By Hannah Rozear and Remi Kalir Duke University students and faculty now have access to a new AI Ethics Learning Toolkit, developed by Duke Libraries and the Center for Applied ...

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The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

Guide to information resources by and about the federal government.

At the Harvard Law School Library, we have 39 early manuscript copies of Magna Carta, and now we also have over 300,000 public datasets published by the United States federal government. In February, our Library Innovation Lab launched the Data.gov Archive, a 17-terabyte archive of every dataset published on data.gov by the U.S. federal government. The archive […]

The American Historical Association has released a statement condemning the removal of 381 books from the United States Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library.

Written By: Amy Shaw, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Georgia State University May 2025 Observances & Conferences Jewish American Heritage Month Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacifi…

The American Library Association (ALA) today released the highly anticipated Top 10 Most Challenged Books List.

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The Prejudicial Materials Working Group (PMWG) of the RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group (CVEG) was convened in the summer of 2020 to review, revise, and generate new terminology in the RBMS Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging (RBMS CVRMC) that would be useful for indexing works that are prejudicial in nature, or that are the byproduct of prejudicial and hateful systems and ideologies. This work included review and revision of scope notes and relationships between terms.

Academic libraries' first and most fundamental obligation is to support the work of their host institutions.

Guide to information resources by and about the federal government.

The American Library Association responds to the Department of Education's dismissal of complaints about censorship and discrimination: the "effort to terminate protections... advances the demonstrably false claim that book bans are not real."

Podcast · Notes Between Us · About: We’re a group of law library professionals talking story with our diverse colleagues and friends to uplift one another in our pursuit of excellence and professional and personal fulfillment. This is a spin off of our Notes Between Us blog, where we come together to share notes about life, the universe, and everything. All are welcome! Host: Jenny Silbiger, Hawai‘i State Law Librarian Producers: Marcelo Rodriguez and Syd Stephenson *Note: Opinions and commentaries expressed represent the speakers’ perspectives and not the institutions within which they work.

South Carolina considering a law that withholds public library funds if "inappropriate" materials are available and more censorship news.

Every library — academic, public, and school (public, private, charter, independent, and international) — should have a comprehensive written policy that guides the selection, deselection or weeding, and reconsideration of library resources. The most valuable selection policy is current; it is reviewed and revised on a regular basis; and it is familiar to all members of a library’s staff. The policy should be approved by the library’s governing board or other policy-making body and disseminated widely for understanding by all stakeholders.

List of books by Native authors that have been challenged or banned

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The final count for the 2023-2024 school year will be released later this fall along with a public Index of School Book Bans.

The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has released new data documenting book challenges throughout the United States, finding that challenges were nearly double that of 2021, reaching the highest number of attempted book bans since ALA began compiling data about censorship in libraries more than 20 years ago.

As Publishers Weekly reported this week, the Internet Archive, nonprofit home to a robust digital library, has lost its latest appeal in a case brought by publishers. A panel from New York’s …

The Academic Libraries Video Trust is a service facilitating the preservation of audiovisual (“AV”) works in the collections of member libraries. The principal activity of ALVT is to provide a clearinghouse or repository of digital versions of selected AV works, generally works currently available only in the obsolete VHS format. The service is built on opportunities allowed to libraries and archives for the preservation and replacement of works in their collections, pursuant to Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act. Video Trust offers this service in order to encourage the preservation and appreciation of the educational films, motion pictures, documentaries, and other works that are increasingly out of reach because of the obsolete technology.

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