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Florida school district must return LGBTQ books to libraries after settlement

Sep 13 2024: A school district in northeastern Florida must return three dozen books related to race and the LGBTQ community to school libraries as part of a settlement reached Thursday with authors, parents and students.

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Literary prize drops name of its sponsor from title after protests over Israel arms link

Sep 11 2024: A major Canadian literary award has dropped the name of its sponsor, Scotiabank, from its title following months of protests over the bank’s investments in an Israeli weapons manufacturer.

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2024 NBA longlist for young people's literature announced

Sep 10 2024: The National Book Foundation is announcing the 2024 National Book Award longlists this week. Five finalists in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's literature—will be named October 1. The winners will be ...

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HarperCollins moves Harvest to Morrow Group; Diana Baroni to lead Harvest, Harper Wave

Sep 05 2024: Diana Baroni, formerly SVP, editor-in-chief, and publisher of Harmony Books and Rodale Books at Penguin Random House, is joining HarperCollins on October 7 as SVP and publisher for Harvest and Harper Wave. Both imprints focus on the lifestyle and wellness categories.

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Appeals court upholds decision against Internet Archive’s book scanning program

Sep 04 2024: In a swift decision, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously affirmed a March 2023 lower court decision finding the Internet Archive's program to scan and lend print library books is copyright infringement. In an emphatic 64-page ...

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Little Free Library partners with ALA, PEN America on banned books map

Sep 04 2024: Little Free Library, the St. Paul, Minn.–based nonprofit organization, has partnered with the American Library Association and PEN America to produce an interactive map in response to the nationwide surge in efforts to ban books from public and school libraries. The map...

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Judge rules Llano librarian’s wrongful termination suit can proceed

Sep 03 2024: In a 23-page decision dated August 27, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman—the same judge who, in March 2023, ordered several books banned by Llano County officials returned to library shelves—denied most of the Texas county’s motion to dismiss librarian Suzette Baker’s ...

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Lerner Publishing buys Sundance Newbridge

Sep 03 2024: Lerner Publishing Group has acquired the supplemental literacy solutions company Sundance Newbridge Publishing from Globe Pequot Publishing. The purchase adds more than 3,600 fiction and nonfiction titles to the Lerner pre-K–8 catalog, along with new books and ...

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