Thanks @religionprof.bsky.social I hadn’t heard of this one

Lots of my fellow Unitarian Universalists are already a part of this. Makes me proud 📚

Now THIS is how you promote databases (from Tulane Libraries) 📚🔥 www.instagram.com/reel/DQuIikI...

Texas Episcopal diocese says one of its priests has been detained by ICE @sightmagazine.bsky.social #EpiscopalDioceseofTexas #EpiscopalChurch #USimmigrationraids #migrants #BishopCAndrewDoyle #ICE sightmagazine.com.au/news/texas-e...

Very important news to local history authors and historical societies: slate.com/technology/2... 📚📜🗃️

📚 I tried to contact someone, anyone, at Amazon Library Services. It did not go well.

Brilliant interview with @colincutlermusic.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/interviews/m...

The U.S. is experiencing its highest wave of layoffs since 2020, with close to a million workers losing their jobs this year.

He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house. Remove him from office.

The monthly Digital Library Federation Committee on #equity and #inclusion mtg is a welcoming space to discuss supporting #libraries, #DEIA work, and each other in this challenging time. DM me for details about the next mtg on Oct 27. #DLF @clirnews.bsky.social wiki.diglib.org/Committee_fo...

New K-5 curriculum on disinfo is now live online for free! To learn all the best tricks about how to use it, join us Oct 27, 10:00-11:30 ET. Spread the word to the K-5 librarians & teachers you know! Everybody welcome. See ALT text for more detail. To Register: tinyurl.com/MLWevent. 🍎 #SSChat 📚

In 2025, we are losing our measles-free status, just 25 years after we eliminated measles from the US because of vaccines. It’s not because our sanitation systems have been eliminated. It’s because people aren’t getting vaccinated. 1/

Coherent launches major archive of rare African magazines largely unknown among scholars 📚 librarytechnology.org/pr/31765

Many of us grew up in the church being taught to root for Moses, Daniel, and John the Baptist in the Bible, only to grow up and have our churches question our faith for not cheering on the Pharaohs, Nebuchadnezzars, and Herods in our world today.

RIFed: Office of Science - CDC Library They have helped SO many of us with their expertise & guidance so we can do efficient & quick research. You don’t need us toiling in Pubmed for days at a time during an outbreak. The library helps us get what we need quickly so we can continue our work.

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

Help us investigate book bans across the USA. 404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S. 🔗 www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Official news now www.shawlocal.com/daily-journa...

Well this is supremely messed up 📜 📚

So let me be very clear: there was a massive rash of bomb threats at universities nationwide this week. ELEVEN of them specifically called out the university or college libraries.

According to historian @theotherrbg.bsky.social, FDR’s labor secretary saved tens of thousands of refugees from the Nazis—and narrowly avoided impeachment. Charles Hoffacker reviews Dear Miss Perkins: www.christiancentury.org/books/when-f...

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days. We do not have to keep living like this.

Exceptional news, library folks. 📚

Today I keep remembering a visit with a good friend in Portland some years ago. We saw some hats for sale, & I pointed out the ones with a peace sign. He explained that would be redundant, because "we're all pacifists up here." #portland

I already feel it with the tariffs…

What do you do after losing thousands of subscribers? Raise your prices, of course. Disney+ with ads is increasing from $9.99 to $11.99, while the ad-free version is going from $15.99 to $18.99. Hulu with ads will rise from $9.99 to $11.99 on October 21.

Whether or not you use the label "filter bubble," this is a reality that is so important for students to understand. It's why, if we value democracy, we need to help them develop the habit of looking at multiple DIVERSE sources. #MediaLiteracy #InfoLit #DigitalLiteracy #EdTech #SchoolLibrarians 🍎📚

I wrote about being laid off and trying to ascribe some kind of meaning to 10% staffing cuts at my library. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/09/12/l...

I need you to understand something. The thing I need you to understand is that librarians like these are heroes. They've been slandered. They've been libeled. They've been threatened. They've been put in harm's way. And they keep fighting. 📚

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

“I can’t stomach Trump. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” JD Vance

Science is real

Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."

Very happy to read about these young, principled, and interesting librarians working in various places in Philadelphia 📚 www.phillymag.com/news/2025/08...

Portugal’s president gets it, branding Trump a “Russian asset,” and blasting him for his tepid response to Moscow. “The supreme leader of the world’s greatest superpower is, objectively, a Soviet, or Russian, asset. He functions as an asset.” www.thedailybeast.com/portuguese-p...

In Atlanta, staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered to applaud colleagues who resigned following the firing of Director Susan Monarez. With four top officials stepping down, many now feel that the CDC is effectively finished.

If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.

Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.

I grew up in this neck o' the woods, just an hour from Mobile & Daphne #Alabama How it started: www.al.com/politics/202... How it's going: www.al.com/politics/202...

It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired."

Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.