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Led by the American Library Association, the U.S. library system is in furious transition. At the association’s Midwinter Meeting in Boston, BiblioBoard’s pivot reflected libraries’ new roles as enabling hubs of community culture.

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I truly believe that this is how things change for the better. One human being just helping another human being with no regard for differences in race, culture, or ideas.

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Heroes don’t always make their names into history books.

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This guy says the LGBT Pride flag offends him more than the Confederate Flag. lolwut?

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We cannot be timid about calling this what it was: a terrorist act of racially-motivated hate, perpetrated by a 21-year-old man who penned his white supremacist manifesto 150 years after the abolition of slavery.

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I didn’t know any of the people murdered in Charleston earlier this week.

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– Dylann Roof, the shooting suspect, has now been captured.
– Former State Senator, Rev. Clementa Pinckney, among the dead.
– Tip-line has been set up at 1-800-CALL-FBI to report ANY information about this horrific event.

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At Charleston’s PubSense conference for writers, attendees learn about the free SELF-e service from Library Journal. The program, free for authors, has begun curating independently published ebooks for harried librarians both at the state and national level.