Mullets are back; cassette tapes are selling better than ever. So it’s no surprise that long-gone video rental chain Blockbuster is making a comeback in San Antonio, too — well, sort of. Alamo City’s first Free Blockbuster has opened inside the My Weekend World Events Center at 435 McCarty Rd in Harmony Hills. “Come browse, swap, and share your favorite movies & shows — just like the old days,” the project shared on Instagram. “ Whether you’re here to donate, pick up a flick, ...| CultureMap San Antonio
Several years before I started this blog in 2010, a series of articles by George Eberhart about haunted libraries was published in the Encyclopedia Britannica Blog. This comprehensive list on the now defunct blog—the above link is to the site on the Internet Archives’ Wayback Machine—covers perhaps a few hundred libraries throughout the United States … Continue reading "Guide to the Haunted Libraries of the South"| Southern Spirit Guide
I am often asked the question: ‘What do you feel when you sentence a man to death?’ Thus begins this book written by legal luminary, G.D. Khosla, who served in various capacities as mag…| a hot cup of pleasure
Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at info@reasonstobecheerful.world and we just might feature it here. Freedom to read It’s Banned Books Week! To mark the occasion, Anythink Libraries has launched free access to roughly 300 banned and... The post What We’re Reading: How U.S. States Are Resisting Book Bans appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful.| Reasons to be Cheerful
There's nothing better than curling up with a good book in a beautiful space.| Fodors Travel Guide
From musical instruments to kitchen gadgets, discover the surprising items you can borrow from libraries, all with your library card.| Libro.fm Audiobooks
The popular Bay Area librarian will step into LaVar Burton's role as host when the series relaunches.| www.kqed.org
The popular Bay Area librarian will step into LaVar Burton's role as host when the series relaunches.| www.kqed.org
From PEN America: In a new report documenting public school book bans over the 2024-2025 school year, PEN America cites alarming censorship pressures on school districts including: new federal efforts to restrict education that amplify rhetoric from state and local efforts to ban books; persistent attacks conflating LGBTQ+ identities as “sexually explicit;” and state-mandated bans […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
From Reuters: Archived crop and livestock reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture were set to transfer to a new government website on Wednesday with the agency’s existing online archive, hosted by Cornell University’s Mann Library, decommissioned, the USDA and a Cornell official said on Tuesday. The USDA’s online Economics, Statistics and Market Information System, […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
Here’s the Full Text of Today’s ALA Statement: The American Library Association (ALA) expressed disappointment with today’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) vote to end E-Rate support for library and school hotspot lending programs, which provided critical connectivity to millions of public library patrons who lack reliable internet access at home. “We don’t yet know the full extent […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
Journal of the Copyright Society Libraries and Collections, and the Annual Review of Selected Copyright Cases Volume 72, Issue 3; 2025 72 J. Copyright Soc’y 593 Direct to Complete TOC (with Abstracts) In This Issue Recent Developments In Copyright Law: Selected Annotated Cases Thomas Kjellberg, Joelle Milov, Dasha Chestukhin and Jaime Berman with Allison Furnari, […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
Title Open Resilience: Building Infrastructure Together (ORBIT) Source Invest in Open Infrastructure Authors Sarah Lippincott Lauren Collister Katherine E Skinner Chrys Wu DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17193778 From the IoI Blog: US-based library consortia provide an essential collaborative framework that enables academic institutions to achieve preservation, access, innovation, and educational goals that would be impossible individually. The report […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
From the Court Docket (9/25) From the Associated Press U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued the preliminary approval in San Francisco federal court Thursday after the two sides worked to address his concerns about the settlement, which will pay authors and publishers about $3,000 for each of the books covered by the agreement. It does […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
A new study has found that only 16% of American adults reported reading for pleasure on any given day, the lowest rate in 20 years.| BOOK RIOT
by Anthony Murisco, Public Engagement Librarian Labor Day is now behind us. This can only mean one thing for the students of New York City: It’s time for school to start again. The first day of school creeps up differently … Continue reading →| Books, Health and History
Amanda Jones lost her legal battle against online harassers this week but vows to continue to press her case.| Education Week
Why PE matters right alongside reading, writing and arithmetic When schedules get tight, funding gets slashed, or test prep season kicks into high gear, physical education is often one of the first things to go. Like art and music, PE is frequently labeled as an “extracurricular”: a nice-to-have, but not essential to the core mission […] The post Why physical education isn’t “extra,” and what educators can do about it appeared first on Hiveclass.| Hiveclass
String-King Adrian Babbacombe is a self-made man. Born to be lord of the manor, he ran away from his country-estate and started working in a London factory while in his teens. This shocked his pare…| a hot cup of pleasure
Read to learn about all libraries have to offer—and then make sure to go sign up for a free library card, if you haven’t already, to utilize all their benefits. The post Benefits of a Library Card You Need to Know appeared first on Libro.fm Audiobooks.| Libro.fm Audiobooks
