If you've noticed changes to the digital materials you can borrow from your library, that's because that access is costing libraries way more than ever before. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-02-04 14:30:00 UTC ]
During Metzger’s six-year tenure, the St. Paul, Minn.–based nonprofit saw its network of book-sharing boxes double. A national search for his successor will be conducted prior to his retirement in June 2025. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-24 05:00:00 UTC ]
Kootenai County libraries will create an "adults only" room, revoke library access to minors, and seek to ban purchases of a wide swath of book topics for anyone under 18. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-20 14:25:00 UTC ]
Destruction of US public libraries may start with complaints over books, but that's not the end goal. Alpena Public Library is now the tool of those book banners and serves as a stark warning of what's happening nationwide. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-16 14:00:00 UTC ]
A key victory in the ongoing battle over First Amendment rights in public libraries and access to books from Arkansas this week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-12-24 14:00:00 UTC ]
Library censorship updates, recent adaptations to know, and more library-focused news for the week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-12-20 13:00:00 UTC ]
PW looks back at some of the library stories that captivated the publishing world this year, and what they portend for 2025. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
Catch up with the latest in library news, including mental health literacy resources, Japanese libraries trying out book sales, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-12-13 12:30:00 UTC ]
You can book a room in any hotel, but at the Library Hotel you can select which books will be in your room. On the fourth floor, far from the madding crowd downstairs enjoying the complimentary daily wine and cheese, guests can rest in a room filled with Russian novels. The sixth floor’s rooms... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-12-02 18:27:16 UTC ]
"Surprising absolutely no one, Trump has already threatened Penguin Random House and THE NEW YORK TIMES with a $10 billion lawsuit related to the recent publication of LUCKY LOSER." Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-11-26 11:00:00 UTC ]
How libraries should prepare for the incoming administration right now, from updating trustee descriptions to addressing mis/dis information. That, plus this week's book censorship news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-11-22 13:30:00 UTC ]
"Are we continuing to pretend that libraries are inherently neutral and apolitical institutions?" Thoughts? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-11-08 12:30:00 UTC ]
The last few years have been difficult for libraries and librarians. And with last night’s election results, the future for the profession just got a lot murkier, according to the customary election night wrap-up from nonpartisan library political action committee EveryLibrary. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
"We know from history that a way you control a nation is by controlling what its citizens read" — Jodi Picoult Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-11-01 11:00:00 UTC ]
Plus, Barnes & Noble shares its best books of the year. (We can all agree this is too early for that, right?) Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-10-29 11:30:00 UTC ]
Catch up on library news from the last few weeks, including an art exhibit of items patrons have left behind in library books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-10-18 11:15:00 UTC ]
"Civic engagement is an essential component of what libraries do; it's kind of why they exist." Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-10-09 15:30:00 UTC ]
"Along with bomb threats and book challenges, we're seeing an increase in the number of libraries dealing with ransomware attacks." Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-10-04 11:00:00 UTC ]
Banned Books Week is drawing to a close, but that's not going to put a stop to the censorship happening across the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-09-27 12:00:00 UTC ]
Little Free Library has debuted a new interactive map on its website that charts the locations of Little Free Libraries across the United States, alongside the number of book bans that are in place in each state. The organization built the tool as a way to quickly find the nearest free library —... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-09-05 18:27:15 UTC ]