abelantara.bsky.social
@abelantara.bsky.social
awake or sleeping. life or dreaming.
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Twin Cities friends: Who can wrangle me one of these? I would be obliged 2 U. www.hclib.org/prince
Celebrate Prince with a Limited-Edition Library Card
Hennepin County Library is honoring one of Minnesota’s most iconic artists with a limited-edition Prince library card, available while supplies last at all 41 Hennepin County Library locations.
www.hclib.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Thank you to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for featuring Ways of Knowing, our oral history collection, on the pod! @abelantara.bsky.social and I loved talking language, community, and connection with Jen Hoyer!

newbooksnetwork.com/ways-of-know...
Amanda Belantara and Emily Drabinski, "Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create" (Litwin Books, 2024) - New Books Network
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October 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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9/16/65: Eight days after heroic Filipino grape workers struck Delano-area vineyards & began the Delano Grape Strike, members of the National Farm Workers Association voted to join the picket lines. That solidarity helped produce victory in 1970. Viva la Causa! Mabuhay! 1/2
September 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Bringing the 'Daily Worker' to the World: Photo exhibit opens at NYU. 185,000 images from People's World archives digitized: "The Daily Worker photographers understood the significance of documenting and humanizing the lives of everyday people."
#history #news
peoplesworld.org/article/brin...
Bringing the ‘Daily Worker’ to the World: Photo exhibit opens at NYU
NEW YORK—Over one hundred students, researchers, and residents packed New York University’s Tamiment Library for the opening night of the “Bringing the Daily Worker to the World” photo exhibit on July...
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July 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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is your enemy’s imagination of the future the outcome you accept? to give in is to give up.
August 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Out now! Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers from @alaeditionsns.bsky.social

Grateful for all the library unionists who spoke to us for the book, and to co-authors @kellymce.bsky.social @mkahn.bsky.social and Angelo Moreno!

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Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers (Critical Cultural Information Studies series)
alastore.ala.org
August 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
thank you once again to the music makers. the beautiful souls whose gifts are a huge part of makes life so miraculous and worth living, whose notes or lyrics save and nourish. thank you
July 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
My love is suspended
Throughout the pluriverse for better or worse
I still dream the dream

The dawn of one world
Is the dusk of another perplexity is the mother
Of the eternal scheme
-Roz Williams
July 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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hold onto your seeds, protect them for when it’s time to begin again
April 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It’s world listening day! Tune into some curious sounds from the Kinokophonography compilation kinokophone.bandcamp.com/album/kinoko...
Kinokophonography Compilation 01, by Kinokophone
10 track album
kinokophone.bandcamp.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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More like BREAKING (my heart) NEWS
July 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Looking forward to the Metadata Justice in Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium, happening online Thursday. Sessions on reparative description, LCSH revisions, Indigenous subject headings, & more. Registration is free! library.uco.edu/mjoklasympos... #critcat
LibGuides: Metadata Justice in Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium: About MJOKLA
LibGuides: Metadata Justice in Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium: About MJOKLA
library.uco.edu
July 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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we've just posted an upcoming event from METRO: a book talk with @abelantara.bsky.social and @edrabinski.bsky.social, the editors of Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create. July 16, 1pm ET! metro.org/events/book-...
June 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Push up the fader
Bust the meter
Shake the tweeter
Bump it!
June 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Under the Milky Way tonight....
at Ngawi #nz
June 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Libraries in Unexpected Places: Library History Round Table (LHRT) Research Forum 2025

You are invited to the 2025 Library History Round Table (LHRT) Research Forum! Libraries are not confined to traditional institutions; they exist in a myriad of unexpected places, serving diverse communities in…
Libraries in Unexpected Places: Library History Round Table (LHRT) Research Forum 2025
You are invited to the 2025 Library History Round Table (LHRT) Research Forum! Libraries are not confined to traditional institutions; they exist in a myriad of unexpected places, serving diverse communities in innovative ways. In this year's Forum we will discuss three unique, current research projects focused on these "libraries in unexpected places:" Jeanie Austin, San Francisco Public Library, and Emily Jacobson, New York Public Library - "Meeting Information Needs in Sites of Removal: A Historical Look at Carceral Library Services and Standards"
lhrt.news
June 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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the Media Archaeology Lab is shifting the theme of its pop-up space on campus to "Media Before Media". it'll include artifacts from the long history of A.I. (automatons! early chat-bots!) plus 19th century optical toys, magic lanterns, wire recorders, etc. othernetworks.net/2025/06/03/f... 1/2
fundraising for Media Before Media exhibit
Our big news for the summer… It’s a shame that “we are excited to announce” has become such an online cliché – especially since we are actually excited that the pop-up…
othernetworks.net
June 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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SOOO MANY JUNE EVENTS come thruuu!!!
June 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Prince and The Revolution released "When Doves Cry" as the lead single from 'Purple Rain' 41 years ago on May 16, 1984 | Watch the official video, listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/PrincePR
May 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Really looking forward to this book launch event tonight. More than ever, we need to invest in alternatives to systems controlled by the U.S. government. Get inspired by those who maintain their own systems! 📚 #critcat
Coming up this week!

Editors Amanda Belantara ( @abelantara.bsky.social ) and Emily Drabinski ( @edrabinski.bsky.social ) together with series editor Violet Fox ( @violetbfox.bsky.social ) discuss this exciting new book!

litwinbooks.com/book-launch-...
May 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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🌟May 8, 2025 at 7pm Eastern🌟

Let's celebrate "Ways of Knowing: The Worlds Words Create" with editors Amanda Belantara ( @abelantara.bsky.social ) and Emily Drabinski ( @edrabinski.bsky.social ) and series editor Violet Fox ( @violetbfox.bsky.social )!

More info: litwinbooks.com/book-launch-...
April 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
April 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM