“It’s not just about taking a book off a shelf,” said Tasslyn Magnusson, an author and teacher from Wisconsin who tracks book censorship across the U.S. “It’s about power and who controls public education. It’s about what kind of America we were and are. We’re trying to define what family is and what America means. That comes down to the stories we tell.”
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/nov/26/trumps-promises-to-conservatives-raise-fears-of-mo/
DEF CON 32 – A Shadow Librarian: Fighting Back Against Encroaching Capitalism
“I am fucking dangerous, I am a public librarian”
Libraries had changed since I was a kid. They were now more like a community service center than just a home for books. Older people signed up to learn basic computer skills or how to set up an Instagram account. Children reading below their grade level showed up weekly for tutoring, and immigrants came to study for their citizenship test. Even homeless people ventured in to get away from the elements.
Percival Everett, the prolific author of dozens of books, won the fiction prize Wednesday at this year's National Book Awards. He won for his book James, which retells the story of Huckleberry Finn but from the perspective of Jim %u2014 the escaped slave Huck becomes friends with.
HarperCollins Confirms It Has a Deal to Sell Authors’ Work to AI Company
The Big Five publisher made a deal with an unnamed “artificial intelligence technology company” and is allowing authors to opt-in if they want to join the agreement.
Authors Guild CEO Mary Rasenberger told PW she appreciates the way Harper has approached its first foray into AI licensing, citing the opt-in model, which effectively acknowledges that the right to license works for AI rests with the author, as well as such other protective terms as limiting verbatim text output. And while she has some qualms about the 50-50 split between author and publisher in the Harper deal, she is pleased that Harper has acknowledged that this early agreement is outside of the standard publishing contract. “HarperCollins agrees that the AI deal is a one off,” she said, “and not setting a precedent for future agreements.”
In a new information age, news outlets are partnering with public librariesDallas in particular is a hub for library-media collaborations.
This level of trust makes libraries a good place for journalists to engage with the public. Tom Huang, the assistant managing editor at The Dallas Morning News, spearheaded outreach to the local library system. He said libraries offer an avenue for journalists to keep their work relevant in a changing world.
“I’ve always said newsrooms can’t afford to be the traditional ones where we’re closed off from the community,” he said. “But that’s a lot of hard work. And, since libraries have largely figured that out, why not partner with the libraries to do that?”
20 years after opening, Bill Clinton’s presidential library prepares for a ‘refresh’
“We need to refresh the current exhibits, the technology,” Stephanie Streett, the executive director of the Clinton Foundation said.. “The story is not going to change, the story of the Clinton administration and the work he did.”
Like “old Twitter” The scientific community finds a new home on BlueskyAfter recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede
“It’s just gone completely crazy,” says Mike Young, a science communicator in Denmark who gives social media workshops to scientists. He and his colleague Lasse Hjorth Madsen did an analysis in August mapping science communities on Bluesky. They found more than 20,000 influential scientists—people on the platform who were followed by at least 30 other scientists in the same network. When they repeated the analysis last week with an increased threshold of 40 scientist followers, the new number of influential scientists was almost 40,000. It is likely to be many times that now, Young says.
%u2018Extremists%u2019: Alabama GOP chair, anti-censorship group blast each other over libraries
“While it is true libraries cannot hold every book in the world, it has been affirmed through case law that libraries cannot censor material based on viewpoint discrimination,” Read Freely Alabama’s statement says. “That includes refusing to purchase books simply because the content is controversial to some.”
The story about a local library with free wedding dresses made the rounds from local New Jersey newspapers to national magazines and morning television. Puccio appeared in Brides, the 90-year-old wedding publication. NBC’s “Today Show” did a segment on her collection. People magazine, and even The New Yorker, published her story.
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