The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks from wherever they
live.
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."
Oh nice. Seattle Public Library has created a membership type for "13 to 26 year olds anywhere in the US" to be able to sign out e and audiobooks as a response to those locales banning books...
This toot is a friendly reminder that if and when you hit a paywall on the internet, check your local library to see if they have access to this resource. Your #library card entitles you to access to more than just books! (Am I subtooting the link below to the Boston Globe? Yes. Yes I am.)
Don’t have a library card? Get one! For most systems all you need is a piece of mail with your mailing address on it - even if it’s just a postcard from a friend. And it’s ✨ free! ✨
The #library card is the emblem of a child’s standing in civic life: their direct access to a public service, not mediated or controlled by others. The library card grants rights to the politically voiceless and powerless.
It’s more radical than the idea of #democracy itself.
The Banned Book Club is a project of the Digital Public Library of America. You download their Palace e-reader and choose Banned Book Club as your #library. It gives you access to all (most?) of them plus others
Is there #library or #librarian mastodon? University of Alberta is looking for an "Indigenous Engagement Librarian"
If you know someone who might fit in this role, please send this or apply and come work with me (their office will be right next to mine) #librarians#librarianship
A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.
The Sakya Monastery in tibet has a library comprising some 84,000 books. Most are Buddhist scriptures, but there are works of literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and art. They date back centuries.
In 2011 they began to digitize the library. All books are indexed and about 20% have been fully digitized.
A collection of antique book end-papers has been scanned by the Bergen Public Library of Norway and made available for public use. They're copyright-free. So if you have a hankering for colorful patterns in your creative work, or just want to peruse the collection, you can find them at the flickr link below.
Recently I posted that some libraries in southern Oregon were under attack. Racist, bigoted fascists were trying to infiltrate their Board so they could ban books.
Well, the voters have spoken. Our candidates—kind people with integrity—won the election. They won!
Small elections are huge. They mean so very much. Just wanted to share, because these victories have been few and far between.
“Librarians are being harassed in private Facebook groups. They’re receiving pressure from within and outside the school.”
But bookstores, libraries and book lovers of all kinds came together to fight back against the censorious, so-called READER act. From correspondent Matthew Patin: https://www.texasobserver.org/the-booksellers-revolt/
It is both pathetic and frightening that MAGA types are vilifying the American Library Association for being a conduit for pornography and that red states are therefore severing ties with this esteemed organization. Gift access to Washington Post coverage at https://wapo.st/3ZomNsQ. The right in this country knows it benefits from keeping people ignorant and uneducated. #library#censorship