So What's going on? This is a heat map. But for a moment, let's call this a freeze map..... Titles Challenged in Public Schools and Libraries During 2014 Anempts to consor books during this period: 235, Total tides challenged in tboso attempts: 235 Unique Unfes: 183, Most challenged the: The Absolutely Trun Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Titles Challenged in Public Schools and Libraries During 2023 Attempts to censor books during this period: 931. Teal Bides cha those attempts: 9,021. Unique tates: 4.240,

At Core Forum! 📚 Starting with gloom about censorship.

@recdiffs.bsky.social in the sweet precious angel realm www.cbs17.com/news/local-n...

Somehow my Mac opened an XML file in Microsoft Word. I did not expect this to happen. 📚

March Meowness. Show a cat picture to get fines forgiven. #alaac25 📚

Starting at The Librarians screening for a bit.

Assuming Bluesky is now the way to communicate at #alaac25! I am here for #ALACore5Years.

Person holding a cardboard sign which reads "Hand off working COBOL code"

Now there's a protest sign you don't see often.

Save IMLS Burn DOGE

A former colleague said she knew for sure it was me when she saw IMLS on the sign.

Me too. I’m about ready to set stuff on fire literally.

🤦‍♀️

Submitting several important pages to Wayback Machine because that's the resource I have immediately to hand.

📚Need some emergency digital preservation I don't even know what to do anymore.

Omg. These aren’t books. This is a hell of a future.

Lindsay and I are both former Core presidents so we’d definitely tell you this but we’re also right. ☺️

You should, and join Core!

If you haven’t yet noted in the ALA elections yet please vote for @lindsonmars.bsky.social!

Same.

drive your cybertruck to the titanic it will work cybertruck is also a boat women will like you maybe there's gold great for engagement you can use ai

Hi! Your name came up as an Important Person in a meeting yesterday! Which you are.

This seems bad. ☣️ 🙁

They are going to stop ebook purchases moving to subscription only, and no print book sales.

📚

After the Dear Colleague letter yesterday and the ProQuest announcement today, not to mention the -4 temperature on my commute, I’m not sure whether to sleep rest of week or go on some righteous quest.

Statistical report showing expenditure trends for ARL member libraries, expanded to include 2023 IPEDS data

Today I downloaded the IPEDS data set for Academic Library Statistics for 2023 and loaded it onto Library Technology Guides.

That data is now available for statistical reports on Library Technology Guides:https://librarytechnology.org/libraries/nces/trends/

Why the American Library Association Still Matters A candidate for president of the American Library Association makes the case that a strong ALA is the most powerful tool library workers have in the face of broad challenges and threats.

More than I care about who you vote for in the upcoming @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social election, I care about the future of ALA as a means to ensure library workers are appropriately respected and compensated. Wrote a piece about it for Katina Magazine. Show up for ALA to show up for library workers.

The US Access Board meeting postponed indefinitely.

I’m going to lose my mind. The evil!!!

Open a mind.

That timestamp says a lot.

The zone of melancholy highlighted in a page from Swann’s Way.

Let’s all go to

My kids both have stuffed harbor seals of great importance to them and I’m constantly fetching missing seals so solidarity.