• Milestones: “One-Million Issues in the Texas Digital Newspaper Program”

    From the University of North Texas Libraries:
    The Texas Digital Newspaper Program on The Portal to Texas History has reached a huge milestone of over one-million newspaper issues openly available!
    These one-million newspaper issues comprise 11,256,533 pages, contributed by 226 partners from across Texas, and representing 210 counties.
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    The staff in the Digital Newspaper Unit get to handle almost every newspaper that is uploaded into the TDNP collection, and we all have a favorite newspaper
  • New Report From Law Library of Congress: “Book and Media Censorship in Selected Countries”

    The report linked below was recently published by the Law Library of Congress. 
    Title
    Book and Media Censorship in Selected Countries
    Source
    The Law Library of Congress, Global Legal Research Directorate, 2024.
    From the IntroductionFreedom of the press, freedom of expression, and freedom of the arts are well-known concepts in United States law. The following report provides brief overviews of the treatment of these concepts, with a lens on book and media bans, in 22 different countries. Th

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