#Libraries

“Every prison has to have a library. Not so every school.”Very disappointed to hear @bbcnickrobinson use this headline for a piece promoting school libraries on @BBCr4today this morning. I suspect

Police Out Of NYC Libraries

Libraries should be safe spaces for everyone. But, coded language in institutional policies makes it so that as library workers we have to police and exclude certain individuals and communities.

(Don't tell this person that authors like it when you get our books from the library, and that libraries are great.) They actually don't have any idea how libraries work,

Alejandro Serrano

One weakness I see on the Haskell community is that much of the discussion revolves around the compiler and base libraries, instead of other libraries and how to put big

In a new report on 'community' libraries, Tory MP Danny Kruger says: “where local authorities struggle to maintain local libraries, communities are stepping up to take over and run them.

Liam Sims 🏳️‍🌈

A few years ago I inherited a vast collection of #postcards of #libraries. Thought it might be nice to post one every day & enjoy them. Here’s @TrinCollLibCam c. 1910,

SusaninLangside

I said libraries would reopen & I meant it. But any politician who says things can return immediately to normal as we emerge from Covid is misleading you. Me in

TLT Supports VOTING RIGHTS

If you can in whatever way you can, it’s really important that we Support authorsSupport indie bookstoresSupport librariesDuring this super weird time As a librarian, let me tell you how

Are you rich enough to survive this pandemic? It was true in America during Colonial times- Yellow Fever the rich quarantined at “country homes”in Germantown, outside Philly. Were we being

maggie tokuda-hall 🧜🏽‍♀️🧙🏽‍♀️🌊

I got a deeply misleading email back. If you wrote you probably did too. Firstly, employees are not being given PTO for the fires. They're allowed to use their own

Police Out Of NYC Libraries

Who are we? We are NYC librarians opposed to police in libraries. Here is a comic listing some of our values. We are reposting our comic listing our values with

Anne Helen Petersen

I asked a bunch of librarians for their take on this article; general sentiment is "a lot of us already do this, but also libraries cannot fix everything, and if

Punkassbookjoc2

A lot of the libraries in my area are 501c3. This means we're technically non-profit organizations. This also means so, so, SO much of our time is spent on fundraising

Am taking a webinar (recorded) about advocating for libraries by @pcsweeney . First big takeaway: use of the library isn't correlated with support for the library. This means libraries need

Lynne M. Thomas🏳️‍🌈🦄🚀

Here’s the thing: Libraries and authors/publishers are a symbiotic relationship. When libraries use right of first sale to pay for books and lend them, or pay to license ebooks and

Alan #protectlibraryworkers Wylie

I’ve been going through all my library campaigning photos from the last few years, here’s a selection #savelibraries Group photo of the ‘Speak up for Libraries’ Parliamentary Lobby in 2016.