Librarian Jason

Oops #ALAAC25

01.07.2025 01:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

WPL Team at the John Cotton Dana awards

WPL Team receiving a PR XChange award at ALA 2025

Jason Homer highlighting his Library Journal Mover & Shaker article by holding a copy of the magazine

WPL team receiving the John Cotton Dana award

That’s a wrap on #ALA2025

01.07.2025 00:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I was remiss to not announce here that I won the Public Service Award from Safe Homes and Open Sky at the People of Courage Awards.

15.05.2025 22:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The WPL won 1st place in the world for @iflaglobal.bsky.social Pressreader International Marketing Award!

15.05.2025 22:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jason Homer | Movers & Shakers 2025—Change Agents Unlike most of his peers, Jason Homer wasn’t a reader as a kid. It wasn’t until freshman year of college, when he hung out in his school library to get away from his triple dorm room, that he “got” li...

Recently, I was named a @libraryjournal.bsky.social Mover & Shaker in the Change Agent category! I am deeply honored

www.libraryjournal.com/story/jason-...

15.05.2025 22:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stand Against Racism breakfast

25.04.2025 12:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congressman Jim McGovern with librarians Jason Homer, Melissa Harter, and Maria McCauley

Back in DC to ask Congressional leaders to support libraries and stand against the elimination of IMLS. Thank you to Congressman McGovern for standing with libraries. #ForOurLibraries @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

03.04.2025 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

White House Attacks Libraries | American Libraries Magazine On March 14, President Trump launched an assault on libraries, signing an executive order targeting the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

A groundswell of opposition is now underway to President Trump's March 14 executive order calling for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.

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Worcester payroll: 98 city employees made $200K in 2024. See the full list Twenty-two of the 25 highest-paid employees worked in the Police Department.

www.telegram.com/story/news/l...

17.03.2025 18:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You know how much you love the "magic" of ILL?

Defend it by defending IMLS.

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Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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I feel like people should also know that when the photog asked me to pose with books I said “what should I do, obviously not smile” and he said “be Mona Lisa” which is the funniest thing ever. And I did not nail it.

13.03.2025 21:00 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I really need to carve out time to write a think piece about how MA libraries being municipal-based is actually counterproductive to the work of libraries.

03.03.2025 16:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The 2,600 Federal Programs Under Scrutiny by Trump’s OMB The Trump administration ordered temporary freezes in funding for programs spanning virtually every part of the government. Here’s the full list.

Lots of library programs on this list that the White House wants to review and freeze

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

30.01.2025 21:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Show up for our libraries! Fight the funding freeze: Share your library story. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries.

NEW: Take action against the Trump Administration's federal funding freeze by sharing your library story. How would a federal funding pause impact your library & community? Share your story with ALA as we work to inform elected officials & decision-makers on this issue: airtable.com/appTIEEt9RjD...

28.01.2025 23:18 — 👍 162    🔁 85    💬 2    📌 9

Vauhini Vara, author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, gives a talk on a stage at LibLearnX regarding AI and the implications on writing literature.

Panel presentation titled “Libraries on the Line: Charting a Path Beyond the 2024 Elections” at LibLearnX

Reinvigorating Green Spaces for Library Services from the Queens Public Library

A varied and informative LibLearnX in Phoenix! #libraries

28.01.2025 23:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The elevator at the Burton Barr Central Library here in Phoenix! A water feature and glass elevators?! And check out all that study space!

28.01.2025 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jason dressed and ready to to head to LibLearnX conference

Hi Bluesky! Worcester Public Library Executive Director here in Phoenix for LibLearnX. While
Conference has ended I’m excited to head back and share all the new connections I’ve made and things I have learned thanks to the ALA #libraries #AmericanLibraryAssociation

28.01.2025 15:59 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0