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- To Learn the Truth, Read My Wikipedia Entry on Sichuan Peppers [The New York Times]
- ‘There Are Tons of Brown Faces Missing’: Publishers Step Up Diversity Efforts [The New York Times]
- Vandalization at Major Libraries Aims At Voter Intimidation [Book Riot]
- The Weight We Carry [American Libraries]
- 'This is revolutionary’: new online bookshop unites indies to rival Amazon [The Guardian]
- Rights, Transparency Central for Covid-19 Vaccines [Human Rights Watch]
- RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloading Online Videos [EFF]
- Ahead of the Curve: School Librarians Innovate and Take on New Responsibilities [School Library Journal]
- The Potential Role Of Open Data In Mitigating The COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges And Opportunities [Health Affairs]
- Despite COVID Concerns, Library Measures Do Well at Polls in 2020 [Library Journal]
- Independent booksellers write a new chapter during COVID-19 [CBS News]
- Portland's iconic Powell's Books is selling a book-scented unisex fragrance [CNN]
- Fact-Checked on Facebook and Twitter, Conservatives Switch Their Apps [The New York Times]
- Privacy, Consent, and the Virtual One-Shot [ACRLog]
- How Controlled Digital Lending Makes an Entire College Library Available to Everyone Everywhere [EveryLibrary]
- University staff urge probe into e-book pricing 'scandal' [BBC News]
- Proposal to install spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights shocks academics [Coda Story]
- Chicago Public Library says eliminating fines has paid off [Chicago Sun-Times]
- Cheating-detection companies made millions during the pandemic. Now students are fighting back. [The Washington Post]
- The History of Dust Jackets: From Disposable to Collectible [Book Riot]
- As COVID Upends the Path to College, Librarians Provide Support [School Library Journal]
- Content strategy in LibGuides: An exploratory study [The Journal of Academic Librarianship]
- For Billion-Dollar COVID Vaccines, Basic Government-Funded Science Laid the Groundwork [Scientific American]
- 'How Fascism Works' Author On Trump's Attempts To Overturn Election Results [All Things Considered]
- How German Librarians Finally Caught an Elusive Book Thief [Atlas Obscura]
- Reading for pleasure can help reduce pandemic stress, increase empathy: experts [Global News]
- 'Words Matter': Why The UC Berkeley Library Is Embracing Another Term For 'Illegal Aliens' [Patch]
- This online book shop is trying to dethrone Amazon by siphoning its revenue to indie bookstores [Mic]
- Disinformation Is Rampant. Here's How Teachers Are Combatting It [Education Week Teacher]
- The algorithms are watching us, but who is watching the algorithms? [ZDNet]
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