Library Link of the Day

June 2026

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  1. Library Orgs Urge Big Five to Address Digital Pricing [Publishers Weekly]
  2. Black-Owned Bookstores in Texas Bring Communities Together. They're Also Harassed and Vandalized. [The Barbed Wire]
  3. We Asked the Future of Truth Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn't Go Well [Wired]
  4. 2026 Library Systems Briefing [American Libraries]
  5. Cincinnati librarians say violence, threats are hurting morale and safety at branches [WKRC]
  6. Reform UK council bans Essex libraries from promoting LGBTQ+ events [PinkNews]
  7. 'I Was Chest-Bumped by Police': Lead Journal Editor Thrown Out of Diabetes Conference for Criticising Trump's Research Cuts [International Business Times]
  8. AI is eating the academic publishing industry alive, but some good might come of it [Rhodes University]
  9. Inside the $850 million Obama Presidential Center ahead of its Juneteenth opening [CNBC]
  10. Silent reading clubs are giving like-minded bookworms a brain boost [CNN]
  11. Nearly 3,000 peer-reviewed medical papers have fake citations, a Columbia Nursing AI-assisted audit finds [Columbia School of Nursing]
  12. Library straddling Quebec-Vermont border gets new Canadian entrance [CBC]
  13. Why "Book-Shaming" Won't Solve the Children's Literacy Crisis [The New Yorker]
  14. Used clothing gets new life at San Francisco public libraries through free fix-it clinics [CBS News]
  15. Brain Integrates Paper Book Narratives Faster Than Digital [Neuroscience News]
  16. Arbitrator Orders Western Illinois to Reinstate Fired Librarians [Inside Higher Ed]
  17. Mass. moves to head off library, school book bans. 3 big things to know [MassLive]
  18. As Censorship Expands, Autonomous Libraries Are Springing Up to Fill the Gaps [Truthout]
  19. Archiving with AI [Library Journal]
  20. Publishers sue to shut down alleged pirated book site WeLib [Reuters]
  21. Federal appeals court hears challenge to Arkansas library law [THV11]
  22. How Mohave County circumvented library policy to purge LGBTQ+ books [Arizona Mirror]
  23. 'Fixing stuff and helping people': After uncertain times, Tool Library of Lake County thrives at 5 [Daily Herald]
  24. Dungeons & Dragons group thrives in an unlikely place - local libraries - thanks to a volunteer at the helm [Lookout Santa Cruz]
  25. COVID-19 vaccine study that was blocked from CDC journal is published elsewhere [Associated Press]
  26. Taking a look inside the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library ahead of opening [KFYR-TV]
  27. 'This is injustice': how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison [The Guardian]
  28. Moscow Orders 'Destructive Literature' Be Kept In Special Library Collections Most Russians Won't Be Allowed To See [Eurasia Review]
  29. Dua Lipa Is Taking Her Book Club to the Next Level and Opening Her Own Library [Rolling Stone]
  30. Texas education board votes to make Bible passages required reading [Good Morning America]

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