Kristin
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Today's the first Winter #ALACouncil Meeting! I will try to post updates as we move through business. Not only does it help me process/remember what's happening I hope it's engaging for those who can't tune in live.
January 21, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Today's the first Winter #ALACouncil Meeting! I will try to post updates as we move through business. Not only does it help me process/remember what's happening I hope it's engaging for those who can't tune in live.
I pray I’m NEVER, in this lifetime or the next, someone who could serve in a high level leadership role and be too cowardly to stand behind the decisions I make.
Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo 🙏🏾
Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo 🙏🏾
December 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I pray I’m NEVER, in this lifetime or the next, someone who could serve in a high level leadership role and be too cowardly to stand behind the decisions I make.
Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo 🙏🏾
Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo 🙏🏾
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Obsessed with Stranger Things season 5? @screenrant.bsky.social suggests picking up #StrangerThings and Dungeons & Dragons: Rise of Hellfire, especially if you're missing a certain character. Details: https://bit.ly/4oWzara
Obsessed With Stranger Things Season 5? You’re Missing Half the Story Without This Comic
Discover the true meaning of family and friendship in this pulse-pounding comic book saga
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December 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Obsessed with Stranger Things season 5? @screenrant.bsky.social suggests picking up #StrangerThings and Dungeons & Dragons: Rise of Hellfire, especially if you're missing a certain character. Details: https://bit.ly/4oWzara
I’m glad that students now know what staff have lived with for months now. The last couple weeks have been so deeply sad. Receiving farewell emails from colleagues last week was devastating.
DePaul lays off over 100 staff members amid budget cuts, will close Loop Library
Joining universities nationwide, DePaul makes sweeping budget cuts amid enrollment decline and federal uncertainty.
Joining universities nationwide, DePaul makes sweeping budget cuts amid enrollment decline and federal uncertainty.
DePaul lays off over 100 staff members amid budget cuts, will close Loop Library
Joining universities nationwide, DePaul makes sweeping budget cuts amid enrollment decline and federal uncertainty.
depauliaonline.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I’m glad that students now know what staff have lived with for months now. The last couple weeks have been so deeply sad. Receiving farewell emails from colleagues last week was devastating.
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✅ @homelandgov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.
October 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Babe’s has opened in Logan Square, giving women’s sports fans a place to call home. blockclubchi.co/46AbXUf
September 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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The university is so bad at letting us know a staff or faculty member has passed away. The man been here 25 years! I should’ve had email in my inbox today at 8am.
August 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The university is so bad at letting us know a staff or faculty member has passed away. The man been here 25 years! I should’ve had email in my inbox today at 8am.
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Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?
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"Barnard College has made a “painful” announcement that it will lay off nearly 80 full-time employees as part of a “college-wide staff restructuring,” school officials said." - NY Post
Note the quotation marks around the word "painful." Are they questioning the suffering of the school officials? 😆
Note the quotation marks around the word "painful." Are they questioning the suffering of the school officials? 😆
Columbia sister school Barnard College lays off dozens of employees weeks after antisemitism suit settlement
The layoffs come on the heels of Barnard settling settle a lawsuit brought by Jewish students claiming the Columbia-affiliated school failed to properly address campus antisemitism.
nypost.com
August 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"Barnard College has made a “painful” announcement that it will lay off nearly 80 full-time employees as part of a “college-wide staff restructuring,” school officials said." - NY Post
Note the quotation marks around the word "painful." Are they questioning the suffering of the school officials? 😆
Note the quotation marks around the word "painful." Are they questioning the suffering of the school officials? 😆
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“The public votes pro-library more often than not. That [raises] the ? of why it is the insignificant budgets of the library are first to be ✂️ when a city faces a shortfall + not, say, the 🚀 budgets of the police?^ It continues to weaken one of the strongest democratic institutions in the US…”
Public Libraries on the Chopping Block, 2025 Edition
A look at the budget cuts affecting US libraries in 2025
buttondown.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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"...the culprit is a content‑filtering layer imposed by Azure OpenAI, the service that underpins Summon Research Assistant and its Primo cousin." 📚 aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search
From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
aarontay.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"...the culprit is a content‑filtering layer imposed by Azure OpenAI, the service that underpins Summon Research Assistant and its Primo cousin." 📚 aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
Considering submitting which meant reading that privacy of thought article in its entirety and taking notes. It exhausted me. I still have so many pages left 😭
LIS Peeps: "We invite submissions to a October 2025 special issue of The Political Librarian, our journal of public policy, politics, and libraries. This special issue aims to engage with this critical and rapidly evolving political crisis that threatens the foundation of inclusive library work." 📚📜
Call for Papers - Next Special Issue of The Political Librarian on Defending DEI and the Politics of Inclusion
EveryLibrary Institute is a 501c3 organization that supports library funding in the United States.
