and more.
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ALA Welcomes New Executive Director
Daniel J. Montgomery takes the helm at the American Library Association today, with priorities that include federal and state funding, civic partnerships, AI competencies, and anti-censorship advocacy.
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B&T Rails Against ‘Fast Tracking’ Federal Case
Baker & Taylor responded on November 6 to setting a scheduling conference and expedited briefing schedule in ‘OCLC v. B&T,’ which is being heard in a U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ohio, and could decide the fate of the cataloging system BTCat.
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‘OCLC v. B&T’ Moves Forward in Ohio District Court
Nonprofit library organization OCLC, which sued Baker & Taylor over its creation of BTCat in March, has asked a federal judge to set a schedule now that the 30-day stay issued in October has expired.
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Will SCOTUS Take Up Texas’s Book Banning Case?
Publishers and freedom-to-read advocates are supporting plaintiffs in Little v. Llano County by encouraging the Supreme Court to review a First Amendment decision by the Fifth Circuit.
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PW Spotlight: The Indie Author Project
The Indie Author Project is streamlining how libraries and indie authors connect in the growing self-publishing space. (Sponsored)
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B&N Touts Library Services
Barnes & Noble is promoting its &Classwork e-commerce portal to libraries as another alternative to fill the void created by the shutdown of Baker & Taylor.
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Virginia District Judge Orders DoDEA to Restore School Books
Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles granted a preliminary injunction on October 20 ordering five Department of Defense Education Activity schools to cease implementation of three presidential executive orders that removed books from school shelves and to return titles that had been removed.
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Concrete Data on Urban Libraries: PW Talks with Femi Adelakun
The ULC, a public library advocacy group, recently studied five metropolitan flagship libraries to find
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Follett Content, Mackin Enter the Public Library Market
The two companies have long histories serving the school library market and are now gearing up to expand their services to the public library sector following the collapse of Baker & Taylor.
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Libraries Look to Fill the Gap Left by Baker & Taylor
With the closure of the country’s largest library wholesaler now underway, librarians are searching for new options as Ingram, Bookazine, and even Amazon make a play to court B&T customers left in the lurch.
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