Entertainer Dolly Parton has succeeded where many legislators and politicos have not. Tennessee has finally granted sufficient funding for a state-wide program entitled the “Imagination Library”, ...

madcow writes “Kottke’s blog has an interesting take on Google’s evolution from a search thingy to something else. Call it a web OS if you will.” ...

For those of you who haven’t yet heard…Leslie Burger has been elected the new President of the American Library Association for 2006-2007, in an election with fewer votes cast than last year.

At this point, AI tools like Gemini should be able to make most digitized handwritten documents searchable and readable in transcription. This is, simply put, a major advance that we’ve been trying to ...

What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds. Somehow, still using RSS, which is a beautifully simple bit of tech from the early days of the web, makes you part of a community of like ...

British Library boss: We%u2019re still healing emotionally from 2023 hackAfter two and a half years recovering from a cyberattack likened to a %u2018dirty bomb%u2019, the new interim boss hopes ...

People’s jobs, their brains, their democratic election process, their ability to connect with others emotionally — all of it could be changed by the chatbots that are filling every corner of the ...

Generative AI tools are becoming increasingly capable at helping people organize, analyze, and make sense of complex information. For many performing arts organizations, low-cost AI-powered tools are ...

SWANSEA, Mass. – An outpouring of support for Penny the cat, the unofficial mascot of the Swansea Public Library, has led a Massachusetts man to give up his efforts to evict the cat from the public ...

The register of copyrights at the Library of Congress defended a lower court ruling that kept her in office despite President Donald Trump%u2019s attempts to fire her in a legal filing Monday urging ...

Rutherford County libraries close for week to adhere to Trump ‘gender ideology’ order Murfreesboro Daily News JournalLibrary patrons will endure a week-long closure of Smyrna and Murfreesboro branches ...

The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul How did we get here? And how do we get back? “Don’t think for one second that we don’t need independent writers. The forces of conformity and centralization of ...