Jean Darnell packed up her life and moved 1,500 miles away to Philadelphia because she believes in the promise of school libraries.
It's a bold move for the nationally recognized educator from Texas, as Darnell has become the first Philadelphia School District library chief in years since the system let its school libraries wither starting in the 1990s.
Michigan library closes for second time over bed bug discovery
On Friday, the city contacted a professional pest management company which inspected the property and determined that K-9 units would have identified bed bugs found in chairs during a prior inspection on Sept. 25. That led the pest management company to suspect the bed bugs were reintroduced to the facility after it was treated the first time.
Removing Books From Libraries Often Takes Debate. But There’s a Quieter Way.
Culling old or damaged books is standard library practice. But in some cases, the process is being used to remove books because of the story they tell.
Why France’s Most Controversial Novelist Is Also Its Most Celebrated
Reviled as much as he is lauded, Michel Houellebecq holds up a mirror to a world many would rather not see.
Along with bomb threats and book challenges, we%u2019re seeing an increase in the number of libraries dealing with ransomware attacks, where hackers gain access to a library system%u2019s data, encrypt the files, and then demand a ransom in exchange. (The Seattle Public Library system recently went through an enormous ordeal earlier this year that has already cost the library over $1 million in technology upgrades and legal fees.) But now Delaware libraries across the state have closed their computer labs after being hacked last week. The ransom demand is allegedly around $1 million, although typically, organizations rebuild in the wake of a ransomware attack, rather than pay the ransom. Thankfully, patron data has not been affected in Delaware.
I Tried to Summarize a Book With ChatGPT, and the Plagiarism Protections WorkedIn case you were hoping ChatGPT could help you get through your TBR pile a little faster, know that the plagiarism safeguards are alive and well.
If you want to use ChatGPT to learn about a book, you’ll have to spend at least 30 minutes browsing reader summaries yourself and use the most interesting ideas to frame your prompts. This inevitably takes a chunk of your potential deep work time. You can’t just ask the AI tool to do it for you.
The beloved local bookstore is moving from White Street in Cambridge after 20 years. Its new location is at Lesley University, down the street.
“We hired expensive movers to start moving us on Tuesday but we thought, to get it started, it would just be more fun to let our customers and our community start the move. So we made a chain of people from there to here, it’s about 1,000 feet, and we passed about, I don’t know, a few hundred books to get started and they moved the romance section,” said David Sandberg, owner of Porter Square Books.
A small number of people gathered on Saturday to protest a drag queen story hour at the Somerville Library, but video shows about 100 supporters of the event also showed up.
"Whenever hate arrives in Somerville or Medford or Boston, love and joy always come out 10-fold to kind of drown it out, and that's what happened here," said Christian Krenek.
Sausage slices and love notes: The improvised bookmarks librarians findThe Vienna central library has a new exhibition drawn from its collection of 8,000 items found over the past 20 years.
“When books are returned, sometimes the objects just fall out,” she said. “I started collecting the objects because the things I found — the photos, notes, prescriptions, a receipt from 1965 — they were just too fascinating to throw away. There were a lot of interesting and touching things that give us a really unique insight into readers’ lives.”
More than two decades after beginning her collection, Bitter enlisted the help of artist and co-curator Sebastian Kraner to design the exhibition. A black-and-white photo of a schoolgirl wearing a backpack is the first artifact visitors see.
As conservative parents, educators, and politicians spread the book-banning movement across the nation, Utah has quickly arisen as one of the most dystopian states when it comes to the right to read. The state recently passed a law that allows it to enact statewide book bans. Essentially, if a handful of schools find some kind of fault with a book, it can be banned in every single public and charter school in the state. The Utah Board of Education also suggested adding a stipulation to the law that would’ve required teachers to burn the books banned statewide. Meanwhile, the state’s conservative politicians and educators recently held a book-banning party to celebrate the archaic law and demand that authors “repent” for writing books.
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