Groundbreaking Novel Ranked Among ‘Best Books of All Time’ Turns 307 Years Old https://parade.com/news/groundbreaking-novel-ranked-among-best-books-of-all-time-turns-307-years-old Robinson Crusoe at P…
Does reading do us any good? Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an age when many believe truth to be dead by Flora Champy https://aeon.co/essays/the-role-o…
Who decides what gets remembered online 🤔 Web archiving is being reshaped by legal & technical pressures 🌐 raising urgent questions about knowledge preservation in an AI era. Join PRESERVING THE WEB I…
🎶 National Library Week is wrapping up. Hear from WNYC’s Simon Close on how libraries help power the Public Song Project. From public domain books to music, archives, and even recording spaces, your l…
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When MTV News shut down, it felt like decades of culture vanished overnight 🕳️ But over 470,000 pages were already preserved. That history didn’t disappear. It was archived. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to…
What a Geisha Really Is and How Her Role Has Changed What is a geisha? More than skilled entertainers in dance, singing, and refined conversation, they are custodians of traditional Japanese arts and …
World's largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems now available to everyone by Rachel Gordon, edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan https://phys.org/news/2026-04-world-largest-olympiad…
The 100 greatest British novels BBC Culture polled book critics outside the UK, to give an outsider’s perspective on the best in British literature. (from the archives) https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/a…
The many literary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft – author of novels, travel writing and children’s books Wollstonecraft’s literary career was dedicated to questioning power, society and the roles assign…
The web is disappearing 🕳️ According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible. But that’s not the whole story. In a new study published in VANISHING CULTURE…
Who owns your data and what are they doing with it? 🤔 Powerful companies are hoarding information and using aggressive tactics to maintain control, turning data into a commodity that deepens inequalit…
Digital memory isn’t a given. It’s something we have to fight for 💾 At the Facebook Museum opening in Eindhoven, Internet Archive Europe joined SETUP to ask why we trust platforms to hold our lives, w…
The Harrowing Story Of The Jamestown Massacre, When Hundreds Of Colonists Were Killed By Native Americans By Genevieve Carlton The Jamestown Massacre took place in March 1622 and was led by Powhatan N…
Why ‘little red dots’ pose a big mystery about the Universe by Jenny Greene https://aeon.co/essays/why-little-red-dots-pose-a-big-mystery-about-the-universe?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=031…
Are Shakespeare’s Commas Really That Important? Daniel Hahn on Different Translations of Shakespeare https://lithub.com/are-shakespeares-commas-really-that-important/ Shakespeare at PG: https://www.gu…
VANISHING CULTURE is out now 📚 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but the new book from the Internet Archive starts with a simple reality: our digital memory is far more fragile than we think…
“Sparks Fly (The John Henry Song)” by Ra Le Bu channels a “never die, never quit” Bed-Stuy spirit ⚒️ A winner in the 2025 @WNYC Public Song Project, it reimagines the legend of John Henry as a deeply p…
Let's celebrate, today is World Book Day (athough some countries celebrate in a different day)! It's also known as World Book and Copyright Day or International Day of the Book. What are you currently…
🇨🇦 25 years of GovInfo Day is worth celebrating. 🎉 Registration is now open for a special Spring 2026 edition bringing together researchers, librarians, archivists & information professionals for two d…
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