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I've made a conscious decision not to be a helicopter parent. My oldest child was walking alone to the library by the time he was in 1st grade.
A mom who loves free-range parenting let her son fly solo to France from the US to foster independe…
Jane Ridley
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How one agency uses AI to track and manage thousands of campaign assets — building its own library of 'collective knowledge'
The agency Saatchi & Saatchi struggled to find old marketing assets. So it turned to the AI search …
Erica Sweeney
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Feeling lonely? Go to the library.
Libraries want you to know that you can come hang out and socialize. It's the original co-working s…
Juliana Kaplan,Eliza Relman
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Spotify tweaks it's desktop app design – introduces library and podcast transcripts
Spotify has recently announced a visual revamp for its desktop app. According to a blog post by the…
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Montreal libraries will soon be able to kick people out for smelling bad. Critics say the rule could target the homeless and the poor.
Critics of the new rules say they could be used to exclude vulnerable people.
Alia Shoaib
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Somebody returned a copy of 'Beowulf' to a library 54 years after it was checked out. It would have accrued $1,000 in fines.
Somebody returned a copy of "Beowulf" 54 years after it was checked out. It would have accumulated …
Joshua Zitser
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A woman found her stepfather's forgotten library book. The fine should've been $6,400, but she only paid $5.
A woman found her stepfather's library book which was 90 years overdue. The fine should've been $6,…
Jane Ridley
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A library went viral for having baby cribs attached to its desks. The single mom behind it says she wanted the library to serve entire families.
The librarian who created the viral desk for working parents wanted to make the library a space int…
Kelly Burch
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See the first glimpse of Chip and Joanna Gaines' new Waco hotel, which has 33 rooms, a library, and a rooftop lounge
Chip and Joanna Gaines turned a 100-year-old building in Waco, Texas, into a 33-room hotel. They sa…
Samantha Grindell
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From cheaper smartphones to 100 5G labs, here are the top tech announcements in Budget 2023-24
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday presented the much-awaited Budget 2023-24 in the p…
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Union Budget 2023: National Digital Library is government’s tech solution to provide education to all
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her union budget presentation today, announced that a Natio…
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A college student documented having a 'huge panic attack' realizing he was locked in his school library after he fell asleep
Kai Monarch went viral sharing the panicked moment he realized the library was locked closed when h…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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I visited a presidential library for the first time. Here are 6 things that surprised me, including a celebrity cameo from 'The West Wing.'
On a trip to Atlanta in October, I spent the afternoon at The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and…
Talia Lakritz
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A book about electricity was returned to a Massachusetts library 119 years after it was first checked out
The book was returned in "extremely good condition," the library director said, adding that it "pro…
Katie Balevic
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Utah officials removed the Bible from elementary and middle school libraries citing its 'vulgarity or violence'
The Bible has been removed from libraries in Davis School District after a parent complained it con…
Joshua Zitser
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Supreme Court staffer pressured public library to buy more of Sonia Sotomayor's books: '250 books is definitely not enough'
The taxpayer-funded staffer argued "people will be upset" if the library didn't order enough of Sot…
Bryan Metzger
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Colorado library closes after 'troubling' discovery of meth in the air ducts
The City of Boulder ordered testing after reports of people smoking in the bathrooms, and several e…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Elon Musk says he sometimes sleeps on a couch in the library of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters
Musk has been known to sleep in his workplaces — he used to sleep on the Tesla factory floors…
Cheryl Teh
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I was obsessed with BookTok, but after getting a library card for the first time in years I'll never go back
Insider's Mikhaila Friel loved BookTok, until she realized she was picking up titles because of tre…