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A New Nostalgia for Libraries

By Sanhita SinhaRoy | June 24, 2014

Palfrey, who chairs the board of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, spoke to 500 library leaders from around the world about the disconnect between research that shows Americans love their libraries and the electoral will necessary to preserve them. “We say we love libraries, … Continue reading A New Nostalgia for Libraries →

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The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom encourages library workers to report censorship incidents to library or school materials and services that occurred in 2019 using an online form by December 31. Every submitted report provides crucial information that helps raise awareness and respond to censorship threats by creating resources for libraries. OIF is seeking information on challenges and removals of books, online resources, displays, and DVDs. It is also seeking information on canceled or challenged programs, and the vandalizing of library materials. All personal and institutional information submitted through the online form is kept confidential.

Office for Intellectual Freedom, Nov. 20
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Trusting Records in the Cloud: The Creation, Management, and Preservation of Trustworthy Digital Content, published by Facet Publishing in association with the Society of American Archivists, presents up-to-date research and offers concrete guidelines for records professionals concerned with challenges to records in the online environment including privacy, accessibility, portability, metadata, and ownership. Edited by Luciana Duranti and Corinne Rogers, this collection highlights the key findings of the InterPARES Trust project, which has investigated issues of trust in and trustworthiness of records in the cloud environment.

ALA Neal-Schuman, Nov. 20
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PLA has selected Columbus, Ohio, as the host city for its 2024 conference. The PLA Conference typically draws between 8,000 and 10,000 attendees, and the Columbus event will be held April 3–6, 2024, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Offered biennially, the PLA Conference is the premier event for public library professionals. Registration and housing are currently open for the PLA 2020 Conference, taking place February 25–29, 2020, in Nashville, Tennessee. The PLA 2022 Conference will be held March 22–26, 2022, in Portland, Oregon.

PLA, Nov. 20
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The Citrus County, Florida, commissioners voted on November 19 to reject a digital subscription to the New York Times for 70,000 local library cardholders that would replace its print subscription for a savings of $200. A motion for the county to move forward with the $2,700 digital subscription, instead of its current print subscription, failed 3–2. So many people attended, officials opened up an overflow room. Three sheriff’s deputies stood by the door. Commissioner Scott Carnahan said he wouldn’t back down from his original opinion, adding that he doesn’t think public money should be used for any news subscriptions.

Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times, Nov. 19
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The National AIDS Memorial in San Francisco will become the new caretaker of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and NAMES Project programs. As part of the transition, care and stewardship of the Quilt’s archival collections will go to the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. This historic decision will return the Quilt to the San Francisco Bay Area, where 32 years ago during the height of the AIDS epidemic, a group of strangers gathered at a storefront to remember the names and lives of their loved ones they feared history would forget. Since 1987, the NAMES Project Foundation has cared for the Quilt and its associated archives.

Library of Congress, Nov. 20
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The National Information Standards Organization has announced former ALA President James G. Neal as its 2020 Miles Conrad Lecturer. Neal will be presented with this prestigious award on February 24 at the NISO Plus Conference in Baltimore. The award was established in 1965 in commemoration of the organizational founder of the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services. In 2019, NFAIS was folded into NISO. Neal was cited for his leadership in areas as diverse as academic computing, digital research and scholarship, licensing, and copyright.

National Information Standards Organization, Nov. 19
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Published by AASL and ALA Editions, Lori E. Donovan’s book Inquire explores how inquiry process models and questioning protocols can be used and modified to develop curious and reflective lifelong learners and problem solvers. By studying Inquire through the Domains, readers of this volume of the Shared Foundation series will see how the Competencies and Alignments support learner growth in the inquiry process and can reflect on their practices in a variety of K–12 settings. Loaded with ideas and strategies to grow critical, systematic thinkers, this book features no-tech, low-tech, and high-tech tools for supporting inquiry learning.

ALA Editions, Nov. 20

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