No, not yet. Appropriations process for agencies like IMLS is completely separate from big murder bill that just passed. For IMLS specifically, we'd learn more during the week of July 21 for the House's proposed LHHSE appropriations (which sets IMLS budget) appropriations.house.gov/schedule

Oh, this is interesting: somebody found that one of the imaginary titles on the "AI"-generated summer reading list had a Google snippet that cited (and obviously mangled) a library catalog. If libraries share metadata with you at scale, least you can do is get it right, Google.

The earthquake in the southeast U.S. just now rated zero eyed opened on the Hecate Scale #proofofcat

Checkup day #caturday #proofofcat

I have a colleague (not on social media) who likes to say that works don't *fall* into the public domain, they *ascend* into the public domain. I really love that.

Are you using free Bitly short links? Congratulations, your post & publications are now advertising hoardings who who knows what sites and services.

I’ve unfortunately needed to add more material to my post from yesterday. The re-election of Donald Trump is looking like the biggest act of American self-destruction since the Civil War. Same link, new title and some updates.

Derek Lowe: Whats Happening Inside the NIH and NSF www.science.org/content/blog...

Two of the community cats in my neighborhood appear to be buddies.

Introducing some patch reviewers^W judgers for the Evergreen Conference Hackfest today. #evgils24

Tuna (the tabby) insisted that Lucifer (the void) provide grooming services.

Caturday judgment

Caturday stairwarden

On Caturday we get kitty-pinned

How to translate this feline sigil? Wrong answers only. #EternalCaturday

Caturday border negotiations

Hecate and Luna patiently waiting for the advent of the Caturday hashtag

First big fork in open source for libraries in a while: Project ReShare's announcement: projectreshare.org/2023/08/09/r... OpenRS's announcement: openlibraryfoundation.org/newsroom/new...

One consequence of the current crop of book-banners are a lot of batch updates to deactivate library cards for minors. This (at the moment) mostly affects Missouri public libraries due to new rules around parental consent. However, I can imagine it getting worse for library software: 1/n

Hello, world. Have a cat picture!