Morgan Freeman narrates a new Sesame Street short featuring Elmo.
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Morgan Freeman narrates a new Sesame Street short featuring Elmo.
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You might find someone you recognize! Thank you LitHub & Jess Decourcy Hinds!
#InternationalWomensDay #Herstory #WomensMonth #BadassLibrarians
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Tennessee wants to ban undocumented children from access to a free public education, and turn school administrators into immigration informants. The Heritage Foundation wants to take that plan national. Read my latest for @theintercept.com:
Social media is killing us and it has been able to do so with false promises, just like cigarettes and opioids.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Our March #NextGenLitSociety read is Blood in the Water by Tiffany D. Jackson. This is our π₯ #MG pick! Suspense. Secrets. Social commentary. Jackson always brings the tension. Whoβs diving in? π¦π
bit.ly/TheNextGenLitSociety #books #tlsky #skybrarian #skybrarians #bookish #bookclub #allstora
Ramadan Mubarak to everyone celebrating in Minnesota and around the world!
May this blessed month bring peace, hope, and renewal β€οΈ
That's 18 yo college freshman Jesse Jackson on the left & the seven hs students he organized for a silent sit-in at a segregated library.
"Although Greenville was not the first library system to integrate in SC, it was the first to do so as a result of public demonstrations by the Black community."
"Is there a technology the left is excited about?"
Let's see, off the top of my head:
- libraries
- solar power
- community-owned, community-run [noun], for example
β’ power grids
β’ communications networks
- e-bikes
- voting by mail
- vaccinations
- affordable health care
Notice any patterns?
Photo of a child browsing a library bookshelf. ALA150 logo. Text over image reads "FOR THE LOVE OF LIBRARIES. GIVE NOW TO SUPPORT LIBRARIES"
This Valentineβs weekend, honor the readers and library lovers in your life by supporting the American Library Association. For those just beginning their reading journey or the well-traveled, libraries foster lifelong learning, curiosity, and adventure.
Give today: https://bit.ly/4qDCoRb
AI Literacy Review β February 3, 2025
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Americaβs oldest park ranger dies at 104 years old in Bay Area www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
I wish more people would realize how common invisible disability is and how itβs often that many passengers using wheelchairs are exhausted by navigating massive, triggering, crowded, badly lit and badly ventilated airports or cannot manage stairs, etc etc.
just be kind, ffs
Macabre merit in action.
LIBRARIES WIN IN COURT. Federal court issues permanent injunction in Rhode Island V. Trump, stops the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The court ruled that all actions taken by the Administration to dismantle IMLS are nullified. This injunction takes immediate nationwide effect: all grants, in every state and territory. The Administration is stopped from taking these actions again in the future. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
The flyer reads NYPL BEST books of 2025, congratulations to Adiba Nelson & Alleanna Harris. The picture book cover reads OchΓΊn y Yo: Una Historia de Amor y Trenzas.
The Spanish language version of OshΓΊn and Me, OchΓΊn y Yo, was included in the New York Public Library Best Books of 2025 list! Itβs written by @adibanelson.bsky.social, illustrated by me, translated by Issa Mas, and published by @mackidsbooks.bsky.social. So honored. π₯Ήπ»βοΈπ #kidlit #kidlitart
The Trump admin weaponized Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to attack DEI programs, protections for trans people & freedom of speech at our universities.
We took the Trump admin to court over this in AAUP v. Trump and WON.
AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal discusses what prompted the lawsuitπ
A central problem of our time is that the algorithmic processes underlying social-media content are essentially optimized for identity-protective cognition. There's a reason why we are polarizing worldwide.
"The most terrifying thing about power isnβt the force it applies; itβs the moral vacuum it creates in the soul of the person wielding it."
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Huge win for Missouri and for all libraries. Thank you to MASL, MLA, the ACLU, and everyone involved! @la-cac.org #FReadom
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π₯ Mass Blackout Reminderβ¦ We are done powering their profits. Nov 25 to Dec 2 we step back. Rest. Unplug. Refuse to consume. They fear unity and they are about to feel it.
Great info shared by @heykellyjensen.bsky.social on a book banning tool that is being used to control what is in libraries