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Arkansas librarians grapple with enforcing book restriction law after court ruling

  • Tess Vrbin

Arkansas library directors said they have several unanswered questions about how a 2023 state law restricting access to library materials will be enforced after a federal appeals court ruled that it can go into effect. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the injunction on two sections of Act 372 on July 30 but […]

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The history of Indianapolis lives in old newspaper archives. Can we get to it?

  • Tracey Compton, Indianapolis Public Editor

Back in the day, when newspapers were flush with resources, they had internal libraries or archives of all of their stories, casually referred to as morgues. It was common practice for reporters to “check the morgue” before writing any story about the community. Reporters could learn the history of almost anything in Indianapolis by checking […]