Paula
@dotpaula.bsky.social
Director, Califa (bsky.app/profile/califagroup.bsky.social ) - California library consortium hustling hard to unlock the value, impact & influence of libraries - today, tomorrow, your birthday, all the time.
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From Cape Breton 🤓
Partner with your local!
From Cape Breton 🤓
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Yay for the future of libraries!
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Yay for the future of libraries!
Love your library! I promise you, we love you 🏆🥇🎖️😬❤️
“Through Snyder’s lens, we are guided with care & understanding through a reality of hatred & censorship … The jury awards the Honorable Mention for Outstanding Documentary Feature to The Librarians for its impactful portrayal of the real-life heroes defending our right to knowledge & visibility.”
Frameline49 Awards - Frameline
Frameline announces the award winners for the 49th annual San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
www.frameline.org
July 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Love your library! I promise you, we love you 🏆🥇🎖️😬❤️
Tonight, me and my Mexico 66s were courtside in Ballhalla. What a game!
June 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Tonight, me and my Mexico 66s were courtside in Ballhalla. What a game!
As we celebrate and debate the Tony awards, let us never forget this performance that Audra full-bodied in her performance : youtu.be/sWHazOyRQJY?...
Dreamgirls Jennifer Holliday "I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" with Sheryl Lee Ralph & Loretta Devine
YouTube video by MOR Music Clips
youtu.be
June 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
As we celebrate and debate the Tony awards, let us never forget this performance that Audra full-bodied in her performance : youtu.be/sWHazOyRQJY?...
Someone make a movie with Jennifer Coolidge, Parker Posey and Catherine O’Hara. Not white lotus. Just the three of them at dinner talking and it’s fantastically bizarre?
June 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Someone make a movie with Jennifer Coolidge, Parker Posey and Catherine O’Hara. Not white lotus. Just the three of them at dinner talking and it’s fantastically bizarre?
Good news this Friday morning!
Judge McConnell denies the motion for a stay pending appeal in IMLS Rhode Island case. Reinstated grantees can get back to the business fulfilling their funded projects. Filed 6/5/25: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Good news this Friday morning!
I mean, why wouldn’t you? I can see it!
May 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I mean, why wouldn’t you? I can see it!
It’s good. But it’s bad. I feel a crime could be committed in the interim. Maybe it’s me…
May 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
It’s good. But it’s bad. I feel a crime could be committed in the interim. Maybe it’s me…
Thank you for your service Dr. Carla Hayden. We will rise again.
BREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:
May 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Thank you for your service Dr. Carla Hayden. We will rise again.
They should build “the wall” with cybertrucks. Tons available and they keep producing bc too expensive to shut the factories down. I’ll see myself out.
homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .
Alt: homer simpson is walking backwards into a hedge.
media.tenor.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
They should build “the wall” with cybertrucks. Tons available and they keep producing bc too expensive to shut the factories down. I’ll see myself out.
My Summer of Valkyries has begun!
May 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
My Summer of Valkyries has begun!
@schumer.senate.gov
Enough with the strong words on paper and more strong arms punching up on our behalf. Schumer is not the person for this job. He needs to suck up his pride and step aside for the actual fighters for democracy. Please Chuck, read the goddamn room.
Enough with the strong words on paper and more strong arms punching up on our behalf. Schumer is not the person for this job. He needs to suck up his pride and step aside for the actual fighters for democracy. Please Chuck, read the goddamn room.
April 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
@schumer.senate.gov
Enough with the strong words on paper and more strong arms punching up on our behalf. Schumer is not the person for this job. He needs to suck up his pride and step aside for the actual fighters for democracy. Please Chuck, read the goddamn room.
Enough with the strong words on paper and more strong arms punching up on our behalf. Schumer is not the person for this job. He needs to suck up his pride and step aside for the actual fighters for democracy. Please Chuck, read the goddamn room.
More of this is needed from @sacbee.com and @sfchronicle.com. Where is the CA media on the defunding of the CA state library?
