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Cosmic Funnies

if i look back, i am lost
Jules of Nature
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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If you haven’t seen this story, look up his name: Francisco Galicia.
Expect to see him come 2020, when the debates begin and the political battle heats up. Expect to see him in a suit testifying in court, or before Congress. This young man is a witness and a victim, and the fact that this isn’t a more prominent story on every news station is what truly frightens me.
From The Dallas News:
Galicia says he lost 26 pounds during that time in a South Texas immigrant detention center because officers didn’t provide him with enough food.
He said he wasn’t allowed to shower and his skin was dry and dirty.
He and 60 other men were crammed into an overcrowded holding area where they slept on the floor and were given only aluminum-foil blankets, he said. Some men had to sleep on the restroom area floor.
Ticks bit some of the men and some were very sick, Galicia said. But many were afraid to ask to go to the doctor because CBP officers told them their stay would start over if they did, he said.
I would remind you that concentration camps are actually real.
“I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, ‘You don’t have rights to anything’,” Francisco Galicia said.
This is happening.
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Wild Flowers Where to find them and how to know them
beautiful Victorian book c1875
Vintage book bindings
As a library worker, there’s something I want to say to you.
You do not have to apologize for the books you choose to read.
At all. To anyone. You owe nobody any explanations; you need no excuse or “good reason” to be reading the book.
You do not have to be ashamed for wanting to read “bad” books. You wanna read Twilight? We got Twilight. Need a banal, cookie-cutter-plot mystery or thriller? Those are always fun. Our regulars check them out by the towering stack. Ask Betty for recommendations; she’s read them all. 50 Shades of Oh Fucking No? We’ve got it, we even got it in large print. Have fun. Check out the rest of our porn too. Oh, and the sex manuals are a MUST if you want to “experiment” yourself. Don’t be afraid to ask; they’re here for a reason.
Want to read a book written by a huge asshole everyone hates and agree was a monster? Yeah, we have those. No, we don’t think you’re an asshole for wanting to know what was actually written in there, or judging things for yourself.
You are not too old for Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Babysitter’s Club, or Captain Underpants. You are not too young for Sherlock Holmes. There’s nothing wrong with a boy reading The Princess Academy or Sweet Valley High. There’s nothing wrong with a girl being into The Hardy Boys or Artemis Fowl instead.
You do not have to pull the shame face and offer me an excuse when you check out your books. I don’t care if I got so angry at that book I threw it against a wall when I read it: you have the right to read it, and enjoy it if it’s enjoyable for you. THAT’S WHY THE LIBRARY HAS IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. If we only stocked pure, unproblematic literature everyone approved of, by authors of unquestionable virtue, we wouldn’t have any books at all. Or music. Or movies. It would be utterly fucking boring. And it certainly wouldn’t be a library.
This week, the U.S. Department of Education announced the beginning of the application period for Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) grants. Applicants have until May 18 to submit a grant proposal.
Attention school librarians! The Department of Education is now accepting submissions for Innovative Approaches to Literacy grants. At least half of all IAL grants are reserved for the development and enhancement of effective school library programs!
Applications are due by May 18th.
Net Neutrality at the end of 2017: What libraries need to know.
Millions of internet users have weighed in — including hundreds of libraries and information professionals — to tell FCC Chairman Ajit Pai not to roll back 2015’s Net Neutrality Order. So what happens now? Flying in the face of this widespread and deep public support for strong net neutrality rules, the FCC has signaled it will gut these protections. Here’s what we expect in coming weeks and months:
FCC Vote: The FCC is expected to be voting at their December meeting, set for December 14 on the adoption of the “Restoring Internet Freedom” rule. The draft language for the vote is expected to be released later today. There likely will be a vote of 3 to 2 (along party lines) to reverse Title II reclassification of the internet. The final order is expected to fully reverse the FCC’s 2015 order.
Release of the Order: The full text of the adopted FCC order will almost certainly not be ready the day of the vote. In 2010, the text of the order (which was subsequently overturned by a federal court) was released two days after it was voted on, and in 2015, the full text was released 14 days after the vote.
Publication in the Federal Register: The order must then be published in the Federal Register and will not go into effect until at least 30 days after publication. This is an important date for proponents of strong net neutrality rules, as its when appeals to the new order can begin.
Legal challenge: There are 60 days to petition for review or appeal the order in the federal court of appeals.
Want more information? See the full post on District Dispatch.
Public librarians
Does your library charge overdue fines? If you don't, I have questions for you!
Come manage a public library branch in the beauuuuutiful PNW!
Date due. Source.
This our library here in Spring, Texas, in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. When I think of people who have lost everything, I hate how sad I feel about a library. But this is where I’ve taken my kids for story time since they were infants. It’s where I’ve met my closest mom friends. It’s a place that means the world to me. But beyond that, this is a place that my community needs. It offers free educational programming, resources, information, language classes, Internet, human connection, a place that is clean and safe, free lunches for kids in the summer when school is out. It’s not just a bunch of books. For some people, the library is their only access to these things.
You can donate to the Texas Library Association’s disaster recovery fund here:
https://squareup.com/store/txla/
This may not be as pressing a need as shelter and food right now, but in the coming future, libraries will be critical centers of information-sharing to their communities. They will help people connect to all the resources they need to rebuild their lives.
Thank you! Reblogging with the link.
I made this meme for my library’s Twitter, but it hasn’t gotten any notice yet. Maybe I don’t get our twitter community. Tumblr, please, witness me.
