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Update February 25, 2020 National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) Opposes Copycat Missouri Bill Threatening Tennessee Libraries From ALA: Today the American Library Association (ALA) released the following statement regarding Tennessee HB 2721, which would require a parental oversight board to replace policies and library experts in the development of library collections and services.  Libraries that […]

From IMLS: The Institute of Museum and Library Services released its FY 2020 allotment table for 59 State Library Administrative Agencies (SLAAs), totaling $166,803,000. These annual grants to the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories represent the largest source of federal funding support for library services in the United States. This year, IMLS […]

From a Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Blog Post by Grace Costantino: At the end of the twentieth century, the The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and The Australian National Herbarium began collaboration on an ambitious project—to create an online index of names for all of the world’s vascular plants. By combining the data in […]

Now you can add a Tweet to one you already Tweeted, faster! pic.twitter.com/j3ktAN6t5o — Twitter (@Twitter) February 19, 2020 See Also: Twitter Now Makes it Easier toAdd New Tweets to Old Threads (via The Verge)

From an OPERAS Blog Post: A final report on the results of the post-publication open peer review experiment that took place from October 2018 to June 2019 within the HIRMEOS project has been published. The project has included the implementation of an annotation service on the OpenEdition Books platform. In order to support the implementation of this […]

From Government Computing News: Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology classified the Wikipedia bots into nine roles and 25 associated functions with the goal of understanding what bots do now and what they might do in the future. Jeffrey Nickerson, professor and associate dean of research at Stevens’ School of Business, and an author of […]

From Xinhua (Note: China’s State-Run News Agency): Libraries and bookstores have joined hands to build 18 mini-libraries in temporary hospitals in China’s Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, to lend “spiritual support” to patients there. The libraries, comprising rows of bookcases, have been installed in all temporary hospitals and six others yet. [Clip] […]

ALA Issues Statement Opposing a Proposed Tennessee Law That Threatens State’s Freedom to Read (via ALA)  DOAJ’S [Directory of Open Access Journal] Global Activities in 2019: The Year In Review How to Contribute to Dewey Decimal Classification (via OCLC) Montana State Library Commission Asks For Feedback on Proposed Changes to Public Library Standards Wyoming Digital […]

The Institute of Museum and Library Services released its FY 2020 allotment table for 59 State Library Administrative Agencies (SLAAs), totaling $166,803,000.