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Happy National Library Week: Celebrating 20 Years of Faculty READ Posters at the UW Law Library
The UW Law Library is marking National Library Week this year with a milestone: the 20th anniversary of our Faculty READ Poster series.You’ve likely seen READ posters before—those images of…
The HeinOnline Blog
What Treasures Are Hidden in Your Library?
National Library Week is an annual event sponsored by the American Library Association that celebrates the valuable role libraries and librarians play in their communities. The first National Library Week…
Goldman's Observations
I Was the Son of a Librarian
By Eric Goldman
My mom, now deceased for over a decade, worked as a librarian in the 1970s and was a decades-long member of the American Library Association (ALA). That makes me one…
Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts
The Freedom to Inquire: Data Privacy Lessons from Libraries
By Washington Journal Of Law, Technology & Arts
Photo by Stanislav Kondratiev on Pexels.com By: Anusha Seyed Nasrulai “All people, regardless of origin, age, background, or views, possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use.…
Simple Justice
Even Libraries Have Weeds
A thought experiment. You have 100 feet of shelving in a public library and 1,000 feet of books, with more coming every day. What do you, the librarian, do? You…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
American Library Association Reports Record Number of Book Challenges in 2023
The ALA reports that 4,240 book titles were targeted for censorship in 2023, a 65 percent increase over 2022. The ALA reports four key trends:Pressure groups in 2023 focused on…
The Right Coast
American Library Association schemes to censor conservatives HotAir
I do, however, have an opinion about public libraries scheming to keep such literature out of the hands of kids and parents, and apparently, that is what the government-funded American…
Municipal Minute
New Law Ties State Library Funding to Policies on Book Bans
At a signing ceremony at Chicago’s Harold Washington Public Library on June 12th, Governor Pritzker signed into law P.A. 103-0100. This new law, effective January 1, 2024, states that if a…
Dewey B Strategic
ALA Publishes: Law Librarianship in the Age of AI
By Jean O'Grady
Ellyssa Kroski, the Director of Information Technology at the New York Law Institute assembled a group of law library and technology thought leaders to contribute to her new book "Law Librarianship…
Supreme Court Update
Order List
Hi everyone and welcome to another edition of Supreme Court updates! No opinions today, but three new "grants" for the docket (a big day for the Solicitor General's office), and…