Skeletor stands with icy rocks in the background. His right hand is surrounded by stone debris as if he's just crushed something in his hand. Caption reads: If I put my all into something I know I can crush it.
Learn all about mahjong: the history, the variations, and the rules! Saturday May 9, 2-5pm.
@sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social
sfpl.org/events/2026/...
Try your hand at kalat poetry for National Poetry Month! In Tagalog, kalat means clutter. It's a word often used to describe the messy spaces we're told to hide.
🗓️ Saturday, April 25
🕑 11 a.m. - 12:30 pm
📍@sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social, Hormel Center, 3rd floor
Curious about the language app, Mango Languages? We'll show you how to use it to access Filipino lessons + more as part of Tech Week! @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social
sfpl.org/events/2026/...
Cover of graphic novel called Under the Balete Tree, featuring a wolf and maiden.
Hey literary crowd! Please consider helping to fund this Kickstarter that blends Filipino and German folklore.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lau...
Call for proposals from FilBookFestival. Deadline is May 31.
📣 Calling all Filipino American voices and storytellers!
FilBookFest 2026 is officially accepting author/panel proposals!
Visit our website filbookfestival.org
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 31, 2026
Hi y'all. Jaena here. I am the program manager of SF Public Library's Filipino American Center.
All things Filipino, all the time. Say hi!
sfpl.org/locations/ma...
Happy National Librarian Day!!
Thank a librarian who has had a positive impact in your life. It helps.
Call for proposals from FilBookFestival. Deadline is May 31.
📣 Calling all Filipino American voices and storytellers!
FilBookFest 2026 is officially accepting author/panel proposals!
Visit our website filbookfestival.org
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 31, 2026
OK, that might be enough library and literary promotion for today.
EXCEPT! It's the highly celebrated NIGHT OF IDEAS at @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social tonight!
nightofideas.org/san-francisco/
Cover of graphic novel called Under the Balete Tree, featuring a wolf and maiden.
Hey literary crowd! Please consider helping to fund this Kickstarter that blends Filipino and German folklore.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lau...
Try your hand at kalat poetry for National Poetry Month! In Tagalog, kalat means clutter. It's a word often used to describe the messy spaces we're told to hide.
🗓️ Saturday, April 25
🕑 11 a.m. - 12:30 pm
📍@sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social, Hormel Center, 3rd floor
Curious about the language app, Mango Languages? We'll show you how to use it to access Filipino lessons + more as part of Tech Week! @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social
sfpl.org/events/2026/...
Learn all about mahjong: the history, the variations, and the rules! Saturday May 9, 2-5pm.
@sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social
sfpl.org/events/2026/...
How did radical women navigate Bengal's 'age of fire'?
Oyeshi Ganguly explores what oral history can tell us about the female revolutionaries who took up arms against British rule.
We have a part-time library associate role at the Englewood Public Library(CO)! This would be a great role for someone with customer service and/or library experience.
Schedule: Mon - Thur: 2 - 7:30 pm; Saturdays 9-5
$22.31 - $33.47/Hourly
Apply by April 23
recruiting2.ultipro.com/CIT1034EGW/J...
A person writing on a notepad beside a laptop, surrounded by social media icons. Text reads: "Launching this summer. U.S. Author Safety Program. Supporting Authors Facing Harassment and Threats." Logos include PEN America, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Random House, and The New York Community Trust.
With support from major publishing houses, New York Community Trust, and author David Baldacci, PEN America is developing a U.S. Author Safety Program to help protect writers facing harassment and threats in retaliation for their work, their identities, and their advocacy: pen.org/press-releas...
Y’all know what really helps with how you view/feel about your body? Having A LOT of tattoos you are happy with.
