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All these AI "features" showing up everywhere really feels like someone is remotely turning on all my house lights in the middle of the night - not helpful or wanted, and a huge waste of electricity

23.07.2025 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"These wins are temporary and only as good as the extent to which they are upheld throughout the appeals process... Library advocates will not rest until libraries in every state receive the funding promised and IMLS is back in full" - ALA President Cindy Hohl.

This development is welcome news - but it is limited and temporary. We will not rest until IMLS and its funding are fully restored. #ForOurLibraries (2/2)

22.05.2025 00:04 — 👍 117 🔁 36 💬 0 📌 1

When you remove trained book reviewers, trained editors ... remove PEOPLE from the AI equation, you get bs

22.05.2025 13:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Two Men Claiming to Be Trump Appointees Blocked From Entering US Copyright Office The men appeared at the US Copyright Office days after after the Trump administration fired its leader, who had just published a report about the use of copyrighted materials for AI training.

SCOOP: Two men claiming to be newly appointed Trump administration officials tried to enter the US Copyright Office in Washington, DC on Monday, but left before gaining access to the building, sources tell WIRED.

What is happening?

12.05.2025 17:56 — 👍 914 🔁 357 💬 31 📌 32

Picture of Carla Hayden smiling, in a teal jacket, along with her quote "Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy - where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don't realize what is at stake when that is put at risk."

Losing Hayden at the Library of Congress is a huge blow to our democracy

09.05.2025 11:22 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Jacqueline Woodson, yes plz

11.04.2025 18:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How 'degenerate art' purges devastated Germany's museums – DW – 07/19/2017 For the "Degenerate Art" exhibition sponsored by Hitler, the Nazis confiscated modern art from museums in 1937. The works were ridiculed before they were destroyed. The impact of the purges can be fel...

I'm going to just leave this here...

28.03.2025 14:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yay! Comic book creators showing up for libraries and the freedom to read

24.03.2025 14:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We digitize historical photographs to make visible our history - this "purge" is obscene

10.03.2025 11:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We should all pay attention to what is happening at the National Archives On Friday night, the president officially fired the Archivist of the United States, as he had promised to do before taking office. So, hi there! 👋 Former National Archives employee here.

Pay attention

10.02.2025 19:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Updates on National Endowment for the Arts FY 2026 Grant Opportunities The National Endowment for the Arts is updating its FY 2026 grant guidelines, with deadlines in March and July 2025. These changes impact organizations applying in the Grants for Arts Projects or Chal...

Challenge America (supporting art for under-served communities) is out. Semiquincentennial projects are in? Oh, what exciting art that will be. RIP NEA

06.02.2025 19:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Working in higher education, you wouldn't believe how many "data security" type trainings they make us take. Then to just let randos sift through sensitive financial and personal info about our students?!

04.02.2025 16:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

websites come and go - let's hope Internet Archive is forev

04.02.2025 16:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

End of Term Web Archive The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.

Since 2004, Internet Archive has collaborated with a group of libraries and research organizations on the End of Term Web Archive. 💾 Learn more about the effort: eotarchive.org

04.02.2025 16:16 — 👍 2046 🔁 555 💬 26 📌 17

I'm a sucker for a good mentor-mentee story - and excited to read more about baby monster-hunter Erica

24.01.2025 12:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

hot take after book club: V for Vendetta hits way different for Gen X vs. Gen Z

13.01.2025 14:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Internet Archive is in danger More than 900 billion webpages are preserved on The Wayback Machine, a history of humanity online. Now, copyright lawsuits could wipe it out.

The web is ephemeral - without the Internet Archive so much our history will fall into the black hole of time and make it easier to paint over what really happened

10.01.2025 12:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0