Welcome to September, and to a new school year!
Here’s your weekly links to interesting stories from the world of libraries and archives, books and publishing, and information science.
Got a hot tip? Please send it to Kate.Cushon@uregina.ca (tipsters will be credited!).
MIT will be hosting a summit on the Grand Challenges in information science and scholarly communication in spring 2018!
Public libraries in the US are offering federally-funded summer meals to children: “For kids to be well-read, they need to be well-fed.”
You may love your job at the library, but would you want to live here? Two bookshop employees are creating a library in Colorado where writers, researchers, and readers can stay amid a beautiful natural landscape.
A guide to using a public library card to stream movies for free has been put out by the New York Times.
The “book women” delivered library books – and literacy – on horseback to isolated communities in Kentucky during the 1930s and 1940s.