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David Mitchell :CApride:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cbcnews</span></a></span></p><p>“Demetrios Nicolaides says the move is about putting rules in place for schools that until now have had no standard for selecting age-appropriate books for its libraries.”</p><p>This is a bullshit sentence that suggests librarians aren’t able to discern what an appropriate book for their library is, and suggests that librarians don’t have access to reliable reviews and rating systems or resources for books. The suggestion is untrue.</p><p>What he really means is that *they* (the provincial government) don’t currently have a system for controlling which books are (or aren’t) on shelves, and they want that power over you, your kids, and librarians.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Library</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libraries</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Librarians</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ABpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ABpoli</span></a></p>
Hiring Librarians<p>"we lost all of our FT positions with no replacement at all." <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/LIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LIS</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/GLAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GLAM</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libraries</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/LibraryJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibraryJobs</span></a></p><p><a href="http://hiringlibrarians.com/2025/07/10/its-not-dying-its-being-murdered-by-shortsighted-college-administrators-who-have-no-respect-for-us-or-what-we-do/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">hiringlibrarians.com/2025/07/1</span><span class="invisible">0/its-not-dying-its-being-murdered-by-shortsighted-college-administrators-who-have-no-respect-for-us-or-what-we-do/</span></a></p>
Ed Summers<p>This is a really excellent talk at <a href="https://social.coop/tags/openrepos2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openrepos2025</span></a> by Ben Zhao about the limits of and misconceptions about LLMs, that is tailored for the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/archives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archives</span></a> and <a href="https://social.coop/tags/digitalpreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalpreservation</span></a> crowd. He focuses in on how they work, and don't work -- and bridges that to a discussion of the impacts that the technology is having on the larger web (bots).</p><p>It gives me no measure of good vibes to know that a big crowd of people in my profession got to hear this for a keynote about AI.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JicpcYwQe3w" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=JicpcYwQe3</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push – Politico</strong></p><blockquote>The losses are spread across each of NASA’s 10 regional centers, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and will impact everything from planning astronaut missions to the moon to sending out deep space probes. | Aubrey Gemignani / NASA via Getty Images<p><strong>Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push</strong></p><p><em>The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.<br>A rocket takes off.</em></p><p>By Sam Skove, 07/09/2025 01:14 PM EDT</p><p>At least 2,145 senior-ranking NASA employees are set to leave under a push to shed staff, according to documents obtained by POLITICO — potentially spelling trouble for White House space policy and depriving the agency of decades of experience.</p><p>The 2,145 employees are those in GS-13 to GS-15 positions — senior-level government ranks that are typically reserved for those with specialized skills or management responsibilities. The losses are particularly concentrated at higher levels, with 875 GS-15 employees set to leave, according to the documents.</p><p>Those 2,145 employees, in turn, make up the bulk of the 2,694 civil staff who have agreed to leave NASA under a slate of offers that fall within broader administration efforts to trim the federal workforce, according to the documents. NASA has offered staff early retirement, buyouts and deferred resignations.</p><p>Many of those leaving also serve in NASA’s core mission sets, according to the documents. Those leaving include 1,818 staff serving in mission areas like science or human space flight, with the rest performing mission support roles like IT, facilities management or finance.</p><p>“You’re losing the managerial and core technical expertise of the agency,” said Casey Dreier, chief of space policy at The Planetary Society. “What’s the strategy and what do we hope to achieve here?”</p><p>The departures follow a proposed White House budget for 2026 that would slash NASA’s funding by 25 percent and cut over 5,000 staff. The cuts, if enacted by Congress, would force the agency to operate with the smallest budget and staff since the early 1960s.</p><p>The losses are spread across each of NASA’s 10 regional centers, where much of the agency’s work is done and which focus on everything from planning astronaut missions to the moon to sending out deep space probes.</p><p>The Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland is set to lose the most staff at 607; Johnson Space Center in Texas will lose 366 staff; Kennedy Space Center in Florida will lose 311; and NASA headquarters in Washington will lose 307. Langley Research Center in Virginia will lose 281, Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama will lose 279, and Cleveland’s Glenn Research Center will lose 191 staff.</p><p><a class="" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/2025/07/09/over-2000-senior-staff-set-to-leave-nasa-under-agency-push-politico/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Read more<span class="">: Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push – Politico</span></a>Source Links: <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/nasa-staff-departures-00444674" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push – POLITICO</a></p></blockquote> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/nasa/" target="_blank">#NASA</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/national-aeronautics-and-space-administration/" target="_blank">#NationalAeronauticsAndSpaceAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politico/" target="_blank">#Politico</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
