just small circles 🕊
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I have been attending two of our book clubs at our local #library for over a year now, and I continue to be the only man attending either of them.
Do we have any #librarians or other book club patrons that can speak to their local demographics? Are there other men who read and like to discuss what they read with others?
That's quite charming.
Almost five Christmases ago, I came across a library book with a bizarre commentary written in the margins. So I wrote a letter to the Port Chalmers librarians, explaining the situation.
Billy Smith
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Three #Iowa City West #highschoolers founded a #bookclub that reads some of the country's most frequently #banned #books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced. #bannedbooks #libraries #librarians #students #education #reading #maga #legislation #laws #booklaw https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-10-15/banned-books-iowa-city-high-school-student-club #democracy #censorship
Three #Iowa City West #highschoolers founded a #bookclub that reads some of the country's most frequently #banned #books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced. #bannedbooks #libraries #librarians #students #education #reading #maga #legislation #laws #booklaw https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-10-15/banned-books-iowa-city-high-school-student-club #democracy #censorship
Librarians, help us celebrate 1 trillion web pages preserved by the @internetarchive! 🌐
Use our resource guide, complete with templates, visuals & event ideas, to connect your community to the web’s history.
More ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/calling-all-libraries-celebrate-1-trillion-web-pages-archived-with-the-internet-archive/
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine, Now," alongside an Internet Archive logo. A red arrow points down to a Wayback Machine capture of the Internet Archive homepage from July 31, 2023. Below that is the domain name "ARCHIVE.ORG".
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine, Then," alongside an Internet Archive logo. A red arrow points down to a Wayback Machine capture of the Internet Archive homepage from January 26, 1997. Below that is the domain name "ARCHIVE.ORG".
True story: I was medicated in the 3rd grade for being hyperactive. (It didn't help, of course, speed only helps actual hyperactive kids, and I wasn't one.) In the fourth grade, Lucille Davis -- I hope hope hope heaven is everything it's cracked up to be -- said, "Take him off the meds. He's not hyperactive, he's bored. I send him to the school library for five hours a day, and he never gets in trouble there."
Not every noisy problematic child is ill.
@GeePawHill My grade school librarian, bless her, stopped me one day and said, "I know you've read everything here. Take this note to the junior high librarian up the hill and she'll let you start checking out books there." #librarians
priryo@linernotes.club
and 2 others
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Hey friends, are any of y’all #prison #librarians? If so, are you up for talking to students interested in that area?
Boosts welcome 💜💜
Hey friends, are any of y’all #prison #librarians? If so, are you up for talking to students interested in that area?
Boosts welcome 💜💜
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
and 1 other
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“A handful of letters scattered in archives in Castellón, Paris, New York, and California reveal the existence of a vast and intricate international network of anti-fascist librarians who, during the Spanish postwar period, collaborated from different parts of the world, providing aid to Republican intellectuals interned in French concentration camps.”
Alex Akselrod
and 1 other
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The local library is doing the Repair Cafe!!! This is an initial event. Im hoping we can do something like this monthly once we get it going!!!
Repair Cafes are community events where people bring things to get fixed and maintained for free. Volunteers come to hang out, talk shop, and work on folks' items.
This is a mutual-aid event - So folks might be good at fixing bicycles but arent as good at mending jeans. So they might bring their jeans to get patched and then help tune a bicycle!
While my library has asked if I can help with desktop support (which I'm more than willing to do), I actually really like working on bicycles! So I let them know I could do that, too.
I'm at my bandwidth with creating and organizing things with the Free Fridges and Food Rescue, but I absolutely can join an volunteer on the days of if all I have to do is show up, hang out, and tinker on some repairs!
THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!
#solarPunk#repairCafe#rightToRepair#mutualAid #libraries #library #librarians
The local library is doing the Repair Cafe!!! This is an initial event. Im hoping we can do something like this monthly once we get it going!!!
Repair Cafes are community events where people bring things to get fixed and maintained for free. Volunteers come to hang out, talk shop, and work on folks' items.
This is a mutual-aid event - So folks might be good at fixing bicycles but arent as good at mending jeans. So they might bring their jeans to get patched and then help tune a bicycle!
While my library has asked if I can help with desktop support (which I'm more than willing to do), I actually really like working on bicycles! So I let them know I could do that, too.
I'm at my bandwidth with creating and organizing things with the Free Fridges and Food Rescue, but I absolutely can join an volunteer on the days of if all I have to do is show up, hang out, and tinker on some repairs!
THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!
#solarPunk#repairCafe#rightToRepair#mutualAid #libraries #library #librarians
Ulrike Hahn
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📚 Metcalfe’s law says that the value of a network grows with each new node. But what happens when some of those nodes are fake?
Nathan T. Camp and colleagues applied this law to citation databases, while Leo Van Hove showed that if even a third of the references are counterfeit, 🤢 the database loses its scientific value and turns harmful.
📄 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103065
📚 Metcalfe’s law says that the value of a network grows with each new node. But what happens when some of those nodes are fake?
Nathan T. Camp and colleagues applied this law to citation databases, while Leo Van Hove showed that if even a third of the references are counterfeit, 🤢 the database loses its scientific value and turns harmful.
📄 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103065
“A handful of letters scattered in archives in Castellón, Paris, New York, and California reveal the existence of a vast and intricate international network of anti-fascist librarians who, during the Spanish postwar period, collaborated from different parts of the world, providing aid to Republican intellectuals interned in French concentration camps.”