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How to Protect Your Local Library From Book Ban Campaigns – Bloomberg
Library boards, school boards and legislatures are becoming battlegrounds in a push to censor books. Communities are fighting back. By Ariel Aberg-Riger, April 26, 2023 at 6:12 AM PDT National Library Week in the US comes amid a period of turmoil for libraries, as efforts to censor books intensify. Visual storyteller Ariel Aberg-Riger explores the…
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FEATURE – Libraries in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Information Today, Inc.
by Ben Johnson, February 13, 2023 Ben Johnson (bjohnson@councilbluffslibrary.org) is the adult services manager at the Council Bluffs Public Library in Iowa. You can ask Google, Alexa, Cortana, Watson, or Siri—but will you be able to ask your local library? A century or so ago, electricity was a new, quasi-magical thing—a novelty with few applications. Back…
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This Library Extension Plug-In Shows You Which Books Are Available at the Library | Mental Floss | Books
By Michele Debczak, Jul 4, 2022 Editor’s Note: I use this extension in my Firefox… Though the library is definitely the cheapest resource for readers, it’s not always the most convenient. Your local branch has a limited number of titles available to check out at any given time, while online retailers make millions of books…
