books Malcolm X's former prison cell to be library for incarcerated people Thom Dunn

books Sci-Hub and Libgen descend from a Soviet tradition of smuggled science Ellsworth Toohey

books LeVar Burton replaces Drew Barrymore as National Book Awards host Rob Beschizza

texas Celebrate Banned Books Week (October 1-7) with Harris County Public Library, which was recently declared a "book sanctuary" Jennifer Sandlin

politics Illinois bans book bans Rob Beschizza

literature Salman Rushdie wins the Freedom to Publish award at the British Book Awards Elías Villoro

books Republicans no longer seeking to ban individual books go after the whole library Jason Weisberger

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books Report on banned books in scools for 2022 Elías Villoro

books Two great stories about saving books and libraries from war Elías Villoro

books A large number of conservative groups are actively working to ban books Jason Weisberger

books Furries raise nearly $100K for a library to fight a book-banning mayor Thom Dunn

trump One architect's vision of the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Thom Dunn

eff In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis Cory Doctorow

law Bill from Missouri's Rep Ben Baker threatens librarians with prison sentences for allowing minors to read books banned by town committees Cory Doctorow

privacy Linkedin to libraries: drop dead Cory Doctorow

law To avoid honoring FOIA requests, some governments are suing requesters Andrea James

Copyfight The world's libraries tell the W3C that DRM is bad for the web Cory Doctorow

Business Federal courts resist transparency, but the Free Law Project fights back Derek Pyle

happy mutants The Internet Archive is putting a Trump-resistant mirror of the web in Canada Cory Doctorow