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194d

Access to education and information shouldn't be bound to income 🤔

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Post by Icona

I love public libraries because they are built on the principle that books are so important and so necessary to human flourishing that access to them cannot depend on your income.

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187d

Library appreciation post 😁

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Picutre of a cubicle with desk and computer on one side and a playpen on the other side.
Caption: My library installed a cubical for adults to study in if they can't leave their kids at home.

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168d

This library needs an "interesting smells" section 🤔😁

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Picture of a wood sign leaning up agains a tree with a waterbowl on the side and a bunch of sticks under the sign.
I blue letters the sign says:
"Dog Library
Take A Stick Leave A Stick"

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115d

Belle da Costa, the woman who concealed her origins in 1905 and ended up running New York’s most legendary library

The Morgan Library in New York pays tribute to its first director, who navigated a racist society and went on to lead the cultural institution for over two decades

by Use Lahoz

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-12-09/belle-da-costa-the-woman-who-concealed-her-origins-in-1905-and-ended-up-running-new-yorks-most-legendary-library.html

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146d

I'm dead 😂

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Me: No serial killer will ever lure me into their murder van. I' m too smart
for that.
Murderer: Photo of a parked van with the backdoors open showing a nicely lit up space with bookshelves along the wall.

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88d

RE: https://mastodon.online/@VastBee/115846721516607488

This is the kind of (anti)social media I like 😁 Or maybe introvert media 🤔

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139d

It would sound better to call wikipedia an impressive feat of collaboration 🤔
But correcting people online is an annoying and fun activity we can do from home 😜

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Post by Frank Furtschool

you ever think about the fact that wikipedia built the modern library of alexandria using nothing but nerds' need to correct each other

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124d

If libraries are the soul of a nation, what is parliment? I mean it can't be good 😜😂

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“Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul, close them down."
-Toby Forward

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108d

Hey, Fedi friends. We're in the process of winding down operations for the year so we can close our office and give our staff a break for the holidays.

...but! We'll be keeping an eye on our account here, so if you have questions about our resources or need any help, please give us shout. (We know overworked teachers may be doing prep for next year over the holidays and we don't want to leave you in the lurch!) We might be a little slower to answer than usual but we are always happy to hear from you and we're thrilled if we can connect you with the resources you're looking for.

We hope you get a bit of time to rest and recharge at the end of the year, too. ❤️

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10,000 books were tossed at a London school. Librarians say there are other ways to give books a second life

The province says it is halting all current and future school library reviews

by Kendra Seguin

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/beal-library-old-book-purge-9.7040273

Librarians at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=librarians

#books #literature #librarians

"Morrisania, Thirteen women, librarians?" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1875.

The photograph shows a group of thirteen women arranged in two rows - seven standing in the back row and six seated or kneeling in the front row. They are photographed outdoors against a wall heavily covered with ivy or climbing vines.

The women are dressed in typical late 19th-century attire. Most wear white blouses (shirtwaists) with high collars and long sleeves, paired with dark skirts. Some have decorative brooches or pins at their collars. Their hair is styled in the fashion of the era, with most wearing it pulled back or up. One woman in the back row appears to be wearing a hat.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4343e1d0-c5b3-012f-faca-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0

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77d

So, it's either keep buying more books or become a librarian? 🤔
It's a rare thing indeed to have life present us with two excellent choices 😊

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Post by Tara Wine-Queen

It's not that I *can't* read all of the books I already have, it's that once a reader finishes all the books in their possession, they transcend into their final form and I'm just not ready to become a librarian yet.

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Brewster Kahle, the internet’s librarian

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, housed in a former San Francisco church with Greek columns that echo the ancient Library of Alexandria, discusses his three-decade mission to preserve humanity’s digital knowledge and culture. via @internetarchive

https://www.californiasun.co/podcast/brewster-kahle-the-internets-librarian/

Well done @brewsterkahle !!

#digital_library #librarians #publicdomain

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68d

I have to say I feel we're missing a few steps towards an explanation of how "for suppository use only" got in the mix of approprite warning lables 🤔😂

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Post by Jennifer Goodland

At today's staff meeting we discussed the need for warning labels for our books.
Like “not microwave safe”
“not dishwasher safe”
“for suppository use only”

The discussion was prompted by another library where a patron got their book wet, tried to dry it out in the microwave, and the metallic RFID tag destroyed both the microwave and the book.

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26d

I want more libraries, but I also want more birdhouses, it's a conundrum 😁

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Comic from bizarro.com
Two birds stand infront of a little house with a plack saying "Free Library".
One bird says to the other, " Every time I come home from gathering twigs, it's filled with more of these thing."

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339d

A new documentary checks out the many ways libraries are a 'Free For All'

by David Bianculli

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/nx-s1-5380803/free-for-all-library-documentary-pbs

#library #bannedbook #librarians

Artistic Rendering of the Library of Alexandria, based on some archaeological evidence.

The building is depicted with classical Greco-Egyptian design elements—tall columns, marble facades, and ornate friezes.

The scene shows the interior, with long, vaulted halls lined with wooden shelves, niches filled with scrolls, and skylights that bathe the room in warm light.

Scholars, scribes, and philosophers in flowing robes move through the space—engaged in reading, debating, or writing—evoking a vibrant intellectual culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#/media/File:Ancientlibraryalex.jpg

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322d

Library-pub, add a book quiz and a non-alcoholic bar and I'm in 😁

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Post by iconawrites

It would be fun if public libraries were well- funded and open in the evenings and we built a culture where it’s normal to gather at the library after work and browse the shelves and chat about the latest books and read the Saturday night away.

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47d

Why would anyone want to be the king if they can be the librarian? 🤔😁

Source: https://www.patreon.com/HotPaperComics

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Four panel comic:
1st: A wizard says, "PULL THE SWORD FROM THE STONE AND BECOME THE NEW KING!
2nd: Boy ask, "ARE THERE ANY OTHER AVAILABLE JOBS?
3d: Wizard replies, "GET THE CAT OUT OF THE TREE AND BECOME THE NEW LIBRARIAN."
4th: The boy sits in the library reading his book with the cat sleeping on his desk.

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302d

I wish I had public library energy 😁

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Post by Jonathan Edward Durham

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is *all* the knowledge, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

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312d

Yes, I know I've posted this before, but I really want one 😊
Public libraries could make this the door to their reading areas, then I could try it, get sick of it, and not be bothered 😁

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A picture of a book case that opens into another library.
Caption:
Some dream of fame.
Some dream of traveling to space.
I dream of having a secret door in one library that leads to another hidden library.

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263d

Damn those socialist plots, what are they trying to do, help people?!? 😜 😁

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Post By The Library Owl
My girlfriend regularly tells me “if
free public libraries didn't already
exist and someone tried to invent
them, they would be condemned
as a socialist plot” and | think
about that a lot.

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284d

#CallForPapers for #OnlineConference: Thinking of the Children: #BookBans, #Censorship, and #Literature for Young People

For this online conference, organizers invite contributions from #scholars at all career stages, from #librarians and #archivists, and from #teachers at all levels, to consider #BookBanning and censorship of literature for young people, past and present.
#YALit #YA #Resist #CFP #Books

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/02/thinking-of-the-children-book-bans-censorship-and-literature-for-young-people

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