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Federal judge: Public library cannot censor pagan websites

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a public library in Missouri to unblock access to “occult” websites, which included websites about Native American religions and the Wiccan faith. “We are happy to see an end to the library’s discriminatory Internet practices,” Daniel Mach, director of the ACLU Program on Freedom…

E-book trend slow at U.S. libraries: study

Even as e-book sales surge, Americans are slow to look to their public libraries to take advantage of the format, a study showed Friday. The Pew Internet & American Life Project found just 12 percent of Americans ages 16 and older who read e-books say they have borrowed an e-book…