Emma Morris

This Black August, Midnight Care Collective and Sojourners for Justice Press are bringing the Black Zine Fair to Detroit for the first time grounded in the abolitionist tradition and held in deep care.

Detroit, Saturday August 9 is the Mini Black Zine Fair!!

For my fellow covid cautious ppl it’s masks required! So great!

blackzinefair.org/detroit/

Crit Lib AI Book - Call for Proposals CALL FOR PROPOSALS

#CFP: Critical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Librarianship

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#libraries #librarians #ai

Please welcome the National Association of Black Bookstores. Today we mark the launch of a new literary institution: the National Association of Black Bookstores. A nonprofit collective and member-based organization, the NAB2 looks to “amplify Black vo…

The National Association of Black Bookstores aims to “amplify Black voices, and preserve Black culture by increasing the visibility, sustainability, and impact of Black bookstores and booksellers.”

Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena

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and they say it's hard to make new friends in your 30s and 40s.

Happy birthday, fellow 1985 Leo! 🥳

Album cover for Rage Against the Machine's Evil Empire. Yellow background featuring an illustration of Ari Meisel at 11 years old (according to Wikipedia), wearing a red, black and white costume with a lower-case "e" on the front. There are three stickers on the plastic case protecting the CD: 1) "Parental Advisory Explicit Content" 2) "POP/ROCK - RAGE - CD" and 3) "PUBLIC LIBRARY." I've placed five purple demon emojis over the specific public library branch name. The background features blue rectangle and gold star mosaic tiles.

Liner notes for Rage Against the Machine's Evil Empire includes images of many books, including The Anarchist Cookbook, The Wretched of the Earth, and several others in sepia tone. A photograph of the band performing is on the right.

CD & public library appreciation cont'd plus required ragings.

"Author Christian Cooper: Saturday, September 20, 3pm. Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center. OneGrandRead.com. A photo of the cover of "Better Living Through Birding" and the One Grand Read logo. A digital illustration of birds flying over a scenic lake scene.

This fall is all about birds! Come to our birding club meetings and bird walks, read in our nature book club, enjoy a birdwatching scavenger hunt, & more! It's all leading up to One Grand Read with acclaimed author Christian Cooper on September 20. Learn more: elpl.org. #Birds #BookSky #LibSky

FYI Chicago, the air quality index today is 211. Mask up! This is ultra unhealthy.

Introducing the Sealey Challenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser for Gaza!

Details & sign-up form available here ✨ mailchi.mp/openpoetrybo...

Calling all Chicagoans: Who has a book coming out in 2026? I want to hear it all, but especially debuts!

(For a special @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social project!)

Terrible news!! I'm so sorry to hear this.

Underdiscussed in libraries too

The Palestine Festival of Literature is looking for a new designer to join our team.

Applicants must be bilingual in Arabic and English and able to produce both separate and linguistically integrated designs.

Apply here: forms.gle/jeC7VGPofRjA...

Last time we raised over $65K for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. Here’s hoping we can blow that out of the water this time around. Please donate what you can: ig.me/1JSuj6OtAsno...

Workshops 4 Gaza Bookstore An autonomous group of writers, artists, educators, and translators coming together to offer online classes and workshops to raise funds for Palestinians in Gaza workshops4gaza.com/ All proceeds from ...

@openpoetrybooks.bsky.social updated us that your book purchases have enabled us to send $15K to The Sameer Project over the past two months alone! This is truly incredible. Please keep buying books through the site, which has many new titles: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

We are hiring! Please pass along this listing, and encourage people you know to apply. Head to jewishcurrents.org/careers for more information.

Excellent ICE response guide for academic library workers from the Library Freedom Project. Includes proactive defense prep as well as rapid response. Please RT, library friends. libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

