Happy Public Domain Day to all who observe! How will you be celebrating? These books, movies, art and music enter public domain in 2026 : NPR share.google/vioTAsgRjwoE...

The cultural works becoming public domain in 2026, from Betty Boop to Nancy Drew

The original Betty Boop, the first four Nancy Drew books and Greta Garbo's first talkie are among the many works from 1930 that will be free to use, share and remake starting on Jan. 1.

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Rochester & Monroe County friends! Help us gather feedback on our online library catalog! 📖❤️📚 Everyone who completes the survey and enters contact information will be entered in a drawing to win a gift card to a local bookstore! forms.office.com/r/NBaBce0bqJ

Happy Pride Eve to all who observe.

Eliminating IMLS would harm ALL Americans who rely on library programs and services, from summer reading programs to library delivery services for older Americans. #ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries Take action: bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding

As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1 www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

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Confirmed DOGE is currently inside IMLS headquarters.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.

When I asked the media specialist how she felt when banned books were pulled from the shelves of the St. Francis High School library, she told me, “Each book I have had to remove crushes me inside.” minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/19/t...

'The Handmaid's Tale' could really teach something to the kids in St. Francis. Too bad it's banned. • Minnesota Reformer

“The Bluest Eye” and “The Perks of Being A Wallflower” are out.

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It's a five alarm fire. americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc...

White House Attacks Libraries | American Libraries Magazine

On March 14, President Trump launched an assault on libraries, signing an executive order targeting the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders. Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients. www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...

Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries

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Eliminating the Institute of Museum and Library Services is just one more way of coming for the most vulnerable people in our country. #IMLS

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If you don't know why this is super alarming, you're not paying attention. Trump administration dismisses national archivist www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/p...

Trump administration dismisses national archivist | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump’s administration announced it had dismissed Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan in a surprise move Friday evening.

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Groundhog Day is stupid. There I said it.

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Listen, I did not FA and I think it is very unfair that I have to FO. Where do I opt out? ##fafo##liberal

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Take yall children to those black history events that will be held at some local libraries. It starts at home

NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.

I have never needed Spring Training to start as badly as I need it this year. ⚾️

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I'll watch every video from every angle of this.

Martha Hickson@sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 2y ago

A Thanksgiving treat for you!

Remembering when the kids were little and Claire loved going into Radio City at Christmas time to see the "Rock Heads". She was sure they were robots.

Anyone surprised by Glinda being shady in Wicked didn't pay attention in the Wizard Of Oz...

F Ronald McDonald. Grimace in a Mets hat is the balloon New Yorkers deserve in the parade this year. #macysparade

a purple monster is standing in front of a building with the words `` lets go mets '' written below it .

ALT: a purple monster is standing in front of a building with the words `` lets go mets '' written below it .

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Had a slight issue with the stream settings, so here is a new link: youtube.com/live/-a9g0AU... We'll be live in about 2 minutes. Come hang with us.

Emily Clasper@eclasper.bsky.social · 2y ago

So, we're at it again. youtube.com/live/UBtv7Hn... Join my fabulous self and my insufferable son starting at noon today as we prep for Thanksgiving dinner. We love welcoming family and friends we don't usually get to see into our home via the interwebz. Hey, I cook once a year... don't miss it!

So, we're at it again. youtube.com/live/UBtv7Hn... Join my fabulous self and my insufferable son starting at noon today as we prep for Thanksgiving dinner. We love welcoming family and friends we don't usually get to see into our home via the interwebz. Hey, I cook once a year... don't miss it!

Nancy Mace needs to stop peeking into other people's bathroom stalls.

Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky

Anyone baffled by T's cabinet picks clearly operates under the outdated assumption that the president wants the government and its agencies to succeed. That notion is so last year.

One of the best articles I've read about proactively approaching the fight against book banning. Also, I'll be buying the book @librarianjones.bsky.social wrote. www.yesmagazine.org/social-justi...

We’re All Responsible for Protecting Public Libraries

In this excerpt from “That Librarian,” Amanda Jones offers a blueprint to battle book censorship in public libraries.

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