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| The 2026 Oscar Season at the Library |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| The 98th Academy Awards (aka the Oscars, held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) will honor some of 2025's greatest movies on March 15, 2026, and public libraries are celebrating by hosting various programs. Read on to see what libraries are doing to bring awareness of the nominees to their patrons and what they think of this year's crop of Oscar hopefuls, including the 10 Best Picture contenders. |
| A Librarian Looks at Oscars 2026: An Emotional Smorgasbord |
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by Jessica Hilburn
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| There are 50 different titles nominated in at least one category at this year's Oscars. Of that 50, I've watched 21 so far, and 13 are currently unavailable, which means I've watched more than half of the films available for my eyeballs. Since nominations came out a week-and-a-half ago and I have a non-entertainment job, I'd say that's not too shabby. Of those 21, there are a good number I really loved. |
Weekly News Digests |
| ALA Applauds the Introduction of the Prison Libraries Act |
| ALA issued its approval of the Prison Libraries Act, which was introduced by Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Miss.), along with co-leads Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio), and Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-N.C.). |
| OCLC-CONUL Partnership Will Increase the Discoverability of Irish Collections |
| OCLC shares that Ireland's Consortium of National and University Libraries (CONUL) will use the company "to deliver a unified view of the holdings of participating CONUL libraries." |
| OverDrive Launches Webinars on Literacy Instruction and Publishes Results From Its Higher Education Survey |
| OverDrive announced that Sora joined forces with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) to launch "a new professional learning webinar series," and the company also shared the results of the 2025 Higher Education Survey from Libby and Kanopy. |
| Bibliotheca Adds a Mobile App and AI Insights to libraryConnectLINK |
| Bibliotheca introduced the dedicated LINK mobile app for its libraryConnect LINK platform, which supports the management of library technology across devices, branches, and services. In addition, "AI-based insights are available via both the libraryConnect LINK browser and the libraryConnect LINK app." |
| EFF Launches Campaign to Encourage Tech Companies to Protect User Privacy |
| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) rolled out its Encrypt It Already campaign designed to push tech companies "to better protect their users' privacy through end-to-end encryption. ..." |
NewsBreaks |
| Difficult (and Not-So-Difficult) Conversations at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting |
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by Marydee Ojala
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The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) chose Difficult Conversations: The Role of Information Science in the Age of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence as the theme of its 88th annual conference. ASIS&T president Ian Ruthven welcomed attendees, saying, "AI is the defining technology of our generation. Speaking after Ruthven, incoming president, Maria Bonn, referenced the event's theme by stating that an ASIS&T conference is the easiest place to have difficult conversations. Both proved correct. |
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