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‘So happy you’re here’: how a librarian became an advocate for mental health

Mar 16 2024: Mychal Threets has become a TikTok star thanks to his tales from life in the stacks, along with affirmations and forthright commentary on mental health that have brought him nearly 800,000 followers and millions of views. His sunny attitude – the California librarian is...

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China Nobel prize winner tarred as one of ‘three new evils’ amid rise in nationalist fervour

Mar 15 2024: Mo Yan is widely celebrated in China but now faces a lawsuit accusing him of smearing the Communist party amid an increasingly febrile atmosphere online.

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ALA reports record spike in book titles challenged in 2023

Mar 14 2024: The American Library Association announced today that the number of unique titles targeted for censorship surged 65% in 2023 compared to 2022, once again hitting record levels. In a release, ALA officials said that 4,240 unique book titles were reported challenged in...

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Bookish Oscar winners

Mar 11 2024: At last night's Academy Awards ceremony, several movies based on books or with book connections took home Oscars. Shelf Awareness rounds up the major category bookish winners including Oppenheimer, based on the biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. ...

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Three publishing veterans form new company to put the author at the center

Mar 05 2024: Madeline McIntosh and Don Weisberg, who have served as CEO of Penguin Random House US and Macmillan, respectively, have joined forces with Nina von Moltke, most recently president and director of strategic development at PRH US, to form a new publishing company, Authors...

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Court orders Amazon e-book monopoly lawsuit to proceed

Mar 05 2024: A federal judge has formally adopted a magistrate judge’s recommendation that a consumer class action lawsuit accusing Amazon of anticompetitive conduct in the e-book market be allowed to proceed. But in adopting the magistrate’s recommendation, the court also ...

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In Georgia, a bill to cut all ties with the American Library Association is advancing

Mar 03 2024: Those who've been trying to remove certain books from childrens' sections at public libraries are now taking aim at what they see as a source of the problem: the American Library Association. A growing number of states and local libraries are cutting ties with the ...

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Merriam-Webster says you can end a sentence with a preposition. The internet goes off

Mar 01 2024: An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no. Or has it? The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from Merriam-Webster: "It is permissible in English for a preposition to ...

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