Book Review: Doodles from the Boogie Down by Stephanie Rodriguez
Publisher’s description A young Dominican girl navigates middle school, her strict mother, shifting friendships, and her dream of being an ...
National Library Week 2023: Brenton, user experience
Brenton Cheng learned to program in BASIC on an Apple II Plus at age 9. His mother was one of ...
Setting and Specificity: We Will Meet You There, a guest post by Polly Farquhar
I grew up in a small upstate New York town in the northern-most reaches of Appalachia, hills and villages and ...
The Power of Writing an UnRevolutionary Book, a guest post by Kalena Miller
When I was eight, I was obsessed with kidnapping. Who knows what triggered this fixation—perhaps an episode of Law and ...
National Library Week 2023: Caitlin, events
To celebrate National Library Week 2023, we are introducing readers to four staff members who work behind the scenes at the Internet Archive, ...
How BUFFALO FLATS Flattened Me: Turning Your Family History into Historical Fiction, a guest post by Martine Leavitt
I blame it all on the “big red book.” The big red book, affectionately so-called by the descendants of Thomas ...
Book Talk: The Apple II Age
Join author Laine Nooney for an IN-PERSON reading from their new book, followed by a conversation with historian Finn Brunton ...
Behind the Recipes in the WINNIE ZENG Series, a guest post by author Katie Zhao
As a child growing up in a Chinese American household, there were few things I loved more than eating good ...
National Library Week 2023: Liz, donations
To celebrate National Library Week 2023, we are introducing readers to four staff members who work behind the scenes at the Internet Archive, ...
Book Mail: Fake dating, trans magic, a rap contest, an elite competition, and more!
Things are kind of out of control here, book mail-wise. If you follow me on Twitter you may have seen the giant stacks ...
Book Review: Shannon in the Spotlight by Kalena Miller
Publisher’s description After Shannon accidentally lands a lead role in the summer musical, she realizes she has bigger things to ...
AI Audio Challenge: Audio Restoration of 78rpm Records based on Expert Examples
http://great78.archive.org/ Hopefully we have a dataset primed for AI researchers to do something really useful, and fun– how to take ...
National Library Week 2023: Charles, metadata
To celebrate National Library Week 2023, we are introducing readers to four staff members who work behind the scenes at the ...
National Library Week 2023: There’s More to the Story
Libraries are full of stories in a variety of formats from picture books to large print, audiobooks to ebooks, and ...
Jenika, a guest post by Kerry O’Malley Cerra
One of my favorite aspects of being an author is visiting schools to chat with kids about books, reading, dogs, ...
Twisting History for a Spell, a guest post by the author of THAT SELF-SAME METAL, Brittany N. Williams
I often think about the most memorable lesson I gained from my seventh and eighth grade history teacher: that engaging ...
Book Talk: Against Progress | Internet Archive Blogs
Join journalist MARIA BUSTILLOS for a virtual book talk with author & professor of law JESSICA SILBEY for her latest ...
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Unanimously Passes Resolution in Support of Digital Rights For Libraries
San Francisco City Hall from east end of Civic Center Plaza In a stunning show of support for libraries, late ...
Big Ten Academic Alliance and JSTOR announce multi-year agreement for Path to Open pilot
The research libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) have entered into a multi-year pilot agreement with JSTOR to ...
Europe’s academic publishing system must become sustainable and equitable
In a statement published on (and dated) April 17, 2023, the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities has expressed concerns over ...
Wired: The Hacking of ChatGPT Is Just Getting Started
It took Alex Polyakov just a couple of hours to break GPT-4. When OpenAI released the latest version of its text-generating chatbot ...
How and why does official information become misinformation? A typology of official misinformation
by Hilda Ruokolainen, Gunilla Widén, Eeva-Liisa Eskola Abstract It is important to widen the understanding of misinformation in different contexts. The findings of this qualitative ...
ALA calls for a national day of action to protect the freedom to read, designates Right to Read Monday for 2023 National Library Week
The American Library Association (ALA) today announced a national day of action to protect libraries and the freedom to read, ...
Law Professor Makes Digital Copyright Book Open for All
After spending years researching the history of U.S. copyright law, Jessica Litman says she wants to make it easy for ...
College & Research Libraries News: 2021 ACRL Academic Library Trends and Statistics Survey
Each year, ACRL’s Academic Library Trends and Statistics Survey provides data that can help us understand how academic libraries provide ...
