The Public Library Routines Project (PLRP) aims to uncover problematic routines in public libraries and learn their impacts, what staff do to work around them, and how successful are those workarounds
do not trust "moderates" or "centrists". look at what happened in elections in Texas, Arizona, North Carolina. Democrats turning against their voters; Sinema being the worst case.
review their voting records. make them say they're against fascism.
Public library staff in an Alabama town have locked up the library and walked off their jobs after the library's director was fired. The director had refused to remove 113 books with LGBTQ+ content from circulation after being ordered to do so by a library board dominated by right-wing Christian fundamentalists.
To the dad in front of me in the line at the checkout desk at the public library yesterday, getting cards sorted out for his four kids and who kept looking at me like he wanted to apologize for taking so long:
It's all good. I'm happy to see people getting library cards. I'm even happier to see kids excited about getting library cards. Public libraries are super important and four more enthusiastic clients can only be a good thing.
Holy moly, Oslo has a fantastic public library. Beautiful building inside, lots of places to sit and read or work and a huge music collection as well as games
Going to sit and appreciate the miracle that is #PublicLibraries now.
Guess you get a lot for your taxes here huh... #Oslo#Norge#Norway#Library
Ran about with errands and picked up a book from the public library for The Lodger. This golden ticket was in it! He said since I braved the cold, the prize is mine!
I love #publicLibraries . I walked to (one of) mine to pick up held books, of course I
wandered into their book sale & picked up a few more
& then ALSO went up in the stacks and grabbed a couple of other things
& as I'm checking out I'm commenting to the staff person how I wish I had brought a bigger backpack (I'd just brought a mini shoulder bag)
& she says "oh, well you can check out a tote bag! They're right behind you." ❤️
This Wed at San Francisco library's main branch, there's a workshop for teens to learn how to make food from the Native cookbook, "Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations"
San Francisco public library has a digital lab where you can use their equipment to digitize videotapes, cassettes, super 8 video, photos and other things for your personal archives
i think it should be a bigger story that #NYC’s #publicLibraries are now being forced to close on Sundays due to budget cuts while the #NYPD spends 95% of the #Library system’s total budget to get new encrypted radios that prevent people from knowing when the #cops kill people
> The NYPD is spending $390 million on a new, encrypted radio system
After being fired for opposing book censorship, three librarians have filed workplace discrimination claims with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The Salt Lake City Public Library began unionization efforts earlier this year, in hopes of receiving higher pay, better benefits and more transparency
The fact that the main SF library is walking distance from my home is such a huge life upgrade. Almost any book, dvd, CD, even vinyl record I’d like? Put it in my library cart. Check out and hold. I collect them on my way back from work (or to / from the train, or from the farmers market which is kinda all the same thing). It has such a vast collection. I just borrowed a ‘Kodak Basic Developing, Printing, Enlarging in Color’ from 1977. Didn’t even need eBay
For some families, those who don’t have a lot of cash, it’s still the only place they can go to get connected to the internet, to watch a movie, to listen to music.
Hey whoever made the decision to close our central public library branch in Garden Pl at 5:30pm on weekdays - and 5pm on weekends - you might want to keep in mind that...
@Daojoan
> For some families, those who don’t have a lot of cash, it’s still the only place they can go to get connected to the internet, to watch a movie, to listen to music. Growing up, my library was my second home.
All these red states are now boasting about how they are withdrawing from the American Library Association. They aren’t just satisfied with banning books, they want to get rid of the places that keep and lend them, too. The Christian Right is on the march.
Carl Sagan once warned us of the “dumbing down” of America. He warned of a time when our “critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”
That time is upon us. We must do all we can to prevent that darkness from taking hold.
@georgetakei@annietime
State Libraries are incredibly important for public libraries as they provide legislative leadership at both the state and federal level, funneling money to both public and school libraries in their respective states. I am retired now after nearly 40 years in public libraries and am pretty horrified to read that someone like Michael Flynn is now calling librarians “Marxist thugs.” I think that’s very dangerous, the kind of language that incites violence. This is serious shit and I hope ALA’s friends and supporters will speak out. #PublicLibraries#librarians#MarxistThugs#AmericanLibraryAssociation#EmilyDrabinski
West Virginia, USA Legislature: Removing bona fide schools, public libraries, and museums from the list of exemptions from criminal liability relating to distribution and display to minor of obscene matter (www.wvlegislature.gov)
Bill status tracking link: https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4654&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill...