Boston 's Leslie Knope

This went about how I thought it would

Disbound and sorted topically

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In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Black cat wedged onto a chair besides a human attempting to relax

It's Caturday and the human has, again, chosen violence by not letting us sprawl on her chest

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

I just spatchcocked a chicken, please clap.

I grimaced the entire time

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

I also remember cutting that knot. A very cool day!

Well this is heartwarming! I miss my researchers at the City Archives. You will both have to plan trips to my new stomping grounds at Burns Library

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
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One silver lining of the last few months has been the courage, clarity, and determination of colleagues across Grounds. It’s a privilege to share this work with them

Sweet Fancy Moses

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

i am not sure mike johnson’s plan of abandoning the capitol to a bunch of snarky house dems (of which there are many) with nothing to do was a smart strategic move

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

What you have to understand about Chicago is that these people drink Malort

Student discussing a toy car with member of Burns Library staff

Book with colorful illustration on a book cradle

Professor Elizabeth Graver and her class, Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Writing the Past, visited us at Burns Library recently!

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

Homeland Security @DHSgov We're having an All Night Revival Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row 14:30 07 Oct 25 2.1M Views 5 Reposts 940 Quotes 42.2K 2,584 Bookmarks

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Dear Alex, We are writing to share an important update coming to Ebook Central that will help improve ebook discoverability. At the end of October 2025, Ebook Central Express MARC records will include AI-generated metadata when publisher metadata fields are not available. Why are we introducing AI-generated metadata to Ebook Central records? Most publishers include subject information in their metadata, but there are times when this information is not included, leading to limited search availability in discovery systems. For this reason, we are providing AI-generated Library of Congress subject headings only when not available from the publisher to improve the completeness of our metadata and discoverability of Ebook Central titles.  

Which AI-generated fields are included in Express MARC?  The AI-generated fields will include Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) (6XX); Library of Congress Classification (050); Dewey Decimal (082); Description (520); and Source of Description (588). To learn more, please visit our FAQ page.

What the shit, Clarivate! Anyone using Ebook Central MARC records, be warned. They're jamming those records with AI generated metadata. Auto-enabled but you can disable it.

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The Valor Ecclesiasticus is described in the web page linked to below as “an incredible resource for local history”. This three-year project will make the detailed information it recorded accessible to all, and will be of great value to #OnePlaceStudies across England and Wales.

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

"If we want true transformation, we need to question the very assumptions holding society together... The real challenge isn’t to tip toward more consumption dressed in green—it’s to tip away from the cult of endless consumption altogether."

The Pope is very clear on what Americans need to hear.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

NEW: A 20-year federal prosecutor, fired abruptly this week even as he lead case against Abbey Gate bomber, warns his colleagues: the Trump administration is sacrificing national security to purge Trump's perceived adversaries.

w/ @dnlbrns

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This is great work. Great. And you know what? A librarian might not know all this off the dome, but they would absolutely help you find out.

The world is so bleak right now, but my city is not only promoting a fun touristy activity through a less-touristed area, it's simultaneously sending those tourists (and residents!) to immigrant, family, and worker owned restaurants to support some of the communities most attacked in our moment.