DOJ Extends Web Accessibility Deadline Public colleges now have until next year to ensure their web pages and mobile apps are accessible to people with disabilities in accordance with recent updates to the ADA. Disability advocates decried...

The deadline was pushed back by a year. 📚
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make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

Anyway, our public libraries deserve more support. Let's fight to ensure they receive what they need to pay library workers fairly, to do the necessary capital repairs/upgrades, and to afford lots of books and other resources, and to offer programming.

Good night everyone. #NationalLibraryWeek

When I say I want a home library, I mean I want thousands of books in my house and also everyone shutup. To be clear.

No, Books Are Not Remotely Too Expensive Let’s Explore a Little Math

No, Books Are Not Remotely Too Expensive
Let’s Explore a Little Math
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The Value of Scotland’s School Libraries Report - CILIPS Research into the value of Scotland’s school libraries has been undertaken on behalf of CILIPS by Jacqueline Kennard Imrie, doctoral researcher of library history at […]

Research into the value of Scotland’s school #libraries
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10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More Perhaps you've had the experience of moving to a new city and immediately being told that you've missed its golden age of live music. To an extent, this has happened in more or less every period of th...

10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More

Walking through the Rita Benton Music Library This is an installment in a multi-part series.  Located on the first floor of Voxman Music Building is a library with large glass windows. Sunlight streams from the panes of glass, illuminating studen...

Walking through the Rita Benton Music Library #Iowa 📜(Heavily features collections from the rare book room) dailyiowan.com/2026/04/14/w...

My studies make it clear that, in recent years, the public library has morphed into a community hub that provides all sorts of resources. It makes me proud to think of the library as a bastion of service for the public in a culture of profit. OTOH why are all these people in here! Go away! 😹

How Email Open Tracking Quietly Took Over the Web You give up more privacy than you might think each time you open an email.

In honor of Tim Cook's stepping down, here is the story of how I emailed him, not once but twice, with open email tracking enabled, only to discover that, not once but twice, my emails to the CEO of Apple were opened on a computer running Windows.

When Your Digital Life Vanishes A broken phone or corrupted drive can mean the loss of work, evidence, art, or the last traces of the dead. But sometimes data-recovery experts can summon lost files from the void.

When Your Digital Life Vanishes www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Hub City Brewing, Jackson library host adult spelling bee, ticket giveaway The competition offers a casual, high-energy atmosphere where participants can grab a drink and try their hand at increasingly difficult words.

"Think you can spell "conscientious" after a craft beer? The Jackson Madison County (TN) Public Library is putting local residents to the test with an Adult Spelling Bee on Friday, April 24, at Hub City Brewing." www.nbc39.com/news/local/h...

Anyone else having issues with @bookshop.org repeatedly logging you out today?

I can choose My Account but if I search a new title and try to add it to a wish list, it's sending me on a loop of "log in or create account" "you are already logged in"

How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.

Is reading your favourite hobby? A new era of book clubs is reshaping how we read From #BookTok picks to silent reading meetups, a new generation of readers is transforming how we think about books, community and mental health.

Is reading your favourite hobby? A new era of book clubs is reshaping how we read
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Do I have any New York Public Library followers who are librarians in the system?

Here Are the World’s Most Visited Museums in 2025—Some Might Surprise You How many of these museums have you visited in 2025?

A list of the world’s 100 most visited museums in 2025 was unveiled and the Louvre came in first with around 9 million visitors. trib.al/m11x0dT

Improving metadata flows -- The simultaneous use of multiple metadata schemas at disciplinary research data repositories This study investigates the simultaneous use of multiple metadata schemas at research data repositories. The analysis covers how eight disciplinary research data repositories from the geosciences and social sciences use disciplinary metadata schemas and the DataCite Metadata Schema, and how two metadata records describing the same dataset compare. The results show that DataCite metadata records could be improved considerably by optimizing schema crosswalks. However, the parallel use of disciplinary and multidisciplinary metadata records is complex. For example, discipline has a significant effect on the completeness of DataCite metadata. A temporal analysis also highlights that metadata workflows are diverse, and in some cases, suboptimal crosswalks are likely not the sole cause of incomplete DataCite metadata. Comparing the disciplinary metadata schemas and the DataCite Metadata Schema on a structural level reveals that most differences between schemas are the result of different approaches to modelling statements about datasets, not the lack of opportunity to express them. The element sets of both disciplinary metadata schemas and the DataCite Metadata Schema could be extended to describe datasets in more detail. These observations demonstrate that disciplinary and multidisciplinary metadata schemas serve distinct purposes. Disciplinary repositories should take full advantage of the opportunities both options provide.

[2603.25468] Improving metadata flows -- The simultaneous use of multiple metadata schemas at disciplinary research data repositories https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25468

Why your AI assistant is suddenly selling to you Sponsored chats are changing the way digital advertising works

Why Your #AI Assistant Is Suddenly Selling to You www.economist.com/business/202... @economist.com) ||| Archived Version archive.ph/MMEzd

Yesterday's Bluesky Outage Was No Accident Bluesky confirmed that Thursday's outages were the result of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Free Law Project Is Scanning America's Case Law Free Law Project is scanning and digitizing millions of pages of published case law reporters, picking up where Harvard Law Library left off, to make CourtListener a complete and authoritative free source of American case law.

Free Law Project Is Scanning America's Case Law | Free Law Project | Making the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive. https://free.law/2026/04/16/scanning-americas-case-law/

Yes, libraries are invaluable for their collections and services they offer, but also social contact without the expectation to interact with anyone or spend money is so important to so many people

Native Oasis Garden Celebrates A Year Of Thriving At The Downtown Public Library A new native educational garden is taking root at the downtown branch of the Chattanooga Public Library. The library is unveiling a new interactive sign for visitors to learn more about the native spe...

Will O’Hearn, Library Executive Director, said “With great community partners digging in together, this garden shares local history and invites visitors to slow down, use their senses, and experience the plants, pollinators, and stories rooted here.”
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Observing Collections a Micron at a Time: A Tools of the Trade Post | Guardians of Memory Ever wonder what all those intriguing looking instruments in science labs actually do? This first reimagined installment of our “Tools of the Trade” series takes an up-close look at microscopy. Learn ...

Observing Collections a Micron at a Time: A Tools of the Trade Post by Megan Zins, Library of Congress 📜
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Individual with a backpack kneeling in front of a bookshelf filled with books. Text on image reads: "A research library has always done two things: help people find information, and help them judge it. AI changes the tools, not the mission. – Leo S. Lo" Logo for the University of Virginia Library is at the bottom.

The Library and the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences have announced the creation of the AI Literacy and Action Lab, the University's first structured, evidence-based program for developing AI competence and judgment through real project work.

https://bit.ly/3QbL2db

AI Toolkit for Archives - TrustArchives.org Generative artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how audiovisual materials are created, reused, and interpreted. For archives, libraries, and cultural heritage organizations, these changes rais...

Trust in Archives Initiative has just released the initial version of its much-anticipated Toolkit. It helps archives navigate the evolving landscape of #GenAI and the urgent questions it raises for the heritage sector. #GLAMS

We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Samuel Moore, Jenni Adams, and Miranda Barnes! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/45... [1/n]

Professor's work helps to advance Indigenous librarianship Indigenous data has a history of bad management from non-Natives, says UW Information School Assistant Professor Sandy Littletree (Eastern Shoshone/Navajo)...

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"Improving Search by 10%" (at the Open Library) blog.openlibrary.org/2026/04/16/i... (via @openlibrary.org) #books #libraries @archive.org