We are pleased to share that Internet Archive Canada (IAC), is now a signatory to the Our Future Memory statement. IAC joins IFLA and others in a global initiative affirming the rights of libraries, archives, and museums, and other memory institutions, to continue their essential public service missions in the digital age. Standing for Digital …| Internet Archive Canada
NISO's Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) survey reflects the positive and negative expectations of generative AI in web-scale discovery tools.| The Scholarly Kitchen
In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices -- protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed citizenship itself.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Deputy Chief Crighton is a worried man. He had been called by publisher Jefferson Judd earlier in the day. Judd told him that his estranged wife, Cora, had visited him the previous night and demanded money from him. On Judd’s refusal (he feels that she would spend it on her drug addiction), she had threatened … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: Follow this Fair Corpse by Laurence Dwight Smith (1941)→| a hot cup of pleasure
Inspector Dew of Barshire is told by the Chief Constable that Scotland Yard had contacted him regarding an Irish national, Desmond O’Neill whom they suspect of spying and passing information to the Germans. The Yard had been following O’Neill, but then they lost trace of him. His last known whereabouts were Canford Grange, the estate … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: Who Died at the Grange? by Michael Halliday (1942)→| a hot cup of pleasure
Artist John Lumsden is found dead in his studio. The disarray in the studio shows that Lumsden had put up quite a fight before being strangled to death. Enter Scotland Yard detective Charles Blair with Sergeant Harry Dawson. Detectives, according to the author, are of various types: There were jocular detectives, and grim detectives, and … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: Frame-Up by Andrew Garve (1964)→| a hot cup of pleasure
Time to wind up the book. The last grouping begins with Ernest Bramah’s The Malignity of the Depraved Ming-Shu Rears its Offensive Head which is an extract from his book Kai Lung Unrolls His …| a hot cup of pleasure
On Friday, August 29, the Kansas Book Festival hosted four librarians from under-resourced Kansas libraries at the State Library of Kansas, awarding grants to support proposed enhancements. Five grant-winning projects were selected in all, from a pool of 40 proposals, and the donated funds will bring improvements to school or public libraries in Bird City (far NW Kansas), Delphos (north of Salina), Hoisington (north of Great Bend), Eureka (east of El Dorado), and Wichita. With those grants, t...| Kansas Book Festival
Librarianship Studies is the best award-winning and internationally acclaimed Library and Information Science blog for libraries librarians catalogers| www.librarianshipstudies.com
If you love reading, you must add these enchanting Leeds libraries to your bookish bucket...| Third Eye Traveller
Welcome to this week’s Stacking the Shelves post. STS is hosted by Marlene at Reading Reality and details are on her blog as well as a huge amount of book reviews. Why not visit her blog if y…| Wicked Witch's Blog
This is not the first time I’ve commented on book banning in this country and my frustration with this insanity. Trying to change history or pretending that current events are not occurring by bann…| Thoughts about leadership, history, and more
The Internet's big lie is "we respect your privacy". Thanks to cookie banners and such things, the Internet tells us this so many times a day that we ignore all the evidence to the contrary. Sure, there are a lot of people who care about our privacy, but they're often letting others violate our privacy without even knowing it. Sometimes this just means that they are trying to be careful with our "PII". And guess what? You know those cookies you're constantly blocking or accepting? Advertisers...| Go To Hellman
A new K–5 program to develop physical literacy, build skills and make movement fun for every child — in schools and in the community. Introducing the New HiveclassPE elementary curriculum! We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of our K–5 Physical Education Curriculum, designed to help students build essential movement skills, stay active throughout the […] The post Big moves for little learners: Hiveclass launches NEW K–5 PE curriculum appeared first on Hiveclass.| Hiveclass
….and the firelight flickering in the hearth brought back dreams that could have hurt because they were all of a happiness that was finished irrevocably, once and for all. Susan Laird, who lost her husband, Phil, an RAF pilot, during an air-raid, now lives for her son Buster, born after his father’s death, and her … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: With Willing Hands by Diana Ridley (1945)→| a hot cup of pleasure
In Vicki Baum’s novel, we see post-WWI Germany facing economic decline. The upper class is slowly coming down, the working class is almost out on the streets. The novel opens in a house shared by two such families: the Burthes and the Schliepkes. Geheimart Burthe lives with his wife, his daughter Charlotte, and his son, … Continue reading #WIT #Classics Club: Feme/ Secret Sentence by Vicki Baum (1926)→| a hot cup of pleasure
On to the last part of the book: the authors who saw both the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. There are 39 authors in this section, so I have divided it into two parts. We begin with Ouida,…| a hot cup of pleasure
As a reading lover, there’s nothing I love more than visiting libraries and bookshops when...| Third Eye Traveller
As I prepare to step away for my second maternity leave, which will begin in a few weeks, I find myself reflecting on what it was like to return to work after my first, an experience that began in …| BizLibratory: Academic Business Librarianship, Instruction, research strategi...
