Emma Morris
@curtainlecture.bsky.social
Aspiring Sacred Monster. Astro Literate. Acquisitions Manager @ Newberry Library. She/her. Opinions mine & with apologies to the collective unconscious.
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Chicago Mask Bloc - KF94 and Rapid Tests Fundraiser
By Chicago Mask Bloc
givebutter.com
🥰😷Great opportunity to contribute to Chicago Mask Bloc! This fundraiser supports mutual aid via mask and test distribution in the Chicago area 😷🥰 givebutter.com/masks4chi
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Want to be a #LibraryDefender? Join (or start!) a Friends of the Library group. #FriendsOfTheLibrary groups are a great way to strengthen your local library and fight for #InformationAccess for all! Learn how in our new Friends of the Library 101 Zine! www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo...
Resources — For The People
www.librariesforthepeople.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Want to be a #LibraryDefender? Join (or start!) a Friends of the Library group. #FriendsOfTheLibrary groups are a great way to strengthen your local library and fight for #InformationAccess for all! Learn how in our new Friends of the Library 101 Zine! www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo...
Thank you and hell yes to local independent bookstores for supporting our communities and neighbors! From Squeezebox Books, @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social, & @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Thank you and hell yes to local independent bookstores for supporting our communities and neighbors! From Squeezebox Books, @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social, & @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
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If you'd like to join us virtually tonight, we'll be streaming here (tech willing!)
youtube.com/live/RQ3x-aS...
youtube.com/live/RQ3x-aS...
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
If you'd like to join us virtually tonight, we'll be streaming here (tech willing!)
youtube.com/live/RQ3x-aS...
youtube.com/live/RQ3x-aS...
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Poisonous poppies watercolour illustration by Hans Simon Holtzbecker, 1660.
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Poisonous poppies watercolour illustration by Hans Simon Holtzbecker, 1660.
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If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again
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Chicago ppls- my friend Raffi & I will converse abt my recent book on the American Jewish left & anti-Zionism, & what if anything it has to say abt the current conjuncture, American & Jewish Studies, literature, social movements, empire & sundry things at UIC 11/6 huminst.uic.edu/events/benja...
Benjamin Balthaser on the Memory and History of the Jewish Left, in conversation with Raffi Magarik | Institute for the Humanities | University of Illinois Chicago
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huminst.uic.edu
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Chicago ppls- my friend Raffi & I will converse abt my recent book on the American Jewish left & anti-Zionism, & what if anything it has to say abt the current conjuncture, American & Jewish Studies, literature, social movements, empire & sundry things at UIC 11/6 huminst.uic.edu/events/benja...
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Protect RP, a rapid response immigrant support network started in 2017 by a group of Rogers Park neighbors, has compiled a list of GoFundMe’s for families in the neighborhood impacted by ICE / CBP abductions and presence in Chicago:
Rogers Park Immigrant Families Need Your Support
Please give as you are able AND share this page! If you have friends and family asking how they can support Chicago in this difficult time, this is a way to directly support families. Go FundMe Link...
docs.google.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Protect RP, a rapid response immigrant support network started in 2017 by a group of Rogers Park neighbors, has compiled a list of GoFundMe’s for families in the neighborhood impacted by ICE / CBP abductions and presence in Chicago:
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@wanlittlehusk.bsky.social helped me put together a food/food donations resource sheet that can be distributed tonight at trick or treating for anyone in the greater chicago area - or any time after!
October 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
@wanlittlehusk.bsky.social helped me put together a food/food donations resource sheet that can be distributed tonight at trick or treating for anyone in the greater chicago area - or any time after!
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Happy Halloween!
We recorded the ACTUAL Dance of Death (via music from a #NewberryLibrary book c. 1650) for your listening pleasure! Read all about it while you listen to the recording in my latest blog post!
www.newberry.org/blog/spooky-...
We recorded the ACTUAL Dance of Death (via music from a #NewberryLibrary book c. 1650) for your listening pleasure! Read all about it while you listen to the recording in my latest blog post!
www.newberry.org/blog/spooky-...
October 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Happy Halloween!
We recorded the ACTUAL Dance of Death (via music from a #NewberryLibrary book c. 1650) for your listening pleasure! Read all about it while you listen to the recording in my latest blog post!
www.newberry.org/blog/spooky-...
We recorded the ACTUAL Dance of Death (via music from a #NewberryLibrary book c. 1650) for your listening pleasure! Read all about it while you listen to the recording in my latest blog post!
www.newberry.org/blog/spooky-...
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Happy Halloween! Woodcut by Bob Borja. #NewberryLibrary
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Happy Halloween! Woodcut by Bob Borja. #NewberryLibrary
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Happy Halloween, from 1925. dansinker.com/posts/202…
October 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Happy Halloween, from 1925. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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Library (archives, research) folk, could you give me your best one liners about Why Cataloguing Matters, please?
