#HR9495 is a slippery slope. Who will be considered #terrorists? #ClimateActivists, those who speak up against #IsraeliWarCrimes, #WaterDefenders, #NativeAmericans, #DragQueens, #GBLTQ folks, #Librarians, #gynecologists, etc., etc. We need to #StopHR9495 in its tracks!

#ClampDown #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DonTheFascistCon
#CriminalizingDissent #KristiNoem
#Blackwater #ErikPrince #Autocracy
#SilencingDissent #ClimateActivists
#AntiWarActivists #WaterProtectors
#PeaceActivists #ClimateJustice #Protests #StandWithStandingRock
#GazaGenocide #LebanonGenocide #WeDontNeedThatFascistGrooveThing

A little library humor to brighten your day. Seen at my local library.

Thank you, mysterious Cathy.

#Library #Libraries #Librarians #Reading #Books #Funny

Meanwhile, in #BadEconomy #fuckery

> Google Cofounder Exhorts Employees to Work 60-Hour Weeks to Create AI Designed to Replace Them https://futurism.com/google-sergey-brin-60-hour-week-ai

But yea, the #tech #HigherEd and #academia are rushing to embrace, including certain small campuses with #librarians who should know better.

#AI #Internet #assholes #BringBackGuillotines #jobs #work #labor #exploitation

Calling #librarians and #GLAM-experts who would be up to advise @SafeguardingResearch:

We are designing a dataset catalogue for sharing data using torrents. It needs to be as simple as possible but no simpler. We need review of our metadata schema by an expert to make sure we haven't missed essential things.
See: https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/t/metadata-schema/180

#DigitalHumanities #OpenBiblio et al.

* "When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons' borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.

* We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason."

#Libraries #Librarians #Rwsist #Politics #Anarchist
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Films: ‘The #Librarians’ Review: A Powerful Documentary About American Book Bans — and the Heroes Who Battle Them https://www.infodocket.com/2025/01/25/films-the-librarians-review-a-powerful-documentary-about-american-book-bans-and-the-heroes-who-battle-them/ #bookbans #libraries

So, schauen wir mal, was das #fedivers kann.

Ich suche solch ein Stempelset, wie es auf den Bildern zu sehen ist. Das gehört schon ewig zu unserem Bürobestand und ich fürchte ständig, dass uns was kaputt geht und wir dann keinen vergleichbaren Ersatz finden.

Wer also sowas hat und nicht braucht oder jemanden weiß, der eines ungenutzt rumliegen hat... Ich würde mich freuen und es wäre sehr beruhigend...

#library #librarians #librarianday

Tom Gauld Cartoon

The role of librarians in the education system

#Gauld #Cartoon #Bookstadon #Librarians #Library