‘Before there’s a problem, let’s fix it.’| www.the74million.org
Here’s the Full Text of the Launch Announcement From the BTAA (Big Ten Academic Alliance): In partnership with seven Big Ten-affiliated university presses, the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Center for Library Programs announces the expansion of the Big Ten Open Books project with the publication of the second 100-book collection. The second collection is centered […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
Hyperlinked books and other interconnected information—imagine the AI potential of a truly trustworthy national digital library system. But beware if you want AI companies to be part of the effort. So far they’ve balked at the idea of using only trustworthy content. That was one of the most important points that Tony Marx, President of […]|
Introduction Community college libraries and public libraries play a vital role in bridging the digital divide by providing equitable access to| Ithaka S+R
Readers of this blog don’t need to be told that copyright is a cornerstone of library practice—shaping what we can … More| Copyright Literacy
Last Year, I started this mammoth book and even posted about it. Everything was proceeding to plan when I ran across a novelette by Benjamin Disraeli. Seriously, what is a 70+ pages work doing in a…| a hot cup of pleasure
John Horton is a mild-mannered small-time businessman stuck in a bad marriage. His wife, Ethel, spends more time with artistic ‘modern’ young men who John finds utterly vapid. There are…| a hot cup of pleasure
In July, School Library Journal (SLJ) underwent major leadership changes as parent company Media Source, Inc. (MSI) laid off Editor in Chief Kathy Ishizuka and Group Publisher Rebecca T. Miller without public explanation. MSI says the move supports efforts to strengthen library visibility and impact. As the new school year begins, educators and librarians are watching closely to see how these changes will affect SLJ’s trusted content, advocacy, and professional support.| From The Mixed Up Files
“People want libraries, and they want the services that libraries provide. That's universal.”| EdSurge
I will be attending Seattle Worldcon 2025 from August 13-17! For those attending, I’d love to see you at any of my panels: Diagnosing Your Characters, Wed 1:30pm-2:30pm When Everything Has Ri…| Clara Ward
“The future of libraries, education, access, and representation is at stake,” argues one advocate who opposes book bans.| EdSurge
According to the Brooklyn Public Library, these titles can help you understand how we got here| Electric Literature
Whether you're part of an elementary school, high school, college, or university, your library provides a vital service, and its online presence is an integral part of that. Find out the 5 essential features of high-quality library websites, and explore 8 examples from primary school to university level. ...| The Edublogger
The legislative split varied widely among states.| www.the74million.org
Uncover the rich history of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, a treasure trove of knowledge and culture since its founding in 1368. History of the Bibliothèque National de France (French National Library) on Culture Travel| Culture Travel
“Thinke upon me as long as it is pleasant and convenient to you to doe so, and afterwards forget me…” Lawyer William Hunt is enjoying his evening when he gets a call from Celia St…| a hot cup of pleasure
When books themselves come under assault, public read-outs give new voice to the choir of believers. A note from the nation’s capital during Banned Books Week. The post Reading Banned Books Out Loud appeared first on Our Towns.| Our Towns
From the Joint Statement (via The Scholarly Kitchen): This year has brought unprecedented challenges to the U.S. research enterprise – sweeping federal funding cuts, capricious reductions in the federal workforce, and destabilizing attacks on universities, laboratories, and federal research agencies. More than simply a policy shift, these actions adversely affect America’s scientific enterprise and will […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
From a Computers in Libraries Article by Michael Blackwell, Jennie Rose Halperin, Catherine Mason, and Carmi Parker: In 2018, Rebecca Giblin and her colleagues created the E-lending Project, measuring in various studies the availability, license terms, and prices of digital titles in Australia. Additionally, using one library vendor, it internationally compared digital findings to print in […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
Ed. Note: Many thanks to Sage for honoring our request and removing the paywall to this article. Title Citizen Science In Libraries Worldwide: A Systematic Review Authors Dolores Mumelaš National and University Library, Zagreb, Croatia Ivana Matijević National and University Library, Zagreb, Croatia Tomislav Ivanjko National and University Library, Zagreb, Croatia Source Journal of Librarianship […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
