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 New York Times has announced the winners of their annual contest. Send these peeps your best. The 2016 I Love My Librarian Award recipients include three academic librarians, four public ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But in the longer run, the damage is being done to students. By making effort an optional factor in higher education rather than the whole point of it, LLMs risk producing a generation of students who ...

The Edge Initiative was developed by a national coalition of leading library and local government organizations, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and led by the Urban Libraries Council ...

he 132-year-old University of Chicago houses more than 800,000 volumes related to South Asia, making it one of the world's premier collections for studies on the region. But how did such a treasure ...

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 ...

According to ChatGTP, below are the main themes of this year’s library headlines (using Library Link of the Day as the source): Highlighting state legislation targeting librarians, legal battles in ...

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 ...

Before every San Francisco Symphony concert, you%u2019ll see a black-clad figure distributing folders on the musicians%u2019 stands. Most of the time, that%u2019s Margo Kieser, the orchestra%u2019s ...