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Weekly News Digest
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July 28, 2026 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Book Riot Exposes the Resources Used by Book Banners
Kelly Jensen writes the following in “The Tools Book Banners Are Using to Target Books in 2026” for Book Riot:People who are banning books have been developing a range of tools to do their work over the last five years. These include review and ratings websites where a volunteer or two read a book, write up a report, and then anyone can use those reports—quotes cherrypicked, interpretation aligned with narrow worldviews, and often, numeric or letter grade ratings that they’ve made up to create meaning—to start the challenge process. This is what Moms for Liberty did with their now-defunct BookLooks; it’s what the groups behind RatedBooks do, which subsumed BookLooks’ reviews upon its closure. It’s lazy and disingenuous, and it’s exactly the kind of plagiarism that students in school would be failed for doing. Yet there are plenty of library and school boards, as well as legislators, who think this is good enough to deny young people access to books. For more information, read the article.
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Brandi Scardilli
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