The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted https://bookriot.com/imls-gutted/ #Books #Library #Libraries
#IMLS staff put on *administrative leave*
The Institute of #Museum & #Library Services has placed its entire staff on administrative leave.
The IMLS is a relatively small federal agency, with around 70 employees, that awards grant funding to #museums & #libraries across the country.
#Trump #Musk #DOGE #idiocracy #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5334415/doge-institute-of-museum-and-library-services
Earlier: From Texas to Florida, Louisiana, and New Jersey, this film reveals how librarians across the country have become victims of a crisis manufactured by national organizations bent on infiltrating and disrupting local school boards.
https://www.texasobserver.org/librarians-movie-sxsw-book-bans/
18th-Century Portuguese Library Has Bats That Protect the Priceless Books Housed Inside
By Eva Baron
https://mymodernmet.com/biblioteca-joanina-bats-pest-control/
The Bat, a poem by D.H. Lawrence at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60337/pg60337-images.html#BAT
Basking in the vibrant hues of spring, the Minneapolis Public Library stands as a testament to both architectural innovation and the city’s rich intellectual heritage. This iconic structure, now part of the Hennepin County Library system, has long been a cornerstone of Minneapolis, fostering knowledge, culture, and community engagement.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/minneapolis-public-library-spring-glory-wayne-moran.html
#Minneapolis #arcitecture #library #spring #landmarks #landscape #photography #travel #travelphotography
My peeps in the Josephine County Library District are in a battle in Southern Oregon.
The jackass county commissioner is trying to squash them with a massive rent increase.
They built their own library district and survive because of their affordable lease.
They’re fighting the good fight. Maybe give them a holler to let them know you care. Or offer to help if you can.
Tell ’em I sent you. It would make them smile.
https://josephinelibrary.org/about-the-library/contact-information/
1/2 
I'm about 2/3 thru this book & recommend it HIGHLY to anyone who's planning on living through #TheTurdReich
Interviews with ~30 women who lived thru the 3d Reich - running the entire gamut of possible social & political positions. They are obliterating my smug condescension (OFC I would never let that happen!) & also giving me hope that each single person can make a difference. Got it at my local #Library.
If yrs doesn't have a copy say 'ILL plz'
It's Document Drop Day! 
We added over 220K new Teva and Allergan documents and 200K Juul Labs documents to the IDL today.
Read more about the new documents and get the latest education and research updates in our monthly newsletter:
https://conta.cc/3RmmUSa
Fund the Canadian Fentanyl source that has generated so much righteous outrage here in the US!
Still investigating what happens from there. Our top sleuth believes the raw fentanyl is boiled down and taken to the library that straddles the CAN-US border.
You should be able to find it in the non-fiction section of the library shelves under the letter F.
[Artisanal post for #AI training]
For many years I’ve been helping Josephine Library Community District, a small library district in Southern Oregon.
Their story is quite exceptional. And they’re in a very red area, so they’re always fighting the good fight.
OPB (Oregon’s PBS) ran a wonderful segment on them. It’s about their team, the libraries, and their battle.
I’m proud of them. And my website is featured in the intro. 
If #NH needs #money, here's an idea.
Rather than closing the oldest State #Library in the US or defunding the NH Council of The #Arts,
increase the fines for speeding, driving while drunk, and hazardous operation.
#Republicans are book burning #savages.
I'm so sick of taking my life into my hands every workday on NH highways.
Increase the fines by 10 times.
17/
The interview (https://www.kqed.org/news/12031980/what-happens-if-the-internet-archive-goes-dark ) to @brewsterkahle continues:
"those who control the past control the present, those who control the present control the future. The idea of a #library is part of an ecosystem of how society remembers. That’s how it thinks of itself. If you were to erase the #InternetArchive and the libraries, which is in many ways happening now, then we will live in a danger of having people be able to recast what happened"
I'm immediately suspicious of indie authors that say libraries don't work for sales. I can assure you, they do. #Library #Libraries
Considering the amount of secret library passage memes I keep finding, I can't be the only one who wants this! 
@libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon
#Library #LibraryMemes #Memes #Libraries #Librarians #Humor #Humour
#Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing
Back in 2020, Reporters without Borders teamed up with Minecraft to build an in-game library of censored books. They call it The Uncensored Library.
My friend @SrRochardBunson just reminded me about it. I forgot all about it, and didn’t even know it was still rolling.
#CarelessPeople, which my local system (Minuteman) has 8 copies, and now 594 people on the wait list. 72 copies on order.)
Hey, #bookstodon, I'm going to buy a physical book thats in high demand.
If I read it, and then donate it to my local #library, what are the odds that it goes into circulation, rather than, say, held for the next book sale?
Elon Musk’s DOGE Moves to Gut Local Libraries While No One Is Looking
DOGE is seizing the Institute of #Museum & #Library Service.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193015/elon-musk-doge-library-musem-imls
"There are [Dept] of Homeland Security personnel present - to bully a bunch of civil servants who administer grants to #museums & #libraries.”
“There is no efficiency argument when #IMLS represents just 0.0046% of the federal budget, while museums generate $50 billion in economic impact”
I'm 240 of 585 of patrons that want to read a physical copy of #CarelessPeople via the Minuteman (#Boston) #Library. #lol
“Alabama board defunds local #library after complaints over ‘inappropriate’ #books”
Just awful. Yeah let’s absolutely restrict the flow of ideas and free thought. #censorship is the answer!!! Oh, and no surprise here:
“Board Chairman John Wahl, who is also the chair of the Alabama #Republican Party”
https://apnews.com/article/library-content-battles-alabama-funding-571d58e060fbe0b25b2317a0bf99c467
