AI Updates, Remembering Dolly Parton, and More News for Library Workers

Welcome back, library friends. Before we jump into this week’s post, we have to pay tribute to the incomparable singer, philanthropist, and literacy advocate, Dolly Parton, who passed away at age 80. Dolly Parton was one of those truly great people who used her wealth and influence to make the world a better place, whether that was using her royalty money to invest in Black communities, donating $1 million to COVID vaccine research, or starting her Imagination Library in 1995, which has donated hundreds of millions of books to children in five countries. What an impactful, generous legacy to leave behind. And now, we move to library and book news. We have publishing and AI updates, comics in translation, tons of adaptation news, an exceptionally generous library donation, and more. Let’s jump in. AI Updates Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland have been fielding bulk orders of random titles, and they think AI firms are behind the orders. Related: 404 Media tracked a shipment of rare books, and it ended up at an Amazon AI training facility. AI invades religious books on Amazon. But according to Book Riot’s recent survey, we as readers can’t agree on what counts as “AI-writte...