I've been playing with AllMaps to georeference SLV maps that are available via @IIIF. Here's a set of maps of the Melbourne CBD created for fire insurance in the 1920s. https://viewer.allmaps.org/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fannotations.allmaps.org%2Fmanifests%2F628c216109f482f1 Hold down 'b' to remove the map backgrounds & see the buildings more easily. #GLAM #libraries #digitalHumanities #maps

A funny little PR video for the New Berlin Public Library.

#funny #libraries #trustfall

(Shared at my place of work after being found on Reddit)

nice to see EPL taking an unambiguous stance against censorship here

https://www.intellectualfreedom.ca

#canpoli #yeg #libraries #alberta

nice to see EPL taking an unambiguous stance against censorship here

https://www.intellectualfreedom.ca

#canpoli #yeg #libraries #alberta

Charlottesville, Virginia, USA has an e-bike lending library!

Just... go and check out an ebike. Ride it for a week for free. And then turn it back in. You can check it out multiple times so long as no has a hold for it.

#solarpunk #libraries #libraryOfThings #libraryEconomy #eBike

https://www.ebikelibrarycville.org

Charlottesville, Virginia, USA has an e-bike lending library!

Just... go and check out an ebike. Ride it for a week for free. And then turn it back in. You can check it out multiple times so long as no has a hold for it.

#solarpunk #libraries #libraryOfThings #libraryEconomy #eBike

https://www.ebikelibrarycville.org

This is a wonderful wonderful thing.

Mychal the Librarian is hosting the new Reading Rainbow.

#readingRainbow #bookstodon #libraries #PBS

Source: https://archive.is/vmTF8

This is a wonderful wonderful thing.

Mychal the Librarian is hosting the new Reading Rainbow.

#readingRainbow #bookstodon #libraries #PBS

Source: https://archive.is/vmTF8

The Ann Arbor District Library Plans to Acquire the Ann Arbor Observer
#libraries #PublicLibraries #journalism
https://aadl.org/node/647334

404 Media: Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books (pawall)

https://www.404media.co/librarians-are-being-asked-to-find-ai-hallucinated-books/

#ai #llm #libraries

With Mozilla's #Pocket shutting down (articles are already unavailable, exports can be retrieved through 8 October 2025, see: https://web.archive.org/web/20250927204616/https://getpocket.com/home), I've exported the list of URLs I'd logged with the service.

One of my longstanding gripes was that there was no way for me to get a total of the articles I'd saved.

(There ... were other gripes.)

I now know: 30,735.

In an ideal world, this would have been a useful library of references. I'd tagged many of these (including, eventually, adopting a convention of tagging by archive date which Pocket surely must've known somewhere in its data schema, but petulantly hid from its users), through a loose but somewhat controlled vocabulary influenced in part by both my general interests and some familiarity with existing library ontologies, classifications, and subject headings.

I'm kicking around what to do with this archive. One question of course is how many of the links have since rotted (I suspect a high percentage). I've got a few leads on readability-rendering (including a bash script invoking JS ... somehow ... I've got to look at). Tracking down archived copies, and spinning up a media server, would also be handy.

#Mozilla #GetPocket #Shutdown #Libraries #KFC #KnowledgeManagement #WhyIsContentManagementSoShiteStill

🔪 The bloat of edge-case first libraries

https://43081j.com/2025/09/bloat-of-edge-case-libraries

#software #programming #api #libraries #complexity #softwaredevelopment #computing #engineering

🔪 The bloat of edge-case first libraries

https://43081j.com/2025/09/bloat-of-edge-case-libraries

#software #programming #api #libraries #complexity #softwaredevelopment #computing #engineering

404 Media: Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books (pawall)

https://www.404media.co/librarians-are-being-asked-to-find-ai-hallucinated-books/

#ai #llm #libraries

Can we please call them “little free book exchange” instead of library? Libraries are far more than just discarded books in a cupboard.

#libraries

Banned Books Week is coming up — it takes place from Oct. 5-11 In honor of this, Penguin Random House will be bringing its Banned Wagon to libraries and indie bookstores in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, giving away 30 titles that are currently banned or challenged in parts of the U.S. These include "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou, "Hair Love" by Matthew A. Cherry, and "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank. “This week is not just for celebration—it’s about action,” said Skip Dye, Chair of Penguin Random House’s Intellectual Freedom Taskforce. “By standing together as publishers, authors, educators, librarians, students, and readers, we can ensure that shelves remain filled with diverse ideas and perspectives, and that the next generation grows up with the freedom to explore them.” Here's more from BookRiot.

https://flip.it/3p9uFb

#Books @span bookstodon#BannedBooks#Libraries#USPolitics#Culture

Banned Books Week is coming up — it takes place from Oct. 5-11 In honor of this, Penguin Random House will be bringing its Banned Wagon to libraries and indie bookstores in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, giving away 30 titles that are currently banned or challenged in parts of the U.S. These include "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou, "Hair Love" by Matthew A. Cherry, and "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank. “This week is not just for celebration—it’s about action,” said Skip Dye, Chair of Penguin Random House’s Intellectual Freedom Taskforce. “By standing together as publishers, authors, educators, librarians, students, and readers, we can ensure that shelves remain filled with diverse ideas and perspectives, and that the next generation grows up with the freedom to explore them.” Here's more from BookRiot.

https://flip.it/3p9uFb

#Books @span bookstodon#BannedBooks#Libraries#USPolitics#Culture

A vital record of Black life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is now online.

⭐ The Mississippi Star, digitized by Hancock County Library System Community Webs, preserves local voices, culture, & civil rights stories.

Accessible to everyone, these issues now live on the web we built. 🌐

Learn more on our blog ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2025/09/03/local-voices-lasting-impact-digitizing-a-community-magazine-in-hancock-county-mississippi/

#CommunityHistory#Libraries#WebArchiving

A vital record of Black life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is now online.

⭐ The Mississippi Star, digitized by Hancock County Library System Community Webs, preserves local voices, culture, & civil rights stories.

Accessible to everyone, these issues now live on the web we built. 🌐

Learn more on our blog ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2025/09/03/local-voices-lasting-impact-digitizing-a-community-magazine-in-hancock-county-mississippi/

#CommunityHistory#Libraries#WebArchiving