R.I. district court grants preliminary injunction in IMLS case
In welcome news for the Institute of Museum and Library Services and two more federal agencies targeted for dismantling by a presidential executive order, the District Court of Rhode Island has...
View ArticleTrump abruptly fires librarian of Congress in latest purge of government
Donald Trump abruptly fired the librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, on Thursday as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the Republican US president...
View ArticleAuthors speak out against failed US book festival: 'shattered badges and...
In the days leading up to the A Million Lives book festival, things already seemed amiss. Grace Marsceau, the event organizer, messaged an attending author that the DJ was in the hospital and the...
View ArticlePublishers prepare for battle with big tech over AI
Protection of copyright has always been a top priority for the Association of American Publishers, and that point was driven home again during the organization's annual meeting held via Zoom on May 8....
View ArticleTrump reportedly fires head of US copyright office after release of AI report
The Trump administration reportedly fired the head of the US copyright office over the weekend – within days of the dismissed official having published a report about how the development of artificial...
View ArticleFederal judge in Rhode Island orders halt to IMLS dismantling
Ruling decisively in favor of 21 states' attorneys general, Rhode Island district court judge John J. McConnell Jr. formally ordered a halt on May 13 to a presidential executive order dismantling the...
View ArticleFaith leaders denounce US book burning as hate-fuelled intimidation
A group of faith leaders in Ohio denounced a recent alleged hate crime in the state, in which a man burned books belonging to a public library. The destroyed books were on Jewish, African American and...
View ArticleAuthors guild sues NEH over grant terminations
Yesterday, the Authors Guild filed a class action lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities and officials within the Department of Government Efficiency, opposing the termination of...
View ArticleIt may be too late for rural libraries to weather the IMLS storm
Beth Anderson, director of the Burnsville Public Library in West Virginia, can throw a rock from the library's front door and just about hit the interstate. While the mountainous region has...
View ArticleChicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that...
Illinois' prominent Chicago Sun-Times newspaper has confirmed that a summer reading list, which included several recommendations for books that don't exist, was created using artificial intelligence...
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