Let's show up for our Ohio libraries!
Our 200+ public library systems need your help to continue providing services.
Contact Senators John Husted and Bernie Moreno to tell them to protect libary funding.
#ForOurLibraries #ShowUpForLibraries #ProtectLibraryFunding #RightToReadOhio
Disturbing Library cuts shared by @heykellyjensen.bsky.social
Where are the local community advocates & users? Libraries offer vital services and these decisions will impact greatly #ShowUpForLibraries @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @ala-pla.bsky.social @ala-acrl.bsky.social
OMG we had such a great first day @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social !
More than 300+ people stopped by today to #showupforlibraries - including #bannedbooksweek Honorary Chair @georgetakei.bsky.social
#skybrarians #libcomix #booksky #tlsky #comics #graphicnovels
I’m still just so angry and sad about #carlahayden. I’m going to public library my heart out today even if it changes nothing about anything because #publiclibrariesareforeveryone.
#fuckfascism
#fuckbigotry
#notmypresident
#notmygovernment
#publiclibraries
#publiclibrarian
#showupforlibraries
Donated my Blood & Ancient Scrolls series to my local library today 📚 Come follow along & listen to me talk about the crisis with funding to IMLS & what you can do. The @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social has more great information!
youtu.be/LZ7oaxNvTCY
#libraries #librarytok #booksky #showupforlibraries
Several senators and reps. signed on to this letter urging not to demolish IMLS. If yours are not among them, maybe ask why they’re willing to trash such a small in cost) agency with such huge RoI in constituent approval / goodwill?
#IMLS
#ShowUpForLibraries
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This is common sense -- if you are there to satisfy your curiosity, to learn, to be entertained (the basic reasons to visit a library besides a public bathroom, free internet & computer use). Reacting with outrage that someone else might want what you don’t is deeply Weird.
#ShowUpForLibraries
A picture of library workers celebrating the return of librarians to C2E2 for the first time in 5 years!
TiredAF but #C2E2 was so heart ❤️ affirming on so.many.levels.
Felt so good to be back with @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @libcomix.bsky.social @alagamert.bsky.social on the Con floor for the first time in 5+years. Definitely it’s the time to #showupforlibraries
#thelibrariansreturn!
Four years ago, I penned an essay about my experience in public libraries during the pandemic. My conclusion? Well, let's just say it hits just as close to home now as it did then.
Give it a read, and may it give you hope.
#LibrarySky #ShowUpForLibraries
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A picture of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones and a mug of tea. The mug is light blue with a cartoon on it that reads “Professional Bookworm”
The perfect way to spend the afternoon
#ssclreadin #readinforlibraries #showupforlibraries
Keeping knowledge free and accessible means ensuring everyone can access information without financial or other barriers, promoting a more equitable and informed society. #FundLibraries #ShowUpForLibraries
The grant programs were 1) programs to support seniors & 2) collaborating with other public health partners.
#ShowUpForLibraries
Trump’s EO threatens the IMLS—the federal agency that funds libraries. Join the fight: support the ALA’s #ShowUpForLibraries campaign. #TogethernessThursday #SaveLibraries
I ❤️ libraries as a writer, organizer, & reader. 📚 They’re where stories begin & communities grow.
This #NationalLibraryWeek, take action to protect what we love.
👉 ala.org/ShowUp
#ShowUpForLibraries @thenwu.bsky.social @thenwu.bsky.social @americanlibrary.bsky.social @everylibrary.bsky.social
'Cutting this funding is more than just budget trimming. It means dismantling essential community infrastructure' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #ShowUpForLibraries because #LibrariesChangeLives Sad to hear all ILMS staff have since been sent home on leave
Headed home from the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Fly-In where we impressed upon our Representatives the importance of libraries, the essential role of IMLS and how Iowans deserve the matching federal dollars promised to us for services to our rural communities.
#ShowUpForLibraries
#ShowUpForLibraries
Want to be able to connect to the Internet from a library when your network is down? Or when you’re traveling - or when you lose your home?
Then make this call now. Federally-funded e-rates are what pay for that wifi last mile.
This attempt to defund and shutter museums and libraries is predictable yet terrifying.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#ShowUpForLibraries #FundLibraries #writingcommunity
#IMLS invests hundreds of millions of $$ annually to help develop literacy programs, workforce training, digital resources, cultural preservation, & civic engagement. Cutting funding is not just budget trimming. It is dismantling essential community infrastructure. #FundLibraries #ShowUpForLibraries
"Cutting this funding is more than just budget trimming. It means dismantling essential community infrastructure." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #IMLS #FundLibraries #ShowUpForLibraries
I've called my Rep and Senators. Have you?
#Resist #ShowUpforLibraries
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"Libraries remain non-partisan, practical institutions focused on ensuring equitable access to information, learning and civic participation." Take action, and #showupforlibraries: www.ala.org/advocacy/sho... #ala #libraries #publiclibraries #IMLS
Geez louise, here I go again with my new second job, writing letters to my senator.
#libraries #loveyourlibrary #bibliophile #FundLibraries #ShowUpForLibraries.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
More on the IMLS debacle:
“It means dismantling essential community infrastructure.” Like Internet access (how many things require signing up online?). Like info on health insurance (try figuring out Medicare on your own!). Like literacy & ESL classes, small business aid.
#ShowUpForLibraries
Learn more about how the elimination of IMLS affects libraries and you, and what you can do to help us! #ShowUpForLibraries ilovelibraries.org/article/what...
I'd rather be writing than calling my electeds but I had to rant about protecting funding for public libraries, which are essential, especially in rural communities. #resist #showupforlibraries
