Companies such as Google used to be our portals to the rest of the web. Can the internet as we know it survive when A.I. answers all of our questions?
370 books in 20 months: SA author defends her use of AI – eNCA
South African writer Coral Hart has published more than 370 books since February 2025 using artificial intelligence, a process she passionately defends despite criticism and threats.
"I chose to be the one to step up and say, these are conversations we need to start having," Hart said.
Sen. Brent Hagenbuch and other state legislators discuss tightening school library book law | Education | dentonrc.com
Some Texas senators are considering strengthening a state law meant to give parents more control over what’s in school libraries.
An Underrated Reason Boys Are Reading Less
A lack of male protagonists is making it harder to get young readers into books.
Behind Locked Shelves: Alberta’s Librarians Brace for a New Era of ‘Book Bans’
A new provincial law requires public libraries to pull and restrict items with “graphic visual depictions of sexual acts.” Librarians are worried.
University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk | CBC News
Academic libraries are fighting off swarms of data-scraping bots — that are slowing or crashing sites meant for students, researchers and the public — as AI companies continue hunting for content to feed their large language models.
"They're just out there on the internet, just bombarding us with trying to grab up as much material as possible,"
From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet
AAlthough radically different in terms of size, scale, and scope, Linux, Wikipedia, and GuttenPlag Wiki are all examples of what you might call “commons-based peer production,” a term coined in the early 2000s by a law professor named Yochai Benkler.
Drawing on Benkler’s work, we propose a new definition of peer production. We hold that these projects must do four things:
Motivate participants to contribute using diverse incentives that are frequently, if not exclusively, nonmonetary.
Be decentralized in that they are collectively self-governed and organized by participants.
Be decentralized in terms of how tasks are executed.
Create content that is protected as part of the public commons.
New York’s Queens Public Library battles ransomware crims: Wi-Fi, checkouts, and website go dark
A ransomware attack Wednesday on the Queens Public Library resulted in a system-side network outage that continued into Thursday and could take some time to be fixed, library officials said.
In posts on social media, the library said while all branches are open to the public, several services including the website, on-site computers, check out and return machines, and free Wi-Fi were unavailable. The library’s app and digital media services were also down.
Goodbye from Salon – Salon.com
Today, after 31 years, we are saddened to announce that Salon is ceasing publication.
Sad to see a site fail after so long 🙁
‘What Makes a Book Rare?’: Librarian Learns Answer at Rare Book School – WSU Libraries
A rare book isn’t necessarily expensive, old, or fragile. Some are truly unique, while others might exist in dozens of other libraries. The common ground that unites them, if any, is that they are remarkable in some way: for the information they contain, their role in the history of printing and bookmaking, or their place in the pantheon of the literature of a particular genre or place. But how “rare” a book is depends quite a lot on the particular knowledge and interests of the beholder.
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