Review the biggest library technology news of the past year in our Library Systems Briefing by @mbreeding.bsky.social. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2026/05/05/2026-library-systems-briefing/

Federal law requires most museums and other buildings to be accessible to people with disabilities. But access to what's actually inside is often still limited. n.pr/3SOZfOf

The artist says “How people are perceiving me is not my business,” the performance artist and model told Hyperallergic. “What I can do to make the world a better place is my business.” hyperallergic.com/arewa-basit-...

Due to advancements in treatment and screening, more Americans are surviving cancer. But many are left with lingering mental health challenges like anxiety and depression.

There’s always a point when I have a break from grad school in which I remember semiotics exist and am sad

June is #PrideMonth, and it's also #RainbowBookMonth - a nationwide celebration of the authors and writings that reflect the lives of the LGBTQIA+ community. Find lists of award-winning LGBTQIA+ books, tools for libraries, and graphics to help spread the word: https://bit.ly/4kKOkOg.

The Huntington Library’s exhibition “Stories from the Library: From Brontë to Butler” explores the inner lives of important women writers through their personal effects—diving into “the layers of motherhood, career, friendship, family, and loss…revealed in personal objects,” says Hannah Benson.

The Giggles,,, nemesis of the Wiggles

this is fucking nuts:

Happy International #BatAppreciationDay 🦇! Takahashi Bihō (Japan, b.1873) #Bat and Moon, c. 1928–30 Woodblock print (shin hanga / kachō-e), ink & color on paper Sheet 10 3/4 x 11 3/16 in. (27.3 x 28.4 cm) MIA P.77.28.46 collections.artsmia.org/art/91665/ba... #JapaneseArt

Libraries and the Academy: du.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fu...

Here for Easter, the magnificent Rabbit Fish - 14th century, British Library, Add. MS 11390, f. 59r

Every library employee I’ve ever met has been kind and welcoming, but this was in my head today: youtu.be/QVo_XnB4Bs0

Cassiopeia being beautiful in front of the portrait I painted for her

Toward slow archives www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Touches across time: queer as provenance Elliot Freeman www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Required reading for 2026: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Helping people, changing lives: 3 health benefits of volunteering www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-hea...

Bibliotherapy can help librarians support both their communities and themselves. Judit H. Ward and Nicholas A. Allred share ideas, examples, and best practices for bibliotherapy-inspired initiatives that empower librarians to promote well-being. https://bit.ly/4c6JpX3

Required reading for 2026: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

should maybe not send emails when I have motion sickness

*looking at the almost empty container* i am now more peanut butter filled pretzels than woman

Old Reading Rainbow episodes SHOULD be as relaxing as Levar Burton reads, but I have vague memories of being an anxious kiddo and worrying about germs making Levar Burton sick or whatever that I can’t get rid of

Other departments in art museums are starting to catch up to the work that access teams have been doing for decades, and these programs deserve to be appreciated and centered as part of museum worker education.

I'm not as interested in the accuracy as much I am interested in the direction the AI chooses to go when it gets things wrong. That's the tell. It's no coincidence that the AI chose to go in the direction that has me placing a white woman in a pioneering position of making people of color visible.

The existence of application fees for open calls reveals something deeper than cost. They expose how the art world has come to understand access as something artists should pay for in advance.