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Sea otter floating on its back in water with its paws outstretched

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LIS workers, if you can't manage to use any of the free access points for digital resources or even fucking Google to find out what the bestselling books are rn, you should not be employed in a library full stop.

Cindy Crushes Programming: Wallet Tins and Pressed Flower Bookmarks, a guest post by Teen Librarian Alison Pfaff Teen Librarian Alison Pfaff shares two recent crafts that were popular with teens: a tin wallet and pressed flower bookmarks

Cindy Crushes Programming: Wallet Tins and Pressed Flower Bookmarks, a guest post by Teen Librarian Alison Pfaff

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Savor the beauty of the moment.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER GUTTING INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM & LIBRARY SERVICES By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administrations executive order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted American institutions and the staff and services they offer. show up FOR OUR LIBRARIES American Association

Libraries are at risk.
Call your federal legislators - (202) 224-3121 for the U.S. Capitol switchboard.

Or, go to action.everylibrary.org/emailreps to send emails. Edit the message to tell your federal legislators how important federal funding for libraries is.

Black and white photo of a young light skinned woman wearing a long skirt, with white top and cardigan, sitting on a lawn. She is smiling down and a shorthaired tabby cat rolling blissfully in the grass beside her.

Look at the paws - this cat was 100% definitely making biscuits. Photo from my collection, back reads “Jean and Patty at home, July 1952”.

Regular reminder to go get a public library card. As book bans become more and more common, supporting libraries is going to be essential.

For most places I've lived, all you need to get a library card is a photo ID and a piece of mail that shows you live in the city. It's free!

A poster for the economic blackout on February 28. It is a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

See: why the goal isn't to shut down libraries when it comes to these attacks on library workers and on books.

It's to shut down PUBLIC libraries and turn them into for-profit institutions for the elite so the elite can pat themselves on the back about it.

They're not dumb. They're coordinated.

it is wild when people are like oh you could do this or you have this power. Maman I work at a library and have to explain why people just can not get on their email on the computer like that can on their phone every day.

Black and white photo of a young white boy kneeling on a lawn, petting the head of a very happy looking shorthaired white cat with tabby patches.

This is such a sweet photo, and on the back...

A goose, it says "I think I will cause problems on purpose."

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stop this hero shit

we're people being ground down to dust like everyone else

Book covers for: Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this.

Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

Comic of a shark "Im tired of being nice" "Its time to chomp chomp"

CHOMP CHOMP

Moominpappa is up on a ladder in front of a big bookshelf that take the whole wall. He's reaching for a red book.

Same scene, Moominpappa is reading the book that he grabbed, still on the ladder.

70,000 people in a stadium yelling "a minor." Christ

Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

This is evil.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Midnight waterfall💜
Commissioned work
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Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is AMAZING news!
Fuck Amazon

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

Crockett: What we’re not going to do is stand around while they pull this bullshit that they’re trying to pull right now

NOT HER WEARING JACKS GLASSES 😭🤭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wicked (TAYPELL’S VERSION)

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.

GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS

PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.

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You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

Let the world's largest iceberg inspire you: Even after spending months spinning in the same spot, you too can become unstuck.

Libraries are an investment. Not an expense