Nearly six months after her firing in a dispute over where children’s books should be shelved, former Rutherford County Library System Director Luanne James is suing the library system, its board and eight board members.
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Many libraries got their start in or because of Philly
As the birthplace of the American Library Association, the first research library and the iconic Free Library of Philadelphia, Philly is an important space for library history.
This Minnesota school banned more books than most states
Parents objected, a new library assistant was fired and books that included ‘Charlotte’s Web’ and a kids’ cookbook were gone from a public school near Lake Vermilion.
‘Whose stories are allowed to exist?’ Midland teacher raises alarm over book bans
“It’s horrifying, because banning books is one of the hallmarks of authoritarianism,” she says of the growing restrictions. “They say it's about protecting children,” “I think it is about controlling what narratives are allowed to exist in the public space.”
Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers
In 1939, the 25-cent paperback made America a nation of readers, delivering thrillers, classics and Pulitzer-winning books. So why did the Big Five publishers just kill the mass market paperback?
As They Supposedly Battle AI Slop, Major Publishers Reportedly Cover Their Books in It
An agent says they’ve started making publishers agree in advance not to run entire unpublished manuscripts through LLMs in order to generate promotional text—something that had apparently become an issue. “Ostensibly, that was meant to protect authors from tech companies, but it also applies to the company buying and publishing the book,” the anonymous agent said.
When Europe’s monastic libraries were looted, Britain’s richest book collectors went hunting
English booksellers and book collectors used agents on the ground in France, Germany and Italy to buy books from threatened libraries, coerce their owners into sale, or, if everything else failed, simply steal the desired items. They did so secure in the knowledge that the homes of these books would soon be broken up anyhow. The moment popularised the term “bibliomania”, as some of the richest men and women in England competed against each other to pay eye-watering prices for Europe’s oldest and rarest books.
Things not to do at the library – Local news, weather and sports from Fergus Falls, Minnesota
Don’t blast your conversation on speakerphone. It’s loud and disruptive. We don’t really want to listen to one side of your phone conversation, let alone both sides. Don’t be that person who talks on speakerphone in public (libraries).
‘Radical Street Librarian’ Transforms Trolley into Mobile Library for Kids
Today, the self-described “radical street librarian” is bringing books directly to children in neighborhoods with limited access, turning a green-and-gold trolley into a rolling destination for young readers.
We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we? | TechCrunch
“It can create a situation where people don’t feel agency in actually creating their own future — like when you say that AI will replace everyone, people ask, what are we gonna do? And these companies are not really responding ethically or responsibly,” Pataranutaporn said. “How do we have imagination while still being responsible for the impact of that imagination?”
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