ALA Editions | Neal-Schuman<p>Check out our cool July <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/playlist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>playlist</span></a> along with all our latest news!</p><p><a href="https://shorturl.at/2jgAx" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">shorturl.at/2jgAx</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://glammr.us/tags/ALA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALA</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/AmericanLibraryAssociation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanLibraryAssociation</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/LIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LIS</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/MLIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MLIS</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/librarianship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>librarianship</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/InformationScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InformationScience</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/librarywork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>librarywork</span></a> <a href="https://glammr.us/tags/libraryWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraryWorkers</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>"Trust and Integrity: A Research Imperative." A joint statement from the Association of Research Libraries (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ARL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARL</span></a>), International Association of Scientific, Technical &amp; Medical Publishers (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/STM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STM</span></a>), Association of College and Research Libraries (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ACRL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACRL</span></a>), Society for Scholarly Publishing (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SSP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SSP</span></a>), and Association of University Presses (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AUPresses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AUPresses</span></a>). <br><a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/09/trust-and-integrity-a-research-imperative/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/20</span><span class="invisible">25/07/09/trust-and-integrity-a-research-imperative/</span></a></p><p>(Yes, it's rare to see <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/publishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishers</span></a> issue joint statements.)</p><p>"This year has brought unprecedented challenges to the U.S. research enterprise – sweeping federal funding cuts, capricious reductions in the federal workforce, and destabilizing attacks on universities, laboratories, and federal research agencies…In response to these challenges, we believe in and support: Public investment in basic science and the humanities…The need for broad access to validated, trusted information…Protecting and advancing freedom of speech…and ensuring research and scholarship remain free from political interference."</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DefendResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendResearch</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Funding</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Takedowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Takedowns</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TrumpVResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpVResearch</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
RealJournalism<p>Grassroots repowering of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> sees <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solar</span></a> boost for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2025/06/12/grassroots-repowering-of-london-sees-solar-boost-for-libraries/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenationalnews.com/news/uk/20</span><span class="invisible">25/06/12/grassroots-repowering-of-london-sees-solar-boost-for-libraries/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a></p>
Jennifer Lizak<p>Summer Reading is not just for kids! Thanks to Block Club for writing about all our amazing summer reading programs for adults at Chicago Public Library this summer! <br><a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/08/chicago-public-library-rolls-out-the-summer-reading-program-for-adults-youve-been-dreaming-of/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/0</span><span class="invisible">8/chicago-public-library-rolls-out-the-summer-reading-program-for-adults-youve-been-dreaming-of/</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/summerreading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>summerreading</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a></p>
infoDOCKET<p>Complete Statement: “NIH to Crack Down on Excessive Publisher Fees For Publicly Funded Research” <a href="https://www.infodocket.com/2025/07/08/statement-nih-to-crack-down-on-excessive-publisher-fees-for-publicly-funded-research/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">infodocket.com/2025/07/08/stat</span><span class="invisible">ement-nih-to-crack-down-on-excessive-publisher-fees-for-publicly-funded-research/</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/scholcomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scholcomm</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/publishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishers</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a></p>
Dawn Tåke 🌙 :sparkletrans:<p>I think my library has blocked Mullvad VPN. That or service is down. But this system does have a habit of blocking VPNs. Tor is blocked without a bridge and the Mullvad site is blocked outside of Tor. Unfortunately, I can't test another wifi until I get home.</p><p>What's interesting is they seem to <em>only</em> block VPNs. I've looked up porn on my phone and been fine. Only other thing I've ran into being blocked are MiHoYo games, (but I used a VPN to play it before I dropped their union-busting butts.) </p><p>It sucks too, as I usually just keep it on.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mullvadnet</span></a></span> are you having issues? I've tried to connect though the US, Canada, and Norway.</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libraries</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Mullvad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mullvad</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Tor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tor</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VPN</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/TourmaLibrarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TourmaLibrarian</span></a></p>
