genXcrone (she/her)The cuts to library funding are showing at my library. They no longer subscribe to so many of my favorite magazines via Libby. I lost things about cooking, games, architecture, nature, and news. How's it going where you are?
DrWebS.F. Public Library’s main ebook provider to shut down – San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Public Library’s main ebook service is suddenly shutting down
By Aidin Vaziri, Staff WriterUpdated Nov 17, 2025 5:50 p.m.
A San Francisco library worker helps a patron navigate digital offerings on November 17, 2021. San Francisco Public Library’s Boundless ebook service will end next month, with titles moving to a different platform. Nick Otto / Special to The Chronicle.Editor’s note: There is an audio file in the online article, I cannot include here. –DrWeb
San Francisco’s library patrons are about to lose access to one of their most-used ebook platforms — the latest ripple effect of a crisis shaking the library supply industry nationwide.
The San Francisco Public Library announced that Boundless, its largest ebook supplier, will go offline Dec. 8 after its parent company, Baker & Taylor, said it will cease operations at the end of 2025.
San Francisco Public Library’s Boundless ebook service will end next month, with titles moving to a different platform. Lea Suzuki / S.F. ChronicleThe closure of the nearly 200-year-old distributor has sent libraries across the country scrambling to find new vendors and digital access points for readers.
“Due to the company’s sudden closure, the Boundless platform will end,” the library said in a statement.
Boundless users will be unable to place new holds after Monday, Nov. 17, and must check out any remaining titles by Nov. 24.
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Call for papers! From librarian (and genre romance friend) @tuphlos and Becky Spratford: Library staff across the spectrum, ex-library staff, even non-library staff, are free to submit. If you are putting the things into people's hands, we want to hear from you.
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https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/05/announcing-academic-journal-call-for.html
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The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts | Brewster Kahle | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/us-library-system-attack-digital-licensing