Curious about The Palace Project and how it empowers libraries? Join us on July 23rd at 2 p.m. for a live demonstration of the app and learn how Palace allows patrons to effortlessly access more of their library's digital collections. 📚📱

Register now at bit.ly/3GqYNQI

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We'll see you soon! Stop by our booth to say hello! 📚❤️

I appreciate @rrchnm.bsky.social sharing about their terminated NEH grants like this. This is having a huge impact on important historical initiatives.

A good list of climate books to have in your library! 📚

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ECDS is proud to launch our new training website!

Explore tailored modules and self-paced learning paths to learn new skills for your research and career development. Check out the site at training.ecds.emory.edu or stop by the Emory University Woodruff Library (3rd floor).

From ebook access to story times, computer classes to outreach programs, libraries serve as community hubs for people from all walks of life. This #NationalLibraryWeek we're asking you to show your library love by standing with libraries. Here are a few ways to get started!

#NLW2025 #skybrarian

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IMLS Matters.

Read the stories (reload gets a new story).

imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/

Tell your story.

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From @thomaspadilla.bsky.social at Author's Alliance.

#SaveIMLS

SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source.

They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).

Reed Leads Bipartisan Effort to Preserve Support for Public Libraries & Museums | U.S. Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed, the leading champion for public libraries in the U.S....

NEW: Senator @reed.senate.gov & others sent a letter to the interim director of IMLS affirming the agency's statutory requirements, including library funding.

IMLS *must* deliver on its central mission. These programs & funds are NOT optional.

Read the letter: www.reed.senate.gov/news/release...

Lyrasis' CEO, John P. Wilkin, has released a Statement on the Executive Order to Eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Read the full statement here, ow.ly/Ggjb50VokuY.

Attention Georgians!! We need your help.
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Trump’s attack on libraries was predictable. Its consequences could be devastating | Leo S Lo The president wants to eliminate the agency backing libraries and museums. But the institutions do far more than lend books

New in @theguardian.com from the President of @ala-acrl.bsky.social:

"Cutting [federal library] funding is more than just budget trimming. It means dismantling essential community infrastructure."

Read President Lo's full article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries

DPLA is looking for a part-time engagement coordinator

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Federal agency responsible for library and museum funding gets a visit from DOGE Keith E. Sonderling is the new acting head of The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the main source of federal funding for libraries and museums across the country. President Trump issued an e...

www.npr.org/2025/03/20/n...

Trump administration seeks to starve libraries and museums of funding by shuttering this little-known agency The consequences of shutting down the Institute of Museum and Library Services would be particularly dire for smaller museums and rural museums.

theconversation.com/trump-admini...

Did you know that The Palace Project app provides free banned books for anyone in the US? Just download the Palace app, add the Banned Books Club as your library, make a free card, and then read on!! See the thepalaceproject.org for more information. 📚 #booksky

👋 I’m an OK HS teacher getting ready for teacher appreciation week. We don’t have an active PTA/PTO so I’m helping. We have 150 teachers and we are trying to make RT Beer Floats and need 13 12 packs. Can you help with a pack or 2? Any help or shares are appreciated!
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You know where you can go and not worry about breaking the economic blackout today?

Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!

Arrest a librarian? Georgia Senators to consider bill to remove 'harmful materials' Georgia Senate Bill 74 would remove librarians' protections against a state law about giving 'harmful materials' to minors. Here's what we know.

We've reached "arrest the librarians" level of authoritarianism.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Browse Lyrasis Learning March classes at ow.ly/29Ru50V0bKy! Connect with professionals in your field and learn something new 📖

#LyrasisLearning #ProfessionalDevelopment

'Explicit' Sex Claims ‘Exaggerated,’ Black and LGBTQ+ Characters Overwhelmingly Targeted, New Book Ban Analysis Finds A new PEN America analysis of books banned during the 2023-2024 school year shows which stories were disproportionately removed from shelves — and debunks “exaggerated” claims about books that feature...

36% of all banned books contain a character or a real person of color. But sure, this is about protecting the children. people.com/sex-claims-e...

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Lyrasis Catalyst Fund application closes this week 🗓️. Get those applications in before February 26!

#FundYourProject #Lyrasis #libraries @thepalaceproject.bsky.social

After years of trying, CT lawmakers think they have the right bill to save libraries money on e-books After several years of trying and failing, Connecticut lawmakers think they now have the right bill to save state libraries on the cost of e-books.

www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...

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Table filled with young adult books

All of these books are available for anyone who lost their libraries in the Los Angeles wildfires! We are at DYM Books & Boba in Pasadena until 5 today and back from 10-5 tomorrow. Come on down!

Thank you to all of our amazing donors for making this possible. ❤️‍🩹📚

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

Port: It's not just about kids, and it's not just libraries Legislation under consideration in Bismarck wouldn't just restrict access to books in schools and libraries. The language of the bill also applies to private book stores.

A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves.

For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender.

A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984.

www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...

Hardcover 💯

National Archives head resigns as Trump takes control of records Sources name conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt and far-right journalist John Solomon as potential replacements.

National Archives Acting Head Resigns/Retires as Trump Takes Control of Records
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Here @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social we are running a project called 'The Algorithimic Archive', funded by the Mellon Foundation on the challenges & needs for archiving social media data. We need your help- if you use such data can you help us with this survey? forms.office.com/pages/respon...