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Texas county to consider shutting down library after book ban ruling

Apr 14 2023: April 11: After a federal judge ordered the return of more than a dozen books improperly pulled from the Llano County Public Library shelves for their content, the county's commissioners have called a special meeting for April 13 to discuss shutting the library down ...

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Crime writer Anne Perry dies aged 84

Apr 13 2023: Anne Perry, author of more than 100 novels that have sold more than 26 million copies worldwide died on April 10. She was 84.

Her work included two suspense series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels. She also ...

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The Royal Shakespeare Company adapts Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet

Apr 10 2023: Of the numerous puzzles about William Shakespeare, those concerning his marriage to Anne Hathaway are the most tantalizing. Why did he have three children with her, then decamp to London for a life in the theater? What was their relationship really like? And why do we ...

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Judge finds Texas library's book bans unconstitutional, orders books returned

Apr 03 2023: In a victory for the freedom to read, a federal judge in Austin, Tex., has found that a library board in Llano County likely infringed the constitutional rights of readers in the community by unilaterally removing books it deemed inappropriate. The judge has issued a ...

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Little Free Library aims to eliminate book deserts

Mar 30 2023: Little Free Library plans to work with local organizations to install and maintain book-sharing boxes in all communities in the U.S. that lack easy access to books, the nonprofit literacy organization announced this week. The organization estimates that 2,500 book-...

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Judge eviscerates Internet Archive’s scanning and lending program

Mar 27 2023: In an emphatic 47-page opinion, federal judge John G. Koeltl found the Internet Archive infringed the copyrights of four plaintiff publishers by scanning and lending their books under a legally contested practice known as CDL (controlled digital lending). And after ...

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National poll finds Americans support freedom to read

Mar 24 2023: Iowa’s Grinnell College and Seltzer & Co., a polling company in Des Moines, which partner to conduct a national poll each year on the attitudes of Americans towards politics and political figures, as well as hot-button cultural issues, released their latest data ...

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NBCC Awards announced including two inaugural prizes

Mar 24 2023: The 2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards were presented on March 23 at the organization's first in-person ceremony since the pandemic began, once again held at the New School in New York City. The National Book Critics Circle was founded in 1974 and comprises of ...

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