Library Link of the Day

April 2025

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  1. The Depressing Reason Those Terrible Fake Movie Trailers Are Never Going Away [Gizmodo]
  2. The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums [Wired]
  3. What Happens if Libraries Can't Buy Ebooks? [Inside Higher Ed]
  4. Inside arXiv-the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science [Wired]
  5. List of Books Removed from USNA Library [United States Navy]
  6. Trump administration to freeze Brown University grants, call for restrictions at Harvard [USA Today]
  7. Why Trump's attacks on free speech should alarm all Americans, not just his latest targets [Fortune]
  8. Sustaining for the Future [American Libraries]
  9. The ALA Sues Over the Scuppering of the IMLS [Publishers Weekly]
  10. Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws [Daily Journal]
  11. North Carolina Bill Aims To Charge Librarians for Exposing Minors to "Harmful Materials or Performances" [School Library Journal]
  12. Being a librarian was already hard. Then came the Trump administration [The Guardian]
  13. Congress Takes Another Step Toward Enabling Broad Internet Censorship [EFF]
  14. Libraries, which inspire, inform and welcome all, are now expendable [The Seattle Times]
  15. Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads [The Guardian]
  16. 'After all our hard work': Federal fallout leads to suspension of interlibrary loan courier service [South Dakota Searchlight]
  17. The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train? [The Scholarly Kitchen]
  18. 300 residents form human chain to help Michigan bookstore move 9,100 books [Detroit Free Press]
  19. U.S. attorney demands scientific journal explain how it ensures 'viewpoint diversity' [NBC News]
  20. A Scanning Error Created a Fake Science Term-Now AI Won't Let It Die [Gizmodo]
  21. Maine State Library lays off 13 workers, will restructure after losing federal funds [Portland Press Herald]
  22. Invasion of the 'journal snatchers': the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue [Nature]
  23. Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain [Nature]
  24. Like measles, misinformation is spreading, poll finds [Morning Edition]
  25. Library Book Battle Sparks Debate Over Who Decides What's "Appropriate" [NBC Palm Springs]
  26. Judges blocks Trump push to cut funding to public schools over diversity programs [Associated Press]
  27. School board member admits to banning books without reading them, faces lawsuit [MSN]
  28. POV: I'm obsessed with copyright, and you should be too [It's Nice That]
  29. How Libraries Are Faring Under the Trump Administration Amid Detrimental Funding Cuts [Time]
  30. The Tech Industry Tried Reducing AI's Pervasive Bias. Now Trump Wants to End Its 'Woke AI' Efforts [Inc.]

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