Here’s what’s been going on with the site—plus some alternatives for accessing free e-books. Many a desperate college student has turned to Z-Library, a site for pirated e-books, as an alternative to expensive textbooks. But on Friday, the site suddenly went dark, sending students who relied on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2022-11-04 18:00:00 UTC ]
The award-winning publisher will make a range of digital titles available through Comics Plus, which offers readers simultaneous access to more than 20,000-plus digital comics, graphic novels, and manga through schools and libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
The House has yet to sign on to the Senate's $20 million proposal to fund library construction and renovation, which, if passed, would be the first federal funding for updating library facilities in some 26 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Right to Read Act was introduced in Congress October 6. Here's what it is and how it could impact libraries and book bans nationwide. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-10-10 14:39:31 UTC ]
Kyle K. Courtney, the chair of Library Futures, defends controlled digital lending, the practice at issue in a key copyright case. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-09-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
A New Jersey man named Bob Jablonski has finally returned Hitler to the local library. No, this is not The Onion. Bob Jablonski checked out the 1936 biography of Adolph Hitler in 1947, for a school book report, and presumably kept it all these years just to make sure the Allies had truly won... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-02 14:55:57 UTC ]
Comics Plus readers drove nearly half a million checkouts of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga through more than 2,000 schools and libraries through the first half of 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
Is there anything you can't find at a library? These 10 scenes from horror movies and TV shows prove that libraries save lives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-07-25 10:36:00 UTC ]
PJ Library, the nonprofit organization that sends free Jewish children’s books to families around the world, is prioritizing titles that reflect the diversity of Jewish life as it grows its in-house publishing imprint. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
The groundbreaking 2022 Urban Library Trauma Study Report looks at trauma, stress, and burnout in public libraries and offer recommendations Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-07-15 14:17:00 UTC ]
In the back of my favorite bookstore in Brooklyn, there’s a wall covered in all the random things the employees have found in the used books they sell: photos, newspaper clippings, notes, receipts, pressed flowers, etc. It’s a fascinating little archive, both meaningless and somehow magical,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-07-11 14:16:40 UTC ]
The 2022 Urban Libraries Unite Trauma Study addresses a "crisis of trauma" in urban public libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing—has just become, at 45, the youngest ever winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. The prize, which was established in 2008 as a lifetime achievement award, honors “an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-07-01 17:08:35 UTC ]
Libraries from California to North Carolina to Utah to New York have seen their Pride displays challenged or removed this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-06-30 10:41:00 UTC ]
Following the recent onslaught of attacks on LGBTQ+ rights across the nation, the Smithtown Library Board of Trustees passed a resolution on June 21st to remove all Pride month displays from their children’s sections across all four buildings in the library’s district. The New York Library... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-06-24 15:19:59 UTC ]
The final order declares Maryland's groundbreaking, controversial library e-book law preempted by the Federal Copyright Act and blocks its enforcement, all but ending a months-long lawsuit filed by the Association of American Publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
At the U.S. Book Show, a panel of library leaders weighed in on Covid-19, diversity, literacy, e-books and more Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
We’ve said it many, many times before and we’ll say it many, many times again: libraries represent the best of America. Today’s entry: the New York Public Library will give away 500,000 books this summer to help kids, teens, and families build their at-home libraries. In addition to English,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-06-09 14:17:10 UTC ]
Stats from 2020-21 reveal that the Pointless presenter’s The Thursday Murder Club is the biggest hit in UK librariesRichard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club was the most borrowed book from UK libraries in the year 2020-21, while the prolific bestseller James Patterson was the most borrowed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-06-09 13:22:35 UTC ]
The movement intends to "empty libraries of LGBTQ content aimed at kids" by checking out and hiding all LGBTQ books on library displays. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-06-06 13:35:02 UTC ]