Wednesday, 30 October 2019
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has delivered a report on ‘unfair behaviour by digital market actors’ to the House Judiciary Committee, reports Publishers Weekly. According to the...

Wednesday, 23 October 2019
In the UK, a new report from the Great School Libraries campaign has found that schools with a higher proportion of children on free meals are more than twice as...

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
In the US, more than 100,000 readers, authors and library staff have signed a petition condemning Macmillan’s plan to restrict library access to its new release ebooks. According to the...

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
In the UK, the government has announced £250 million (A$464.7m) in funding for libraries, museums and other cultural projects, reports the Arts Newspaper. The funding injection comes after years of...

Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Tonga will open its first public library next month in the village of Kolovai, with thousands of books donated by Auckland Council libraries, reports RNZ. The campaign to open the...

Wednesday, 4 September 2019
In the UK, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and US firm the EveryLibrary Institute have launched a new project that uses data to mobilise public library...

Wednesday, 7 August 2019
The Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), a new landmark cultural institution costing €11m (A$11.3m), will open in Dublin in September, reports the Irish Times. MoLI is a partnership between the...

Wednesday, 31 July 2019
In the UK, the Society of Authors (SoA) is campaigning for the Public Lending Rights (PLR) system to include loans from volunteer-run community libraries, reports the Bookseller. Since 1979, the...

Tuesday, 30 July 2019
In the US, Macmillan has announced a two month embargo on all its imprints’ library ebooks effective 1 November, reports Publishers Weekly. The move comes after a year-long trial where...

Wednesday, 24 July 2019
In Canada, the Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) has banned the Vancouver Public Library (VPL) from walking in its annual Pride Parade, due to the library’s ‘decision to provide a platform...

Wednesday, 17 July 2019
In the US, a coalition of 44 public libraries in Washington state is organising a six-month boycott of Blackstone Publishing’s digital audiobooks to protest the company’s 90-day embargo on new...

Wednesday, 17 July 2019
In the UK, Essex county council has dropped its plan to close 25 libraries, following months of protests from locals and support from authors including David Walliams and Jacqueline Wilson,...

Wednesday, 10 July 2019
In the UK, library loans are lagging behind other countries, reports the Bookseller. According to new analysis by ex-Waterstones CEO Tim Coates, UK book loans have plummeted year-on-year since 2009–10,...

Wednesday, 10 July 2019
In the UK, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library scheme has been cut by Doncaster Council after three years of funding came to end, reports the Bookseller. Under the scheme, children under...

Wednesday, 3 July 2019
In the US, Simon & Schuster (S&S) has become the fourth of the Big Five publishers to change its digital book licensing terms for libraries in the past year, reports...

Wednesday, 19 June 2019
In the US, Hachette will change its terms for library ebook licensing terms—the third Big Five publisher to do so in the past year, reports Publishers Weekly. From 1 July,...

Wednesday, 5 June 2019
In the UK, authors including David Walliams, Jacqueline Wilson and David Baddiel are supporting a campaign to save libraries in Essex, reports the Bookseller. Of the 74 libraries in Essex...

Wednesday, 5 June 2019
In Canada, a new report by industry study group BookNet has found consumers who borrow books from libraries purchase more books per month than those who don’t use libraries, reports...

Wednesday, 29 May 2019
UK crime writer Ian Rankin has donated his literary archive to the National Library of Scotland, reports the Bookseller. The collection comprises 50 boxes of documents, including manuscripts with handwritten...

Wednesday, 8 May 2019
In the US, Macmillan Learning has committed to ‘born accessible’ ebook options for students with disabilities, as the first publisher to become Global Certified Accessible, reports Publishers Weekly. Born accessible...

Wednesday, 1 May 2019
The National Library of China will archive over 200 billion public posts on popular microblogging site Weibo, as part of a project to preserve the country’s digital heritage, reports the...

Wednesday, 1 May 2019
In the US, a new collaboration aims to provide all public libraries with a free and open, library-controlled platform to manage ebooks and audiobooks, reports Publishers Weekly. The Digital Public...

Wednesday, 17 April 2019
In the UK, children’s publisher Puffin is looking for 80 primary schools to join its World of Stories program, reports the Bookseller. The program, run in partnership with the National...

Wednesday, 27 March 2019
The British Library is planning to open a branch in the city of Leeds as part of an expansion of its activities in northern England, reports the Guardian. According to...

Wednesday, 20 March 2019
US president Donald Trump’s 2020 budget proposes the permanent elimination of the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) ‘and with it virtually all federal library funding’, reports Publishers...

Thursday, 14 March 2019
International library cooperative OCLC has compiled a list of the library world’s 100 most widely held novels based on its WorldCat database, reports Publishers Weekly. Topping the Library 100 list...

Wednesday, 20 February 2019
The National Writers Union (NWU) in the US has joined a number of authors’ associations in condemning the practice of ‘controlled digital lending’ (CDL), reports Publishers Weekly. The NWU has...