In 2021, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) tracked 729 challenges to school, library, and university collections. Considering that in 2020 OIF recorded 156 challenges, last year’s increase was dramatic enough catch attention of news outlets social media users across United States. As a result, libraries all kinds were positioned make often difficult decisi...

I a wide variety of settings, organizations generate a number of possible solutions to a problem—ideas—and then select a few for further development. We examine the effectiveness of two group structures for such tasks—the team structure, in which the group works together in time and space, and the hybrid structure, in which individuals first work independently and then work together. We define ...