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Remember this rash of bomb threats? Here's a good follow up piece–these false calls can cost up to $1 million each to deal with.

www.ketv.com/article/rese...

Puyallup School District plans to cut $15 million, close high school pool The cuts would affect 80 to 95 positions. Citizens filled the Kessler Center Monday night to protest the proposed changes.

Puyallup School District (WA) has to make drastic budget cuts, and they include "cutting library instructional time for fourth, fifth and sixth graders."

Smart time to kill information literacy lessons w/an especially vulnerable group.

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Sioux City library director says budget cut of 25% would have "scary" impact on services & branches Sioux City library director Rigdon says budget cut of 25% would have "scary" impact on services & branches.

Sioux City Public Library (IA) is looking at the potential of a 25% budget cut, which would have detrimental effects on the library: www.kwit.org/podcast/spm-...

Elk Grove Unified School District cutting 31 classified positions as funding ends The announcement of the positions’ eliminations came at the same EGUSD board meeting where board members voted to give themselves raises.

Elk Grove Unified School District (CA)–the 5th largest district in the state–counts among its 31 staff cuts being made due to budget issues those working as library technicians.

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Rockwell Falls Public Library (NY)–you may remember them from bomb threats and staff challenges and board issues from a couple of years ago. They're now dealing with terrible budget challenges: archive.ph/hbSxC

Four More Books Banned from All Utah Public Schools; 27 Now Banned Statewide Utah banned four more books from all public schools this week, bringing the number of state-sanctioned book bans to 27.

Yesterday, the state of Utah banned four more books, bringing the number of state-sanctioned book bans to 27. These have to be removed from every public library.

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The Ensh*ttification of the Institute of Museum and Library Services Trucks On: What's Happening and What You Can Do Nearly a year after the Institute of Museum and Library Services was dismantled, what's happening at the agency? What can we do to help out?

For the PM crowd..

The Ensh*ttification of the Institute of Museum and Library Services Trucks On: What’s Happening and What You Can Do

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Been a minute since I've had mention garbage!

You're such a perfect encapsulation of why replies are blocked for non-followers. You're allowed to speak whatever you want to, but I don't have to fucking listen to it :)

I'd go further back to when we let a classroom full of kindergarteners be killed and we did nothing about gun control.

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

I'm mostly hoping she's not *continuing* to engage in it.

okay, racist bigot.

Wonder if this is still the case, as this story is from 2014. Not that it changes where/how you spend your $$, obv, but it's an old piece.

I know. I wrote about it. An American Pastoral is also a documentary.

Two Documentaries That Explain This Moment in Libraries and Book Censorship The Librarians and An American Pastoral together are a robust, if imperfect, means of understanding this censorship moment.

Two Documentaries That Explain This Moment in Libraries and Book Censorship

The Librarians and An American Pastoral together are a robust, if imperfect, means of understanding this censorship moment.

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Would LOVE to get a pitch from a Japanese writer about the role of food in Japanese novels because I feel like I am noticing interesting themes and throughlines that I don't have the cultural literacy to fully understand and want to learn more about. 👁️

This is the next iteration of writing for SEO and writing for the algorithm. It's writing for the bettors.

The Ensh*ttification of the Institute of Museum and Library Services Trucks On: What's Happening and What You Can Do Nearly a year after the Institute of Museum and Library Services was dismantled, what's happening at the agency? What can we do to help out?

Take 10 minutes this week and engage in one of the suggested activities to help the IMLS. Still. Again.

bookriot.com/the-enshitti...

The Ensh*ttification of the Institute of Museum and Library Services Trucks On: What's Happening and What You Can Do Nearly a year after the Institute of Museum and Library Services was dismantled, what's happening at the agency? What can we do to help out?

The Enshittification of the Institute of Museum and Library Services Trucks On: Here's What's Happening and What You Can Do.

If you missed it, the IMLS home page got an AI overhaul, among other things.

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I feel like I am going absolutely fucking batshit with how much time I put into writing factual, verified stuff that gets very little traction and then there's this shit.

Remember when everyone got all excited about the idea moms for liberty lost all their contested school board races–which wasn't true? it was because it came from a "news" source that is a kalshi property.

so much for finding verified information anymore. bettors first.

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what in the fuck

Mellon.

Anyway, yesterday marked my 11th year full time at Book Riot.

60s are coming this week!

This is some good news!!!

The IMLS's new homepage encapsulates how much the regime has damaged this agency, and the propaganda truck project? Only criss-crossing the country to red states.

Here's what's been happening and what you can do about it.

They want to revert "obscenity" back to the Ginsburg case. In other words, they want to do what Florida's doing.

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Oh look. Idaho republicans want to just completely rewrite the definition of obscenity, ignoring the Miller Test's three pron setup.

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