@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social has been straight up cooking lately
From Sarah Lamdan and @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social: "Librarianship at the Crossroads of Ice Surveillance" (2019): www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-sur... #indielib26
"The definition of neutrality that LC, and by extension LCSH, seems to favor is one of passivity. Neutrality as indifference to social realities..." #CritCat
"... the neutrality justification appears to be a smokescreen to cover up discomfort with a term that called out white racism; mandating neutrality in this case meant privileging being inoffensive to white people over acknowledging a widely accepted critique of systemic racism." #CritCat
In Brief: This article explores how minimal computing principles guided the parallel web development of two related but distinct publishing platforms, DigitalArc and Opaque Publisher. DigitalArc, a community-driven digital archive and exhibit platform, was developed in response to principles governing post-custodial archiving, taking it one step further to ensure communities maintain ownership of their materials and their digital artifacts. The Opaque Publisher, originally developed in support of a born-digital dissertation, adapts DigitalArc to support refusal theory for scholars who have to negotiate the tensions between using unethically obtained evidence in support of their research with moral objections to a lack of informed consent. At first glance, the use cases for each platform seem different, but both are providing mechanisms for individuals-by-proxy and communities to assert control over how their respective stories are shared.
Operationalizing Minimal Computing Values Through Shared Computing-Platform Development: A Case Study of DigitalArc and Opaque Publisher by Kalani Craig,Michelle Dalmau and Sean Purcell
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/digital...
It was a joy and honor to serve as the internal reviewer for this thoughtful #DigitalHumanities piece by @kalanicraig.bsky.social @mdalmau.bsky.social and Sean Purcell
Big thanks to @acls1919.bsky.social's Digital Justice grant for supporting DigitalArc and giving us the space to publish one of what we hope will be a few more articles/presentations focusing on the DigitalArc toolkit & platform.
Part 2 is out! Big hugs to my friends & coauthors, @kalanicraig.bsky.social & Sean Purcell. We grow so much from @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social 's open peer review process. Big thanks to @quinnanya.me @plach.bsky.social & @schomj.bsky.social for being awesome reviewers & editors.
"DigitalArc (DA), was designed to support the creation of low-cost sustainable digital exhibits and archives built by and for communities who want to control how their histories are presented online."
Call for editorial board members We have received a substantial increase in archives-related submissions over the past year. We are currently seeking editorial board members with archival experience and knowledge of current conversations in archives. We invite archivists who are able to meet deadlines, participate in a thoughtful manner in the peer review process, and creatively contribute to the journal to apply. Please submit the following to itlwtlp AT gmail DOT com by May 1, 2026: Letter of interest CV or Resume In your letter, consider answering the following questions: What do you see as the direction for the journal? What is your publishing experience, as an author, reviewer, and/or editor? (We welcome applications from people who want to develop their skills in this area but recommend that you have at least some experience with academic publishing in one of these areas prior to applying.) About Lead Pipe + Vision In the Library with the Lead Pipe is an open access, open peer-reviewed journal founded and run by a team of library workers working in various types of GLAM environments. Lead Pipe believes libraries and library workers can change the world for the better. We improve libraries, archives, professional organizations, and our communities of practice by exploring new ideas, starting conversations, documenting our concerns, and arguing for solutions. We encourage creative thinking, envelope-pushing, and constructive criticism.
Call for archives professionals
Link to full call: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
In Brief: Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy frameworks emphasize the importance of understanding Generative AI (GenAI) technologies. But our collective and individual understanding of GenAI is heavily shaped and mediated by the hype narratives that surround it, where GenAI is depicted as powerful, magical, and inevitable. Amidst such compelling narratives, we can face challenges in navigating narrative extremes and exaggerations and in making informed decisions about using GenAI tools. Alongside AI hype, we are also experiencing AI personalization features which encourage trust and positive feelings towards GenAI tools. Taken together, AI hype and AI personalization can challenge and even hinder our ability to engage critically and thoughtfully with GenAI. In this article, I will explore how our understanding of GenAI is influenced by AI hype and AI personalization and consider how hype narratives and personalization features fuel one another and encourage trust in and awe towards GenAI. By centering AI hype and AI personalization as key components to understanding and exploring GenAI, and by incorporating critical media and information literacy skills into AI literacy, I feel that we can develop an AI literacy that better contextualizes GenAI and encourages reflective and critical approaches that can help learners make sense of their emotionally complex experiences with and reactions to GenAI.
Making Sense of GenAI Amidst AI Hype and AI Personalization by Sarah Morris
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/ai-hype...