#OntarioLibrarians say 'they have to be ready' amid growing calls in the U.S. to ban books - Some #Libraries in #Canada are taking a stance on #IntellectualFreedoms

#Ontario #Librarians #BookBans #Books #Reading #2SLGBTQ #CensorshipResistance

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-librarians-take-action-book-banning-u-s-1.7470332

Today from the #TimeLibrary: my blog post about #smartwatches and #horology. How does your smartwatch know the time, anyway?

https://hs-ny.org/news/you-must-hate-smartwatches-huh

Join us as we discuss Menopause: a comic treatment together or check out our closing keynote talking about Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine with Lisa Diedrich (Stony Brook University) and Briana Martino (Simmons University)!

We've opened the event to public attendees after we had a few people request access to the events.

https://edushare.ing/2025graphicmedicine

Legislators like Rep. Bethany Soye want to jail librarians, teachers, and historians in South Dakota for lending, you know, "harmful" books to kids. The bill will now go to the Senate

https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/02/20/south-dakota-house-advances-bill-that-lawmaker-slams-as-locking-up-librarians

The March 2025 Issue (Vol 86, No 2) of College & Research #Libraries (C&RL) is Now Available Online https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/issue/view/1673/showToc #librarians

Report: "Georgia School #Librarians Could Be Found Guilty of Lawbreaking if Shelves Carry ‘Explicit’ Material"; & More Headlines https://www.infodocket.com/2025/02/26/georgia-school-librarians-could-be-found-guilty-of-lawbreaking-if-shelves-carry-explicit-material-bill-to-ban-obscene-material-in-iowa-libraries-advances-more-headlines/ #libraries

I may not be in cybersecurity, but I’ve been on over a dozen hiring/search committees for librarians and paraprofessionals over the past decade. If you’re jobseeking in the #LIS field (and not applying for a position I’m currently on a search committee for), I’m happy to review your resume #LISjobs #AcademicLibraries #Librarians #Libraries #LibraryJobs
https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes/114065754096356855

That's my primary reason for going to the library!

@libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon

#Library #LibraryMemes #Memes #Libraries #Librarians
#Humor #Humour #Offensive
#Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

Stumbled on this cool sticker being advertised on #Redbubble via FB...

FEDLIB listserve @librarians

"Our medium-sized agency staff library ... asked indirectly by GSA to justify keeping any other “media contracts” ... identified by GSA included our OCLC WorldShare and Connexion subscription (clearly not media)"

"Basically, GSA ran a search of contracts with the keyword “subscription” in the description and sent that list to agencies."

Former cataloger at a general military base library who always kept FedLib on my personal email
#OCLC #WorldCat #Librarians

Librarians in Hawaii! Kelly Jensen is looking for you:

"Do I know any public or school librarians in Hawaii? Do I know someone who might know someone who is?

I'd love to be in touch *VIA EMAIL* with them. kelly@riotnewmedia.com.

It's for a story, there's no need to be on record, and it's about positive things, not negative."

Please share!

This bill is being rushed through the process so the public does not have much opportunity to comment.

Ultra-conservatives want to block access to any library by people under 18 years old if the library contains anything that the far right considers "obscene." Including materials about same-sex relationships or transgender people. This law would block all minors from access if the library owned a book like this.

For the record:
"There are no obscene materials in public or public school libraries in the United States. This is a moral panic brought forth by the right over books they don’t like and that represent voices, stories, and perspectives outside of the rigid white, straight, able-bodied, cis gender, Christian boundaries."

https://bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-advances-librarian-criminalization-bill/

“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
-Samwise Gamgee (Movie version)

@libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon

#Library #LibraryMemes
#LotR #Quote
#Memes #Libraries #Librarians #Humor #Humour
#Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/chris-kluwe-protest-arrested.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU4.5Y2x.eyQhlzwuyV_m&smid=url-share

Any #bookwyrm fans know if it's possible to integrate #Libby, #Overdrive, or a local #library account so I don't have to maintain yet another reading list? Would be awesome to sync wishlists and reading history since I do most of my book reading via those apps. Seems like a natural thing for #librarians in the #Fediverse to get behind.

hey friends, your public libraries are embattled places, and librarians (like me) are concerned.

here's an overview of a pair of terrifying bills in Iowa

#Libraries #Librarians #Censorship

https://bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-advances-librarian-criminalization-bill/

Heeeey! I hadn't even noticed that my Booklist review for MASTERPIECE by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev was published! For consideration for your #library bookshelves #librarians #bookstodon #comics https://www.booklistonline.com/products/9803059

Entre los cambios que se proponen en https://classweb.org/tentative-subjects/2412a.html se habla de cambiar también encabezamientos de materia referidos al Golfo de Mésico en la Segunda Guerra Mundial!

Si esto no es reescribir la historia cerca se queda, la LC es una autoridad mundial a nivel de materias.