Crunchyroll Will Attempt to Compensate Funimation Users for Loss of Digital Libraries

Screenshot: Sunrise/Crunchyroll In an increasingly perilous streaming and digital media landscape—where content is as quick to vanish into the ether as it is spread out across myriad services—Crunchyroll’s recent announcement it was entirely subsuming Funimation three years after it merged with its largest anime streaming rival by raising prices and wiping out digital libraries from … Read more

Funimation Digital Libraries Were Supposed to Last ‘Forever.’ Soon They’ll Disappear

How long is “forever”? When it comes to digital media, forever could be as close as a couple of months away. Funimation, a Sony-owned streaming service for anime, recently announced that subscribers’ digital libraries on the platform will be unavailable after April 2. For years, Funimation had been telling subscribers that they could keep streaming … Read more

Gaza’s libraries destroyed in Israel-Hamas war

Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BEIRUT — Amid the bombed-out buildings and thousands of dead in Gaza City, there is another, often overlooked casualty: the embattled enclave’s shattered cultural institutions, particularly its few libraries. Both the Gaza Municipal Library and the Rashad al-Shawa Cultural Center — which hosted a meeting between President … Read more

Libraries take to TikTok to develop neighborhood, training, and a cultural shift

Throughout most media portrayals, libraries are sternly quiet locations for students and faculty youngsters to be shushed by matronly docents. In well-liked conception, lots of them are seen as extra aesthetics than service, just like the historic vacationer web site that’s the central library department in New York Metropolis. (These lions make the proper photograph … Read more