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Daily Beast – …In a March 27 Executive Order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump claimed that under the Biden administration the parks “advanced this corrosive ideology.” National Park Service employees have been directed to weed out “corrosive ideology” from their gift shops…National Park Service employees have flagged several books …
Concepcion, Cattleya M., The First American Law Libraries (April 09, 2025). Green Bag Almanac and Reader, pp. 80-102, 2025, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5347516 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5347516 – A brief history and bibliography of the first American law libraries, including lawyers’ personal law libraries, bar association or membership law libraries, county law libraries, state law libraries, court …
“The Library of Congress has launched a significant upgrade to its Chronicling America website, the nation’s leading free resource for historical U.S. newspapers. The updated platform now integrates fully with the Library’s broader loc.gov digital collections, offering enhanced accessibility, modern design and powerful research tools across all devices. The redesigned interface introduces numerous user-focused improvements, …
Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Discusses Her Career & Firing (CSPAN) Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden discussed her career, her firing by President Trump in May 2025, and the future of American libraries. This event took place at the American Librarian Association’s annual conference in Philadelphia.
The New Yorker – no paywall – “…”The threat that Trump poses to the maintenance of an accurate historical record should be obvious by now. During his first term, he was accused of shredding documents and flushing them down the toilet; after leaving office, he was criminally indicted for hoarding official files, some of them …
EM360 – The Rise and Fall of a Search Pioneer – “In 1995, one of the first major search engines came into existence in the form of an experiment born out of the research labs of Digital Equipment Corporation. This experiment, called AltaVista, would prove more successful than its team of developers, led by Paul …
Mental Floss: “Here’s a little perspective: In 1939, gas cost 10 cents a gallon at the pump. A movie ticket set you back 20 cents. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the year’s bestselling hardcover book, was $2.75. For a nation suffering 20 percent unemployment, books were an impossible expense. But in just one day, …
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AboveTheLaw: “At AALL’s annual meeting, the research profession searches for its war footing. Librarians don’t come across as folks who storm the Bastille. But when the 118th annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries met in Portland this week under a banner exhorting the group to “Be Bold,” deep thoughts about the Dewey …
Internet Archive Blogs – July 24, 2025. “Announced today, the Internet Archive has been designated as a federal depository library by Senator Alex Padilla. The designation was made via letter to Scott Matheson, Superintendent of Documents at the U.S. Government Publishing Office. Senator Padilla explained the designation in a statement to KQED: “The Archive’s digital-first …
Too Big to Prosecute?: Examining the AI Industry’s Mass Ingestion of Copyrighted Works for AI Training Senate Judiciary Committee – includes video and testimony transcripts, July 16, 2025. See also ranking member Sen. Dick Durbin’s opening statement – Key Quotes: “While AI can be an incredible tool that unlocks further creativity, writers, artists, musicians, and …
