“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.”

#librarians #archives #antifascism #history

https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-19/united-librarians-the-international-network-that-helped-spanish-republicans.html

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

📚 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

📄 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103123

#science #librarians #openscience #citations

📚 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

📄 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103123

#science #librarians #openscience #citations

“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.”

#librarians #archives #antifascism #history

https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-19/united-librarians-the-international-network-that-helped-spanish-republicans.html

> Researchers warn that our increasing use of AI could be limiting our language and thought processes https://www.cbc.ca/news/ai-human-thought-processes-1.7604789

Ah yes, the wonderful #tech that folks in places like #academia and #HigherEd, including #librarians who should know better, are rushing to embrace.

#AISlop #sloppers

> Researchers warn that our increasing use of AI could be limiting our language and thought processes https://www.cbc.ca/news/ai-human-thought-processes-1.7604789

Ah yes, the wonderful #tech that folks in places like #academia and #HigherEd, including #librarians who should know better, are rushing to embrace.

#AISlop #sloppers

EXCLUSIVE: #Labour warned library cuts on Scotland's largest local authority risked worsening the country's 'shameful attainment gap'.

Chris McCall Deputy Political Editor, 02 Aug 2025

Excerpt: "Glasgow Life, which manages the library service for the council, is proposing to take 16 librarians out of the city's education system. The plans would see the school service headed up by a principal librarian along with three area-based librarians, while an 'assistant' would be placed in high schools.

"An online petition against the cuts and shared among parents has since been signed more than 1,300 times.

"Joy McLean said she was concerned about how a decline in #LibraryServices would impact her daughter and other pupils. '#Librarians are essential #educators who foster a love of #reading, support research and #DigitalLiteracy, and help students thrive #academically and personally,' she added."

Read more:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/librarian-cuts-glasgow-schools-rob-35659625

#LibrariesRule! #EducationCuts #ScotlandPol#LoveOfReading #BuildingCommunity#Literacy#SupportingResearch#CriticalThinkingSkills

EXCLUSIVE: #Labour warned library cuts on Scotland's largest local authority risked worsening the country's 'shameful attainment gap'.

Chris McCall Deputy Political Editor, 02 Aug 2025

Excerpt: "Glasgow Life, which manages the library service for the council, is proposing to take 16 librarians out of the city's education system. The plans would see the school service headed up by a principal librarian along with three area-based librarians, while an 'assistant' would be placed in high schools.

"An online petition against the cuts and shared among parents has since been signed more than 1,300 times.

"Joy McLean said she was concerned about how a decline in #LibraryServices would impact her daughter and other pupils. '#Librarians are essential #educators who foster a love of #reading, support research and #DigitalLiteracy, and help students thrive #academically and personally,' she added."

Read more:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/librarian-cuts-glasgow-schools-rob-35659625

#LibrariesRule! #EducationCuts #ScotlandPol#LoveOfReading #BuildingCommunity#Literacy#SupportingResearch#CriticalThinkingSkills

This is worth a repeat bump.

#Books #libraries #librarians
#CivilSociety #democracy

#Fascism
#Oligarchy

If we want to reach public #librarians we (you) should keynote at the #OLA Superconference2026

https://olasuperconference.ca

If we want to reach public #librarians we (you) should keynote at the #OLA Superconference2026

https://olasuperconference.ca

Attempting to catch a wild librarian

#cartoons
#librarians
#TomGauld

Attempting to catch a wild librarian

#cartoons
#librarians
#TomGauld