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PALNI awards grants to fund eight open textbooks According to Library Technology Guides "The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) has awarded PALSave Textbook Creation Grants to fund eight open textbooks from faculty authors at its supported...

APA Report: US Sees Double-Digit Audiobook Sales Growth for 11th Year According to Publishing Perspectives "... the United States-based Audio Publishers Association says that audiobook revenue in the American market grew by 10 percent in 2022 to US$1.8 billion—the...

C&RL News – June 2023 is now available According to ACRL Insider "The June 2023 issue of College & Research Libraries News (C&RL News) is now freely available online both as a full issue PDF and as individual articles...." MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS...

Ex Ordo Secures $3 Million Investment to Enhance its Scholarly Conference Platform According to this press release Ex Ordo is "thrilled to announce an investment of more than $3 million, coming from a committed group of investors, including prominent figures within...

FOLIO Launches Orchid Release Quoting a FOLIO press release, Library Technology Guides reports that "The FOLIO Open Source Community has launched the fifteenth named release as the platform continues to add features and functionality to the library services platform...

Illinois sets precedent in becoming the first state to ban book bans According Good eReader "In a landmark move, the Illinois Senate has passed House Bill 2789, a bill that aims to protect the freedom to read by withholding state funding from libraries that remove...

Title: Why and How to Staff for Privacy in Academic LibrariesDate: June 6, 2023Time: 12:00-1:00 PM Central Time / 1:00-2:00 PM Eastern Time Presenters: Eliza Bettinger, Meryl Bursic, and Adam Chandler, Cornell UniversityFacilitator: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, University...

Knowledge Matters: The British Library Releases Strategy For the Next Seven Years Citing a blog Post by Roly Keating, Chief Executive, British Library, infoDOCKET reports that the British Library has published "Knowledge Matters, the British Library’s strategy for the...