www.everylibraryinstitute.org
July 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Considering submitting which meant reading that privacy of thought article in its entirety and taking notes. It exhausted me. I still have so many pages left 😭
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Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
thenextweb.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
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Some great resources here from @injusticewatch.org. We have come to rely on their judicial guides. Now they have other helpful resources all in one place—including a guide to immigration court that you can republish for free.
Our new resources page brings together Injustice Watch explainers and Q&As related to housing, immigration, judicial elections, and more.
Resources
As part of our public-service mission, Injustice Watch works to fill information gaps about the Cook County court system and to provide our community with the perspectives, information, and resources…
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July 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Some great resources here from @injusticewatch.org. We have come to rely on their judicial guides. Now they have other helpful resources all in one place—including a guide to immigration court that you can republish for free.
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July 21st is Zine Library Day, one of the celebrations happening during International Zine Month! #IZM2025 #zines
Ways to celebrate:
*visit your local zine library
*check out an online zine library
*donate $ or zines to a zine library
*bring your closest zine librarian a delicious treat 🍩
Ways to celebrate:
*visit your local zine library
*check out an online zine library
*donate $ or zines to a zine library
*bring your closest zine librarian a delicious treat 🍩
![Flyer for International Zine Month, featuring something to do every day of the month in July.
INTERNATIONAL ZINE MONTH
31 PROMPTS FOR 31 DAYS
(IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)
JULY 2025
#IZM2025.
1- Make a 1 page zine! Don't know what to write about? Make it a zine about why you like zines!
2-Zine Rewind! Dig out your favorite zines and share them!.
3-Look up local or virtual zine event or maybe even dream about starting your own!
4 - AmeriZINE Day! Explore marginalized voices in the Americas. Support zines written by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color)
5-Free Zines! Post a PDF online or leave copies of your zine in public for other people to enjoy!
6- Zine Pride! Support zines created by LGBTQIA creators. Don't know where to start? Check out the Queer Zine Archive Project! (QZAP.org)
7-International Zines! Explore zines from a country different from your own!
8 Zine Trade Day! Ask someone to trade zines with you.
9-New Skill Day! Learn a new zine skill like folding, binding, duplicating, or Layout!!
10 Write a review of a movie, album, book or podcast to add to your next zine.
11- Write a letter or a short note to a zinester you admire.
12-Zine Wiki Day! Add or update listings to Zine Wiki. Support community powered Information at zinewiki.com
13-Zine Meme! Make a zine-themed meme from an online meme template.
14 - ValenZINES Day! Write a valentine to zines and share why you love them!
15-Zine Cuisine! Cook from a recipe found in a zinc and share the results
16-Zine Distro Appreciation! Order some zines from a zine distro online and share with people about your favorite zine distros.
17-Zine Collab! Ask a friend if they would like to collaborate on a zine with you.
18- From Trash to Treasure! Use recycled or scrap materials to make a sine or embellish one.
19-Variety is the spice of life! Read zines outside your usual taste-like comics, art zines, how-to guides, or perzines!]
20-Zines of the Future! Explore zines by youth or introduce the you…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j4xglvgn5zlrqmdu5ihxmetr/bafkreicoe7bmdifi3355o4ddgqakhhws4fcwrgxroa5esdj2vjizytmxne@jpeg)
July 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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"Pregnancy has increasingly become a weapon to be wielded against domestic violence victims—and those who help them."
Read an excerpt from journalist @kylietcheung.bsky.social's new book on reproductive coercion:
Read an excerpt from journalist @kylietcheung.bsky.social's new book on reproductive coercion:
Reproductive Coercion Is State Abuse, Argues Kylie Cheung
"Pregnancy has increasingly become a weapon to be wielded against domestic violence victims—and those who help them."
www.teenvogue.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Pregnancy has increasingly become a weapon to be wielded against domestic violence victims—and those who help them."
