The decision to ban and remove adult content from tumblr is a highly public, ritual destruction of materials deemed to be objectionable, and a censorship of marginalized voices and lives. There may not be a fire, but make no mistake. This is a book burning.

At New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center, artists and writers convened to discuss an iconic image in rap history and celebrate a recent book collecting images of hip-hop artists.

Librarian sabbaticals: Overcoming the hurdles and realizing the benefits

OCLC recently released the latest data about voter support for libraries and the results should scare our entire industry out of political and advocacy complacency and away from the poor advocacy culture of storytelling that permeates our field. The results of the data have validated the fears of those of us at EveryLibrary and they’ve shown that we need to learn from some of the more politically savy and powerful organizations in the United States if we want library to continue to have the funding they need to remain into the future.

The analysis shows that libraries remain valued institutions that most voters have a positive association with and find useful. There continues to be stalwart support for library funding in many communities as evidenced by the fact that the majority of local library ballot measures in recent years have passed. This new national voter data, however, indicates a softening in committed support for libraries over the past decade. Libraries and library advocates should take action to address this downward trend.

De eerste IP-editie van 2019 gaan we wijden aan de jonge generatie in het brede informatiedomein, werkzaam in bibliotheek, archief, erfgoed, kenniscentra en div. En daar hebben wij jouw hulp voor nodig!

Enkele lezers hadden mij al laten weten het wel te zien aankomen toen ik begin 2018 van maandelijks naar tweemaandelijks ging: het einde van WWW is in zicht. Met dit nummer van november/december 2018 is de laatste WWW inderdaad verschenen. Ik stop ermee: alleen met WWW, nog niet met medewerking verlenen aan Bibliotheekblad(.nl).

The 5th annual international User Experience in Libraries conference, or UXLibsV, will take place at Royal Holloway, University of London, on 17-19 June 2019.

PW takes a look back at some of the library stories that captivated the publishing world in 2018, and what they portend for 2019.

De Innovatieraad en de regiogidsen organiseren op 14 februari 2019 samen een landelijke dag over nieuwe en vernieuwende projecten van openbare bibliotheken.

Op deze dag maken we kennis met de projecten en delen we kennis: hoe kunnen we de projecten samen (nog) beter maken?

Website van de Noord Oost Brabantse Bibliotheken (NOBB) met daarin vijf gemeenten: Oss, Meierijstad, Uden, Bernheze en Landerd

With the popularity of video games and more libraries circulating non-traditional materials, Burlingame Public Library experiments with offering a video game collection.

Online videogames and libraries might not seem like an obvious match. But public and university libraries are attracting a new generation of patrons and students by getting into the e-sports game.

Librarian Andrew Carlos shares his experiences teaching information literacy using memes, and designing creative ways to engage students to think about copyright and participatory culture in library research.

Als aanvulling op de onlangs verschenen Monitor Makers, waarin de productie van Nederlandse auteurs en vertalers op een rij werd gezet, presenteert KVB Boekwerk deze maand een onderzoek naar de inkomsten van auteurs uit boekenverkoop: de royalty’s. De royalty’s zijn voor een auteur een van de bestanddelen van hun inkomen.

Volunteers at a Sheffield library say they are the target of a hate campaign from someone who is determined for the venture to fail.

Research backs up the importance of libraries for new parents. A rigorous study conducted over a year in libraries in Essex found that library-based rhyme times had a positive effect on the mood and mental wellbeing of mothers. As many as 95% of mothers felt “happy” or “very happy” upon leaving a session compared to 77% when they arrived.