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- The Convergence of the Digital With the Physical and the Biological [Online Searcher]
- A World Without Sci-Hub [Palladium]
- Why Every Future Librarian Should Take Learning Cataloging Seriously [Hack Library School]
- Afghans bury paintings and hide books out of fear of Taliban crackdown on arts and culture [The Washington Post]
- Celebrating the Librarians of SFF [Tor.com]
- Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation [60 Minutes]
- How Students Fought a Book Ban and Won, for Now [The New York Times]
- ‘The Beginning of the Snowball’: Supply-Chain Snarls Delay Books [The New York Times]
- The nation's largest public library system is ending late fees forever [NPR]
- Dave and Goliath: maverick writer Eggers makes a stand against Amazon [The Guardian]
- Prosecutors In Wyoming Considering Charging Librarians For Stocking Books [HuffPost]
- Misinformation [Last Week Tonight with John Oliver]
- Irish author Sally Rooney in Israel boycott row [BBC News]
- R. Kelly was convicted. What happens to his music on streaming platforms? [NBC News]
- UNC can't remain a research powerhouse without library resources [The Daily Tar Heel]
- Hawaii Libraries Face Patron Pushback While Upholding Vaccination Mandate [Library Journal]
- What if Facebook Disappeared? [John Green]
- Pearson Sues Chegg, Alleging Copyright Infringement [Inside Higher Ed]
- Southlake school leader tells teachers to balance Holocaust books with 'opposing' views [NBC News]
- The Right To Repair Movement [The Daily Show]
- Current market rates for scholarly publishing services [F1000Research]
- Librarians to the Defense [The Progressive]
- Lauded Spanish female crime writer revealed to be three men [CNN]
- Summarizing Books with Human Feedback [OpenAI]
- A World Ordered Only By Search [The Convivial Society]
- Where Facts Were No Match for Fear [Yahoo! News]
- I Set Out to Build the Next Library of Alexandria. Now I Wonder: Will There Be Libraries in 25 Years? [Time]
- The Library Technology Market’s Failure to Support Controlled Digital Lending [The Scholarly Kitchen]
- Texas House committee to investigate school districts’ books on race and sexuality [The Texas Tribune]
- Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook’s formula fostered rage and misinformation [The Washington Post]
- US Copyright Office says you can fix a game console (but only the optical drive) [Ars Technica]
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