[image description: currently popular meme image of a man looking with desire at a woman passing on the street while holding the hand of a woman who looks on in dismay. the man is labeled “me”, the woman whose hand he holds labeled “audible.com”, the woman he gazes at labeled “free audiobooks from my public library available in books on CD format or in the hoopla app.” end description]
Console-free Camping
If you like to play The Last of Us, then try Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
If you like to play Beyond: Two Souls, then try The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
If you like to play Call of Duty: Black Ops (Zombies), then try World War Z by Max Brooks
If you like playing Grand Theft Auto, then try American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
If you like playing Sid Meier’s Civilization, then try A Game Of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
If you like playing Final Fantasy, try playing Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
If you like playing Mass Effect, then try Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
If you like playing Alice: Madness Returns, then try Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
If you like playing Halo, then try Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein
If you like playing Portal, then try House Of Stairs by William Sleator
If you like playing Mario Kart, then try The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia
If you like playing Dark Souls, then try Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
If you like playing Life Is Strange, then try We Are Okay by Nina Lacour
If you like playing Stardew Valley, then try How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
If you like playing Fable, then try Young Elites by Marie Lu
If you like playing Borderlands, then try Velocity by Chris Wooding
If you like playing Dishonored, then try Airman by Eoin Colfer
If you like playing The Oregon Trail, then try Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
If you like playing the Elder Scrolls series, then try The Naming by Alison Croggon
If you like playing Red Dead Redemption, then try Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman
If you like playing Bioshock, then try Dark Life by Kat Falls
If you like playing Fallout, then try Razorland by Ann Aguirre
If you like playing Assasin’s Creed, then try The Way of Shadows Night by Brent Weeks
If you like playing Dragonage, then try Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
If you like playing The Legend of Zelda, then try Graceling by Kristin Cashore
If you like playing Until Dawn, then try Ten by Gretchen McNeil
If you like playing Sonic, then try Maximum Ride by James Patterson
If you like playing Overwatch, then try Bluescreen by Dan Wells
If you like playing Uncharted, then try Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
If you like playing Pokemon, then try Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by JK Rowling, and Newt Scamander
If you like playing Mario Party, then try Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Help us defend the internet and protect net neutrality! Tell the FCC why net neutrality is important to you, your library, and your community.
Want to help? Leave a comment for the FCC before July 17th!
A.C. Strip has long understood the significance of the diary his older brother kept as they fled the Holocaust with their parents. He turned it into a self-published book that he gave to his brother as a 90th birthday gift.
But Strip never considered the diary to be an important historical document. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is making him rethink that.
Strip’s brother’s journal is one of more than 200 diaries written by Holocaust victims and survivors the museum hopes to digitize and make available to the public with the help of its first crowd-funding campaign. The museum is seeking $250,000 for the project and will begin soliciting donations through Kickstarter on Monday, the birthday of the most famous Holocaust diarist, Anne Frank.
Read More: Here
Donate here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ushmm/save-their-stories-undiscovered-diaries-of-the-hol
If their goal is reached, their entire diary collection will be catalogued, translated, and published online for EVERYONE. They hope to stem holocaust denial by the power of so many readily-available firsthand accounts.
Please signal boost even if you can’t spare $5 to donate!
My question is, if it’s such an important part of history, why are they charging money to digitize it?
Hi, @windstonality. You might be interested in my recent post about this, but the short version is that they are not charging to digitize it. They’re looking for funding to cover the equipment, staffing, and infrastructure required to take on a project of this size. A scanner built to handle bound and fragile materials can easily run into the tens of thousands of dollars. Project managers, techs, catalogers, translators all need to get paid to do their work. It would be great if the museum already had this in their budget, but they don’t. And if they had to redirect funds, then they would have to cut another part of their work.
Digitization projects for archival materials can cost multiple millions of dollars, especially for large collections, fragile materials, and bound materials like these journals. Most archives simply don’t have the ability to do it in-house. It takes special scanners, dedicated staff, and processing software that all costs a lot of money. Often these jobs are contracted out, and museums and cultural centers spend years applying for grants in order to help fund digitization projects.
At my workplace we are looking into the possibility of digitizing our microfilm collection, for which we got a quote for nearly $3m from a reliable vendor. Half of my job is figuring out how much of that burden we can shoulder by spreading among employees, volunteers, and interns.
Burning collection development question
How do you increase collection circulation without using displays of any kind?
I’m so impressed with the Shedd Aquarium right now. Starting July 1 (and going for… forever), they’re giving free admission to families and individuals with EBT cards, essentially removing one of the biggest barriers to access for a lot of people. Taking a family of four to the Shedd and just getting basic admission costs almost a hundred dollars (and that’s the basic admission with a Chicago resident discount). For many families, that’s an impossible luxury- but now so many more folks are going to be able to visit.
A little more on this- the Shedd is doing this as part of the Museums for All program, which is actually pretty fantastic. I’d not heard of this initiative before, which is a damn shame because it’s good. Institutions are required to not just offer free/reduced admission (admission is either free with EBT/WIC or up to $3), but they also require that the participating institutions train sales and front line staff appropriately to ensure good customer service to individuals and families seeking to take advantage of the Museums for All program. Nobody gets shamed for visiting, there’s no special line or anything. The museums that participate also don’t require local residence or anything- EBT cardholders from any state are able to visit any of these institutions for free or reduced admission.
Here’s a list of participating institutions. I’d love it if this gets spread around because the school year’s ending soon, and these are fun, safe places to be for kids and adults alike. (And on a practical note- with the exception of the zoos and other outdoor things, all of these places are going to have air conditioning. Perfect for hot days, y’know?)