We are living in the early stages of an Information Shock caused by generative AI. Information Shocks are rare, but historically transformative. This one will require a reinvention of information scie...

The Austin Public Library (APL), in partnership with the City of Austin’s Transportation & Public Works Department (TPW) and its Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Program, is launching a new Bike...

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled (May 2025) that library collection decisions are not protected by the First Amendment, they are “government speech” and therefore under the control of publi...

In this live podcast episode at the Library Journal 2025 Directors’ Summit we focus on the relationship between libraries and the communities they serve, especially during troubling times. Beth leads ...

In this episode, we dive into a topic that’s near and dear to us: the pathways into librarianship and the broader information professions—the credentials, the professional development, and, honestly, ...

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. What if libraries could save lives—not just inform them? In a time of rising social isolation, ideological division, and technological upheaval, libraries s...

Photo from The Samuels Public Library After being targeted by anti-LGBTQ book banners and having their funding pulled, a local library in Virginia successfully stopped a threatened takeover by a pr…

The rise of AI is a polarizing topic. But in choosing to self-publish his new book—with the help of AI—acclaimed library educator R. David Lankes hopes to accelerate a conversation about how the techn...

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OpenAI's ChatGPT may be driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of "ChatGPT-induced psychosis."

Books that have been in our libraries for generations are being targeted, for seemingly no reason or at least no legal reason. The Georgetown Independent School District picked books that they have de...

The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

Maybe it’s time to move on from a piecemeal “customer” focus, and consider to a more complete “whole people in communities” approach.

You've likely seen or said many of these things about book bans, but they're not true. That, plus this week's book censorship news.

Proposed censorship measures in several states could deny your right to read some books in our Nation's libraries and lead to librarians facing criminal charges for the books on the shelves.

Kim A. Snyder's film spotlights the librarians on the front line of the culture war waged by right-wingers in certain American states.

Kasey Meehan, director, Freedom to Read, at PEN America, said: "For over three years we have countered rhetoric that book bans occurring in public schools are a “hoax.” They are absolutely not. This k...

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