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Aja McCarthy

@ajamccarthy.bsky.social

Librarian. Cheerleader for wild ideas. She/her. Opinions my own.

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The Revolution Will Be Incremental with Rebecca Solnit The sisters are ecstatic to build with writer, activist and historian Rebecca Solnit. Her latest book is No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays on U...

“Before you can privatize an economy, you have to privatize psyches. You have to convince people we have nothing in common, there’s no benefit to shared public resources, public space, public transportation, public libraries, public health, public healthcare...” endoftheworldshow.org/episodes/the...

02.08.2025 18:05 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

All library workers, regardless of job title or status, deserve a good wage, academic freedom, and support for any research and publishing they would like to pursue. Library classism is damaging to individual people and to the field collectively.

22.07.2025 22:06 — 👍 26    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
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Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

After Congress stripped away funding for @npr.org and @pbs.org, a lot of us are wondering how we can best support the most vulnerable stations. My former NPR colleague Alex Curley created this "Adopt A Station" website to help you find (and donate to) the stations most at risk. adoptastation.org

22.07.2025 19:43 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 3

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15.06.2025 21:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Airtable | Everyone's app platform Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

How do I help?

⭐ Sign the petition!
- Meet one of our volunteers at the locations listed here:
bit.ly/sb1sign

⭐ Volunteer to become a petition signer!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

⭐ Share social media posts with the #stopsb1oh hashtag!

We can't do this without you - every little bit helps!

05.06.2025 20:01 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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What is National Library Workers Day?
NLWD is a day for library staff, users, administrators and Friends groups to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers.

On January 25, 2003, a resolution was proposed:
That in order to recognize the hard work, dedication, and expertise of library support staff and librarians that the Tuesday of National Library Week be designated National Library Workers Day; and, that on that day, interested library workers, library groups, and libraries should advocate for better compensation for all library workers and, if the day coincides with Equal Pay Day, these individuals, groups, and libraries should recognize both days together.

What is National Library Workers Day? NLWD is a day for library staff, users, administrators and Friends groups to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers. On January 25, 2003, a resolution was proposed: That in order to recognize the hard work, dedication, and expertise of library support staff and librarians that the Tuesday of National Library Week be designated National Library Workers Day; and, that on that day, interested library workers, library groups, and libraries should advocate for better compensation for all library workers and, if the day coincides with Equal Pay Day, these individuals, groups, and libraries should recognize both days together.

today is National Library Workers Day, and i am asking you to support library workers by

-using your library (it matters!);

-defending library workers against the ongoing efforts to intimidate, silence, and criminalize them;

-advocating for better pay for them. 📚

08.04.2025 16:13 — 👍 951    🔁 346    💬 12    📌 26

The library is the only place that Americans experience the fullness of what it means to remove goods from the market. It pings our consciousness. Hey we could love differently!

08.04.2025 12:22 — 👍 1495    🔁 316    💬 5    📌 10
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For The People

I want to invite all of you to consider running for or seeking appointment to your local library board. You can start by attending your local board meetings. www.librariesforthepeople.org

05.04.2025 00:37 — 👍 230    🔁 82    💬 4    📌 0
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Tell the Ohio House Now: Don’t Cut My Library! Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library stands to lose $14.5 million of our state funding and we need your help. Use the links below…

Happening now OH/Cincinnati: chpl.org/blogs/post/d...

03.04.2025 21:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congress has the power to restore funding to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Join me in calling your reps!

03.04.2025 20:49 — 👍 186    🔁 114    💬 1    📌 2

When creating PDFs, avoid using "Print to PDF." A screen reader user may still be able to access the text of PDFs created this way, but heading structure, alternative text, and any other tag structure will be lost. Using "Save As" or "Export" can preserve these tags.

03.04.2025 20:14 — 👍 181    🔁 73    💬 5    📌 4

Let me never become so jaded as to think acts of resistance are pointless.

02.04.2025 01:26 — 👍 54    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

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