Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer – will pen a manuscript that won't be published until 2114
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It’s official: These thirteen books are now banned from all public schools in Utah
48 votes -
Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas
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Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton
17 votes -
Queer Liberation Library offers free LGBTQ books in response to wave of US school bans
21 votes -
Book borrowed from Finnish library returned eighty-four years late – copy of Arthur Conan Doyle's Refugees was due to be returned month after USSR invaded Finland
13 votes -
Book ban fight in Nevada would create LGBTQ section of libraries
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Digital books are costing local libraries a ton
22 votes -
Six badass librarians who changed history
13 votes -
Idaho libraries must move materials deemed harmful to children, or face lawsuits, under new law
24 votes -
What resources are available in a modern library?
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What libraries risk when they go entirely digital
6 votes -
US libraries struggle to afford the demand for e-books and seek new state laws in fight with publishers
46 votes -
Police bodycam shows sheriff hunting for 'obscene' books at library
54 votes -
Researchers reveal lost library of Charles Darwin for the first time
10 votes -
Choose Your Own Adventure - 45 years ago, one kids book series taught a generation how to make bad decisions
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Each year from 2014 to 2114, a manuscript is sealed in The Silent Room of Norway's Future Library – the goal: greater hope for humankind
13 votes -
How to lose a library [British Library cyber attacks]
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This library has most books ever published in the UK
10 votes -
Houston Public Library launches self-service book kiosk at Hobby Airport
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Ending censorship applies to prison too - US prisons remain the institutions where the most censorship occurs
22 votes -
Forgotten to return your library book? Don’t worry about it [library fines are falling out of fashion].
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The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts
39 votes -
Texas tried to enact more book bans last year than any other US state
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Pahrump Nevada library considers controversial policy of moving children’s books to the adult section based on content
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The cost to librarians and libraries from the US culture wars
22 votes -
The coming enshittification of US public libraries
98 votes -
US District Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials
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2023 Library Systems Report | The advance of open source systems
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Banned in the USA: The growing movement to censor books in schools
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US school librarians vilified as the 'arm of Satan' in book-banning wars
8 votes -
To build a delightful library for kids, start with these ninety-nine books
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Judith Schalansky has become the ninth author to be selected for the Future Library, which asks authors to create a work that will not be revealed to readers until 2114
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George Dawson book about racism effectively banned at George Dawson Middle School
7 votes -
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?
9 votes -
Tennessee school board bans Holocaust graphic novel ‘Maus’ – author Art Spiegelman condemns the move as ‘Orwellian’
28 votes -
US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools
18 votes -
Charles I's travelling library
4 votes -
Have a flick through Isaac Newton's notebook
4 votes -
Want to borrow that e-book from the library? Sorry, Amazon won’t let you.
18 votes -
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
5 votes -
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
10 votes -
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
5 votes -
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
30 votes -
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
10 votes