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Required reading for 2026: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
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American Libraries magazine
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Review the biggest library technology news of the past year in our Library Systems Briefing by
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https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2026/05/05/2026-library-systems-briefing/
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2026 Library Systems Briefing | American Libraries Magazine
Technology consultant Marshall Breeding examines the industry's technology disruptions and business transitions.
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2026/05/05/2026-library-systems-briefing/
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Libraries to the People
With today's technology, anyone anywhere can access public library materials without leaving home or office--one simply logs on to the library's website to be exposed to a wealth of information. But o...
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=IqIu_NUdXDgC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=public+library+outreach+&ots=VUWeuHTcVe&sig=m5juicvWf_spFiwoIbb1uwwVVq8#v=onepage&q&f=false
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NPR
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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.
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As America turns 250, one museum makes history possible to touch
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.
https://n.pr/3SOZfOf
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Libraries Database Access
https://research-ebsco-com.du.idm.oclc.org/c/q5iacu/viewer/pdf/2p2mc4klkn?route=details
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Libraries Database Access
https://www-tandfonline-com.du.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1080/01930826.2025.2475703#d1e109
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Disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline
https://www.ala.org/news/2026/03/disrupting-school-prison-pipeline
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Hyperallergic
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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.”
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NPR
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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.
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More Americans survive cancer. But the psychological impacts can persist for years
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.
https://n.pr/43l9ImO
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There’s always a point when I have a break from grad school in which I remember semiotics exist and am sad
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American Library Association
29 days ago
June is
#PrideMonth
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#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:
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Hyperallergic
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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.
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The Private Worlds of Charlotte Brontë and Octavia E. Butler
Behind The Huntington Library’s glass cases, the layers of motherhood, career, friendship, family, and loss are revealed in personal objects.
https://hyperallergic.com/the-private-worlds-of-charlotte-bronte-and-octavia-e-butler/
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Create Your Own Huggable Monstrosity - Jbrary
Learn how to run a teddy bear making workshop with kids that encourages making mistakes, getting hands-on with materials, and having fun.
https://jbrary.com/create-your-own-huggable-monstrosity/
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The Giggles,,, nemesis of the Wiggles
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Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind | TransformHarm.org
There’s an anecdote that Ruth Wilson Gilmore likes to share about being at an environmental-justice conference in Fresno in 2003. People from all over California’s Central Valley had gathered to talk ...
https://transformharm.org/ab_resource/is-prison-necessary-ruth-wilson-gilmore-might-change-your-mind/
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Prisoners Pay to Read | American Libraries Magazine
ALA, the Appalachian Prison Book Project, and other groups are opposed to the rise of companies that charge incarcerated people fees to read free books on prison tablets and e-readers.
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/prisoners-pay-to-read-prison-tablets/
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Josephine Riesman
2 months ago
this is fucking nuts:
add a skeleton here at some point
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Art History Animalia
2 months ago
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
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Libraries and the Academy:
du.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fu...
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https://du.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?context=PC&vid=01UODE_INST:01UODE_MAIN&search_scope=CentralIndex&tab=CentralIndex&docid=cdi_crossref_primary_10_1353_pla_2015_0001
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Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jails_immigration.html
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freedomreads.org
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Freedom Reads
Freedom Reads brings beautiful, handcrafted bookcases into prisons, transforming cellblocks into Freedom Libraries and confronting what prison does to the spirit.
https://freedomreads.org/
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https://www.ala.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/Investing_in_Prison_Libraries_06_2025.pdf
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Creating Your Collection Development Policy (CDP): Things to Consider
American Library Association (ALA). “Challenge Reporting.” Tools, Publications & Resources, 3 Nov. 2021, https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/report.
https://www.maschoolibraries.org/newsletter/creating-your-collection-development-policy-cdp-things-to-consider
3 months ago
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Medieval Military Medicine
3 months ago
Here for Easter, the magnificent Rabbit Fish - 14th century, British Library, Add. MS 11390, f. 59r
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Every library employee I’ve ever met has been kind and welcoming, but this was in my head today:
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Lisa at the Public Library (Summer of 4 ft 2)
YouTube video by MrG0dbar
https://youtu.be/QVo_XnB4Bs0
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Keeping Up With... Microaggressions
This edition of Keeping Up With… was written by Tarica LaBossiere and Abby Deese. Tarica LaBossiere is an Assistant Public Defender at the Broward County Office of the Public Defender and an active me...
