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This document provides a comprehensive guide to various publishers, platforms, and production companies that offer audiobooks. It highlights recommended audiobooks for different genres and emphasizes the growing popularity of audiobooks. The article also mentions the initiatives of the Audio Publishers Association to promote the audio format. It includes information about upcoming audiobook releases from leading publishers such as Simon & Schuster Audio, Hachette Audio, and Penguin Random House Audio. Additionally, the document features independent publishers and production companies that focus on producing high-quality audiobooks in niche genres and aim to work with diverse voices and narrators. [Extracted from the article]

The author deals with approaches to teaching that link together the natural sciences and their technical applications – the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) subjects. Such approaches aim to develop digital skills and creativity at an early age, and libraries are starting to respond to this challenge. The article takes as an example the development and activities of the makerspace at the Moravian-Silesian Research Library in Ostrava, which serves not only pupils of elementary and secondary schools but, in the summer months, also general public. It has a variety of technologies to work with including ozobots, Lego boost robots, bee-bots and 3D printers. The development of digital technologies may also boost the development of libraries, which could in future serve as technology centres for schools, increasing space for both digital education and new leisure time activities for library users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the implementation of Murfreesboro, Tennessee's "Decency Ordinance" on July 1, 2023, granting authorities broad power to penalize public behavior they deemed indecent. Topics include concerns about the ordinance potentially targeting the LGBTQ+ community, an attempt to erase LGBTQ+ stories at the Rutherford County Library System, and the formation of community efforts, such as a petition against censorship on Facebook.

This article provides an update on several ongoing book-banning lawsuits in the United States. In Texas, a challenge to HB 900, which would have required booksellers to rate books for sexual content, has seen some success but still faces potential further legal action. Another case in Texas, Little v. Llano County, involves the removal of allegedly inappropriate books from library shelves and is awaiting a decision from the Fifth Circuit. In Alaska, a lawsuit challenges the removal of 56 books from school libraries, including titles by and about people of color and the LGBTQ community. In Iowa, a federal judge blocked parts of a book-banning law, but the state has appealed the decision. Finally, in Florida, a federal lawsuit alleges that school administrators are disproportionately targeting books by and about the LGBTQ community and people of color for removal. These cases highlight the ongoing debate over book bans and the freedom to read. [Extracted from the article]