In June, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) gave employees a presentation and tech demo called “AI-mazing Tech-venture” in which Google’s Gemini AI was presented as a tool ...
An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker, published just seven years before his legendary gothic novel Dracula. Brian Cleary stumbled upon the 134-year-old ghostly ...
Anti-censorship advocates have joined the book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as ...
How public libraries are becoming community hubs in the midst of disastersBeyond just green upgrades, libraries across the country have become centers for resilience and recovery in the face of ...
Hidden library in U.P. woods reveals innermost thoughts of visitorsFor decades, cabins in the Porcupine Mountains have offered campers a notebook in which to express themselves. Thousands of them have ...
already have a cure: fighting for the freedom to read. Stories allow us all to give meaning to the world around us and to envision something better.
The biggest social platforms are fond of reminding us about how they facilitate connections and help us communicate around the world. They are a little bit like a digital third place. And, just as you ...
Let me (re)introduce myself. I am Stephen Karlinchak, aka Conan the Librarian. I started working in the Post-Gazette’s morgue/information center/library way back 1990, before some of my co-workers ...
Decades of mismanagement and financial neglect have turned the New York State Museum, a trove of national treasures, into a dreary institution.
Librarians hold drop-in hours and take one-on-one appointments. They also hosts classes on topics like bookkeeping, grant writing and business plan development. And it’s all free. Linda Faye Lucas, a ...
An investigation conducted by a data privacy group has revealed a vast tracking network that can follow the movements of a person’s phone, according to reports from 404 Media and Krebs on Security.
“When I went through and saw the vulgarity and profanity within this book, I was shocked. One book handed to me contained very graphic sexual content, derogatory terms, and detailed explanations of ...