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a close up of a young boy 's face with a sad look on his face . Alt: a close up of a young boy 's face with a sad look on his face .

I was just appointed on the ODLOS Advisory Committee for this year so that kind of sucks for me but ya know... we do what we gotta do #ALACouncil

Discontinue Office for Diversity, Outreach, Literacy, Advisory Committee (relocate core committees to Committee on Diversity)

Discontinue Public and Cultural Programs Advisory Committee

Change composition of Policy Monitoring Committee from 11 to 5 members

Motions 1-10 Pass #ALACouncil

Merge Committee on Professional Ethics and Intellectual Freedom Committee

Merging Leadership Development Committee and the Council Engagement and Training Committee

Merge Publishing Committee and American Libraries Advisory Committee

#ALACouncil

1st vote Committee on Organization's 10 motions to discontinue, merge, etc. various committees. These include:

Change everything about the Budget Analysis and Review Committee into a Finance Committee.

Move Committee on Status of Women in Librarianship under Committee on Diversity. #ALACouncil

Today's the first Winter #ALACouncil Meeting! I will try to post updates as we move through business. Not only does it help me process/remember what's happening I hope it's engaging for those who can't tune in live.

I pray I’m NEVER, in this lifetime or the next, someone who could serve in a high level leadership role and be too cowardly to stand behind the decisions I make.

Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo 🙏🏾

Obsessed With Stranger Things Season 5? You’re Missing Half the Story Without This Comic Discover the true meaning of family and friendship in this pulse-pounding comic book saga

Obsessed with Stranger Things season 5? @screenrant.bsky.social suggests picking up #StrangerThings and Dungeons & Dragons: Rise of Hellfire, especially if you're missing a certain character. Details: https://bit.ly/4oWzara

I’m glad that students now know what staff have lived with for months now. The last couple weeks have been so deeply sad. Receiving farewell emails from colleagues last week was devastating.

*blocked

It's giving

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The university is so bad at letting us know a staff or faculty member has passed away. The man been here 25 years! I should’ve had email in my inbox today at 8am.

Text from Publishers Marketplace, above: Area X by Jeff VanderMeer Imprint: Abrams. Jeff VanderMeer's Area X: The Southern Reach Files, an expansion of the Area X story by way of a hidden metal box full of secret images and documents, purporting to be the last report of a Central agent; a full-color book spanning the 30 years of Southern Reach expeditions, reaching into the past and the future, pitched for Area X completists while adding to the narrative begun with the first four novels, to Michael Sands at Abrams in an exclusive submission, by Joseph Veltre at Gersh Agency and attorney Alex Kohner (world). Text submitted to Publishers Marketplace: An epic and mind-blowing expansion of the Area X story by way of a hidden metal box full of secret images and documents purporting to be the last report of the Central agent Karen Hargraves. Spanning the 30 years of Southern Reach expeditions, reaching into the past and the future, this full-color book will satisfy Area X completists while adding to the narrative begun with the first four novels, to Michael Sand at Abrams, in an exclusive submission, by Joseph Veltre at Gersh Agency and attorney Alex Kohner (world).

Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?

Columbia sister school Barnard College lays off dozens of employees weeks after antisemitism suit settlement The layoffs come on the heels of Barnard settling settle a lawsuit brought by Jewish students claiming the Columbia-affiliated school failed to properly address campus antisemitism.

"Barnard College has made a “painful” announcement that it will lay off nearly 80 full-time employees as part of a “college-wide staff restructuring,” school officials said." - NY Post

Note the quotation marks around the word "painful." Are they questioning the suffering of the school officials? 😆

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The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched

"...the culprit is a content‑filtering layer imposed by Azure OpenAI, the service that underpins Summon Research Assistant and its Primo cousin." 📚 aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

Same! I’ve also never submitted an article or paper anywhere before so all of this is new to me too!

Considering submitting which meant reading that privacy of thought article in its entirety and taking notes. It exhausted me. I still have so many pages left 😭

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

Some great resources here from @injusticewatch.org. We have come to rely on their judicial guides. Now they have other helpful resources all in one place—including a guide to immigration court that you can republish for free.

