Watercolour painting of some flowers to brighten up your day! #art #watercolours #painting

I don't believe in magic, but the Crock-Pot is the closest thing we have to it. You throw in meat, veggies, herbs, and some type of liquid, turn it on, and when you come back eight or more hours later, beautiful things happen.

Can you help find this family? Clues probably #RoyalHampshireRegiment known locations #Winchester #Bulford 1947-1949 url-shortener.me/63NT #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #OldPhoto

Painsomnia is a thing. Delayed sleep phase disorder exists. Together, they make life frustrating. Tried to fall asleep for 4 hours. Now it's 3 a.m. and I'm still wide awake and achy. Think I may turn the light on and read for a bit. Won't help with sleep but might help me relax.

I'm quite enjoying the new version of Time Team. The podcast is also excellent listening while driving.

Today's Newfoundland and Labrador art share: "By the Bridge" (2023) 17" X 23" mixed media on paper painting by Reilly Fitzgerald. Original painting available #reillyfitzgerald #newfoundlandart #canadianartist #winter #canadianart #hockey

It's also OK to snag a comfy chair at the library, or a park bench on a sunny summer day..

Personally I just really love reading. But I also adore libraries so go to your library this new year. They have all the books, you can request books and they nearly all have a online service for e books these days. #Libraries2026

In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.

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#NiagaraFalls in the winter is beautiful ❄️ Are you planning a trip there soon?

If people admire you, they put your name on buildings. If you have to do it yourself, well… that’s different.

I was thinking about what gifts people used to give to readers (besides gift editions of famous poets' work and illustrated histories of wars and such), and while I was thinking about it, somebody brought a book to the counter.... (1/10)

It's Christmas Eve Eve! Which means it's Jolobokaflod Christmas book swap Eve! Woohoo! Not long to go... You can open any time tomorrow. Just make sure you have enough time for yourself to read, relax and enjoy 🎄✨🍫📚

*Boing*

Important kitty news! Hooray for three healthy cubs (and a small tear for the one who didn't make it)

Fall colors 🍁🍂 #eastcoastkin #bloomscrolling #photography #leaves #autumn

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MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

We were so impressed by the photographs and memories submitted to our 'Unearthed Edinburgh' competition that we've decided to put a selection on display this month at Central Library. If you can't drop by to see it, you'll find them all on Edinburgh Collected, our community archive zurl.co/rCsTN

Using examples from my family in Scotland, Ireland, and the U.S., I talk about how I used both written records and DNA matches in this video to confirm and expand what I knew about one set of my Irish ancestors. #irishgenealogy #scottishgenealogy #DNA #DNAmatches #genealogy youtu.be/Tfg9YktIzEI

I'd take this class ~ it's so true and so relevant today.

It’s #NationalLibraryWeek, so continuing to share this piece where librarians spoke about the impact of threats to library resources—and how the services, programming, and support libraries provide to communities is essential. I hope you’ll read what they shared:

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The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

Not good! Not good at all!

With all that's going on, the last thing you need is the encyclopedia trying to fool you so we just hope you have a nice day.

And if you love your library, let your congresspeople know that IMLS needs to be reinstated ~ federal funding is what helps libraries do what they do.

She died in binary. That’s dedication. RIP.

In Maine, that "magical" includes ebook access, interlibrary loan, children's literacy programs, talking books for the visually/physically impaired, Internet access at small town libraries, and more ~ for less per year than one Trump golf trip.

Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) covers 1/3- 1/2 of state library agency budgets. Do you know what your state library agency does? Here in RI ours covers programs to ensure our public libraries have online services, interlibrary loan, disaster planning, & data collection. 1/ olis.ri.gov

Reminder that IMLS supports Libby and Interlibrary Loan, so if you like things like rural borrowers having the same access as city residents and immunocompromised people being able to still use their library despite ableds demanding libraries open without masks…time to push back.

Established in 1996, the IMLS provides funding to libraries and museums in every U.S. state and territory—primarily supporting essential but low-profile functions such as database infrastructure and collections management.

Yes, IMLS funds go to supporting ebook access through libraries in many states, so today's move closing IMLS will almost certainly reduce access to Libby, CloudLibrary, Hoopla, and other such services.

They put the entire IMLS staff on leave. One thing the agency does is provide infrastructure or funding for many public libraries and tribal libraries to connect to the internet. In 50 states! It's gonna suck when kids can't do homework, adults can't apply for jobs, and seniors don't get services.

Again, the IMLS is mandated to exist by statutory law.

there are so many amazing things IMLS does. just to take one: more than 50% of public libraries get grants (known as e-rate grants) to help pay for their internet access. more than 50%. what will happen to those libraries now? source for that statistic: www.ala.org/news/2024/07...

IMLS costs taxpayers about 75 cents per person per year, to fund library programs that help everyone: Internet at libraries, children's literacy programs, talking books for the visually/physically disabled, and much more.

IMLS is the primary source of federal support for U.S. libraries and museums. The agency supports them through grants, research and policy development. The agency has about 75 employees. As of fiscal 2024, it had an annual budget of nearly $295 million. #IMLS federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

Friendly reminder that like USAID and USIP, IMLS is authorized by an act of Congress and cannot be dismantled without a subsequent act of Congress directing as such. At least, not in a time of routine constitutional order.

BREAKING: IMLS staff were just placed on admin leave! IMLS is responsible for distributing Federal Funding for libraries. This action will interrupt IMLS's vital, congressionally funded work. Take action today! www.everylibrary.org/statement_im...

IMLS funding provides many services here in Maine for people with disabilities and in towns without libraries on a very shoestring budget. Some IMLS funding also supports the in-state interlibrary loan program.

a primer on IMLS and implications of its closure. www.libraryjournal.com/story/what-h...

Remembering my great-great aunt Fannie, and the 145 other victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on this day 124 years ago. M

The graphical abstract for the paper, A Mathematical Analysis of Mosaic Knitting: Constraints, Combinatorics, and Color-Swapping Symmetries. Lining up the actual knitting parts of the diagram was tricky but super satisfying.

While many Bostonians think of it as city folklore, it was said you could smell molasses during a hot summer day for years afterwards 🟤💀 Map: Atlas of the City of Boston : Boston proper and Back Bay (1917) Images: Digital commonwealth, Boston Globe (1919) #bpl #LMEC #maps #bostonmaps #localhistory