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Library (archives, research) folk, could you give me your best one liners about Why Cataloguing Matters, please?
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
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Do you love the Chicago Public Library? Do you not want to wait weeks for books? Do you still want to be able to go to programs? Send a letter to electeds !
In the budget, Brandon Johnson is proposing 89 cuts to positions, and cutting our book budget in half. actionnetwork.org/letters/no-l...
In the budget, Brandon Johnson is proposing 89 cuts to positions, and cutting our book budget in half. actionnetwork.org/letters/no-l...
October 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Do you love the Chicago Public Library? Do you not want to wait weeks for books? Do you still want to be able to go to programs? Send a letter to electeds !
In the budget, Brandon Johnson is proposing 89 cuts to positions, and cutting our book budget in half. actionnetwork.org/letters/no-l...
In the budget, Brandon Johnson is proposing 89 cuts to positions, and cutting our book budget in half. actionnetwork.org/letters/no-l...
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Bookpeople!
Does anyone know where I can buy uncut printed sheets to teach basic imposition and format (rather than the DIY sheets I typically print off on 8.5x11)? The Rare Book School's bibliographic format kits appear to be out of stock.
Does anyone know where I can buy uncut printed sheets to teach basic imposition and format (rather than the DIY sheets I typically print off on 8.5x11)? The Rare Book School's bibliographic format kits appear to be out of stock.
October 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Bookpeople!
Does anyone know where I can buy uncut printed sheets to teach basic imposition and format (rather than the DIY sheets I typically print off on 8.5x11)? The Rare Book School's bibliographic format kits appear to be out of stock.
Does anyone know where I can buy uncut printed sheets to teach basic imposition and format (rather than the DIY sheets I typically print off on 8.5x11)? The Rare Book School's bibliographic format kits appear to be out of stock.
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Chicago people: I’m working on a story about community organizing around trick or treating in our dreaded ICE Era. If you know of activations in your neighborhood or people to talk to, please hit me up! meredith@meredithshiner.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Chicago people: I’m working on a story about community organizing around trick or treating in our dreaded ICE Era. If you know of activations in your neighborhood or people to talk to, please hit me up! meredith@meredithshiner.com
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If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/
Institute – Library Freedom Project
libraryfreedom.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/
Hearing I'm Bored by Iggy Pop on @chirpradio.org while driving along the lake is the best thing that has ever happened to me.
October 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Hearing I'm Bored by Iggy Pop on @chirpradio.org while driving along the lake is the best thing that has ever happened to me.
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The CHIRP Associate Board is looking for music-loving young professionals (21-35) to join the 2026 cohort! Help bring community radio to new audiences & connect Chicago’s arts community through independent radio. Apply by Nov 7, 2025: chirpradio.org/ab
October 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The CHIRP Associate Board is looking for music-loving young professionals (21-35) to join the 2026 cohort! Help bring community radio to new audiences & connect Chicago’s arts community through independent radio. Apply by Nov 7, 2025: chirpradio.org/ab
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I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
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Apply! Astronomy! The Adler!
At The Newberry!
The Celestial Imagination in Indigenous and Early Modern Worlds: mailchi.mp/1222ede5b9c6...
At The Newberry!
The Celestial Imagination in Indigenous and Early Modern Worlds: mailchi.mp/1222ede5b9c6...
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Apply! Astronomy! The Adler!
At The Newberry!
The Celestial Imagination in Indigenous and Early Modern Worlds: mailchi.mp/1222ede5b9c6...
At The Newberry!
The Celestial Imagination in Indigenous and Early Modern Worlds: mailchi.mp/1222ede5b9c6...
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Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids
Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
October 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids
Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
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Librarians or others, would you like a helpful one-pager zine that you can print to let people know how to report ICE?
Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
SALUTE zines **BE SURE TO PRINT AT 100%!** - Google Drive
drive.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Librarians or others, would you like a helpful one-pager zine that you can print to let people know how to report ICE?
Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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“In 2026, the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) will mark the 20th anniversary of working to locate, preserve, and activate the archival collections of Black Chicago….BMRC invites submissions for an interdisciplinary symposium on Black Chicago”
bmrc.lib.uchicago.edu/news/call-fo...
bmrc.lib.uchicago.edu/news/call-fo...
Call for Papers: BMRC 20th Anniversary Symposium
| The Black Metropolis Research Consortium
bmrc.lib.uchicago.edu
October 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“In 2026, the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) will mark the 20th anniversary of working to locate, preserve, and activate the archival collections of Black Chicago….BMRC invites submissions for an interdisciplinary symposium on Black Chicago”
bmrc.lib.uchicago.edu/news/call-fo...
bmrc.lib.uchicago.edu/news/call-fo...