Flyer for International Zine Month, featuring something to do every day of the month in July. INTERNATIONAL ZINE MONTH 31 PROMPTS FOR 31 DAYS (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER) JULY 2025 #IZM2025. 1- Make a 1 page zine! Don't know what to write about? Make it a zine about why you like zines! 2-Zine Rewind! Dig out your favorite zines and share them!. 3-Look up local or virtual zine event or maybe even dream about starting your own! 4 - AmeriZINE Day! Explore marginalized voices in the Americas. Support zines written by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) 5-Free Zines! Post a PDF online or leave copies of your zine in public for other people to enjoy! 6- Zine Pride! Support zines created by LGBTQIA creators. Don't know where to start? Check out the Queer Zine Archive Project! (QZAP.org) 7-International Zines! Explore zines from a country different from your own! 8 Zine Trade Day! Ask someone to trade zines with you. 9-New Skill Day! Learn a new zine skill like folding, binding, duplicating, or Layout!! 10 Write a review of a movie, album, book or podcast to add to your next zine. 11- Write a letter or a short note to a zinester you admire. 12-Zine Wiki Day! Add or update listings to Zine Wiki. Support community powered Information at zinewiki.com 13-Zine Meme! Make a zine-themed meme from an online meme template. 14 - ValenZINES Day! Write a valentine to zines and share why you love them! 15-Zine Cuisine! Cook from a recipe found in a zinc and share the results 16-Zine Distro Appreciation! Order some zines from a zine distro online and share with people about your favorite zine distros. 17-Zine Collab! Ask a friend if they would like to collaborate on a zine with you. 18- From Trash to Treasure! Use recycled or scrap materials to make a sine or embellish one. 19-Variety is the spice of life! Read zines outside your usual taste-like comics, art zines, how-to guides, or perzines!] 20-Zines of the Future! Explore zines by youth or introduce the you…

July 21st is Zine Library Day, one of the celebrations happening during International Zine Month! #IZM2025 #zines

Ways to celebrate:
*visit your local zine library
*check out an online zine library
*donate $ or zines to a zine library
*bring your closest zine librarian a delicious treat 🍩

Reproductive Coercion Is State Abuse, Argues Kylie Cheung "Pregnancy has increasingly become a weapon to be wielded against domestic violence victims—and those who help them."

"Pregnancy has increasingly become a weapon to be wielded against domestic violence victims—and those who help them."

Read an excerpt from journalist @kylietcheung.bsky.social's new book on reproductive coercion:

It actually got nearly 600 views in May so it was overshadowed for me specifically I guess lol. Link: crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

Really phenomenal guidelines if you want to include accessibility information related to library spaces and services on the library website, as well as within collection development policies related to e-resources.

The ridiculousness of that one article in CRL for May 2025 overshadowed this excellent article in the same issue “Assessing the State of Publicly Available Library Accessibility Information: Guidelines Based on a Review of Policies at SUNY Libraries”. #Skybrarians #AcademicLibraries

This is exactly the book I wrote (with amazing art by @littledozerbaby.bsky.social and lettering by @micahmyers.bsky.social )
Every single one of these types is in here, and it's very much based on shenanigans I've seen while playing.

Now imagine dealing with two sets of awful parents plus the house you rented for the weekend is haunted 😂

Movie poster for The Parenting featuring all characters posing for a family photo. A small dog has glowing red eyes and a ghost figure is outlined in the window behind them all.

If you like horror comedies + queer representation you have to watch The Parenting on HBO Max. I’ve been cackling this entire movie 😂

When I met Ryan Coogler several years ago, we were standing in a group of people chatting, when a woman with visible hearing aids walked up, and he casually began to sign the whole conversation so she could participate. She mouthed “thank you”. He nodded and just kept doing his thing.

What Gives Carla Hayden Hope | American Libraries Magazine The former Librarian of Congress talked with author Kwame Alexander at ALA's Annual Conference and Exhibition in Philadelphia on June 28.

#ALAAC25 It was an honor to celebrate Dr. Carla Hayden at ALA Annual—a visionary who has shown us, time and again, what it means to lead with wisdom, purpose, and grace. Learn "What Gives Carla Hayden Hope" at American Libraries. bit.ly/4eskLzf