"I Will Not Comply": Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System's Board Rutherford County Library System's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info.

“I Will Not Comply”: Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System’s Board

RCLS's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info.

This is the job, folks!

bookriot.com/librarian-lu...

Reform cuts ESOL funding as it doesn't help "native Lincolnshire people" Responding to a report that Reform mayor of Lincolnshire Andrea Jenkyns is pushing ahead with plans to scrap all funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) from 2027, UCU attacked the ...

Reform mayor of Lincolnshire has voted to slash ESOL.

A clear signal of the damage Reform intends to inflict on our communities.

Demanding migrants speak English then cutting the very provision that makes that possible.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1441...

US Presidents in Their Own Words Concerning American Indians Editor's Note: This article was previously published in Native News Online on prior Presidents' Days. It was updated to include works concerning American Indians made by the current president of the U...

This President’s day, here’s what U.S. presidents have said about Native Americans. nativenewsonline.net/currents/us-...
"Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape."- George Washington

That’s great to hear! I hope other events will follow your lead, given how many post-PhDs need to support themselves with full time non-academic work.

would like to point out the oddness of the “job applications” session being in-person only and thus inaccessible to any academically unemployed historian who works a 9-5 whilst trying to get a history-related job

One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries “Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

try £33k Telegraph… in Oxford. I make £25k pa as a grade 2 library assistant and it’s still more than a junior research fellow here makes as a stipend

The image contains a photograph of a Phillis Wheatley publication, the JCB logo, and the text "Americana: Selections."

Did you know that the JCB's digital platform, Americana, contains selections?

Selections are preset topical searches based on cataloging data.

Topics include early Mexican imprints, works related to the Nahuatl language, and items on slavery and abolition.

Learn more at americana.jcblibrary.org

The American Historical Association Council is complicit in genocide. www.historians.org/news/busines...

FOX News blaming Native people for the California fires is unspeakably irresponsible, devoid of anything near journalism, colonizer dodging of responsibility.