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Getty Images Republicans and Democrats on the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee split at a Thursday hearing about whether some books containing LGBTQ+ content should be removed from public school libraries. Democrats criticized the hearing as leaning into culture war topics to attack public education, and said that those tactics resulted in book bans. Republicans […]
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State University Libraries’ Eberly Family Special Collections Library has launched the Black History and Visual Culture digital collection, a celebration and remembrance of Black life at Penn State campuses, broadly across the United States, and around the world. The permanent collection, free for public viewing, features posters, poetry and visual […]
BATON ROUGE – After 50 years of searching for their grandfather’s long-lost publications as part of a family genealogical project, two cousins from Maryland, Renee Anderson and Sharon Young, had no idea that they would find what they had been searching for more than 1,000 miles from home at LSU. Cover of “Gems of the […]
Genealogy sleuths can find research resources, ranging from tools for beginners to websites specializing in Black genealogy, Scottish genealogy and access to the online company Ancestry at an online guide to genealogy created by a Carolina librarian. The guide will also point you to the library’s own digitized records. To use some of the resources, […]
Contact: Pattye Archer MSU Libraries Coordinator of Manuscripts and Associate Professor Jennifer McGillan reviews historic documents that are part of the Lantern Project, an MSU-led collaboration to digitize and transcribe legal records of enslaved persons with funding from a branch of the National Archives. An upcoming workshop at MSU will introduce the resource to participants […]
Libraries across the US are increasingly on the frontlines of America’s homelessness crisis, especially during a winter marked by cold snaps and in the wake of the tailing off of the Covid-19 pandemic which has seen many public institutions reopen. This month two Denver-area libraries closed due to methamphetamine contamination, with library officials from Englewood, […]
Researchers from the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan have received a $750,000 research grant to conduct a survey of Black History Month programming in public libraries across the country. The research team will partner with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) and the Public Library Association to embark […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 4, 2022) — University of Kentucky Libraries will welcome University of California, Los Angeles Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies Safiya Noble, Ph.D., on Oct. 4, for a discussion of the ways digital media intersect with issues of race, gender, culture, power and technology. Drawing on research from her new […]
If there’s one thing that Jason Kuhl has learned in the 23 years since he earned his degree in library sciences, it’s that the reality of being a librarian hardly squares with the storybook fantasy. “You tell people you’re a librarian and they think you spend your days reading and recommending books,” he said. Most […]