Emily Drabinski

Q&A: Public libraries counting on bill to combat e-books' huge cost | NJ Spotlight News Digital content comes with agreements on license renewals and distribution limits, burdens that don't apply to printed copies

Great explainer on the problem of ebook pricing for libraries.

www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/02/qa-p...

No to War, No to Empire: An Anti-Imperialist Reading List “The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.” —Muhammad ...

“The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.” —Muhammad Ali on refusing to fight in Vietnam

No to War, No to Empire: An Anti-Imperialist Reading List

YEP!

No war.

American Library Association employees forming union with AFSCME Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the primarily Chicago-based American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31.T...

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American Library Association employees forming union with AFSCME Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the primarily Chicago-based American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31.T...

As proud as I’ve ever been to be a member of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social!!

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The Roberts Court's position is that if you deserved justice or due process you would be rich bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

International Studies Metadata Librarian at U. Michigan. "...including but not limited to: Hindi, Urdu,
Sanskrit, Bengali, Panjabi, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, or Tagalog."
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US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Announcement of another death in an ICE concentration camp.

Another person has died in ICE custody. A person with health problems held for a year WITHOUT CARE.

Boo.

SNAP Work Requirements Take Effect March 1: What New Yorkers Need to Know Starting Sunday, some New Yorkers will need to prove they’re working or studying for at least 80 hours a month or risk losing benefits. The city is scrambling to help people understand the new…

Some New Yorkers receiving food stamps must prove they are working, studying or volunteering for at least 80 hours per month or risk losing the benefit under new federal rules beginning on Sunday, March 1.

www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/27/s...

How am I supposed to teach govdocs in the fall.

Hyeseong Kim. That’s it. That’s the skeet.

Don't be fooled by this bill's name-- this is a book banning bill that will exclude LGBTQ books from all public schools NATIONWIDE.

Call your congresspeople and tell them to VOTE NO on this nakedly bigoted book banning bullshit.

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

A Record 129 Journalists Killed in 2025, Israel Responsible For 2/3 of the Deaths: CPJ A record 129 press workers were killed worldwide in 2025, more in one year than in any of the previous three decades for which the Committee to Protect Journalists has collected data. The previous rec...

A Record 129 Journalists Killed in 2025, Israel Responsible For 2/3 of the Deaths: CPJ

"good stewards of the American people's tax money" like Minnesotans were out all night partying with the hockey team and using two private jets to get there.

Week 2 Readings: Black Skin, White Masks, Ch. 7 & Conclusion Study Questions: Is Fanon a philosopher of recognition? What is “the world of you,” and what does it take to build… Reading Frantz Fanon with Geo Maher Week 4

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Reading Frantz Fanon

Join us for the fourth session of a hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social.

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I get why they want a private elevator--I waited forever. Next time I'll just put a little rope around one and call it mine I guess.

Was that way under Sexton and Hamilton too, but yes very 🙄.

It's so U.S.A., just a mishmash of different ways for elites to cut lines.

I was at Bobst library today and the NYU president took over one of the elevators just for herself and her staff, roped off and staffed with a security guard charged with making sure none of the riff raff use her special elevator that belongs to her and only her. Wild!

She fucking nailed it. 😆

😂

industry partnerships #facultysenate

Join us at 5:30pm ET for a discussion of Organize Your Library! Building the Collective Power of Library Workers ! This event is part of the @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social School of Information Studies Research in Praxis discussion series.

Register and hop in the zoom!

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Feeling very represented by Strands today.

Black and white photo of Porter seated at a desk in front of a row of bookshelves and a card catalog. She is a Black woman with shoulder length wavy hair. She is wearing a dark dress with white accents, and is reading a book which is open on her desk.

Dorothy Porter was a librarian at Howard University where she took a small collection of donated materials by and about Black Americans and curated it for 40 years into the 180,000 item Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. #BlackHistoryMonth
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