Virtual Bookshelf: Arab-American Heritage Month neh.gov - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from neh.gov Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
WFAE will add three journalists to its newsroom in June to cover race and equity issues.
The journalists are part of Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms to cover under-reported topics and communities.
Gracyn Doctor and Dante Miller will cover race and equity issues as part of a new team that will help transform the way WFAE covers communities of color and issues of equity.
Maria Ramirez Uribe will work for WFAE and the Spanish-language newspaper La Noticia to report on Charlotte’s Latino community. This is the second year that the two organizations will share a Report for America corps member.
Georgia State Libraries Awarded National Grant To Digitize Historically Significant Labor and Civil Rights Materials gsu.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gsu.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly refusing to sell ebook and audiobook versions of works it publishes through its in-house publishing arms to libraries throughout the country. Amazon is the only major publisher to prevent sales to libraries.
Maryland Legislature Passes Bill Supporting Library Access to Digital Content By Andrew Albanese | Turns out there is something that can garner broad bipartisan support: public libraries.
This week the Maryland legislature became the first state to pass legislation that would ensure libraries can license e-books and other digital literary content that is available to consumers. And in a strong sign of support for libraries (especially in these politically divisive times) the bill passed the Maryland General Assembly (both the House of Delegates and the State Senate) unanimously.
First introduced in January, the bill (HB518 in the House of Delegates and SB0432 in the Senate) would require “a publisher who offers to license an electronic literary product to the public to also offer to license the product to public libraries in the State on reasonable terms that would enable public libraries to provide library users with access to the electronic literary prod