<< December 2017 | February 2018 >>
- The Extinction of Libraries: Why the Predictions aren’t Coming True [The Huffington Post]
- Open access in Germany: the best DEAL is no deal [Times Higher Education]
- Ancient Egypt: 'Glowing' Ink Reveals Hidden Writings on Papyrus Covering 2,000-Year-Old Mummies [Newsweek]
- When Does an Artist’s Appropriation Become Copyright Infringement? [Artsy]
- Fred Bass, Owner Of Landmark NYC Bookstore, Dies At 89 [Morning Edition]
- Silicon Valley Won’t Save Books [New Republic]
- The Question of Little Free Libraries [American Libraries]
- Do Librarians Discriminate? [Library Journal]
- Why Picture Books Were Once Considered Dangerous for Children [JSTOR Daily]
- American reams: why a ‘paperless world’ still hasn’t happened [The Guardian]
- Ten Stories That Shaped 2017 [LISNews]
- Fire and Fury mix-up lands U of T professor back on bestseller list [The Globe and Mail]
- How Comic Books Can Make Kids (and Adults) Smarter [Big Think]
- What Can’t You Send to an Inmate in New York? Apples, Used Books and More [The New York Times]
- Exaggerated death reports coming fast & furious [TILT]
- A beloved French author was also an anti-Semite. Now his most notorious works are being republished. [The Washington Post]
- Computers are getting better than humans at reading [CNN]
- The Encyclopedia of the Missing [Longreads]
- Tear Down That Paywall: The Movement to Make Ocean Research Free for All [News Deeply]
- How Technology Is (and Isn’t) Changing Our Reading Habits [The New York Times]
- Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves [In the Library with the Lead Pipe]
- Obama Presidential Center activists shout 'Shame on you!' at aldermen [The Chicago Tribune]
- The (almost) complete history of 'fake news' [BBC News]
- China Seizes Publisher Of Banned Books Again — Just Months After Releasing Him [NPR News]
- Stewardship in the "Age of Algorithms" [First Monday]
- All Good Magazines Go to Heaven [The New York Times]
- The Injustice of Algorithms [New Republic]
- How public libraries are reinventing themselves for the 21st century [Maclean's]
- How a Library Handles a Rare and Deadly Book of Wallpaper Samples [Atlas Obscura]
- The Libraries Bringing Small-Town News Back to Life [The Atlantic]
- Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read [The Atlantic]
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