Great. Keep them home while the rest of the kids go. It’s the same problem over and over- people who don’t know what they’re talking about insisting their thoughts are more important than others’ rights and making sure no one can do the thing they object to.
@TonyStark A picture of Michelangelo's David, pearl-clutching book titles, and now this. I'm sick and tired of reading about ignorant, small-minded people who get to hold sway over everyone else.
@petersuber
Libraries are an important public/civic amenity.
Right now, individuals ages 13-21 can apply for a free Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) eCard, gaining access to BPL's eBook collection and learning databases.
Public and school #libraries are only eligible for state funding if they “adopt the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights” or “develop a written statement prohibiting the practice of banning books or other materials within the library or library system.“
Libraries are awesome! Did you know that for a limited time, individuals in the US, ages 13-21, can apply for a free Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) eCard, gaining access to BPL's eBook collection and learning databases. Great #opportunity To apply, email:
booksunbanned@bklynlibrary.org
The Media History Digital Library (MHDL) is a free online resource, featuring millions of pages from the histories of #film, #broadcasting, and #recorded#sound. We provide access to industry trade papers, magazines, Hollywood pressbooks, technical journals, and more.
Lantern, the MHDL's full-text search platform, enables researchers to query specific words or phrases within scanned pages.
We hope the MHDL has had a transformative impact on the study of film & broadcasting history. The sources we have digitized for open access, and the large-scale queries that our platforms allow, have enabled ambitious research projects and the production of new knowledge.
We look forward to sharing interesting content from our collection and learning about projects that use the MHDL.
Library Official Resigns After Publication of Her Secretly Recorded Inflammatory Comments
Judy Eledge, deputy director of the #Anchorage Public #Library, is leaving her post after ProPublica and @anchoragedailynews documented her history of offensive comments and social media posts about #Native Alaskans and the #LGBTQ+ community.
Great news from my local library! The Seattle Public Library is joining with the Brooklyn Public Library to provide young people across the US access to all its digital books and audiobooks with a Books Unbanned e-card.
Republicans in Indiana think they've found where to put their BOOK BAN THAT CHARGES LIBRARIANS WITH FELONIES into legislation. Amendment could be popped literally any day.
'The Seattle Public Library will provide free access to its entire collection of e-books and audio-books, to youths ages 13-26 regardless of where they are in the U.S. '
Wait, does that work? Does posting on the fediverse with #getfedihired and other tags help you get jobs? Cause, uh, I still need to escape from working for a transphobic government and also make enough money to live on my own as a single parent. Looking for remote information science jobs as I can’t move right now. #libraries#librarylife
Dr Ann Moyal AM FAHA (1926–2019) was a Petherick reader, a Harold White Fellow and an established historian of science and technology. As a champion of independence in research and scholarly pursuits, she established the Independent Scholars Association of Australia in 1995 during the ‘Against the Grain’ conference, held at the Library.
Hi archivist and librarian friends! Got a question.
Years ago, my public library had little shelves made out of what seemed to be phase box materials. High quality, durable, light.
Any idea what these may be called?
We lost our A/V shelving and now our DVDs are on regular book shelving units. They look untidy as hell. A sister branch painted some 2x4s to fix this problem for them, but our manager is worried they'd be used as weapons at our branch.
Hence the lightweight, yet durable things I'm asking about. Knowing their name might make it easier to get purchased.