Josiane Ferron

States Challenge Trump’s Effort to Dismantle Library Agency In a lawsuit, 21 state attorneys general argued that the steep cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services violate the Constitution and other federal laws related to spending.

A coalition of 21 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the federal agency charged with supporting the nation’s libraries.

“We're just doing our job, trying to be the best library that we can be, trying to help preserve the cultural heritage of our time — to make this material accessible, useful to people now and into the future.” Mark Graham, Internet Archive Director of the Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine is a vital resource for preserving the cultural record, ensuring history remains accessible to all.

Read more in the recent NPR profile ➡️ www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...

#SaveTheWeb #DigitalPreservation #MemoryHole #WaybackMachine

Remember, nobody is claiming that there's an epidemic of teachers showing XXX websites. Legislators aren't testifying about librarians allowing Hustler on the shelves.

At hearings and in press conferences, lawmakers are explict: this is about books. This is about YA novels. This is about LGBTQ+.

Again: the part of Project 2025 that still keeps me up at night (this “arrest the librarians” part specifically re: a new Texas bill that may go nowhere and yet—)

So, in order to keep kids from accessing what religious censors call "pornography" (LGBTQ+ content, sex ed), they've effectively made it so kids can't read at all.

Librarians reading 30,000 books in Livingston Parish to check for explicit material Livingston Parish libraries have found a solution for the community's concerns about the possibility of sexually explicit material in children's books: read every single book on the shelf.

A school board in Louisiana has stripped the shelves of books over a panic that "material harmful to minors" — in other words, descriptions of sex or sexuality — might be present in one of the 30,000 (!) books aimed at young adults.

www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

This matters because if what you are trying to warn people about is a religious juggernaut that will crush them- that's not what we learn from the witch panics. We learn that it's your gross neighbours who will sell you out because they owe you money or you make them feel bad.

A) witches mostly were hung.
B) how.... Do you think "The Church" is solely responsible for this? Have you *met* Protestants?
Far be it from me to defend the early modern Church, but JFC.

Pour montrer que les artistes portent attention à ce qui se passe et s’en préoccupent. Des sculptures - d’apparence d’abord mignonnes - qui révèlent la cruauté de ICE. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Multimag - ouvrir une revue au hasard et trouver ça philosophique.

Lovely ♥️

It’s time for BINGO in the library! We host this on a monthly basis during grade level lunch periods and it generates a great deal of excitement! #TLsky #noshhlibrary #belonging

I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation. They're breaking down-I don't have the word for it right now-but it's gender prejudice, and [the idea that] somebody has decided that they can tell you who you are, what your name should be, and how you should look. And those youngsters are saying, "No, I can decide who I am, what my name should be." Everybody's mad at me like, You should be a girl because we've decided you're a girl. And they say, "Well, who the hell are you?" I can decide that I'm a boy. And if it makes me happy, what does it mean to you? And I can decide that my name is John. And if you don't like that my name is Geraldine, why can't you name yourself? And if the people who know you and love you-or have to talk to you, maybe they don't even love you but they have to talk to you -you can tell them, “This is my name, and I would like to be referred to in that way."

This interview with Nikki Giovanni from earlier this year should be required reading. oxfordamerican.org/web-only/nik...

Les archives comme preuves Au Salon du livre de Montréal, des livres ukrainiens brûlés, traces d’une destruction culturelle et matérielle organisée par la Russie.

Les archives comme preuves d’une histoire qu’on tente de détruire. bibliolibre.substack.com/p/les-archiv...

Maybe not so controversial opinion: listening to audiobooks still counts as reading. People with dyslexia who love books exist. Two people in my life are like this, and they've torn through more books than me. One of them being my dad.

Black writers are routinely silenced in American society. This tradition began during chattel slavery when our ancestors were prohibited from reading and writing. And it’s been exasperated in the modern era through book bans, CRT bans, and omitting black history from class curriculum

We have seen Manga targeted in Texas, too. Keep in mind book banners are working to restrict and remove (ie ban) books in public community libraries *and* school libraries- often the same types of books- even the same titles.

Demonizing entire genres is an efficient way to ban a lot of books.

Trop de belles rencontres - Huguette me raconte son grand-père, ancien ministre qui l’appelait Tititte & Paméla qui me laisse crier de surprise devant elle & la fille de mon éditrice qui pleure pour un souvenir d’enfance.

Getting ready to go to le Salon du Livre de Montréal 💕

Beaucoup de personnes mineures victimes de harcèlement de rue. Création d’outils de sensibilisation, grâce à un comité intergénérationnel. De là l’outil de réalité virtuelle.

La société de transport n’était pas en accord au départ avec l’idée de participer contre le harcèlement de rue. « Nous, on s’occupe de transport. » Cette année, collaboration entre la STM, la Ville et des groupes communautaires.

Importance de nommer et d’outiller les témoins dans le cadre de harcèlement de rue.

Partage de connaissances, de réussites et de défis liés à des enjeux féministes.

Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.

As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.

J’adore cet espace liminal tout près de la Bibliothèque Hubert-Reeves.

Retrouver ma nièce par surprise lors de la remise des bourses en arts et en sciences au Campus Mill (c’est la troisième fois qu’elle est boursière 🙌🙌🙌)