Last summer, I made a pilgrimage to the Rare Book Division of the New York Public Library in Midtown Manhattan. Taking a seat at a polished wood …
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LitHub – Tom Zoellner on the Antebellum Precedent of Trump-Era Censorship: “In the days before the Civil War, the South worked hard to censor any literature that cast slavery in a negative light. Officials in Charleston, S.C. went through mailbags for abolitionist newspapers. Legislatures passed laws banning any publication that may show “a tendency to ...
Get ready for the World Cup! We have compiled a list of family-friendly restaurants and bars as well as watch parties to help you cheer on your …
The seven-year levy renewal will invest around $68 million into the Seattle Public Library every year, providing more than a third of the department's budget. Library supporters see the measure as essential to provide library services to a growing city.
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New York Mag – Intelligencer [no paywall]: “Steven Rosenbaum started writing his book The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality in 2022, around when ChatGPT launched. Initially he didn’t use it at all, “But as the writing moved forward into 2023, 2024, it got better and I got better at using it,” he said. ...
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Kottke: “How do dictionary makers keep track of similarly suffixed words, like those ending in -ism, -graphy, -ness, or -ology? With a computer, it’s simple, but how did they do it before the computing age? Starting in the 1950s, lexicographers at Merriam-Webster typed all of the words in the dictionary out backwards and organized them ...
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NextGov/FCW: “Public broadcasting has a long history of capturing important moments in American life. It preserved voices from the civil rights movement, debates over war and foreign policy, regional arts coverage and local public affairs programs that reflected the people and places shaping the nation. But many of those moments have also been hard to ...
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Recirculating the ‘Eixample’ proves that civic renovation is most radical when it refuses to announce itself — using…
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The New York Times – Gift Article – Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform: “…Illegally copied audiobooks have also turned up on other platforms, where pirates sometimes disguise them as podcasts by breaking them into chapters. But publishers say YouTube ...
Celebrating 500 years of college education, this library blends contemporary technology with ancient forms to provide a space uniquely suited for study.
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Washington Post [no paywall] – “Self-filed lawsuits. New books. Scientific papers. See the data behind the surge. The impact of ChatGPT on society can be summed up with a single word: more. Since OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tool debuted in late 2022, anyone can rapidly churn out reams of text resembling academic papers, legal documents, poems ...
Part greenhouse, part sanatorium, this unusual glass extension of a Vienna Reformstil hospital hosts the library of the university of natural resources and life sciences.
This 1978 library contains a special collection founded by Lausanne's own Sherlock Holmes.
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“U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) now makes more than 1,000 Congressionally Mandated Reports from 90 Federal agencies available on GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. This total has doubled since GPO announced reaching 500 Congressionally Mandated Reports in October 2024 and has continued to grow ...
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U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) is "livid," calling the denial a "petty" abuse and an attack on free speech.
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Michael Auslin on the Final Battle to Control the Declaration of Independence, LitHub – “In the summer of 1951, a month after the Declaration celebrated its 175th anniversary, an unmarked panel truck pulled into the basement of the Library of Congress. Once loaded, it drove to the Maryland campus of the National Bureau of Standards, ...
The second incarnation of Québec's central library aims to bring renewed attention to a struggling neighbourhood.
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Laskowski, Casandra and Buckingham, Richard and Marks, Taryn and Miguel-Stearns, Teresa M. and Niedringhaus, Kristina L. and Parsons, Patrick and Pike, George H., Building the Future of Law Libraries: Artificial Intelligence, Opportunities, and Advancement (October 13, 2025). Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 25-31, U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-32, Stanford…
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ChatGPTis EatingtheWorld: “Total U.S. copyright suits v. AI companies hit 105. Elsevier and other book publishers, along with Scott Turow, have filed today a copyright suit against Mark Zuckerberg as well as Meta. The suit was filed in the Southern District of New York. The publishers allege copyright infringement in torrenting of datasets from shadow ...
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“The Booksellers is a 2019 feature-length documentary film about antiquarian and rare book dealers; you can watch the whole movie for free on YouTube. A behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world.”
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Getting a library card should be easy. For many children, it isn’t. The process can require documentation that not every family has: a fixed address, proof of residency, or a guardian’s signature. For students who are unhoused, in foster care, or undocumented, those requirements can make the library effectively […]
The post Chicago public school IDs now…
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CounterSpin interview with Lia Holland on the Internet Archive. “Janine Jackson: A recent report by Wired‘s Kate Knibbs leads with the contradiction: USA Today published a story recently on how ICE is misinforming about its detainment policies, a case that the paper built on data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a nonprofit digital library ...
Of the former Finance Directorate in Vienna, only the shell remains. The interior was filled by an "inward campus" for the University of Applied Arts and its library.
The print shop of this design school and research institute in Vienna is now a bright library.
Since 1889, the former granary of the Alsatian town of Sélestat holds a unique collection documenting a long humanist tradition.
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Card Catalog: 5 more collections that put their archives online for everyone From 2,000 years of medical illustration to vintage software preserved in a browser, these five free digital archives cover an enormous range of human record-keeping. Wellcome Collection (wellcomecollection.org) Over 100,000 images spanning 2,000 years of medical history, all free to download under Creative ...
At the centre of North America's busiest public library system, the Toronto Reference Library is one of the city's most prized cultural assets.
A prime example of Collegiate Gothic of the early 20th century, Toronto's Knox College is a favourite of students and film directors.
Completed in 1935, the Art Déco Toulouse research library is a rare example of libraries built in France during the interwar period.
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“Released in February 2026 as a product of the C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice, the white paper “Content Authenticity and Provenance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Call-to-Action for the LAMs Community” advocates for libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) to take proactive and pragmatic steps to ensure that digital collections content, especially content ...
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