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More than 40,000 people petitioned to reverse Cumberland City Council’s book ban, showing the power of collective action against censorship.
Cumberland City Council’s ban of books depicting same-sex parents from its libraries implies such relationships are unnatural or strange. What’s happening?
A boycott, open letters, petitions, resignations: these are definitive evidence something has gone wrong with the State Library of Victoria.
A scholar highlights some of the most interesting versions of the Passover text and how they’ve met communities’ changing needs around the world.
Amid calls to ban certain books from libraries and schools, research shows that students benefit when they have the ability to choose which materials they want to read.
In addition to destroyed buildings, there’s an entire underground world – filled with untold numbers of artifacts, bones and ruins – that are exposed and damaged by the digging of trenches.
Digitising manuscripts may promise preservation and accessibility, but technology does not future-proof our access to the past.
Though they’re sometimes characterized as attention-addled homebodies, younger people see a real value in libraries − one that goes beyond books.
The public’s intensifying needs necessitate an expansion of the library’s role in our communities.
Secondary publishing rights could facilitate immediate open access to publicly funded research and foster global innovation and discovery.
Librarians are defending the rights of readers and writers in the battle raging across the US over censorship, book challenges and book bans. That conflict has even changed how librarians are trained.
Even for people who regularly look to social media platforms for book recommendations, recommendations from friends, family members or colleagues are a main way of choosing what to read.
When universities do use fair dealing to supplement purchased, licensed and freely available resources, they work within guidelines developed across the education sector.
Drag Queen Story Time events have faced backlash and protests recently. But contrary to misconceptions, these events can support child development and promote acceptance.
The Wales Broadcast Archive in Aberystwyth brings together the archives of the BBC, ITV and S4C under one roof.
In a post-truth era, with limited resources, archivists face difficult decisions about what should be preserved, but the problem is not new.
Seven years after the #fundtrove campaign, the National Library’s Trove is once again under threat – and it’s part of a broader neglect of Australia’s cultural institutions.
Books are one of the oldest forms of communication ‘technology,’ a scholar writes, and understanding how they’ve evolved over time provides insights into their role in society.
Libraries play a crucial role in preserving texts, even controversial ones. They are responsible for teaching people how to evaluate the credibility and validity of information.
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Deputy University Librarian, University of California, Merced
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Research Associate - Creative Industries, Flinders University
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Adjunct Senior Industry Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Slavic Resources Coordinator, and Head, Petro Jacyk Resource Centre, University of Toronto Libraries, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand
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Baker Endowed Chair and Professor of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina
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Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics, University of Alberta
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Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University
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Director of the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics, Monash University
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Postdoctoral Fellow—Indigenous and Colonial Histories, University of Tasmania