Eating Vietnamese food in Wales listening to Theme from Shaft…what one does when missing #PLA2026

NO STEPS BEHIND: Beate Sirota Gordon's Battle for Women's Rights in Japan by Jeff Gottesfeld illustrated by Shiella Witanto cover with award seals

It's #WomensHistoryMonth! Beate Sirota came to Japan as a young girl, learning its language, customs, and traditions. When she had the chance, she dared to do the unthinkable — write a clause for the new national constitution guaranteeing women equal rights www.crestonbooks.co/nostepsbehind

Graphic Novels Explore Dr. Gregory Stanton’s Ten Stages of Genocide through graphic novels specifically created to align with the Museum’s Ten Stages of Genocide gallery. The graphic novels depict each stage through...

This #graphicnovel project matches well with Boise's Genocide installation www.dhhrm.org/education/fo...

Lucas Maxwell | The leading children's librarian draws on his own childhood growing up in Nova Scotia for his YA debut Maxwell's heartfelt coming-of-age story won the 2024 Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition.

Congratulations @lucasjmaxwell.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/author-inter...

The Carney doctrine Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

Just when you feared all the grownups had left the room paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

Are influencers harming the book industry? The overvaluation of influencers in commercial publishing has real impacts.

"Those who never interrogate their biases reinforce them.... I am asking those who experience privilege and gatekeepers of all varieties in the book space...to question your assumptions – something that requires us swallowing our egos" www.thebookseller.com/comment/are-...

TLI Presents: SIMULCAST—We the People Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach’s Cello…

Libraries and museums are hosting and it was Yo-Yo Ma who decided to open the doors for more than BSO ticket holders--and named librarians as a grouo to whom he wanted to make it accessible www.bso.org/events/tli-s...

Sixth Form Reading List Book Recommendations Sixth Form reading list - recommended books for year 12 and year 13 students.

A thoughtful booklist for ages 16-18 notes that "in the US 88% of all 16-18-year-olds pass English at the age of 18 & in England only 8.4% study English up to the age of 18" yet the titles here are more realistic & engaging than books used in US classrooms schoolreadinglist.co.uk/secondary-ks...

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Messy sketchnote of Mychal Threets talk

Library Joy in a human being. Thank you Mychal Threets for your work, for celebrating libraries, and for staying one more day 💙💙💙 Thank you @aaslala.bsky.social for making this visit possible. #ReadingRainbow #AASL25 #libraryJOY #libraries #MentalHealth #TLsky

Gang member found! You know those fiercesome criminals about which Drumpf's been fulminating here in my home territory? This one (and her numerous companions) was NOT in Boston, but over the line one town....definitely posing a threat to FIFA fans...oh, wait, they're smaller in summer than in fall

Libraries are crucial to the UK's success On the 75th anniversary of the first Public Libraries Act, we must double down on our support.

#LibrariesMatter "I remember my mother walking us to West Norwood library in South London, where I was allowed to choose five whole books to take home. Those five books represented a passport to five different worlds, each waiting to be unlocked" www.thebookseller.com/comment/libr...

Frankfurt Book Fair 2025: the hot titles to look out for at the Messe Smart and serious non-fiction will be on the rise at Frankfurter Buchmesse this year, but fiction – the spicier the better – will still sizzle

A cogent view of "bad times" reading choices www.thebookseller.com/features/fra...

Call to action to librarians to dig into providing families with accessible info regarding family safety www.doe.mass.edu/commissioner...

Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 31, 2025 | GoComics Read Frazz—a comic strip by creator Jef Mallett—for today, August 31, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!

Week after week Frazz does it www.gocomics.com/frazz/2025/0...

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

How I appreciate a good thought piece early in the morning arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Springer Nature retracts Machine Learning book after citations ‘reference works that don’t exist' Springer Nature has retracted a book, Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced by Govindakumar Madhavan, originally published in April 2025, after it discovered several of the written citat...

All the places #AI doe not belong: Springer Nature retracts Machine Learning book after citations ‘reference works that don’t exist' www.thebookseller.com/news/springe...

Tiny bookshop painted to look like bookshelves turns heads in German town A tiny new bookshop that has been decorated to look like the books are on the outside is attracting a lot of attention in Germany.

Outside innovation www.thebookseller.com/news/tiny-bo...

Local reporting: "Danielle described the effort to get ICE out of hotels as 'very strategic' compared to mass demonstrations and marches, which can be a good show of force but often don’t include a 'call to action.'” lapublicpress.org/2025/06/fede...

British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked Exclusive: Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency

#Pride in history British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Poetry speaks fact and feeling thebulletproofpoet.medium.com/we-made-a-be...

5 Women from History Who Dared to be Dangerous - Edinburgh University Press Blog For this International Women’s Day, editor Ben Fletcher-Watson celebrates five trailblazing women who dared to make history

#TBR euppublishingblog.com/2025/03/07/5...

The human art of indexing Book indexes might seem the perfect candidate for AI automation. They're not.

#IndexDay “qualities in the indexer who creates…Empathy: the ability to put oneself in the place of the reader…Judgement: the ability to make rational decisions about what to include in the index…Understanding: the content of a book and implications of a text” www.thebookseller.com/comment/the-...

Artist traces Manchester’s links to slavery on blue cotton gown Manchester Art Gallery exhibition features gown inspired by outfit worn by abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond

Gonna go see next month www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

I miss #IHC edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...

Pairing new #kidsbook authors with mentor #librarians... www.thebookseller.com/news/new-gll...

‘We cannot remain silent’: Descendants of incarcerated Japanese Americans turn trauma into advocacy The community has drawn parallels between what happened to their families 83 years ago and Trump's rhetoric and immigration policies.

May you be inspired to find the point of activism here that you can join www.berkeleyside.org/2025/02/20/j...

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Big things are blooming at this hidden farm in Oakland Community, commitment and passion (fruit) can all be found at Laurel's Fig Leaf Gardens, a backyard-turned-community-garden shaped by multiple generations of owners.

Sometimes a reminder that community, hope, and growing food still happen is all one can offer others www.berkeleyside.org/2025/01/24/f...