The Most Popular Books In Libraries, January–March 2020

These were the most popular books in libraries to kick off 2020. What have you read? Missed? Want to pick up from your library or bookstore next? Continue reading at 'Book Riot'

[ Book Riot | 2020-05-08 10:32:36 UTC ]

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Election for New York City’s money manager is a battle of the boroughs

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Trump administration seeks to starve libraries and museums of funding by shuttering this little-known agency

The consequences of shutting down the Institute of Museum and Library Services would be particularly dire for smaller museums and rural museums. Continue reading at The Conversation

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Trump is attacking libraries and museums in every state. Here are 3 things you can do to help communities fight back

An executive order slashes much-needed federal funding for these services, but you can aid the effort to save them by signing a petition or joining a protest. On Friday, President Donald Trump issued yet another executive order aimed at gutting our federal agencies in the name of fiscal... Continue reading at Fast Company

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The London Bookstore Just Named the Most Popular in the Entire World

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Trump is trying to destroy libraries.

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'A library is more than a place with books, it is a lifeline'

Research by the BBC finds libraries are being lost at a rate of about 40 each year. Continue reading at BBC World

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Greenlight Bookstore Ratifies New Union Contract

Union employees at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn have ratified a new contract that guarantees annual pay raises and provides more benefits that are designed to reduce turnover and reward skills developed on the job. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
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First Day Sales Lift Barnes & Noble Education

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OverDrive Distributes Podium’s Audiobooks Outside North America

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Remember This

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How Libraries and Librarians Support Romance

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The Things We Learned in the Fire: On the Destruction (and Rebirth) of a Bookstore

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Lit Hub Daily: February 26, 2025

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How presidential libraries mirror the legacy-building of emperors

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Writer quits Society of Authors over union’s ‘betrayal’ of Jerusalem bookshop raided by Israeli police

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Sending Scholarly Works to Far-Flung Seminaries

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The Magic of Finding Yourself in “The In-Between Bookstore”

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