Let's Talk Palestine Flotilla Ship to Gaza WE'RE SAILING TO GAZA

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Made in the Library: Creativity, Copyright, and Community, Wednesday, December 3 1 pm ET/10 am PT / Library Futures logo / people engaged in library making surrounded by tree branches

Learn how to keep your library makerspace legally sound and open to all! @schutton.bsky.social, @kslater.bsky.social, and Tomas A. Lipinski will offer insights and answer questions on all things maker. Read more and register -->

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Bonfire of the Bathroom Vanities

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Open Position: Community Engagement Lead (full time) at Open Book Collective Looking for a colleague interested in helping the Open Book Collective advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing

🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...

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caught myself watching this evaluating his gas mask and nodding solemnly like "yeah that's a great selection. solid pick."

actually that's kind of a fucked up first impulse

In these dark times, it’s great to come together and find something we can all take joy in.

US in talks with Hamas over Gaza truce and humanitarian aid access <article data-history-node-id="422365" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-talks-hamas-over-gaza-truce-and-humanitarian-aid-access" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-talks-hamas-over-gaza-truce-and-humanitarian-aid-access" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">US in talks with Hamas over Gaza truce and humanitarian aid access</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="84" data-start="0">A senior Palestinian official has confirmed that discussions between Hamas and the United States are ongoing, focusing on a possible Gaza ceasefire and the delivery of humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave, Reuters reported on Sunday.</p> <p data-end="673" data-start="385">US President Donald Trump recently reiterated his commitment to helping deliver food to Palestinians trapped in Gaza, where conditions have grown increasingly dire.&nbsp;</p> <p data-end="748" data-start="675">The US State Department has not yet commented on the latest developments.</p> <p data-end="870" data-start="750">Previous talks between Washington and Hamas have also addressed the release of American-Israeli captives being held inside Gaza.</p> <p data-end="1081" data-start="872">Since 2 March, Israel has imposed a total blockade on Gaza’s 2.3 million residents, cutting off all supplies. Food reserves that were built up during a brief truce earlier this year have nearly been exhausted.</p> <p data-end="1208" data-start="1083">On 18 March, Israel resumed its military offensive, effectively ending the ceasefire agreement reached with Hamas in January.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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Trump administration fires librarian of Congress | CNN Politics The White House on Thursday notified Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden that she was removed from her position, a spokesperson for the Library of Congress told CNN.

Step 3: Send your message! Most representatives allow for/encourage online messaging/email.

Thank you for helping to protect our civil liberties 🫡

More on the firing of our Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden:

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Step 2: Write your message. Need a template? You're in luck! I've just made one (.docx) for this guide:

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Step 1: If you don't know who it is already, locate your congressional representative using:

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Me too. Let's take action ✅

Feeling downtrodden by “the latest foray in [Trump’s] relentless campaign to dismantle the guardrails of our democracy and punish public servants who don’t bend to his every will" (Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, in response to abrupt the firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden)?

Incoming PSA from your friendly neighborhood librarian 🫡

..a thread 🧵

WASHINGTON, D.C, (May 2, 2025) — Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today regarding the President’s Executive Order on public media: “CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government. “In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors…’ 47 U.S.C. § 398(c).”

Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases.

After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.

'It's brutal:' Sudden grants cuts devastate Iowa museums, libraries and cultural nonprofits Rapid Trump administration cancellation of federal grants leaves Iowa cultural nonprofits reeling, threatens some with closure

'It's brutal:' Sudden grants cuts devastate Iowa museums, libraries and cultural nonprofits
Rural communities expected to be hit particularly hard by lost NEH and IMLS funding
#iowa
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Meeting the Climate Emergency: University Information Infrastructure for Researching Wicked Problems (Final Report) Waters, Donald J. Meeting the Climate Emergency: University Information Infrastructure for Researching Wicked Problems. Coalition for Networked Information, March 2025. Download PDF In the interest…

The latest CNI report urges libraries to focus on standard, university-supported centers and institutes that conduct interdisciplinary research on climate change to broaden the disciplinary range, deepen public engagement, and extend the analytical capabilities of research centers and institutes.

A group of people gathered around a table making silly faces while drying with beer, paper and art supplies all around them

This Friday at Indy hall, we’re gonna drink and we’re gonna draw.

Jay and I will provide an assortment of goofy drawing prompts, then everybody votes on which we draw. In between prompts we get up and see what everybody else did with it, and meet new people!

It’s a fun, cheap night!
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It's fun, easy to follow, and has lots of examples & easy/cheap ways to get started. Highly recommend!

@libraryfutures.bsky.social
is working on an interactive OER based on “Intellectual Freedom Choose Your Own Adventure” by
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social president-elect Sam Helmick to help library workers respond to intellectual freedom threats and protect library user rights.

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Why is access to federal data important? - Marketplace Losing access to federal data is like taking "an X-ray machine away from a doctor," said David Van Riper at IPUMS.

Interview with @ipums.bsky.social on @marketplace.org about public data loss and preservation efforts. www.marketplace.org/2025/02/20/w...
We are excited to see the various organizations communicating. The data rescue tracker is meant to help facilitate that. We welcome collaboration!

We are right to feel enraged at the current moment, but hope is how we’ll win As we reel from the attack on humanity, rage is not wrong. We all feel the icy chill of the current moment. Even as the cold dark night bites, however, all who work for justice need to remember that w...

NEW on our blog, by guest contributor @benphillips76.bsky.social

We are right to feel enraged at the current moment, but hope is how we’ll win

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Opinion | American Science is Under Attack (Gift Article) The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.

Excellent piece from PLOS co-founder and Nobel laureate, Harold Varmus: "If the attacks on our scientists and their institutions are allowed to continue, our envisioned future of longer, healthier lives will happen more slowly, in other countries, or not at all."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Federal data is disappearing.

The Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including IASSIST, RDAP, and members of the Data Curation Network.

To see/contribute to ongoing efforts, visit: www.datarescueproject.org

and follow:

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Fighting the Great Federal Website Purge: Journalists, judges, and archivists are keeping government data online. New by Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
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Are you volunteering to put it to the test? 🤔