Applications for The Lyrasis Catalyst Fund are now open! Info webinars: Jan 20 (3 p.m. EST) + Jan 22 (10 a.m. EST). Get clarity on process, guidelines + proposal tips. Optional draft reviews available as well! Learn more at https://ow.ly/BwJL50XSE8G. #GrantApplications #FundingOpportunities

Join us for the Lyrasis Annual Summit! We are excited to invite members of the libraries, archives and museums community to our FREE virtual event on February 12 from 2 - 3:30 p.m. EST. Register now and secure your spot! https://ow.ly/Xtlb50Y1Nn6

Georgia Senate Bill 74 has risen from its slumber and a new version has been filed. Please consider contacting your GA state senator to let them know this legislation is catastrophic for libraries. Learn more here: app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag...

📚 We will be at the Georgia Library Conference from Oct 8 -10! Can’t wait to connect with library leaders, share ideas and explore new innovations shaping our field. #LibraryTech #GLC2025 #LibrariesLead

BINGO! Who said that learning about book bans had to be boring? Try your hand at Banned Book Bingo with this card full of frequently challenged books. How many titles have you read? #BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 #readbannedbooks #skybrarian #booksky

Curious about The Palace Project and how it empowers libraries? Join us on July 23rd at 2 p.m. for a live demonstration of the app and learn how Palace allows patrons to effortlessly access more of their library's digital collections. 📚📱 Register now at bit.ly/3GqYNQI #skybrarian #thepalaceproject

We'll see you soon! Stop by our booth to say hello! 📚❤️

I appreciate @rrchnm.bsky.social sharing about their terminated NEH grants like this. This is having a huge impact on important historical initiatives.

A good list of climate books to have in your library! 📚 www.climatementalhealth.net/_files/ugd/d...

ECDS is proud to launch our new training website! Explore tailored modules and self-paced learning paths to learn new skills for your research and career development. Check out the site at training.ecds.emory.edu or stop by the Emory University Woodruff Library (3rd floor).

From ebook access to story times, computer classes to outreach programs, libraries serve as community hubs for people from all walks of life. This #NationalLibraryWeek we're asking you to show your library love by standing with libraries. Here are a few ways to get started! #NLW2025 #skybrarian

IMLS Matters. Read the stories (reload gets a new story). imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/ Tell your story. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... From @thomaspadilla.bsky.social at Author's Alliance. #SaveIMLS

SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source. They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).

NEW: Senator @reed.senate.gov & others sent a letter to the interim director of IMLS affirming the agency's statutory requirements, including library funding. IMLS *must* deliver on its central mission. These programs & funds are NOT optional. Read the letter: www.reed.senate.gov/news/release...

Lyrasis' CEO, John P. Wilkin, has released a Statement on the Executive Order to Eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Read the full statement here, ow.ly/Ggjb50VokuY.

Attention Georgians!! We need your help. app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag...

New in @theguardian.com from the President of @ala-acrl.bsky.social: "Cutting [federal library] funding is more than just budget trimming. It means dismantling essential community infrastructure." Read President Lo's full article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries

DPLA is looking for a part-time engagement coordinator pro.dp.la/about-dpla-p...

👋 I’m an OK HS teacher getting ready for teacher appreciation week. We don’t have an active PTA/PTO so I’m helping. We have 150 teachers and we are trying to make RT Beer Floats and need 13 12 packs. Can you help with a pack or 2? Any help or shares are appreciated! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

You know where you can go and not worry about breaking the economic blackout today? Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!

We've reached "arrest the librarians" level of authoritarianism. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Browse Lyrasis Learning March classes at ow.ly/29Ru50V0bKy! Connect with professionals in your field and learn something new 📖 #LyrasisLearning #ProfessionalDevelopment

36% of all banned books contain a character or a real person of color. But sure, this is about protecting the children. people.com/sex-claims-e...

Lyrasis Catalyst Fund application closes this week 🗓️. Get those applications in before February 26! #FundYourProject #Lyrasis #libraries @thepalaceproject.bsky.social

All of these books are available for anyone who lost their libraries in the Los Angeles wildfires! We are at DYM Books & Boba in Pasadena until 5 today and back from 10-5 tomorrow. Come on down! Thank you to all of our amazing donors for making this possible. ❤️‍🩹📚

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves. For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender. A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984. www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...

National Archives Acting Head Resigns/Retires as Trump Takes Control of Records www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Here @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social we are running a project called 'The Algorithimic Archive', funded by the Mellon Foundation on the challenges & needs for archiving social media data. We need your help- if you use such data can you help us with this survey? forms.office.com/pages/respon...

📜 2025 Georgia Legislation Alert: A new bill targeting librarians has been introduced. View the full text, sponsor details, and contact info here: bit.ly/GASB74. 2/2

The Lyrasis Catalyst Fund application closes on 2/26. Investing in Our Members, funding projects, and supporting your communities! #LibraryFunding #MemberInvestment #ProjectFunding @thepalaceproject.bsky.social

ABC News reported Marco Rubio has been acting as head of the National Archives for weeks. This is news to everyone at the National Archives, including, apparently, the current head of NARA: www.404media.co/national-arc...

I am so overwhelmed with gratitude for all of you! Over the past week, I have picked up six full hampers of boxes of books at the post office. I spent this weekend organizing and making deliveries all over the Altadena/Pasadena area where families and teachers have relocated.

Calling all K-12 school librarians! Apply for the 2025 Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award recognizing outstanding humanities programming. Deadline is May 1. bit.ly/4gnl11P #skybrarians #TLSky

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

NEW: Take action against the Trump Administration's federal funding freeze by sharing your library story. How would a federal funding pause impact your library & community? Share your story with ALA as we work to inform elected officials & decision-makers on this issue: airtable.com/appTIEEt9RjD...

Did you know that The Palace Project app provides free banned books for anyone in the US? Just download the Palace app, add the Banned Books Club as your library, make a free card, and then read on!! See the thepalaceproject.org for more information. 📚 #booksky

Do you need some Girl Scout cookies? digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/rianna...

Can You Read This Cursive Handwriting? The National Archives Wants Your Help 📃 📜 Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives’ digital catalog more accessible bit.ly/42ugZBA

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

Canadian libraries, we're coming to you! We're so excited to attend the OLA Super Conference for the first time! Stop by booth 102T to say hello. 👋📚📱

Did you know that The Palace Project app provides free banned books for anyone in the US? Just download the Palace app, add the Banned Books Club as your library, make a free card, and then read on!! See the thepalaceproject.org for more information. 📚 #booksky

With all the ramped up fear around DEI dissolution, seems like a good time to remind #librarians & #LibraryWorkers about the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Merritt Fund. If you face joblessness due to discrimination, the Merritt fund is here to help financially. #library www.ala.org/aboutala/aff...

The Lyrasis Catalyst Fund is open! Want to know more about the program and the application process? Review recordings of our recent webinars at lyrasis.org/catalyst.... #libraries #archives #museums @thepalaceproject.bsky.social