infoDOCKET<p>More Than 90 <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Authors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authors</span></a> to Join the 25th Library of Congress National Book Festival <a href="https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/more-than-90-authors-to-join-the-25th-library-of-congress-national-book-festival/s/eb50e1ae-8811-4add-a135-dd8172dfd5e5" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsroom.loc.gov/news/more-tha</span><span class="invisible">n-90-authors-to-join-the-25th-library-of-congress-national-book-festival/s/eb50e1ae-8811-4add-a135-dd8172dfd5e5</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://instinctd.com/users/librarycongress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>librarycongress</span></a></span></p>
Melissa<p>From InformationToday:<br>Follow up study on<br><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ebook</span></a> sales and licensing patterns in <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a>. </p><p>"The data forces us to conclude, reluctantly, that not only does print<br>still offer libraries a far better bang-per-book than digital, but that<br>for most popular titles, digital collections are becoming increasingly<br>difficult to sustain."<br><a href="https://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jul25/Blackwell-Halperin-Mason-Parker--Ebook-Availability-Licensing-and-Pricing-in-Canada-and-the-US-A-Follow-Up-Study.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">infotoday.com/cilmag/jul25/Bla</span><span class="invisible">ckwell-Halperin-Mason-Parker--Ebook-Availability-Licensing-and-Pricing-in-Canada-and-the-US-A-Follow-Up-Study.shtml</span></a></p>
Nicole Hennig<p>Practical Considerations for Adopting Generative AI Tools in Academic Libraries <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01930826.2025.2506151" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108</span><span class="invisible">0/01930826.2025.2506151</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a></p>
Project Gutenberg<p>Dancing with Frank O’Hara: How Lunch Dances Breaks the Library’s Sacred Silence</p><p>by Brian Schaefer</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/dancing-with-frank-ohara-how-lunch-dances-breaks-the-librarys-sacred-silence/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/dancing-with-frank-</span><span class="invisible">ohara-how-lunch-dances-breaks-the-librarys-sacred-silence/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dance</span></a></p>
M. Grégoire<p>Let such policies be reported on; let us criticise decisions we consider foolish -- in this big world, there's plenty of foolishness. But let's not exaggerate the problem, pretend that libraries can avoid making choices about what books are not on their shelves, or imagine that it's easy to establish a rule well-suited to all cases. Let the decisions be local, aimed at those most directly affected and leaving other libraries free to decide differently.</p><p>4/4</p><p><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/BookBans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookBans</span></a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a></p>
M. Grégoire<p>2. Any given library cannot hold all the books that exist, so they must choose. Obviously some books will be excluded, so someone decides which ones.</p><p>3. Doesn't everyone agree that certain books are bad for certain people? (Some books are probably bad for everyone.) Should libraries in general stock racist, homophobic, antisemitic, misogynistic, etc. books? What about collected *Hustler*, or instructions for making bombs and poisons?</p><p>2/4</p><p><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/BookBans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookBans</span></a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a></p>
M. Grégoire<p>While like nearly everyone else, I shake my head when I see that *Anne Frank's Diary: the Graphic Adaptation* is removed from a school library somewhere in the world, I can't get upset about <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/BookBans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookBans</span></a> as such.</p><p>1. Taking books out of school <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> is not really a ban: there are other libraries and bookstores; Amazon sells over 44M books (but prefer buying elsewhere); Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive exist. In all of history, it has never been easier to find the book you want.</p><p>1/4</p>
Mark<p>Reform <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/councillor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>councillor</span></a>’s boast about removing ‘trans-ideological’ books from children’s library sections falls flat</p><p>Paul <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Webb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Webb</span></a> said he ensured <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> and material were pulled from <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a>’s section of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Kent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kent</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a>, but it emerges they were never there.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/04/reform-councillors-boast-about-removing-trans-ideological-books-from-childrens-library-sections-falls-flat" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">jul/04/reform-councillors-boast-about-removing-trans-ideological-books-from-childrens-library-sections-falls-flat</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Reform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reform</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ReformUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReformUK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>7/4/2025 – Liberty Lament – DrWeb’s Domain</strong></p> <p></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/dump-the-trump/" target="_blank">#DumpTheTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/july-4/" target="_blank">#July4</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/liberty-lament/" target="_blank">#LibertyLament</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
FallsMom 🌻<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@JeniParsons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>JeniParsons</span></a></span> </p><p>My oh my sounds like livin' in the USA</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/collectiondevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>collectiondevelopment</span></a></p>
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