More Everything

More Orphan, More Agent, More Prima, More Pawn

[elizabethkiem]

BIOPOLITICS

[elizabethkiem]

“We can examine every tool we have to defend the humanity and the dignity of all people.”

[escuerzoresucitado]

[allsortsoffuckedup]

Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!

For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!

Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!

[carne-asada-fries]

Having worked at an academic library, I'd also like to add do this with physical media. Libby and all of that is great, but it doesn't count for this sort of funding metrics (and many of those apps actually cost money for the library to use).

We periodically did in-house analysis of what was being checked out to help us decide what to cull and what to purchase, so whatever you're in to? Go check it out. Into weird stuff and nervous about it? No worries!The computer systems will keep a record of how many times an item has been checked out but not by whom, nor is there a record of what you've checked out in the past. You want the library to keep stocking a certain periodical? Go check it out. You want your library to stock more werewolf smut? Go check it out. Unfortunately for everyone, libraries are generally in danger of being covered by the idiom "use it or lose it", so go forth and help your libraries, tumblerinos!

[scavengedluxury]

Coventry Cathedral, October 2015.

[elizabethkiem]

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[elizabethkiem]

Firmitas, utilitas, venustras.

Especially venustras.

[elizabethkiem]

Not ancient history. 9:50 : "You collect half a gigabyte, whatever that is, of information from customers every day. Thats about 350 floppy discs worth. What do you go with that data?!?" asks Bob Simon with smug incredulity.

Bless.

[charlesoberonn]

Ancient Philosopher: I believe my philosophy provides a practical framework for virtuous living.

Modern Philosopher: Okay but what would you do if *the most horrifying thought experiment you've ever heard*

Ancient Philosopher: What the fuck is wrong with you?

[thekalpar]

[labelleizzy]

Union strong

Thank you IWW IU 520 (Railroad workers) for the end to the nightmare

[nobrashfestivity]

Utagawa Shigenobu

Innumerable species of fish, 1847-1848

[elizabethkiem]

The difference between everyone and noone is all of the shoes.

[elizabethkiem]

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[elizabethkiem]

Slaughter on 10th Ave.

Geva & Bolger

[elizabethkiem]

The Soweto Uprising • 16 June 1976

On 16 June 1976, South African schoolchildren in Soweto marched to protest being forced to learn in Afrikaans — the language of their oppressors. Police opened fire. Hundreds of students were killed in the months that followed. The uprising radicalised a generation and marked the beginning of the end of apartheid's social control. June 16 is now Youth Day in South Africa.

This week's archive piece uses the Soweto uprising as a reference point for examining why states and institutions seek to depoliticise student unions, connecting historical student resistance to contemporary attempts to suppress it.

[elizabethkiem]

scarp

The steep face of a slope of hill