Slow Librarianship is the topic of the day (again) at the Core e-forum. It's been a wonderful two days of discussions and reflection, and we're ready to keep building.
I've created a Discord server for everyone who wants to join the community. DM me for an invite, please!
Right-wing activists have been working in recent years to remove what they say are objectionable #books from local #libraries -- but it turns out that a tiny number of them are responsible for most of the #BookBan requests.
Analysis conducted by the #WashingtonPost found that only 11 people were responsible for more than half of more than 1,000 different book challenges analyzed by the paper, with one power banner responsible for 92 challenges just by himself.
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.
The Get Ready, Stay Ready: Community Action Toolkit (curated resources including scripts for public speaking and writing, video presentations, training materials to learn more about—and fight back against—censorship's impact on education and society, tools for civic engagement, and a network of organizations): https://sites.google.com/view/getreadystayready/home@librarians#Libraries
Salman Rushdie warns free expression under threat in first public address after attack.
"Now I am sitting here in the U.S., I have to look at the extraordinary attack on libraries, and books for children in schools," the author said. "The attack on the idea of libraries themselves. It is quite remarkably alarming, and we need to be very aware of it, and to fight against it very hard.”
Today in Labor History May 15, 1917: The Library Employees’ Union was founded in New York City. It was the first union of public library workers in the United States. One of their main goals was to elevate the low status of women library workers and their miserable salaries. Maud Malone (1873-1951) was a founding member of the union. She was also a militant suffragist and an infamous heckler at presidential campaign speeches.
At the @internetarchive a light blinks on their servers every time you use their collections. What a great way to visualise the impact of free access to knowledge. Do not take libraries, museums or archives for granted, we must defend them at all costs! https://www.battleforlibraries.com
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.
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.
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.
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
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.“
@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.