Missouri Supreme Court justices questioned whether a 2022 law restricting “explicit sexual material” in school libraries goes beyond constitutional obscenity st...

What Banned Books Week can teach us about access to information in the age of AI

By defining and mapping the landscape of community-based archives, the study provides funders, institutions, and practitioners with insights about the value of these unique organizations.

Seven years ago, Frank Strong stocked 20 copies of the book “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” in his classroom library. Then, one by one, the coming-of-age novel about a Mexican immigrant girl ...

Meet six real participants in The Librarians, including Carolyn Foote, Becky Calzada and Amanda Jones, and explore their education and library careers.

Librarians have become a mental health front line, and we should support them in this unexpected role.

Today’s libraries and librarians are turning to social media to connect with their community in direct – and often hilarious – ways.

Ghana’s university libraries must do more than preserve books and provide access to information if they are to remain central to teaching, research and learning in a rapidly changing academic environment, senior university leaders and librarians have said. They say the growing influence of digital technology, artificial intelligence, open access and changing expectations from students […]

To get to the bottom of this perplexing behavior, Science interviewed the agent

I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms. This one about leaving Reddit, this one about leaving WordPress, and a bunch of others about leaving Dis...

Throughout an ongoing court battle, the burden of enforcing SF 496 has largely fallen on districts and school librarians, who must scour shelves for “obscene” material and report removed books.

Less than four years after voters created the library district with the promise of stable funding, declining property tax revenue and rising costs have forced a reversal.

We found that vehicles, under a variety of real-world settings, contact not only a wide range of first parties (i.e., manufacturer domains) and car-specific support parties, but also third parties that are known to provide advertising and tracking services. Our study revealed a large gap between what vehicle manufacturers publicly disclosed and how the connected vehicle ecosystem actually shares data over the Internet

People who visit libraries and historical societies often ask what their oldest book is. Here's how staff can be ready for that question.

Ethernet ports are still desirable on desktop PCs, hanging on alongside the likes of the 3.5mm audio jack and IEC mains connector.

OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. - Just over a week after announcing the nomination of Jean Darnell to be the newest director of the Milwaukee Public Library, Mayor

The latest literary AI scandal forces us to question what we expect of writers. Some French authors argue AI is now part of our lives – and authorship is evolving.

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it woul...

This 404 report justly been getting considerable coverage. Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training dat...

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The most detailed architectural history of the Lafayette Hotel, designed by Louise Bethune and still standing in Buffalo, NY. Illustrated with photographs and maps.

The book banners are going after bookstores now. Libraries weren't enough for them. They want to censor your books, pure and simple.

Booksellers are reporting mysterious bulk orders. It's thought the books are being used to train AI - and ending up pulped.

As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

We knew this day would come. Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wa...

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

A panel at ALA’s 2026 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago explored how libraries can navigate the ethics of generative AI.

“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.”

“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.”

Finland's libraries are increasingly being valued not by how many books they lend, but how they help societies function.

Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words. Their unauthorized site now...

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A university professor on what we lose when we lose the book as a physical medium.

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After more than a century of sharing the main entrance, Canadians were barred from using the library's US-side door by the Trump administration in 2025.

In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scra...

When Clarke Speicher (spike-er) asked how I liked the screen adaptation of Train Dreams, Denis Johnson’s novella following the solitary logger Robert Granier in the early 20th-century American West…