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404 Media: This story was reported with support from the MuckRock foundation. “One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is winding down operations by the end of the year, a huge disruption to public libraries across the country, some of which are warning their communities the shut down will limit their ability …
AP: A newly discovered Dr. Seuss manuscript featuring the Cat in the Hat and celebrating the United States will be published next year, just in time for America’s 250th anniversary. “Sing the 50 United States” is the first full manuscript written by Dr. Seuss — born Theodor Geisel — to be discovered since the posthumous …
We’re Good at Search Just Not the Kind That the AI era Demands – a Provocation Oct 23, 2025. Abstract: Derived from Perplexity.AI. This essay by Aaron Tay explores the evolving landscape of search in the age of AI, focusing on the shifting challenges and skillsets faced by librarians and information professionals. Tay argues that …
NiemanLab: “Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications. ..The Wayback Machine, an initiative from the nonprofit Internet Archive, has been archiving the webpages of news outlets — alongside millions of other websites — for nearly three decades. Earlier this month, it announced that it will soon archive its …
BBC: “New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested. The intensive international study of unprecedented scope and scale was …
AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers Approved by the ACRL Board of Directors, October 2025 PDF Version Knowledge & Understanding Analysis & Evaluation Use & Application Notes In July 2024, the ACRL AI Competencies for Library Workers Task Force was created to develop comprehensive AI competencies for library workers that align with the evolving needs …
Ars Technica: “The dust is still settling at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after a mass layoff on Friday, which former employees at the beleaguered agency are describing as a massacre. In separate press briefings on Tuesday, a network of terminated CDC staff that goes by the name the National Public Health Coalition, …
Library of Congress, The New Yorker [no paywall] By Arthur Size, Published October 13, 2025 – Arthur Sze was appointed the twenty-fifth U.S. Poet Laureate in 2025. His books include “Into the Hush” and “The White Orchard: Selected Interviews, Essays, and Poems.” You peer down a lit corridor on the fifth tier of stacks where …
Data Rescue Project Portal – 1289 datasets across 86 government offices compiled through the efforts of over 500 volunteers – Browse Datasets Browse Government Offices Browse Categories. About the Mission – The Data Rescue Project (DRP) serves as a clearinghouse for preserving at-risk public information. What began as a simple Google Sheet has evolved into a …
The New York Times Gift Article: “County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes. A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. …
404 Media: “Over the last few years, some of our more meaningful (and unfortunately bleakest) reporting has been on the many ways in which the right wing has systematically targeted libraries, schools, authors, and educators over the things they teach, specifically with regard to the teaching of systemic racism, LGBTQ+ issues, science, and sex education. …
404 Media: “The Trump administration’s tariff regime and the elimination of fee exemptions for items under $800 is limiting resource sharing between university libraries, trapping some books in foreign countries, and reversing long-held standards in academic cooperation. “There are libraries that have our books that we’ve lent to them before all of this happened, and …
