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Dianne Coan, Division Director of Technical Operations at Fairfax County Public Library in Fairfax, VA., and Carmi Parker, a librarian and ILS administrator who serves on the executive advisory committee for the Washington Digital Library Consortium (and who is also a ReadersFirst Working Group memb
In what ways do libraries act as ‘instruments of social control,’ and how could they be made into instruments of restoration, reparation, or transformation?
The King County (WA) Library System, the nation's top digital-circulating library, has said it will stop buying new release Macmillan e-books once a two-month embargo begins next month.
Dear library friends, We know that you all are looking for online training resources for your staff who are working from home. We have made some changes to help:
Jean Armour Polly fought her colleagues to get Internet into her library in the early 90s.
Following an investigation into Santa Cruz Public Libraries’ use of Gale Analytics on Demand, a California grand jury reported on June 24 that the use of data analytics tools by libraries “is a potential threat to patron privacy and trust.”
What to do about an ICE raid.
FILE PHOTO: In a Jan. 25, 2018, photo, Dierra Rowland, 19, of Philadelphia, studies at the Indiana University of Pennsyl […]
Use of keycards and self-service scanners cannot replace librarians, say campaigners
Creating barriers to access to e-books, which is what publishers are doing to resist dominance by Amazon, says Jessamyn West, disrupts the public good libraries were created to serve. Public libraries exist in large part because they are necessary to a functioning democracy, West writes.
University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves.
In times of crisis, public libraries are often places of refuge.
Apple's newest store in the Carnegie Library embodies the troubling privatization of public goods and public spaces.
Australian writer Mandy Sayer has written an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald lamenting the loss of libraries as “hallowed sanctuaries of silence and solitude.” Sayer says she grew up poo…
The specialized help at libraries or via knowledgeable staff may be invaluable to a patron, but highlighting this work may come at a cost of privacy to the very populations that are seeking protection.
Months before its release, friends and family began sending me links to the movie trailer for “The Public.”