@seattletimes-rss.bsky.socialJust published in The Seattle Times:
How Trump-era cuts are threatening WA’s libraries, museums & tribal cultural memory—especially for rural and disability communities.
#MuseumsAreNonPartisan #IMLS #LibraryFunding #CulturalMemory
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
How Trump-era cuts are threatening WA’s libraries, museums & tribal cultural memory—especially for rural and disability communities.
#MuseumsAreNonPartisan #IMLS #LibraryFunding #CulturalMemory
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
Trump cuts have WA libraries, museums and tribes scrambling
President Donald Trump's administration has targeted the federal agency that supports libraries for downsizing. Washington cultural organizations are reeling.
www.seattletimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
More of this is needed from @sacbee.com and @sfchronicle.com. Where is the CA media on the defunding of the CA state library?
Love me a book. That’s it.
April 25, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Love me a book. That’s it.
Live. Court case re IMLS et al youtube.com/live/boJMbsl...
CA25-128JJM State of RI, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et al.
YouTube video by U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island
youtube.com
April 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Live. Court case re IMLS et al youtube.com/live/boJMbsl...
“it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners”. let’s read it over a couple of times. Every day.
i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.
It would appear CNN was also at the eugenics conference? Why are all these mainstream news orgs at a 200-person event where all the speakers are eugenicists and racists? www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/u...
April 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners”. let’s read it over a couple of times. Every day.
They can’t even face us. Termination by late night email. Home of the brave.
The IMLS Grant termination letters are coming after hours. This came at 7:24pm PT, 10:24pm ET. Do they feel better sending after 10pm like they can avoid the backlash? Fraidycats.
April 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
They can’t even face us. Termination by late night email. Home of the brave.
Looking forward to this!
Last night we hosted a preview screening of the film Free for All: The Public Library my library. The film explores the history public libraries from their beginnings in America and doesn't shy away from some dark times in our field's past. It premiers on @pbs.org on April 29. I highly recommend it!
Free for All: The Public Library - Independent Lens
The story of how public libraries shaped America and how libraries continue to be a sanctuary for Americans everywhere.
www.pbs.org
April 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Looking forward to this!
I am in your bunker. 🙏
We just want to say—we’re sorry. We know how emotionally exhausting all of this is, and we truly understand. But you’re not alone. We’re in this together.
April 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I am in your bunker. 🙏
Alt National Park Service is fighting for all of us. This is American exceptionalism. This is patriotism.
Thank you Alt NPS for your service! Our organization is in limbo on weather we will get reimbursed for $100,000 in IMLS grant dollars that we have already paid contractors for service. That’s how it works. The awardee of the grant pays project contractors for services and IMLS reimburses.
April 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Alt National Park Service is fighting for all of us. This is American exceptionalism. This is patriotism.
Good news on this International Transgender Day of Visibility. Short and sweet. Nope.
Incredible news on TDOV.
The 9th Circuit has denied the government’s request to enforce its transgender military ban.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The 9th Circuit has denied the government’s request to enforce its transgender military ban.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Good news on this International Transgender Day of Visibility. Short and sweet. Nope.
The letter that went out today to IMLS staff
This is the email just received by IMLS staffers placing them on paid administrative leave for up to 90 days.
“Please understand that this action is not punitive but rather is taken to facilitate the work and operations of the agency.”
“Please understand that this action is not punitive but rather is taken to facilitate the work and operations of the agency.”
March 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The letter that went out today to IMLS staff
Terrible news. I hope we can get reimbursed for current IMLS grants that are already awarded and underway through 2026.
SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source.
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
March 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Terrible news. I hope we can get reimbursed for current IMLS grants that are already awarded and underway through 2026.
@ossoff.bsky.social you were fantastic today. Wooo more Ossoff like more cowbell!
March 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
@ossoff.bsky.social you were fantastic today. Wooo more Ossoff like more cowbell!
I wonder if Abraham Williams was in it for the spectacle of the inevitable Netflix documentary. Tulsi, I hardly knew ye.
March 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I wonder if Abraham Williams was in it for the spectacle of the inevitable Netflix documentary. Tulsi, I hardly knew ye.