In May 2025, Connecticut’s legislature passed landmark legislation to address restrictive ebook licensing practices that limit libraries’ ability to serve the public. It aims to ensure ebook licens…| Authors Alliance
It's not just what's inside that matters, but the historical conditions that made it possible for a book to matter at all.| Analysis Archives – The Independent
Four public school librarians and two experts said Scholastic's reversal on making diverse books optional is a step in the right direction.| Education Week
Introduction Community college and public libraries both serve overlapping populations—including students, job seekers, adult learners, ESL learners, and How can public and academic libraries collaborate to better serve their communities? Read a case study of a joint-use library partnership at Chatham Community Library.| Ithaka S+R
As US federal policy on indirect costs remains uncertain, the Joint Associations Group seeks input on two proposed models. Learn about the models and implications for library funding and publishers.| The Scholarly Kitchen
From the Associated Press: Nearly one million books published as early as the 15th century — and in 254 languages — are part of a Harvard University collection being released to AI researchers Thursday. Also coming soon are troves of old newspapers and government documents held by Boston’s public library. [Clip] “It is a prudent […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
This is an incomplete thought that I bounced off of Andromeda and Kristin recently. It’s incomplete because (a) I don’t do this kind of instruction [deliberately] (b) I know the answer is no for a variety of reasons at least for now (c) my ability to write long form of late in the face of […]| Hedgehog Librarian
In this project, we examine the national landscape of access to legal information in prisons, with a particular focus on how law librarians facilitate and mediate that access. Our report aims to shed light on this key group of actors: documenting how law librarians work to support meaningful access to the courts behind bars, how services vary across states, and what barriers limit their ability to assist incarcerated patrons.| Ithaka S+R
Everybody loves an awards ceremony. And if movies can have the Oscars, Broadway theater can have the Tonys, and comics can have, uh, the Eisner Awards, why should manga feel left out! And, later this summer, the organizers of New York City's Anime NYC convention will be holding a gala awards ceremony for the English-speaking| Anime and Manga Studies
It’s Saturday which means that it’s time for this week’s Stacking the Shelves post. STS is a meme hosted by Marlene at Reading Reality and details are on her blog as well as a hug…| Wicked Witch's Blog
Changes in Library of Congress' leadership could have profound impacts on copyright and intellectual freedom| The Scholarly Kitchen
Libraries are considered safe places, secure places to read and meet diverse (but sometimes like-minded) people who celebrate literacy by expanding different […]| Social Science Space
A library that has been on my bucket list for some time now is the Kačina Castle Library in the Czech Republic. There are plenty of incredible libraries to visit in Prague, but Kačina’s looks| Third Eye Traveller
Don't miss out on a summer full of books and prizes with the Indianapolis Public Library Summer Reading Program! Registration opens May 1.| Indy with Kids
The Library Hub Weybridge will be opening its doors in Summer 2025, and residents will have an opportunity to have a preview of what’s planned at a resident engagement event on Friday 6 June betwee…| Surrey News
Stuart Kells The State Library of Victoria, founded in 1854, is one of the most visited libraries in the world. And right now it is in the middle of a crisis. Leading Australian authors such as Grace Yee, Michelle de Kretser and Tony Birch have resolved to no longer work with the library – unless... Read More| Library Planet
As my two youngest children get ready for college in the fall and we look at their lists of required textbooks, I’ve been reflecting on self-guided learning, both in my family and at Automatt…| Karen Alma
To further examine and develop effective strategies to foster college fluency, Ithaka S+R and BMCC have collaborated on the College Fluency Capacity Building initiative with support from IMLS. The fourth case study in this series looks at Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania and explores how effective MCCC has been at connecting students to resources even in the absence of a dedicated college fluency program, while pointing to the additional impact these efforts could have if t...| Ithaka S+R
