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www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the... 🎯🎯🎯

Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning. - Samuel Beckett

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. 📚

While researching libertarian radicals of the mid-19th c., I came across this incredible project that maps the historical geography of social movements in the US from 19-21st c depts.washington.edu/moves/index.... What a fantastic resource!

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

Stunning

It's been a while, so thought we should repost the Rare Books feed. Its algorithm captures Bluesky posts about rare books, special collections, first editions, signed books, etc. Take a break from the Discover feed and indulge your bibliophilia! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Fantastic! Can't wait to read the book! 📚

A little good news re NEH grants, thanks to @oregonhumanities.org.

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Excited to be a part of this! Join us #dh2025 in 2026! And thank you to @javiercha.bsky.social for the invitation!

Fantastic addition!

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"One of the features of empires is that they’re made to feel inevitable. [But] throughout history every single empire has fallen…as much as they seem strong, they’re very weak at their foundations because they are built off of extraction and exploitation." - Karen Hao

A project worth celebrating: www.unr.edu/nevada-today...

Tobias Carroll on the June titles in translation you won't want to miss, from Peru, Tanzania, Tibet, and more. Read the June Watchlist:

Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.

Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of Full-Time Faculty Members at 3,300 Institutions chroni.cl/43IKe3K

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Stunning summer vibes

I wish this resource had been available to us when we were working on the Collections as Data grant from Mellon. We went with images as data because the prep work on textual assets was so daunting. 👏👏👏 to everyone @institutionaldatainitiative.org that made this happen!!

Fantastic presentation from @richove.bsky.social on stewarding knowledge as part of @rluk.ac.uk Digital Shift Forum. Nice shout out to @elysegraham.bsky.social book, "📚 & 🗡️" ! It's a challenging time in libraries and knowledge orgs, but so many are meeting the moment! youtu.be/f7PkFuvqqnc

Thinking about the children whose families were subject to police raids because they had pirated the wrong songs

This excellent post on Mac vs. Windows font handling by Kartscrut will determine if you are a font nerd, not a font nerd, or a potential font nerd. uxdesign.cc/why-fonts-lo...

This is fairly accurate and extremely informative update...... buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

I just submitted my comment demanding universal access to Covid-19 vaccines. As the mother, daughter, and sister of loved ones who have battled or are battling cancer, I understand the importance of universal access in protecting those who are immunocompromised. Please add your voice now!

You may have seen a lot of headlines since yesterday about budget negotiations, the threat to Medicaid & new restrictions that block transgender care. It's hard to track it all. Really grateful for the @unbreaking.org team that did incredible work to push updates to our pages today - unbreaking.org

Close reading storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

English vocab review: boomerasking, manterrupting, shelaborating. dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/05/19/n...

Looking for ways to end #censorship? Trying to keep up with what's happening and how to take #action? Follow everyone in the #DefendResearch starter pack! go.bsky.app/SDv9wVX

Call your representatives. president.yale.edu/posts/2025-0...

Patching paper scrolls.

According to a 2021 report, the University of California system: • generated $82B in economic activity in California • supported 529K jobs in the state • generated $21 in economic output for every $1 received Public divestment from higher ed makes no sense, even in the narrowest economic terms.

Making science accessible: Matthew Blair ’26 is digitizing hundreds of issues of student-run magazine | Yale Library https://library.yale.edu/news/making-science-accessible-matthew-blair-26-digitizing-hundreds-issues-student-run-magazine

And when we provide that access using frameworks like IIIF, we provide opportunities for researchers to engage with these materials in all of their hi-def glory

Digital access : bringing materials directly to the desks of those most likely to be interested in them www.npr.org/2025/05/15/n...

The Medieval Review.

The Committee has observed significant actions by the government in the United States that restrict freedom of information, freedom of expression, and access to information. These governmental measures are fostering an atmosphere of fear and intimidation for libraries and library professionals.

🟢 #RLUKDSF | Knowledge Stewardship | 🗓️ 11 June Join us in June to hear @richove.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social talk about long-term sustainability of knowledge & strategies 4 ensuring continued access + challenges 4 libraries as stewards of knowledge in uncertain times 🎟️ bit.ly/RLUKDSF

That ✈️? 100 times more than every other presidential gift from a foreign nation combined since 2001

Report: “In a Major Win for #Libraries, Federal Judge Orders #IMLS to Be Restored” www.infodocket.com/2025/05/13/r... @wordsandmoney.bsky.social

The headline, the playbook: White men versus everyone else.

“To watch these changes unfold without naming them for what they are is to participate in a collective amnesia about how knowledge infrastructures shape power relations."

Listen, there are bigger, more directly destructive cases of this government’s spiral into a satire but shipping in white South Africans — the apotheosis of modern white supremacy — to underscore that this is a white nationalist empire…pushes my buttons in a very specific way.

‘The Library’ 1960, Jacob Lawrence

The late artist Ruth Asawa regularly drew the bouquets people gave her. Years later, some of the sketches made it back to those who gave flowers.

Oh please. Really? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w...