This week on the bookish internet

• The plague of governments closing libraries to save money has jumped across the Atlantic. Newfoundland is facing the closure of about half its libraries. (CBC News)
• Phil Unruh reminds us that, when terrorists destroy a library, they’re destroying a people and their history. (Fresno Bee)
• When she tried to get rid of some of her books, Summer Brennan found that Marie Kondo’s rules for tidying-up just don’t work for booklovers. (LitHub)
• Some of Cassandra Clare’s fans are lovely, but some of her “fans” are assholes. (New York Times)
• S. Zeinab Williams has a few things to say to her bookshelf. (Book Riot)

And this month on the bookish internet:

• The Literary Sisters have been publishing posts on neglected women writers from the last century. (The Literary Sisters)