Chelsea Heinbach

Another fight, another win.

The Illinois AG did not join this suit.

Introducing LibParlor Community Workshops

https://libparlor.com/2025/09/26/introducing-libparlor-community-workshops/

Had a great time chatting with Hannah and Stephanie for this podcast episode about research agendas!

It’s wonderful that this video from Milwaukee’s Public Library system features a nod to a book on Prince, because he loved libraries. In 2001, he donated $12k to save the Louisville Free Public Library’s Western Branch — the first to serve Black patrons. www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

An orange and black butterfly drinks from a cluster of light pink flowers.

It’s Monarch migration time! How the heck can they fly for thousands of miles? It seems impossible. (Drinking from some Common Milkweed)

#InverteFest #invertebrates #NativePlants 🌿

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!

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“Superman is too woke!”

Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

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Today's post covers Chelsea's experience using LibParlor Research Community Bingo at UNLV Libraries! It was a great opportunity to identify strengths and potential collaborators in our community!

https://libparlor.com/2025/07/11/libparlors-research-community-bingo-my-experience-at-unlv/

The LibParlor Podcast: Summer Call! The LibParlor Podcast seeks scholarship to feature on a future episode.

The LibParlor Podcast: Summer Call!

The LibParlor Podcast seeks scholarship to feature on a future episode.

LibParlor Online Learning Personas: The Department Head A starter pack for department heads mentoring junior faculty and direct reports starting on their research journey.

Check out the first post in our persona series, providing starter packs to using our online research skills curriculum! Today's starter pack is for department heads & managers who mentor library workers and junior faculty: libparlor.com/2025/06/13/l...

Apply to be on LibParlor’s Editorial Team! The Librarian Parlor (aka LibParlor) is recruiting new Editorial Team members!

We're recruiting - apply to be on LibParlor's Editorial Team! libparlor.com/2025/06/20/a...

So many former government employees are still doing their work even now that they're not in government. They're still researching, helping connect people to services, and trying to serve the public somehow.

This is how much they care.

These people, your people, are the embodiment of #altCitizen

Authors ❤️ libraries and library readers.

Ebook contracts that exploit or just simply cut out libraries are so troubling if you care about libraries preserving your work or helping the the public to discover it. So glad to see CT take this bold move and we hope other states will follow.

Just learned today - Norfolk, VA!

Norfolk, VA!

Carla Hayden removed as Librarian of Congress and what this could mean for authors From the latest issue of the Libray of Congress magazine Last night a number of news outlets reported that President Trump had fired the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden. This is very unfortunat…

Last night a number of news outlets reported that President Trump had fired the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden.

You may be wondering, how does the President have the authority to remove the Librarian of Congress from her post? Is this legal?

More here: www.authorsalliance.org/2025/05/09/c...

Line graph titled "What's my share of NEH appropriations" with a caption: "Between its founding in 1965 and fiscal year 2024, the National Endowment for the Humanities received congressional appropriations totaling $7.37 billion. NEH used this funding to support thousands of individuals and cultural organizations - both directly through various grant programs and indirectly through funds disbursed by the 56 state and jurisdictional humanities councils. Beyond these appropriations, grantees raised millions of dollars more from non-federal donors as part of grant matching requirements. To put NEH appropriations in perspective, this chart shows cumulative annual per capita contribution to NEH by age, that is, the total dollar amount the average taxpayer has given to NEH over their lifetime. A few relevant purchases are helpfully included to show what a person could have bought instead, had they kept their personal NEH contribution for themselves..." The x-axis ranges from 0 to 59 years old. The y-axis ranges from $0 to $30. At three ages, items that could have instead been purchased with an individual's lifetime NEH contribution are shown. At 13 years, an egg is plotted on the line with a dollar amount of $6.41 and the caption reads, "Just in time to feed a growth spurt, a person at 13 years old has contributed enough to NEH that they could instead purchase one dozen eggs ($6.23/dozen)." At 36 years, a popcorn bucket is plotted with a dollar amount of $18.20 and the caption reads, "Millennials who are at least 36 years old could exchange their nearly four decades worth of NEH support for a one month subscription to Netflix ($17.99/month)." At 50 years, a gasoline pump is plotted with the dollar amount of $26.00 and the caption reads, "Those 50 years old or older - who have been contributing to the agency for nearly its entire existence - could instead have saved that money to purchase about a half tank of gas (8 gallons at $3.23/gallon)."

As an elder millennial, I could trade my lifetime of tax contributions to the NEH for one month of Netflix and have just enough left over to get some avocado toast if I split it with two other people

ah bummer hope to see you soon!

Thank you Dan!! Are you headed to LOEX this year??

Does anyone know of a resource that maps the various organizations and institutions involved with research in the US? Thinking this might be good for community and coalition building in the near future.

Ran into a demonstration of indigenous community members outside the Hennepin County Library over the brutality by a private security company on a local man. According to them after George Floyd instead of reforming the police they invested in private "mercenaries".

#acrl2025

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Like many others I am dismayed by the effort to end IMLS. I know IMLS matters to so many people. I put together the following site to collect and share stories of how "IMLS matters" to people. Please consider submitting a story.

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Two people standing in front of a poster that says “Cultivate your research identity & build community with LibParlor Online Learning (LPOL)”

Thank you to everyone at #ACRL2025 who stopped by to see our poster today! If you’re interested in trying out our free curriculum on LIS research, or know someone who would be, check out libparlor.com/lpol-curricu...!

Flyer with an illustration of an orca diving into water and the text "Headed to ACRL 2025? Join us for a zine swap, afternoon of Friday April 4th, time & location to be announced".

If you'll be in Minneapolis for #ACRL2025, please join @juliesetele.bsky.social & me for a zine swap on the afternoon of Friday April 4th.

Really looking forward to this session!

Librarians Are Mad As Hell At The Trump Administration. They Think You Should Be, Too. "The public needs to wake up before our libraries are gone," one "livid" librarian said.

LibParlor provided some perspective for this article on the cuts to IMLS and the importance of libraries: www.huffpost.com/entry/librar...

An Update from the LibParlor Team Hello, readers! We hope you are taking care of yourselves and your communities as we navigate this year. We wanted to provide a few updates about LibParlor with you as we wrap up our IMLS grant and…

A little update from LibParlor on what we've been working on and what we're looking forward to — If you're attending #acrl2025 next week, be sure to stop by our poster session on Thursday, April 3 from 9:30-10:15am and you'll have a chance to win some swag!

So, how is everyone talking about government information in your classrooms at this moment? #infolit

I’m hanging out at the library and a guy just went up to the research desk and yelled, “DO YOU HAVE ANY BOOKS ABOUT WEREWOLVES,” and now the librarian is showing him some and I just love libraries!