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ATG News You Need to Start the Week 2/6/17
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New Checklists to Support Library Patron Privacy; *Keeping Up | Budgets & Funding; *Rumors of the Demise of Books Greatly Exaggerated | Gallup; *New Online: Sigmund Freud Collection; *Choosing to Lead: The Motivational Factors of Underrepresented...
ALA denounces recent FCC Lifeline revocations, report retractions
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Posted in News “On February 3, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revoked all of the designations of Lifeline Broadband Providers and ordered the retraction of multiple reports, including the “E-rate Modernization Progress Report” and...
Boston Bound | ALA Midwinter Preview 2016
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There is no better city than Boston in which to hold the first professional conference of the election year. This is especially true for the Midwinter Meeting and Exhibits of the American Library Association (ALA), to be held January 8–12, 2016. It...
America's broadband market needs more competition
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The United States is home to some of the most creative people and businesses on the planet. Our filmmakers, artists, software engineers and scientists entertain the world and expand the boundaries of human knowledge. Their creative process is often a...
E-Rate Win for Schools and Libraries: Modernization Order Brings Another $1.5B
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December 11 marked a triumphant day for both champions and beneficiaries of high-speed Internet access in all schools and libraries across the United States when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted (3-2) to pass the latest E-Rate Modernization...

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Library Foundations are gaining strength in numbers as visionary communities are looking toward securing the future of their libraries. Foundations typically differ from Friends groups in that they r...

Banned & Challenged Books | Advocacy, Legislation & Issues

-Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and ...