This year’s ALA Midwinter Conference brought all the librarians to Seattle
Last month, over 9,000 librarians convened in Seattle, WA to attend the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting. According to Publishers Weekly reporter Andrew Albanese, this year’s attendance jumped an astonishing… Read more »
Pew report finds millennials are the absolute best generation (at going to libraries)
Back in those breezy, know-nothing days of 2014, Russia invaded Crimea, Ebola was terrifying the masses, and we were reporting on a Pew Research Center study that suggested millennials used libraries as much… Read more »
Librarians across the country protest, resist, and persist
We’ve already written about the incredible work that librarians are doing on the front lines of the fight against fake news. But their resistance against the current administration is also… Read more »
The New York Public Library and American Library Association respond to a president eager to abuse his power
As the Intercept’s Micah Lee tweeted, and later expanded upon, the election of Donald Trump does not only mean the accession of an altogether very bad person. Unfortunately, it is also means… Read more »
A parthenon of banned books to rise from Nazi ashes in Kassel
In 1933, Aryan dudes and dudettes all across Germany were burning books in what they called an Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist (“Campaign Against the Un-German Spirit”). Fires went up in most major cities, including, on… Read more »
Dr. Carla Hayden is appointed Librarian of Congress, makes history
In a 74-18 vote by the US Senate this past Wednesday, Dr. Carla Hayden was confirmed as America’s fourteenth Librarian of Congress. She is simultaenously the first woman and the first African-American to… Read more »
Hillary Clinton weighs in on copyright law
There have been a lot of big-ticket talking points this election season. Too many of them seem to revolve around the construction of ginormous border walls or the size of some jerkoff landlord’s… Read more »
ALA’s most challenged books list
Yesterday, the American Library Association (ALA) released its annual list of the most frequently challenged and banned books in libraries across the country. Part of the organization’s State of America’s… Read more »
Scott Bonner, Ferguson Library Director, will receive the ALA Lemony Snicket Prize
Scott Bonner is not only the director of the Ferguson Municipal Public Library, but in December, he was the only full-time employee. He kept the library open during a tough… Read more »
Banned Books Week turns focus to comics this year
Banned Books Week will be celebrated once again this September, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) is highlighting comics that have been challenged and banned in an effort to… Read more »