Read an excerpt from journalist @kylietcheung.bsky.social's new book on reproductive coercion:
Read an excerpt from journalist @kylietcheung.bsky.social's new book on reproductive coercion:
The ridiculousness of that one article in CRL for May 2025 overshadowed this excellent article in the same issue “Assessing the State of Publicly Available Library Accessibility Information: Guidelines Based on a Review of Policies at SUNY Libraries”. #Skybrarians #AcademicLibraries
July 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The ridiculousness of that one article in CRL for May 2025 overshadowed this excellent article in the same issue “Assessing the State of Publicly Available Library Accessibility Information: Guidelines Based on a Review of Policies at SUNY Libraries”. #Skybrarians #AcademicLibraries
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This is exactly the book I wrote (with amazing art by @littledozerbaby.bsky.social and lettering by @micahmyers.bsky.social )
Every single one of these types is in here, and it's very much based on shenanigans I've seen while playing.
Every single one of these types is in here, and it's very much based on shenanigans I've seen while playing.
July 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is exactly the book I wrote (with amazing art by @littledozerbaby.bsky.social and lettering by @micahmyers.bsky.social )
Every single one of these types is in here, and it's very much based on shenanigans I've seen while playing.
Every single one of these types is in here, and it's very much based on shenanigans I've seen while playing.
If you like horror comedies + queer representation you have to watch The Parenting on HBO Max. I’ve been cackling this entire movie 😂
July 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you like horror comedies + queer representation you have to watch The Parenting on HBO Max. I’ve been cackling this entire movie 😂
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When I met Ryan Coogler several years ago, we were standing in a group of people chatting, when a woman with visible hearing aids walked up, and he casually began to sign the whole conversation so she could participate. She mouthed “thank you”. He nodded and just kept doing his thing.
‘Sinners’ on Max Will Include a Black American Sign Language Version
‘Sinners’ on Max Will Include a Black American Sign Language Version
Max will debut Sinners in the U.S. on Friday July 4, when viewers will be able to watch it two ways: by 1) streaming the exact theatrically-released version, and 2) choosing Sinners in Black American Sign Language (BASL). It’s the first time a streaming service has interpreted a film into BASL, Warner Bros. says.
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June 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
When I met Ryan Coogler several years ago, we were standing in a group of people chatting, when a woman with visible hearing aids walked up, and he casually began to sign the whole conversation so she could participate. She mouthed “thank you”. He nodded and just kept doing his thing.
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#ALAAC25 It was an honor to celebrate Dr. Carla Hayden at ALA Annual—a visionary who has shown us, time and again, what it means to lead with wisdom, purpose, and grace. Learn "What Gives Carla Hayden Hope" at American Libraries. bit.ly/4eskLzf
What Gives Carla Hayden Hope | American Libraries Magazine
The former Librarian of Congress talked with author Kwame Alexander at ALA's Annual Conference and Exhibition in Philadelphia on June 28.
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June 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
#ALAAC25 It was an honor to celebrate Dr. Carla Hayden at ALA Annual—a visionary who has shown us, time and again, what it means to lead with wisdom, purpose, and grace. Learn "What Gives Carla Hayden Hope" at American Libraries. bit.ly/4eskLzf
Diverse representation matters so much. Excited to see Puzzles in Color at the Gaming Pavilion. If you put puzzles out at your library, coloring sheets, etc. Consider supporting and showcasing underrepresented creators #ALAAC25
June 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Diverse representation matters so much. Excited to see Puzzles in Color at the Gaming Pavilion. If you put puzzles out at your library, coloring sheets, etc. Consider supporting and showcasing underrepresented creators #ALAAC25
Today is my last chance to get some gluten free funnel cake from here!!! #ALAAC25
Heading to #ALAAC25? Located directly across from the convention center, there’s something for everyone! #tlsky #tlskychat readingterminalmarket.org
Reading Terminal Market is Open Daily! - Philadelphia, PA
Welcome to the Reading Terminal Market. Famous indoor farmer's market providing Philadelphia with grocery, dining & shopping needs!
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June 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Today is my last chance to get some gluten free funnel cake from here!!! #ALAAC25