By Madeline Matson, Rural Assembly Director| Rural Assembly
Like many academic institutions, my university has announced that we now have a contract with Microsoft Co-Pilot. Through our centralized webstore faculty and students can purchase individual licen…| Hedgehog Librarian
Contemporary societies face a range of urgent threats to the well-being of individuals, nations, and the natural world. These high stakes “wicked problems,” as Don Waters calls them in this report, present challenges that are simultaneously scientific, technological, social, and creative. They require expertise from across the disciplines to understand, and equally complex public and political engagement, to overcome. Waters makes the case that America’s research universities are except...| Publications - Ithaka S+R
A recently announced partnership with Emerald Publishing will bring the EveryLibrary Institute’s expertise to the academic library community as the U.S. government attacks extend to institutions of higher education.| The Scholarly Kitchen
The renaming of "Mount Denali" and "Gulf of Mexico" to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley" and "Gulf of America" reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where meaning is contested and conquered.| The Scholarly Kitchen
"No one paying attention should be surprised by this." On IMLS, digital censorship, human librarians, regime media, and Wikipedia.| As in guillotine...
Sometimes history is right under our feet and we don’t even realize it. When I lived in Old Town Alexandria, I frequented the quaint brick Kate Waller Barrett branch of the Alexandria Library. Not only was it around the corner from my house, but it contains the city’s local history and special collections reading room, where I spent many hours poring through old newspapers and documents as I worked on various projects. Read more about: History Under Our Feet| Encyclopedia Virginia
Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Clarivate recently announced that it is shifting to a "subscription-based access strategy," meaning that it will no longer allow academic libraries to purchase perpetual licenses to content.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Version française By Rebecca Murray From fantasy to historical fiction, contemporary authors are incorporating the topic of banned and challenged books in their writing. In Rebecca Yarros’s popular…| Library and Archives Canada Blog
"Do unto others," etc. On doomscrolling, screwing libraries, magic robots, processes, and console wars.| As in guillotine...
Wondering what to do for Valentine’s this year? Show your love for books, the right to read, and a local library by checking out a book (or movie or online class—libraries have all sorts of stuff t…| Clara Ward
Start exploring your subnetworks today and experience the power of dynamic insights with Subnetwork Score + Node Resizing in PARTNER CPRM.| Visible Network Labs
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use static analysis to check for backdoors in the OpenWRT firmware binary.| tbhaxor's Blog
While mergers can save struggling institutions and foster stronger student experiences in the long run, they are complex and their implications for scholarly content and services must be considered thoughtfully.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Totally a homebody this year; seventy library visits and most of them within a half mile of my house. I liked working at my library. I didn't feel the need to go to other libraries with my free time. Amusing side note, I use Daytum to track my library visits and I have a display that show's "this ye| librarian.net
From November 2011 through July 2012 I wrote the “Past Pieces of Toronto” column for OpenFile, which explored elements of the city which no longer exist. The following was originally po…| Jamie Bradburn's Tales of Toronto
The Legislature broadened a law restricting access to obsenity that will end the Student Success Cards at Siouxland Libraries system.| Sioux Falls Live
1937 - The Stationers Inc typewriter showroom.| x over it
An excellent reminder that the industry is so much bigger than Amazon and the Big 5, and if we prioritize making progress among the willing, we can disrupt the industry for the better — from within.| As in guillotine...
The 2022 effort to cut Craighead County libraries' funding had more support in the rest of the county than in the city of Jonesboro.| Arkansas Advocate
Google Pub/Sub is a managed messaging platform providing a scalable, asynchronous, loosely-coupled solution for communication between application entities. It centers around the concept of a Topic (queue). A Publisher can put messages on the Topic, and a Subscriber can read messages from the Subscription on a Topic. In this article, I will first use the ... GCP: publishing and reading from Google PubSub Topic using Python client libraries| Fabian Lee : Software Engineer
