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New Data From OverDrive: Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2025 with Over 820 Million Checkouts and Over 1 Billion Minutes Streamed – OverDrive
From OverDrive: In 2025, libraries around the world continued to prove their essential role in connecting communities with stories, information, and entertainment, breaking new digital lending records in the process. As the need for flexible, on-demand access to books and media continued to grow, libraries expanded their digital collections to meet readers where they are,
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Digital Collections: Save Our Signs Archive Containing Over 10,000 Photos of National Park Service (NPS) Interpretive Materials Launches Online – Library Journal
The Save Our Sign Archive went live today. The full text of the launch announcement follows below. The Save Our Signs project (SOS), a community-driven effort to preserve National Park Service (NPS) interpretive materials before they are removed from public view, is proud to announce the launch of the Save Our Signs Archive, a collection
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Library Materials: State Library of Oregon Releases Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse (OIFC) 2025 Report
From the State Library of Oregon: The 2025 OIFC Annual Report lists 50 official challenge incidents in public libraries, special libraries, and schools. The number of challenges is tied with 2001 as the fifth highest reported since the State Library began keeping track. The incidents included challenges to 66 unique titles and 68 items, the fourth highest
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“With New Grant, “On The Books” Uses AI To Make Historical Records More Accessible” – UNC University Libraries
From UNC University Libraries: The University Libraries’ On the Books initiative is expanding its scope and exploring how artificial intelligence can make it easier to find and use materials from the archives. A $765,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation will support three case studies using AI to improve access to materials related to groups historically underrepresented in
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NewsLib and Sept. 11, 2001 – Internet Archive – 9/11 – We Will Never Forget
https://web.archive.org/web/20040617130947/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NewsLibtulloch.html Apr Jun Dec 17 2003 2004 2005 17 captures, 6 Dec 2003 – 16 Aug 2013 About this capture Paula Hane, a contributing editor to Information Today and editor of Newsbreaks, issued an editorial on September 17, 2001 entitled, “Information Professionals Respond Following Terrorist Attacks.” (1) This article inspired me to look at a…
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New Data From OverDrive, “Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2024 with Over 739 million Checkouts”
New Data From OverDrive, “Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2024 with Over 739 million Checkouts”January 27, 2025, by Gary Price Source Links: New Data From OverDrive, “Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2024 with Over 739 million Checkouts”
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ALA Releases “State of America’s Libraries 2021” Report | LJ infoDOCKET
ALA Releases “State of America’s Libraries 2021” Report Filed by Gary Price on April 5, 2021 NOTE: Included in State of America’s Libraries Report 2021 is the list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2020. The complete list and additional resources can be accessed here. From the American Library Association: Today, the American…
