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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/12/state-library-scraps-restructure-plan-after-outrage-from-famous-writers-and-public

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Are you looking for Victorian newspapers from a particular town or region? Try my new Victorian Newspapers Explorer! Just click on the map to see a list of titles from the State Library of Victoria – both digitised and non-digitised. https://slv.wraggelabs.com/newspapers/ #maps #libraries #histodons

📚 The Match by: Harlan Coben

After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he's known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life.

Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde clo...

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After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he's known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life.

Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he's ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father. But meeting the man brings up more questions than answers. So Wilde reaches out to his last, most desperate lead, a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces, having experienced an epic fall from grace that can only be described as a waking nightmare.

Was his cousin's downfall a long time coming? Or was he the victim of a conspiracy as cunning as it is complex? And how does it all connect to the man once known as The Stranger, a treacherous fugitive with a growing following whose mission and methods have only turned more dangerous with time?

Named a Best Book by USA Today - Wall Street Journal - Publishers Weekly

A shocking genetic match exposes a family's darkest secret in this gripping thriller from the creator of the #1 hit Netflix series Stay Close.

Lincoln Heights Branch, public library in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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A photo of or from a library from the linked website, overlaid on a cropped world map where it's located.

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Commercial academic publishing profit margins typically in excess of 32% ... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #journals #libraries #scholarship

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Clapp Memorial Library, Library in Belchertown, Massachusetts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapp_Memorial_Library

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📚 Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick by: Jason Pargin, David Wong

Zoey Ashe is like a fish so far out of water that it has achieved orbit. After inheriting a criminal empire, the twenty-three year-old finds herself under threat from all sides as a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life enemies think they smell w...

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Zoey Ashe is like a fish so far out of water that it has achieved orbit. After inheriting a criminal empire, the twenty-three year-old finds herself under threat from all sides as a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life enemies think they smell weakness.

On the eve of the world's most lavish and ridiculous Halloween celebration, a steamer trunk-sized box arrives at Zoey's door and she is shocked to find that it contains a disemboweled corpse. She is even more shocked when that corpse, controlled by an unknown party, rises and goes on a rampage through the house. Speaking in an electronic voice, it publicly accuses Zoey of being its murderer. This is the kind of thing that almost never happened at her old job.

The city was already a ticking time bomb of publicity-hungry vigilantes with superhuman enhancements and Zoey knows this turn of events is unlikely to improve the situation. Now, she and her team of high-tech tricksters have to solve this bizarre murder while simultaneously keeping Tabula Ra$a from descending into chaos.

Biting humor and blatant digs at modern society overlay a subtly brilliant and thoughtful plot” (Publishers Weekly) in John Dies at the End author Jason Pargin’s first installment of the Zoey Ashe Series, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits. Now, one of today’s great satirists (Nerdist) is back with Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick, the second installment in a Technicolor tomorrowland. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Appalachian Reckoning Ed. by Anthony Harking and Meredith McCarroll

What Your Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

La Crescent Public Library, library in La Crescent, Minnesota.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Crescent_Public_Library

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Documenting Is Resistance, and More Library News Updates

Stay up-to-date with these censorship updates and library-related articles that are worth a read.
https://bookriot.com/documenting-is-resistance/

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Don’t think for one second this is only about one library system in Llano County, Texas.
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https://crooksandliars.com/2025/12/us-supreme-court-just-gave-nod-library?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=110080

Jeongdok Public Library, public library in Seoul.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeongdok_Public_Library

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Delaware Public Library, public library in Delaware, Ohio.

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📚 Vanishing World by: Sayaka Murata

Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell...

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Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell in love, had sex and procreated. As Amane grows up and enters adulthood, she does her best to fit in and live her life like the rest of society: cultivating intense relationships with anime characters, and limiting herself to extra-marital sex, as is the norm. Still, she can't help questioning what sex and marriage are for.

But when Amane and her husband hear about Eden, an experimental town where residents are selected at random to be artificially inseminated en masse (including men who are fitted with artificial wombs), the family unit does not exist and children are raised collectively and anonymously, they decide to try living there. But can this bold experiment build the brave new world Amane desires, or will it push her to breaking point?

#Book ratings mean #censorship

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Kenya’s Publishers Face Parliamentary Deposit Mandate

Kenya's 2025 Bill adds Parliament to legal deposit requirements. The UK, US, Canada and many countries have similar mandatory submission rules for national libraries.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/12/10/kenya-legal-deposit-bill-2025-publishers/

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My first thought when I saw Penguin Random House posting something SCOTUS-related was that it would involve copyright and AI. Nope. This one is about libraries.

If you'd told me ten years ago that my hobby (reading) and work (editing) would be reasons to pay attention to federal court cases... I would have believed you, but only after you explained.

Link to the Penguin press release: https://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/announcements/penguin-random-house-on-scotus-decision-not-to-hear-little-v-llano/#

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⏳ Don't forget to share feedback on the draft Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Infrastructure Project Recommended Practice by **next Monday,** December 15! View the draft; leave a comment, or view others' 'comments on the project website:
https://niso.org/standards-committees/cclip

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Simon Fairfield Public Library, library in Douglas, Massachusetts..

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