I reposted a list of what's coming up for Public Domain Day 2026 but it's always good to keep creators of how much new content they can remix, repurpose, and reuse to their hearts' content!

So many good lines in this letter: A recent review of the excellent documentary “The Librarians” quotes President Dwight Eisenhower: “Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book ...” +

Very true poomang.com/en/t/mycolor...

Missouri court strikes down 2022 law that pulled library books off shelves missouriindependent.com/2025/11/18/m...

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

The CDC Library plays an important role in providing our public health professionals with access to the best information. Without them, CDC employees will lose access to information and resources in an outbreak. bit.ly/4qaDIMi via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs 📚💙

I mean the writing was on the wall but I'm still kinda shocked by this - Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Because reasons here's Bad Bunny's Tiny Desk Concert - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuP...

Quick Reader Vent: Couldn't sleep the other night so read a book I had gotten from KU and really liked it. Did a search today on reddit to see what other people thought and what I should read next and discovered the author is problematic and now I feel gross for liking the book so much. 💙📚

"The consequences are that AI slop is entering libraries, everyone who uses AI products bears at least a little responsibility for the swarm, and every library worker, regardless of role, is being asked to try and mitigate the effects." 💙📚

Hey #booksky I could your help. I'm doing a reading challenge this year to read books by or about Puerto Ricans and I need book recommendations for Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery, and Horror (not too scary on the horror please). 💙📚

The body of 21-year-old Demartravion "Trey" Reed was found on September 15. The family is calling for an independent autopsy. Read more:

It's a fair question though I think she needs to turn that question to some of her fellow judges.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Missed previous years or want to revisit the great talks of #VirtualJaneCon? They are all available on YouTube! www.youtube.com/hashtag/virt.... You can see my presentation, Merchandising Jane, youtu.be/b013KsmrFCo here!

Watched the reading of the names with my mom. She watches every year as she watched live that day. It had been less than a year after my dad passed, mom tried to make those next birthdays special and had taken the day off for my brother’s birthday.

This one I care about. The other one with that guy who I can't tell from any of the other guys who are just like that guy, yeah, not so much.

“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.” -Charlie Kirk newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-s…

Protect the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program The administration is threatening to upend the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.

are the gop trying to wipe out all life

My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from! The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI

you gotta respect a man committed to doing the hell out of his job

"Bullying promptfondlers and botlickers is a socially acceptable, and required, practice now." On AI Slop, consumer backlash, credit where due, that newsletter platform, and adults reading comics.

having thought about this for three days, my current status is: what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.

First day back at work after 2 weeks on vacation. I'm still on Alaska time so I'm running on less sleep than I really need to function. Wish me luck and send all the good vibes!

Went to get my mamo today and had to get a ultra sound too, that tech asked what I did I told her I was a librarian and today I got the wow surprised libraries haven't been made obsolete by technology. I'll be honest I haven't gotten that one in awhile.

Substack is a Nazi bar. So many alternatives that are easy to transition to. Please stop using Substack.

I wrote this on a similar subject a few years ago: teenlibrarian.co.uk/2020/08/21/t...

Researching the phenomenon of nice white lady culture and how it’s a bedrock of white supremacy and you know what profession is chock full of nice white ladies???? LIBRARIANSHIP! And I swear to god nice lady librarians are the worst type of nice white lady.

Nobody is “forcing” you to check out books you don’t want to read at a library. But people are forcing libraries to keep you from checking out books.

A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity.

Look I'm happy the vendors from ALA are reaching out but why with the phone calls...I don't sound like I know what I'm talking about on the phone.

crap

Book bans are getting weirder, targeting cats, dogs and civic-minded grandmas Seeking to ban books like “Bathe the Cat” has less to do with morality than it does with a yearning for control 💙📚

Gritty's a librarian now thx. #ALAAC25

Prison libraries are some of the most vulnerable to loss of funding

"Nothing beats a well-researched and well-written book on a topic you want to learn more about." Four Steps to Becoming an Informed AI Skeptic.

Happy “14 years older than Stephen Miller” Birthday to the talented and handsome John Cho

I just wrote 'Little Thoughts About ... Issue #28'. buttondown.com/littlethough...

Let me tell you what I think this judge can do with this ruling....

Wow, 2025 is a blur already! We're now up to the Summer schedule for virtual Austen and Brontë events. open.substack.com/pub/excessiv... #WriterSky #BookSky #Romancelandia

On Jan 6, he stood behind the scenes and cheered on the white insurrectionists Now he’s calling in the National Guard against the brown people This isn’t about Law and Order

The Trump Administration’s Next Big Target Is ... a Library on the Canada-U.S. Border? Canadians used to be able to cross the U.S. line to stop in. Kristi Noem and her harpies weren’t too happy about that.

Great episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

We now have the details of the federal 2026 budget proposal, and it spells the end of IMLS. The request is $6,000,000 to "conduct an orderly closeout of IMLS." Whatever happens in the 2 court cases would be moot if this passes. bookriot.com/the-2026-fed...

Two days of NJLA and I’ve networked, learned and people’s and I’m drained! But I did get a new tattoo, and some cute earrings.

The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.