Library Link of the Day

January 2026

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  1. Book distributor shutting down deals logistical blow to libraries [Morning Edition]
  2. Genre fiction and female authors top U.S. libraries' most-borrowed lists in 2025 [All Things Considered]
  3. NASA's Largest Library to Close, Putting Thousands of Unique Documents at Risk [La Voce di New York]
  4. Moving Beyond the Acronym [American Libraries]
  5. Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice [The Guardian]
  6. A Paws-itively Amazing Partnership [ALSC Blog]
  7. Harlequin France to Test AI-Assisted Translation [Publishers Weekly]
  8. What Do We Actually Mean by "AI-Powered Search"? [Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship]
  9. What are algorithms and how do they make social media more harmful? [Center for Countering Digital Hate]
  10. Monster of 2025: Endless Subscriptions [Mother Jones]
  11. Schools teaching kids to spot fake news and AI misinformation [CBS News]
  12. Free speech's great leap backwards [The Verge]
  13. Many schools don't think students can read full novels any more. That's a tragedy [The Guardian]
  14. A Most Unlikely Year: Library Policy in 2025 [Library Journal]
  15. University Library Bomb Threats Once Again Rattle Schools Nationwide [Book Riot]
  16. Ten years of a 'quiet culture war': where does it stand now? [UKSG Insights]
  17. 'Game-Changer for Music Creators': Artist Advocates Hail Big Copyright Ruling [Billboard]
  18. Protecting yourself from misinformation: What to know and how to spot it [MPR News]
  19. Judge orders Anna's Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply [Ars Technica]
  20. Knowledge is power: Amanda Jones highlights censorship fight at 'The Librarians' screening in Denham Springs [The Livingston Parish News]
  21. Publishers Seek to Join Class Action Against Google [Publishers Weekly]
  22. Deep reading can boost your critical thinking and help you resist misinformation - here's how to build the skill [The Conversation]
  23. USDA Researchers Instructed to Investigate Foreign Colleagues [Undark]
  24. Lived Patron Experiences of Dysconscious Ableism in Public Library Spaces [In the Library with the Lead Pipe]
  25. Emory libraries cancel Elsevier journals due to rising journal costs [The Emory Wheel]
  26. When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes [The Conversation]
  27. US science after a year of Trump [Nature]
  28. Minnesota School Librarians Supporting Students and Peers [Library Journal]
  29. Minneapolis Booksellers Resisting ICE Go Viral, See Sales Spike [Publishers Weekly]
  30. ALA welcomes Prison Libraries Act [ALA]
  31. 'It's not too late to fix it': web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a 'battle for the soul' of the internet [The Guardian]

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