti-slavery letters
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The digital archives of the oldest Black newspaper in America show a long struggle for justice
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Internet Archive ends its "National Emergency Library" unlimited digital book-lending program in response to lawsuit filed by publishers
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Four major US publishers sue Internet Archive for copyright infringement, alleging that it has illegally offered more than a million scanned works to the public
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Tracking down all of Isaac Asimov's books
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Why authors are so angry about the Internet Archive’s Emergency Library
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The National Library of Scotland has digitized the first eight editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, issued between 1768 and 1860
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Best non-resident library cards for Overdrive access
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Internet Archive has created a National Emergency Library, allowing users access to all 1.4 million books in their collection with no waiting lists
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How to help librarians and archivists from your living room
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Hoopla offering Bonus Borrows - 1000+ selection of books that do not count against your borrowing credit
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The uncensored library: A digital library containing suppressed articles, built inside Minecraft to bypass internet surveillance and censorship
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"Pyke notte thy nostrellys." A 15th-century guide on children's manners has been digitized for first time
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People go to the library twice as often as they go to the movies
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Virginia school board stops removal of LGBTQ-themed children’s books
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The New York Public Library has calculated its most checked-out books of all time
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Kalamazoo school district decides not to have LGBTQ books in reading program
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E-books at libraries are a huge hit, leading to long waits, reader hacks and worried publishers
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Helsinki Library has robots to help reshelve books – they get a lot of press attention but they're not the important part of the library
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How Helsinki built book heaven – Finland's most ambitious library is a kind of monument to the Nordic model of civic engagement
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Karl Ove Knausgård is to become the sixth contributor to the Future Library, which collects works by contemporary authors that will remain unread until 2114
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The Biblioteca de Marvila library in Lisbon helped rejuvenate a neglected neighborhood through embracing and encouraging gaming
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Literature locked up: How prison book restriction policies constitute the nation’s largest book ban
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Libraries and archivists are scanning and uploading books that are secretly in the public domain
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Harry Potter books removed from St. Edward Catholic School due to 'curses and spells'
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Helsinki's new flagship library Oodi has been voted winner of the 2019 Public Library of the Year award by the IFLA
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Twice a year this floating library delivers thousands of books to the remote islands of Stockholm's archipelago
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From singing together to being read to in a library – an arts participation scheme is transforming lives in Denmark
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Rebuilding Jane Austen’s library
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Future Library is one of the most interesting projects happening in Europe right now that connects literature, art and the environment
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Prisons are banning books that teach prisoners how to code
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For remote communities in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, mobile libraries are a lifeline
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Longmont library district proposal won’t be on November’s ballot
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Having a library or cafe down the block could change your life
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