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Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser
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Free movies at the library!
Librarians, help us celebrate 1 trillion web pages preserved by the @internetarchive 🌐
Our guide has templates, visuals & event ideas to bring your community into the web’s history. From “Then/Now” displays to talks, it’s easy to showcase your role in saving digital history. 🎉
Librarians, help us celebrate 1 trillion web pages preserved by the @internetarchive 🌐
Our guide has templates, visuals & event ideas to bring your community into the web’s history. From “Then/Now” displays to talks, it’s easy to showcase your role in saving digital history. 🎉
The Code4Lib Journal – Mitigating Aggressive Crawler Traffic in the Age of Generative AI: A Collaborative Approach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489 #AI #libraries #bots #crawlers
The Code4Lib Journal – Mitigating Aggressive Crawler Traffic in the Age of Generative AI: A Collaborative Approach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489 #AI #libraries #bots #crawlers
'For the past five years, Kyle K. Courtney, who directs copyright and information policy for Harvard’s libraries, has fought to make e-books more accessible to public libraries across the United States.
Most e-books have digital rights management software that means, like print books, they can only be checked out by one person at a time. But unlike print books, which can sit on library shelves for decades, e-books are often sold on time-limited contracts — meaning public libraries must buy them again after several years or, in some cases, several months. The costs can add up quickly.
Courtney, a lawyer by trade, believes that the strict contract terms are “undermining every library’s mission across the United States.”
“We can’t own our books. We can’t preserve them. We can’t keep them. We can’t check them out without having to pay for the same book over and over and over,” Courtney said. “And that’s problematic for collection development, for access, for budget, for all sorts of things.”' https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/9/24/Library-eBook-Contracts/ #books #copyright #contract #libraries
A public library in Stanstead, Quebec, straddles the US-Canadian border. Should patrons on the Canadian side be allowed to walk through a door to the US side without going through customs? 
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/trump-ends-canada-access-at-shared-border-library/ 
Until now, yes, with a brief exception around the 9/11 attacks. But not any more, according to a new Trump admin directive.
#BorderPatrol #Canada #Customs #ICE #Libraries #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@petersuber Boooo. Boo, I say. Booo!
That's been one of my most favorite libraries for over 2 decades because of its siting and access. Maybe one day the world will right itself and this library will again be open the way it is supposed to be.
'For the past five years, Kyle K. Courtney, who directs copyright and information policy for Harvard’s libraries, has fought to make e-books more accessible to public libraries across the United States.
Most e-books have digital rights management software that means, like print books, they can only be checked out by one person at a time. But unlike print books, which can sit on library shelves for decades, e-books are often sold on time-limited contracts — meaning public libraries must buy them again after several years or, in some cases, several months. The costs can add up quickly.
Courtney, a lawyer by trade, believes that the strict contract terms are “undermining every library’s mission across the United States.”
“We can’t own our books. We can’t preserve them. We can’t keep them. We can’t check them out without having to pay for the same book over and over and over,” Courtney said. “And that’s problematic for collection development, for access, for budget, for all sorts of things.”' https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/9/24/Library-eBook-Contracts/ #books #copyright #contract #libraries
A public library in Stanstead, Quebec, straddles the US-Canadian border. Should patrons on the Canadian side be allowed to walk through a door to the US side without going through customs? 
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/trump-ends-canada-access-at-shared-border-library/ 
Until now, yes, with a brief exception around the 9/11 attacks. But not any more, according to a new Trump admin directive.
#BorderPatrol #Canada #Customs #ICE #Libraries #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Three #Iowa City West #highschoolers founded a #bookclub that reads some of the country's most frequently #banned #books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced. #bannedbooks #libraries #librarians #students #education #reading #maga #legislation #laws #booklaw https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-10-15/banned-books-iowa-city-high-school-student-club #democracy #censorship
This is the best thing I have read about #OpenAccess in years. It's a far-ranging journey into so much of what is wrong and could be better in academia and in our world. Plus Hothead Paisan.
Seriously, read it this weekend. https://matthewcheney.net/blog/into-the-fugitive-open/
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