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MIT Professor Emeritus Lee Grodzins has died at age 98. He was a pioneer in nuclear physics, known for the influential experiment determining the helicity of the neutrino, which led to a key understanding of the weak interaction, as well as a technical entrepreneur.

"The weaponization of libraries ... is a bludgeon that's scaring people everywhere," said American Library Association President Emily Drabinski.

"The Guardian" from Christian Faith Publishing author Victoria K. Avery is an enjoyable and empowering message for young readers that will take them into a walk of faith held dear to a young girl's heart.

Yvonne Y.Y. Clark blazed a trail for Blacks and women in STEM

Lindsay Mattock began a new chapter of her life in mid-January when she took on the role of executive director of the Ligonier Valley Library and returned to her Westmoreland County roots. A native of Norvelt and a 2000 graduate of Mt. Pleasant Area High School, Mattock spent the past

Across a remarkable range of academic disciplines, Berkeley's graduate programs are rated among the nation's best in the magazine's annual evaluation.

Margie Chan would see migrants arriving in Chicago unprepared for the cold weather so she launched 500 Hats for Refugees to help keep them warm during the winter.

Several other states have made moves to disassociate from the nation's oldest library professional association. But Georgia's bill, the first of its kind in the nation, goes further than the others.

After 21 years as children's librarian at Norwin Public Library, Barbara McKee is moving on. "It's been a wonderful career here. This is the beginning of a new chapter," said McKee, a Norwin High School graduate. She's leaving May 15 to become the assistant librarian at the Penn State Fayette

A bill that would allow the Illinois secretary of state's office to to deny grant funding to public and school libraries that ban books cleared the House.

Can we influence online standards? Principal and owner of Spherical Cow, Heather Flanagan, thinks we can and she's joined us to tell you how.

Michelle Martin is the Beverly Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services in the Information School at the University of Washington. She primarily teaches students who will be youth services librarians who work with children and young adults in libraries or other information science spaces. Below are highlights from an interview with The Conversation U.S. Answers have been edited for brevity and clarity.

The Pokemon Company has an open position for a Pokemon archivist, who will be in charge of curating an internal Pokemon museum and archive.

New Kensington civic leader Jane Glenn is set to be remembered at the library that meant so much to her. Peoples Library will revamp the garden space behind the library into "The Jane Glenn Courtyard," library Director David Hrivnak said. A banner announcing the future name and the library's intentions

Erin Walk studies the intersection between data science, policy, and technology as a PhD student in the Social and Engineering Systems program (SES), part of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at MIT. Her research has demonstrated the value and bias inherent in social media data, with a focus on how to mine social media data to better understand the conflict in Syria.

According to a report from the Anchorage Daily News, a library appointee handed her job by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson (R) is causing no shortage of headaches for him with the public library currently in the throes of an "exodus" of employees due to her creation of a "toxic" work atmosphere.The rep...

Hiring sociocultural workers to correct bias overlooks the limitations of these underappreciated fields.

The new CEO said he has no plans to purge the library's collection of any specific books or materials and has no plans to alter its policies for how books

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Professors and students at the University of South Florida mapped pitch, rhythm and duration to data about algae blooms and depletion of coral reefs to create an original composition.