https://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/microaggressions
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Correctional service cutting librarians at federal prisons, in move criticized by advocates | CBC News
The Correctional Service of Canada is finalizing plans to cut all prison librarian positions at federal institutions, in a move that advocates say violates human rights and will actively harm efforts ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/prison-librarians-eliminated-correctional-service-canada-9.7123335
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Cassiopeia being beautiful in front of the portrait I painted for her
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Reimagining the Public Library to Reconnect the Community | Shamichael Hallman | TEDxMemphis
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI2CLgq3LLk
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Toward slow archives
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Toward slow archives
Download Citation | Toward slow archives | This article examines the structures, practices, and processes of collection, cataloging, and curation to expose where current cultural authority... | Find, ...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333627572_Toward_slow_archives
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Family at Dilley ICE center details moldy food, medical neglect
The family, including the mother and her five children, detail in letters what they describe as neglectful medical care, inedible food and a disregard for their religious accommodations. They’ve been ...
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/11/el-gamal-texas-egyptian-family-dilley-health-care-food-ice-detention-letters-children/
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es tiempo…. ¡para una siesta!
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Touches across time: queer as provenance Elliot Freeman
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(PDF) Touches across time: queer as provenance
PDF | Carolyn Dinshaw describes her queer historical practice as being about looking for “an affective connection, for community, for even a touch... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383493142_Touches_across_time_queer_as_provenance
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Required reading for 2026: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
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Helping people, changing lives: 3 health benefits of volunteering
www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-hea...
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https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/3-health-benefits-of-volunteering
4 months ago
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American Library Association
4 months ago
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
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Required reading for 2026: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
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should maybe not send emails when I have motion sickness
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creativelibrarypractice.org/2025/06/24/m...
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Making Room for Everyone: A Practical Guide to Creating Sensory Spaces in Libraries
Jacqueline L. Frank, Instruction & Accessibility Librarian, Montana State University Library Jennifer Pawlak, Research & Instruction Librarian, Montana State University Library Abstract Off…
https://creativelibrarypractice.org/2025/06/24/making-room-for-everyone/
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Why don’t archivists digitize everything?
Today on the blog we’re tackling one of our most frequently asked questions: “Why don’t you digitize everything?” and its related runner-up, “When will you be putting all your records o…
https://peelarchivesblog.com/2017/05/31/why-dont-archivists-digitize-everything/
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Angela Davis and Toni Morrison Literacy, Libraries and Liberation
YouTube video by The Revolutionary / Visionary
https://youtu.be/zLR_TcGHzRU?si=k24tXPBnkbaHXNW0
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Stanford Scientists Cure Type 1 Diabetes in Mice Without Insulin or Immune Suppression
An “immune system reset” eliminated autoimmune, or Type 1, diabetes in mice in a study conducted at Stanford Medicine. Researchers say the strategy could also have potential for treating other autoimm...
https://scitechdaily.com/stanford-scientists-cure-type-1-diabetes-in-mice-without-insulin-or-immune-suppression/
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Dr Ross Barnett
4 months ago
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'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland
The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v0ev05mdjo
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sweetie π
4 months ago
*looking at the almost empty container* i am now more peanut butter filled pretzels than woman
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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
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Hyperallergic
5 months ago
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.
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Accessibility Should Be at the Center of Museum Education
Art history departments often fail to embed disability studies into their curricula when engaging with art, politics, and identity.
https://hyperallergic.com/accessibility-should-be-at-the-center-of-museum-education/
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TEACHing from a Distance and Copyright Considerations | Copyright
The following is a guest post by David Welkowitz, attorney-advisor in the Office of the General Counsel. As the spread of COVID-19 causes schools—particularly colleges and universities—to switch to di...
https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2020/03/teaching-from-a-distance-and-copyright-considerations/
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD
5 months ago
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.
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Hyperallergic
5 months ago
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.
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Why Are We Paying for the Privilege of Rejection?
Application fees are one of the least examined but most pervasive forms of class stratification in the arts.
https://hyperallergic.com/why-are-we-paying-for-the-privilege-of-rejection/
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Once Upon a Prom | Programming Librarian
Each year, we collect prom dress donations (from patrons and boutiques), and on three Saturdays in the spring, we put out racks of dresses for students in grades 11 and 12 to come in and “shop” from, ...
https://programminglibrarian.org/programs/once-upon-prom
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