Spencer Public Engagement Librarian

🚨Job klaxon!🚨We're looking for a Public Engagement Librarian here at Spencer! It's a really lovely place to work - wonderful folks and collections, as well as a very supportive administration! And this is faculty! And we're unionized! #bookhistory #rarebooks 📜
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Flyer for International Zine Month, featuring something to do every day of the month in July. INTERNATIONAL ZINE MONTH 31 PROMPTS FOR 31 DAYS (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER) JULY 2025 #IZM2025. 1- Make a 1 page zine! Don't know what to write about? Make it a zine about why you like zines! 2-Zine Rewind! Dig out your favorite zines and share them!. 3-Look up local or virtual zine event or maybe even dream about starting your own! 4 - AmeriZINE Day! Explore marginalized voices in the Americas. Support zines written by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) 5-Free Zines! Post a PDF online or leave copies of your zine in public for other people to enjoy! 6- Zine Pride! Support zines created by LGBTQIA creators. Don't know where to start? Check out the Queer Zine Archive Project! (QZAP.org) 7-International Zines! Explore zines from a country different from your own! 8 Zine Trade Day! Ask someone to trade zines with you. 9-New Skill Day! Learn a new zine skill like folding, binding, duplicating, or Layout!! 10 Write a review of a movie, album, book or podcast to add to your next zine. 11- Write a letter or a short note to a zinester you admire. 12-Zine Wiki Day! Add or update listings to Zine Wiki. Support community powered Information at zinewiki.com 13-Zine Meme! Make a zine-themed meme from an online meme template. 14 - ValenZINES Day! Write a valentine to zines and share why you love them! 15-Zine Cuisine! Cook from a recipe found in a zinc and share the results 16-Zine Distro Appreciation! Order some zines from a zine distro online and share with people about your favorite zine distros. 17-Zine Collab! Ask a friend if they would like to collaborate on a zine with you. 18- From Trash to Treasure! Use recycled or scrap materials to make a sine or embellish one. 19-Variety is the spice of life! Read zines outside your usual taste-like comics, art zines, how-to guides, or perzines!] 20-Zines of the Future! Explore zines by youth or introduce the you…

July 21st is Zine Library Day, one of the celebrations happening during International Zine Month! #IZM2025 #zines

Ways to celebrate:
*visit your local zine library
*check out an online zine library
*donate $ or zines to a zine library
*bring your closest zine librarian a delicious treat 🍩

"Why We Mask: It's not "just a cold"" zine, by Laurel Lynn Leake. Its cover, printed on bright orange paper, shows a dark-skinned person with glasses and a face mask, with people behind them graphically coughing and sneezing. The zine is shown against a blue-green gradient background with a pattern of illustrated COVID viruses.

new free zine in distro:
WHY WE MASK is an accessible primer on why people wear masks, & why you might wanna pop one on.

How COVID is transmitted, & what it does in our bodies when we catch it, with illustrations featuring fat, queer, trans & disabled people of colour.
sheerspite.ca/product/why-...

Do you work in a library and have thoughts or experiences about the mental health realities of the work? I want to hear from you in the anonymous survey below.

Feel free to share. More information about the survey and its goals are in the survey itself.

Thank you!!!

NewberryFest Celebrate all things Newberry with collection presentations, guided tours, information sessions, and so much more at our new summer fest!

Have You Smelled an Old Book Today?

Come get your nose in a book at the Newberry today, Saturday,
July 19, from 10-4!
I'll be there from 2-4 with 15th and 16th c. gems! You can AMA about the collection, and with clean dry hands, even turn the pages yourselves!

www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

It's so good!!

Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social) Attached: 3 images This is a humble fundraiser for the bighearted folks with @gazasoupkitchen as a small act of solidarity, from me to them, across and beyond borders. It’s not enough. Nothing feel...

A humble fundraiser for the @gazasoupkitchen

I’ll send you 4 copies of my edited anthology “There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists” to use in your current or new study group, if…

See details on IG @cindymilstein

Or at:

kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...

A poster for Chicago Zine Fest, July 19, 2025 from 11 AM to 4 PM at Harold Washington Library.

Find me at Chicago Zine Fest (CZF) this year, repping Temporary Services / Half Letter Press at table 22, with all of the latest from Public Collectors on display as well. CZF runs July 19, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM in the 9th floor Winter Garden, Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State St. FREE.

Volunteer - CareForReal

I think that some Rogers Park folks follow me on here...

Care for Real urgently needs volunteers in Rogers Park for their new extended food distribution on Thursdays from 3-6pm. Apply to volunteer at www.careforreal.org/volunteer

Call for Zines from archivists and archives. 📜📚
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a green booklet shaped like a knife against a background of wood planks

the green booklet is now opened to showcase the pages which flip out like a pocket knife blade

greetings i have made another zine, this is about how i got my hands on a knife at age ~9 (individual pages in the replies) #internationalzinemonth #minizinejuly2025

Kanafani and the Spectre of Palestinian Statehood — Workshops 4 Gaza Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40) Step 2: Register for “Kanafani and the Spectre of Palestinian Statehood” here In this workshop, scholar and translator Hazem J...

‼️Hazem Jamjoum (translator of many books in our bookstore, incl. Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936-1939 and Maya Abu Al-Hayyat's No One Knows Their Blood Type) joins us for a workshop on AUGUST 15TH, online at 12:30pm EST! Register: workshops4gaza.com/calendar/kan...