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School Districts No Longer Required To Have Nurses, Librarians Under Senate Bill In Iowa

Publishers say that the bold open-access initiative rules out proven ways of opening up the literature

Enough is Enough: Bains Proposes CRTC Policy Direction Grounded in Competition, Affordability, and Consumer Interests

Libraries, museums, and universities must include hip-hop culture in their programming in thoughtful, authentic ways

Dr. Seuss Books Can Be Racist, But We Still Keep Reading Them : Code Switch : NPR

A CRTC More Interested in Protecting Incumbent Companies Than Consumers: My Appearance on the Broadcast Dialogue Podcast

School librarians left out of $5K pay raise proposal in TX

Librarians pore over books to keep out the bedbugs

Canada’s Internet Music Success Story: SOCAN’s Canadian Internet Streaming Revenues Surpass Radio Royalties

Oklahoma teacher, book collector makes hobby of reuniting families with meaningful bookmarks

How to Read 80ish Books a Year (And Actually Remember Them)

The Obama Presidential Library That Isn’t

'I can't even look at the cover': the most disturbing books

How Do You Preserve History On The Moon? : NPR

The CRTC Opens a Penske File: Chair Ian Scott Commits to Little Action Despite Finding Misleading Telecom Sales Tactics

Wayne State to roll out fast-track librarian certificate amid shortage, student demand

Around 2,000 Artifacts Have Been Saved From the Ruins of Brazil’s National Museum Fire

How American Cities Got Their Libraries - CityLab

The Lab Discovering DNA in Old Books - The Atlantic

Librarians and Their Memorable Patron Interactions

Female Librarians on Horseback Delivering Books, ca. 1930s

Some of the Rarest Books in the World Can Be Found in This Downtown Library In Texas

Menu Matters: On Alison Pearlman’s “May We Suggest” - Los Angeles Review of Books

Hidden Details of the New York Public Library | Architectural Digest - YouTube

Every Page of This Book Is a Slice of Cheese - Gastro Obscura

How badly is Google Books search broken, and why?

Hold the front pages: meet the endpaper enthusiasts | Books

Amazon caught selling counterfeits of publisher’s computer books—again

Why do so many book covers still use the phrase for works of fiction?

Meet the woman who took 73 years to return a library book — and wasn’t fined

How Libraries Can Make Public Data More Accessible - CityLab

Amazon Sells Way Fewer Books To Academic Libraries Than People Think

The Very Modern Anger of Shakespeare’s Women

Shelf policing: how books (and cacti) make women too 'spiky' for men

Flawed Arguments and Inappropriate Analogies: Why Netflix Taxes and Cancon Requirements Should be Rejected

3 Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books

Novels with Giant Possibly Magical Libraries - Charlie Harrington

Thousands of scientists run up against Elsevier’s paywall

CRTC on OpenMedia’s Site Blocking Campaign: “Contributed to a Better Understanding of the Issues”

Government Service Delivery in the Digital Age: My Appearance Before the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Ethics and Privacy

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens

A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions

(S)ex libris - on the Bodleian's ‘secret trove of obscene material’

How Dylan Thomas's writing shed inspired Roald Dahl - BBC News

To All the Book Introductions I’ve Loved Before

Librarians abroad: ‘None of us thought we’d grow up to be one’