www.helphampshireworkers.com
Hampshire College is closing, and 250 staff and faculty are facing sudden job loss without severance pay. This fund provides direct financial assistance for immediate needs such as housing, food, healthcare, and other essential expenses.
Hampshire was my home for 4 years. It shaped me into the person I am today and introduced me to many lifelong friends. I am heartbroken to lose this community and knowing that no future students will be able to experience this truly unique place. www.hampshire.edu/closure-info...
As a Hampshire alum, I’m heartbroken 💔
“No library exists independent of the library ecosystem.”
Library Ecosystem Thinking in Public Libraries: A Field Guide www.ala.org/sites/defaul...
#PLA2026
The Leroy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund supports library workers who have lost or been denied employment on the basis of discrimination or to protect intellectual freedom: www.ala.org/aboutala/aff...
“If you are a rule breaker, get into positions of power so you can eliminate those stupid rules.” - Good Trouble in Libraries panel #PLA2026
“Only 39% of adults in the U.S. said that they feel very connected to others. 50% of adults in the U.S. report experiencing loneliness, with some of the highest rates among
young adults.”
Learning how to foster social connection in libraries with SLI. #PLA2026 www.sustainablelibrariesinitiative.org
Lawyer Bryan Stevenson JN a brown jacket, black shirt, and black pants standing on a stage and speaking at the PLA conference
“Our strength as a democracy is rooted in our willingness to learn, to discover, to search.” -Bryan Stevenson at #PLA2026
I’ve made it to PLA! #PLA2026
Yea I’m a gamer
I needed a therapist in childhood and instead I discovered the magic of books
Just purchased! I’m so excited to play!
i genuinely miss when website sort of looked absolutely atrocious. everythings to clean and corporate now. theres no soul
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
Bears are my favorite animal. But I have a phobia of scorpions. I’m glad this image is balanced by having 2 bears and only 1 scorpion.
Thank you, Senator Markey. Can you also look into Massachusetts’ 287(g) contract with ICE? boltsmag.org/massachusett...
This reminds me of the Zen Koan “Original Face” with the question, “What did your face look like before your parents were born?”
incredible reporting on what's happening in Massachusetts due to the state's contract with ICE
With sorrow, we announce the passing of FOBAZI M. ETTARH 1989 - 2026. Fobazi changed so many lives with her friendship, love, and brilliance. She was so loved, and leaves behind a powerful legacy. We thank Fobazi's community for their support over the last several months of her illness. A private burial will be held for family. We will be in touch with further information about a future Celebration of Life event, as well as ways to support Fobazi's family and legacy.
It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
“How much cheese have you had today?”
“Not enough.”
🧀 🧀 🧀 🧀 🧀
Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
Digital resources, particularly eBooks and audiobooks, are going to bankrupt libraries if something isn't done to halt the extortionary pricing models of publishers.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
A picture of a napping green and pink frog with heart shapes and a cupcake atop its head.
A lovely little nap
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
Elvis Costello is the Wiggles for adults (complimentary)
