Libraries, learning, and the free flow of information. We’ll need them even more tomorrow.
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We’ve learned a lot about the nature of media manipulation and the ways we can counter it.
It’s time to get serious about putting the research to work in more newsrooms.
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Have you been to the library lately?
“As other communal support networks have suffered cutbacks and disintegrated, the library has found itself as one of the only places left with an open door.”
Well done, @nickhunebrown @thewalrus
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On those book bans in Missouri
Some details of this evolving story may already be dated, but boy not this passage
@E_Hellerstein @CodaStory
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A Day in the Life of a Library
About @mrrl, and what this Missouri library means to its community. Thanks to @JackieValley @csmonitor
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.@Surgeon_General has a 6-part prescription for rebuilding human connections:
#1. Strengthening social infrastructure, which includes things like parks and libraries as well as public programs.
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“Libraries, and librarians, stand at the crossroads of opportunity and information...”
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Once upon a time, there was an award-winning library system in Montana.
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At the same time they help others find jobs, libraries may be struggling with their own financial worries
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A celebration of community libraries and their expanding role
“There are so many things happening there that have nothing to do with books.”
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“As local safety nets shriveled, the library roof magically expanded from umbrella to tarp to circus tent to airplane hangar.
"The modern library keeps its citizens warm, safe, healthy, entertained, educated, hydrated and, above all, connected.”
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America's public libraries really are miracles.
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Students Lose Access to Books Amid "State-Sponsored Purging of Ideas"
Deborah Caldwell-Stone of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom said "she has never seen such a strong, successful movement to limit the ability to read."
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Public Libraries Try to Stay Politically Neutral as Calls for Defunding, Censorship Increase
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We spoke with Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (@ALALibrary), about #bookbans and the threat they pose to public libraries and First Amendment rights.
The librarian who defied the Taliban
“I've wasted too much time not being able to read... I don't want the same for the future generations of my country.”
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Book bans are threatening American democracy. Here’s how to fight back. My new column wapo.st/3zI7KxA
“Students deserve better than this.”
All 850 books Texas lawmaker Matt Krause wants to ban: an analysis
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“As highly visible and politicized book bans have exploded across the country, librarians — accustomed to being seen as dedicated public servants in their communities — have found themselves on the front lines of an acrimonious culture war.”
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Texas.
“The way that schools are changing the way that we access books is unfair to students, teachers and librarians,” says this 6th grader.
“If this district wants to educate kids, then let us read from day one.”
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