#Library

Today I was fortunate to attend the Grand ReOpening of a historical building in #Benghazi. In 1931, Omar alMukhtar was sentenced to death here while sitting in a similar chair
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I want to do a thread of some of my favorite Noel Ignatiev writings. he alongside Du Bois completely overhauled my understanding of race and capitalism in the United States
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For my @uncsils master's paper, I wanted to understand if discriminatory experiences were happening to students of color within their library and information science masters' programs and how these instances
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There's a fleeting scene in Brief Encounter when Celia Johnson nips into Boots the Chemist to change her library book: “Miss Lewis had at last managed to get the new
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I was curious to see where mindset was with this, and not surprised by the very mixed results. We often have a bias towards thinking "deficiencies" with nutrients, but we
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If you’ve ever ran Facebook ads, you know how time consuming it can be - especially for beginners.Here are 5 Tips and Tricks for running FB ads that I still
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I gave a speech this week on why children need books more than ever in 2020. It was fascinating to research that when we teach children to read, whole communities
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Thanks to everyone who's joined our events or used our resources to help with their monitoring & evaluation during the crisis. Here's a round-up of our new & popular resources
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Following hurricanes, one of the biggest issues for flooded residences is MOLD! What to do about this?"Building Research Partnerships to Assess Health Effects of Hurricanes: Creating the Mold Education and
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About 11-12 years ago a number of startups and progressive/young tech companies stated offering "unlimited vacation" (UV) to its employees as a perk and largely, a recruiting tool. Since then,
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My fourth book, The Hit List, is out in paperback on Thursday in the UK. Some readers and friends have asked how to help support authors on publication so I've
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It's a pity that @riotjs_ isn't as popular as it deserves (yet). I've been vouching for it at my current job and I feel that people finally seem to be
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Today I'm hoping to finish transcribing all the letters about Louise D at the Ontario School for the Blind around 1904. She's French-Catholic and I talk about how she becomes
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Author of this paper says it shows there is no “quick fix” for housing problems but it seems to clearly support the view that if you upzone in affluent areas
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In the wake of the Book Riot article about the author feeling "safe" at the library during a pandemic I want to try to describe what it is like being
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A thread on how to support the authors you love: #amwriting #writingcommunity #amreading #TBR #bookclub Follow them on social media (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube, etc.) Buy their books! http://Bookshop.org  is
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