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The National Library of Ireland has now digitised 2,000 photographs and made them available to the public to view online to mark the 40th anniversary of the day.
But with the restructuring of the U.S. Department of Education, which faces legal challenges on First Amendment grounds, and proposed changes to federal funding distribution, librarians are worried.
School librarians, educators, and families gathered at a town hall in Raleigh to advocate for increased funding for school libraries and to oppose proposed legislation aimed at banning certain books.
PETERBOROUGH, Ontario — Following a city council demand for $120,000 in budget cuts, the Peterborough Public Library management has informed workers they will be laying off three of the library’s four ...
Some librarians were so fearful of repercussions for speaking out that they had to be anonymized in the film. At the Sundance premiere, the festival took extra security precautions.
Who better to recommend the best books of the year than librarians? Staffers at the Spokane Public Library released their recommended reads of 2024 (some were published before 2024), all available ...
Still, laying off every librarian but the dean raises new questions: Can a library function without librarians? Can a university?
A prison library in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has been awarded the 2024 State Librarian's Excellence Award.
A group of families and librarians filed suit in federal court this week to block the implementation of new library material policies enacted by the Autauga-Prattville Public Library Board of ...
There are currently 90 librarians across Cy-Fair ISD. The proposed cuts would drop that amount to 42 librarians. 31 of those librarians would cover two elementary schools, serving 1,500 to 2,000 ...
The petition states: “This proposed policy would strip librarians at the Montgomery County Memorial Library System of their voice—and the community of the librarians’ knowledge and expertise.
After firing its director, the library system reopened Monday with shortened hours and fewer staff – and with dramatically reduced services.