If you care about libraries and their ability to provide services and collections to all, serve on a library board and help fight fascism!
If you care about libraries and their ability to provide services and collections to all, serve on a library board and help fight fascism!
I met Mr. Rogers once. He was as kind in person and real as what you saw on tv. We need more leaders like him teaching our children and less Mr. Beast.
But they are the party of free speech... π
Theyβre worried too many people might have IDs to vote. #libraries #LibrarySky
A drawing of a little hippogriff standing in a library. The caption reads, "focusing on what I love today"
February 14, 1945: POW Kurt Vonnegut survives the fire-bombing of Dresden by British & US planes with other POWs locked in a meat-storage cellar & under a slaughterhouse.
Kurt Vonnegut names librarians as the quiet custodians of democracy.
"So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
So you are saying 41% of those students now have school inflicted trauma and likely PTSD related to those incidents. I have an autistic child who was restrained in a school setting. It has been 3 years and the incident happened once. They fears school administration to this day from the incident.
The Carter Center βThe measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.β
Trump is attempting to eliminate federal funding for libraries.
We need you to take action now at SaveIMLS.org
All while the Institute of Museums and Library services is being destroyed and the economy heading to a recession. What happens when libraries close due to lack of funding?
*Also thanks for the ablism - Audiobooks are reading!
#HandsOff #audiobooksarereading
If you destroy education and access to facts, you keep the masses in line.
#HandsOff
How is protesting Tesla domestic terrorism but attacking the Capitol building is not? π€
If only the Senate would have your back. We keep hearing about it hurting people to shut down the government. But people are hurting now. Funding this regime will make the pain so much worse.
Not to mention the resurgence of other diseases that were controlled by vaccines that were distributed by USAID. Oh, wait, Americans won't have those either if RFK has his way.
This is why the US is now on the Human Rights Watch List!
Elbows Upπ¨π¦π¨π¦
asking for a friend...
Murder She Wrote, tea and three or four books waiting for me on my table. That is my self-care right now. Thank you for reminding us to prioritize ourselves.
I donβt care how you were raised, unlearn that shit.
A conservative writer who has written for publications such as The Federalist and The Daily Wire was arrested on charges of molesting a child under the age of 12.
Not a librarian.
www.mediaite.com/crime/conser...
This! It is the single most expensive digital platform for a public library to offer.
Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries π
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter π§΅
A Sarah Jessica Parker-produced documentary on the brave librarians fighting a wave of rightwing book bans has sparked conversation at Sundance
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
I guess Ohio wasn't alone.
Ultimate parenting = communication by gifs with your teenager.