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Starting this week, we’ll all pay more at the store because of the Trump tariffs, even while he’s finalizing a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy. All the bluster is meant to get us talking about literally anything else.

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Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.

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55 years ago, Black librarians came together to establish an organization that would change librarianship and the American Library Association. ilovelibraries.org/article/fift...

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Bullies always give off the same energy.

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Microsoft is shutting down Skype, the internet-based communication service that was once dominant in the mid-2000s: cnn.it/3QEdKAf

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Welcome to the public domain, TOAD OF TOAD HALL (1929) by A. A. Milne. The author of WINNIE-THE-POOH brought Toad from Kenneth Graham's THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS to the stage. 🐸🎭🚗 Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025 #InternetArchive #PublicDomain

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State's proposed budget could cost Indiana Historical Society its building

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Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid. So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

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The dissertation has been submitted to ProQuest. I paid the $95 for open access, so anyone that wants to look at it will be able to once it's through the process and available.

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The Grammy Award-winning artist and educator had shared an ALS diagnosis in 2022. She was best known for ballads such as "Killing Me Softly With His Song" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."

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This is informative. Thanks

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I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

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NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

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IU Indianapolis is now an official R1 institute.

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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

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These two cats are jealous of each other, always fighting for my attention.

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Libraries help us preserve and understand our past, enrich our present, and prepare for the future. Now more than ever, they need your support. Learn more and become a supporter — for all of us — #ForOurLibraries. ilovelibraries.org

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Remember when Trump’s admin called book bans a hoax? They’re the ones banning books. This went out at one of the DODEA middle schools overseas. Sign the petition against banned books at www.bookbanpetition.us

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I often talk about righteous fights. Make no mistake: we are in one. This fight will be long. Trump will continue to distract, divide, and demoralize us. But when things get tough, there is only one option ahead of us: Nevertheless, we must persist. 🧵Part one:

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Well, final editing before publication but I passed the defense. :)

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🕳️ #VanishingCulture ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/05/vanishing-culture-what-early-internet-era-gifs-show-us-about-preserving-digital-culture/

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I’m now less than 24 hours away from my dissertation defense 😱😬

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This is also a valuable resource for sky users theblue.report

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Good morning ☀️

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The gears of the grantmaking machinery at NIH have begun moving again, after a 2-week standstill following a controversial ban on communications imposed by President Donald Trump. scim.ag/4aLQ0U6

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Use my link for up to $100 off the current registration rates at Computers in Libraries 2025: secure.infotoday.com/RegForms/Com...

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📚 Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth with the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table by joining the National African American Read-In! Download free graphics to promote the event in your library community—including a reading tracker featuring award-winning titles. ➡️ ala.org/cskbart

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“We should be alarmed at the thought of books being pulled from shelves because of a few people with agendas that have more to do with divisive politics than books, education, and libraries,” Jones warns. “And we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.” thecurrentga.org/2025/01/31/t...

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NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents. WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.

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Well said, Pete Buttigieg

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The administration says it will conduct a comprehensive review of grant recipients' political and social ideology before resuming any funding. www.everylibrary.org/statement_om...

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Czar and I are getting ready for a busy day of Zoom interviews for a position in our department, and an ILF board meeting.

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“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

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On the Fever star's birthday, the Caitlin Clark Foundation announced it would distribute 22,000 brand new children's books to programs serving underprivileged children across the country, thanks to a donation from Scholastic.

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Libraries fire back on bill to remove taxing authority

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