LISNews – News For Librarians – Since 1999
4 days ago · Libraries had changed since I was a kid. They were now more like a community service center than just a home for books. Older people signed up to learn basic computer skills or how to set up an Instagram account. Children reading below their grade level showed up weekly for tutoring, and immigrants ...
LISNews – News For Librarians – Since 1999
It’s time yet again to take a look back at the memorable library stories from the past year. Two themes dominated headlines in 2023: attacks on libraries; and the rising implications of generative artificial intelligence.
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Nov 20, 2024 · LISNews is a collaborative weblog [aka blog] devoted to current events and news in the world of Library and Information Science. A dedicated team of international bloggers scour the World Wide Web to find stories they find interesting. You'll find links to news stories and Web sites, along with original writing, interviews and reviews. LISNews is …
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Throughout the week I run across stories that are too short, too boring, or for whatever reason don\’t make the final cut. Once a week I\’ll try to put them together in a single weekly all in one update.
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Oct 4, 2024 · Oliver Sacks Archive Heads to the New York Public Library The voluminous papers of the celebrated neurologist include letters, notebooks, drafts and other traces of a man who couldn’t stop writing.. Now, the New York Public Library has acquired Sacks’s personal archive, a trove documenting his intellectual explorations of topics as diverse as “aging, amnesia, color, deafness, dreams ...
August 2023 – LISNews – News For Librarians
Aug 21, 2023 · A pilot proposed by Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel %u2014 yet to be voted on by the agency %u2014 would make $200 million available over three years to strengthen cyber defense in schools and libraries.
Ten Stories That Shaped 2023 – LISNews – News For Librarians
It’s time yet again to take a look back at the memorable library stories from the past year. Two themes dominated headlines in 2023: attacks on libraries; and the rising implications of generative artificial intelligence.
Podcast primer–and new e-book-related podcast - LISNews
Mar 25, 2005 · David Rothman writes “Grace Lee over at the newly reborn Handheld Librarian has put together a nifty little podcast primer–telling how to receive podcasts and originate them. Meanwhile a TeleRead podcast has begun to sum up e-book news and some related library issues. RSS feed for pod-audio is here.The third TeleRead podcast, also downloadable directly as an MP3, leads with a quick mention ...
Censorship – LISNews – News For Librarians
Nov 12, 2024 · Outcry in Montgomery county as Linda Coombs’ book on European colonization of Native American land reclassified. Anti-censorship advocates have joined the book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as fiction.
Behind the stacks: The secret life of a librarian - LISNews
Nov 21, 2024 · Recent Posts. Behind the stacks: The secret life of a librarian November 21, 2024; Percival Everett wins the National Book Award fiction prize : NPR November 21, 2024; HarperCollins Confirms It Has a Deal to Sell Authors’ Work to AI Company November 20, 2024; In a new information age, news outlets are partnering with public libraries November 20, 2024; 20 years after opening, Bill Clinton ...