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Library group denounces book destruction at Occupy Wall Street
The American Library Association has denounced the destruction of books at a library set up by Occupy Wall Street when New York police raided a park where protesters were staying…
Laid-off Philadelphia teacher sets sights on rebuilding school libraries
The library at Rowen Elementary School is musty and outdated - a locked room used for storage and occasional meetings, a repository of yellowing, untouched books, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.…
A call for opening up web access at schools
Students at Silver Creek High School in Longmont, Colo., held a “graffiti debate” on censorship on Wednesday: Should schools block Web sites? On sheets of white butcher paper hanging in…
Photos: Public school library makeovers
In communities across the country, Target is sharing its love of education, the Huffington Post reports.…
Authors Guild sues universities over online books
Authors and authors' groups in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom sued the University of Michigan and four other universities Sept. 12, seeking to stop the creation…
Opinion: Are school librarians expendable?
My feeling--as someone who works in a local tech education center that shares its library with the high school next door--is that this situation is more complex than administrators' seeing…
Communities stand behind librarians facing layoffs
As reports of librarian layoffs continue to surface, librarians have put away their inside voices to fight--with the support from unions, parents, and students--to prove their jobs are essential for…
Self-destructing eBooks rile librarians
A move by publisher HarperCollins, which would cap eBook loans from public libraries at 26 check-outs before requiring the library to repurchase the eBook, has school and public librarians worried…
School librarians targeted in budget crunch
How will students learn key information literacy skills, and how will teachers get help with integrating digital resources into their instruction, without a full-time media specialist in their school? That's…
The disgraceful interrogation of L.A. school librarians
If state education cuts are drastic, the librarians' only chance of keeping a paycheck is to prove they're qualified to be switched to classroom teaching. So LAUSD attorneys grill them,…