The Message in the Medium This essay is my answer — my echo, my reformulation — of Andrew’s question. I asked about the mysterious stickers, and Andr ...

The register of copyrights at the Library of Congress defended a lower court ruling that kept her in office despite President Donald Trump%u2019s attempts to fi ...

Those were official challenges. In Newberg those objecting to materials at the public library have taken a more nefarious approach. “We were notified by a pa ...

A new ruling in Authors Guild v. OpenAI has major implications for copyright law, well beyond artificial intelligence. On October 27, 2025, Judge Sidney Stein o ...

And I certainly do not want AI to write my books for me, or paint my pictures. Not only would the work be terrible: it wouldn’t even be work. As all creatives know, there is limited joy in having ...

The encyclopedia maker could have become a casualty of the Wikipedia era. But it has remade itself into a digital learning giant that is weighing going public. By the time the last Encyclopaedia ...

LISNews is a collaborative weblog [aka blog] devoted to current events and news in the world of Library and Information Science. A dedicated team of international bloggers scour the World Wide Web to ...

Nineteen states have followed the lead of California and passed consumer privacy laws. Three went into effect this year and eight will become effective in 2025. The remainder become effective in 2026.

Libraries had changed since I was a kid. They were now more like a community service center than just a home for books. Older people signed up to learn basic computer skills or how to set up an ...

A New Haven Register Story on an exhibit by Leslie Ann Williams and Seth Godfrey, called \”The Bonfire of Liberties.\” They detail book banning from as far back as the rewriting of Mayan history ...

The voluminous papers of the celebrated neurologist include letters, notebooks, drafts and other traces of a man who couldn’t stop writing. Now, the New York Public Library has acquired Sacks’s ...

The 23,600 volumes he accumulated between the 1970s and his arrest in March of 1990 were all stashed in his 17-room home — wall to wall, floor to ceiling, in hallways, closets and bathrooms. But the ...