Is this a trend? Because privatization goes so well in other arenas .... Fresno leaders sound alarm over possible privatization of county libraries buff.ly/IQmtobu
TTU Book History and Digital Humanities
@ttubhdh.bsky.social
graduate certificate in Book History and Digital Humanities in the English Department at Texas Tech University https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/programs_degrees/grad_certificates/book_history/index.php
“Universities must stop falling in love with every new piece of software … that the tech industry pitches as essential. Administrators spend on software as if it is a durable investment, when all of the evidence shows that it … makes bloat worse.” globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...
College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators
Higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students?
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Ukraine’s Publishing Industry Nears Breaking Point Amid War buff.ly/lrL2sGn
On the factors driving up book prices: buff.ly/yVYsA8T
King's Lynn's 14th century register recognised by Unesco buff.ly/skEFVI3
or, everything old is new again... Around the World, Reading Is Becoming More Social buff.ly/jFGRpAM
Twelve thousand book bans. Whatever happened to freedom? Book Bans Hit Unprecedented High in 2025–26 School Year, PEN Report Shows buff.ly/gY28NO5
Sheila Liming's essay “The End of Books” on libraries and what they do buff.ly/gee4m8W
"How do you feel in book club?" "I feel free." Books behind bars: Inside a women’s book club on Rikers Island | CNN buff.ly/Ti23HQd
A library survives a war ... Syrian man uncovers his hidden library preserved behind a wall in Homs buff.ly/POqYaUJ
A guide to the bookstores owned by your favorite authors buff.ly/kJtvaTo
In book banning news: Vonnegut heirs can proceed with challenge to Utah book removal law buff.ly/GQw9fVU
Could independent bookstores be treated as terrorists? Bookstores Sound Alarm Over Trump’s Anti-Terrorism Memo buff.ly/XW9HwA7
Well, good. Wish she had her job back though. Arkansas county fired this librarian for opposing LGBTQ+ book censorship. Now it must pay $275K buff.ly/ikGutki
Seems a bit overstated perhaps . . . Are hardback books things of 'great beauty' or a dying art? buff.ly/AHVarpX
The New Yorker's take on the destructive scanning business. Destroying Books to Build a Mind buff.ly/gg8d2fe
Back when the US understood that it's good for people to read . . . In the 'biggest book giveaway in history' WWII soldiers received pocket-sized reads buff.ly/ukZOjEA
It's not every day AP News covers papyrus... Inside one of the world's few crash courses in conserving and caring for ancient papyrus manuscripts buff.ly/GctgU3Z
1,700-year-old fragment of "Odyssey" discovered between pages of a library book buff.ly/Khu54NY
Russian strikes destroy 12 million books in Ukraine ahead of new school year buff.ly/VAR8J3a
What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector buff.ly/wI93VTW
The Painted Book Cover Is Back buff.ly/IGPV8bF
What does BookTok want? Common Readers | The Point Magazine buff.ly/TMTYTab
Who Digitized Your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...
Wonderful object here, via the Public Domain Review: Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87) publicdomainreview.org/collection/l...
Good archive news: Decades of comedy gold: Mel Brooks donates document archive to National Comedy Center www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
A school librarian responds to Patrick's threat to take more than 2,000 books out of TX school libraries: Come and Take Them, Dan Patrick www.texasobserver.org/dan-patrick-...
“A lot of special editions have become more of a collectible than a thing people actually read" Subscription Addiction www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
More book banning news Utah just banned the book that inspired the hit film ‘Precious’ from all public schools www.sltrib.com/news/educati...