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The national broadcaster has a special role in preserving audio and visual materials, not least to underpin its own reportuing
Pre-pandemic, reading rates among teenagers were falling. But BookTok, a subculture of social media platform TikTok, has made teens read more often – and influences what they read. Here’s how it works.
Libraries are sharing knowledge so that when the war is over, Ukraine can see its cultural treasures rescued and restored.
Funding for writing and publishing is not just low: it’s also declining. Ben Eltham looks at a grim federal budget for literature, in the context of ongoing neglect for written culture in Australia.
There are no more ivory-billed woodpeckers or Bachman’s Warblers on Earth, but they’ve left an echo behind.
My friend, with whom I co-founded a library in Mazar-i-Sharif, tells me books are like lights. With no one visiting the library and opening books, ‘the lights are off.’
A major survey shows learning to read for pleasure can help children and their communities in many ways, but the field remains under-studied and under-resourced.
While public libraries and faith-based organizations may not be able to solve the issue of social stigma, looking at how they provide spaces for homeless people is a good place to start.
With vinyl records, zines and political posters instead of just books, The Library of Things We Forgot to Remember offers a way to reimagine African history.
Scientists and local communities can work together to design interactive play spaces that build math and literacy skills.
Headed off to college? A librarian shares four tips for college students ready to hit the books.
These efforts are growing due to the coronavirus pandemic. They involve partnerships with school districts, food banks and other institutions.
Unlike scholars, Google’s search engine can’t automatically decide which sources are the most important, most accurate or most significant.
Losing archives has significant implications in a country like South Africa with a fraught and contested history because voices from the past, which may carry alternative histories, are lost.
During economic downturns, local governments tend to cut spending on libraries, even as the need for their services grows.
The mass production of religious items such as rosaries and holy cards poses a problem for the curators of religious artifacts at libraries and museums. How do you dispose of unwanted donations?
Lockdown life accelerated the role of digital technology in the virtual classroom, but there is still no substitute for physical books in children’s lives and learning.
Internet access should be a basic human right.
During the coronavirus pandemic, digitizing archives can help increase access. But in addition to the labour and financial costs, issues of privacy, copyright and resources need to be considered.
Top contributors
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Deputy University Librarian, University of California, Merced
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Director of the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Newcastle
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Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand
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University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Slavic Resources Coordinator, and Head, Petro Jacyk Resource Centre, University of Toronto Libraries, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Learning Environments, The University of Melbourne
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Digital Archivist
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University Historian and Principal Research Fellow, History, University of Sydney
