Kelsey
@bronteberry.bsky.social
Archivist in Iowa. Bad at quippy bios.
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The Republican lawmakers behind the cut say it only targeted unfilled positions in the office and there was absolutely no financial reason for Secretary of State Denny Hoskins had to lay off any staff. #moleg #mogov via @rudikellermi.bsky.social
Missouri secretary of state cuts jobs as budget feud with state Senate escalates • Missouri Independent
The Missouri Secretary of State says a politically motivated budget cut forced him to lay off 22 employees of the state archives and library.
missouriindependent.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The Republican lawmakers behind the cut say it only targeted unfilled positions in the office and there was absolutely no financial reason for Secretary of State Denny Hoskins had to lay off any staff. #moleg #mogov via @rudikellermi.bsky.social
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I am hearing from folks that the new Missouri Secretary of State, Denny Hoskins, a MAGA Republican, has fired half of the staff in the State Archives today with no warning.
These are people that preserve and provide access to state government records…
These are people that preserve and provide access to state government records…
May 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I am hearing from folks that the new Missouri Secretary of State, Denny Hoskins, a MAGA Republican, has fired half of the staff in the State Archives today with no warning.
These are people that preserve and provide access to state government records…
These are people that preserve and provide access to state government records…
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My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side.
#humanities #highered #neh
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#humanities #highered #neh
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Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts
The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.
slate.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side.
#humanities #highered #neh
slate.com/news-and-pol...
#humanities #highered #neh
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There goes IMLS.
NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
March 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
There goes IMLS.
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Library use ≆ library advocacy. Yes: visit libraries. Use library resources. Attend programs. And then also: speak up! Defend library workers who are being harmed & criminalized. We 💕 your presence. And we need your voices, too.
Because the folks who want to close libraries have also used them.
Because the folks who want to close libraries have also used them.
March 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Library use ≆ library advocacy. Yes: visit libraries. Use library resources. Attend programs. And then also: speak up! Defend library workers who are being harmed & criminalized. We 💕 your presence. And we need your voices, too.
Because the folks who want to close libraries have also used them.
Because the folks who want to close libraries have also used them.
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The Society of American Archivists has resources for archivists and repository workers who have been impacted by the ongoing terminations at the federal level. This includes a year of free membership for those who have recently been terminated.
www2.archivists.org/membership/r...
www2.archivists.org/membership/r...
Resources for Federal Workers | Society of American Archivists
Society of American Archivists
www2.archivists.org
March 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Society of American Archivists has resources for archivists and repository workers who have been impacted by the ongoing terminations at the federal level. This includes a year of free membership for those who have recently been terminated.
www2.archivists.org/membership/r...
www2.archivists.org/membership/r...
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In this post Kelly provides great list of easy steps you can take: sign the EveryLibrary petition, call your senators + reps (use 5Calls!). Protect our state libraries, tribal libraries, interlibrary loan, digital equity, vital grants to libraries of all species... 📣 And please spread the word!! 📣
"As nice as it is to support your local library right now,... those steps will not make an impact on fed-level threats like this. Continue to do those things, but know that it is your responsibility as a citizen in a representative democracy to speak up + w/ your fed level legislators right now."
Library Funding Targeted in New Trump Executive Order: What It Means & What To Do Now
What the Executive Order slashing the Institute of Museum and Library Services means, how it will impact you, and what you should do right now to stop the cuts.
bookriot.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
In this post Kelly provides great list of easy steps you can take: sign the EveryLibrary petition, call your senators + reps (use 5Calls!). Protect our state libraries, tribal libraries, interlibrary loan, digital equity, vital grants to libraries of all species... 📣 And please spread the word!! 📣
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And another thing: stop using your university emails for anything related to anything but the most boring work shit. Esp if at a public university. But really everywhere.
Collective action is going to be part of the response, but it’s going to have to happen in spite of university admin. For example, every unit at UMN should release their own collective statement defying the Board of Regent policy against such statements.
Universities need to treat the Trump administration's hostage lists as organizing lists. A large majority of the universities on these lists should issue a JOINT public response making clear that they won't give in and why they're right not to.
That creates space for the rest of the sector to join.
That creates space for the rest of the sector to join.
March 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
And another thing: stop using your university emails for anything related to anything but the most boring work shit. Esp if at a public university. But really everywhere.
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Don’t change your subject headings. There is no library jail. Keep using the real names not these fake ones.
Obeying in advance is worse than those doing the change because when you obey with soenthing that is clearly wrong you are putting false information into official “fact” places.
Obeying in advance is worse than those doing the change because when you obey with soenthing that is clearly wrong you are putting false information into official “fact” places.
Librarians doing anticipatory obedience 😡 🤢 💔
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151 Denali, Mount (Alaska) CHANGE HEADING
151 McKinley, Mount (Alaska) [sp 85082617 ]
151 Mexico, Gulf of CHANGE HEADING
151 America, Gulf of [sp 85084621 ]
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151 Denali, Mount (Alaska) CHANGE HEADING
151 McKinley, Mount (Alaska) [sp 85082617 ]
151 Mexico, Gulf of CHANGE HEADING
151 America, Gulf of [sp 85084621 ]
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Monthly List 12 LCSH 2 (2025)Library of Congress Subject Headings (2025)
classweb.org
March 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Don’t change your subject headings. There is no library jail. Keep using the real names not these fake ones.
Obeying in advance is worse than those doing the change because when you obey with soenthing that is clearly wrong you are putting false information into official “fact” places.
Obeying in advance is worse than those doing the change because when you obey with soenthing that is clearly wrong you are putting false information into official “fact” places.
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Elephant calf update: very baby
February 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Elephant calf update: very baby
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The Republicans hold majorities in both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court and hold the White House and they could pass basically whatever agenda they would care to enact, but they have instead decided on a unique strategy of letting someone unelected do crimes all over the federal government.
February 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The Republicans hold majorities in both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court and hold the White House and they could pass basically whatever agenda they would care to enact, but they have instead decided on a unique strategy of letting someone unelected do crimes all over the federal government.
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i went to a Chicago Public Library branch that I had never been to before and happened across these very cool Archival Grab and Go Kits with an invitation to archive your stories
January 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
i went to a Chicago Public Library branch that I had never been to before and happened across these very cool Archival Grab and Go Kits with an invitation to archive your stories
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Not everyone can run or sit on a board.
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
56 Small Tasks to Be Proactive Against Book Censorship in 2025 and Beyond: Book Censorship News, January 3, 2025
Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.
bookriot.com
January 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Not everyone can run or sit on a board.
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools!
Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
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Welcome new followers, as well as long-time followers.
I've got 4+ years of tools, tips, techniques, and actual action steps related to pushing back against book bans and being proactive in your support of the democratic institutions of public libraries and public schools.
It's updated regularly.
I've got 4+ years of tools, tips, techniques, and actual action steps related to pushing back against book bans and being proactive in your support of the democratic institutions of public libraries and public schools.
It's updated regularly.
A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.
This is updated regularly!
This is updated regularly!
January 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Welcome new followers, as well as long-time followers.
I've got 4+ years of tools, tips, techniques, and actual action steps related to pushing back against book bans and being proactive in your support of the democratic institutions of public libraries and public schools.
It's updated regularly.
I've got 4+ years of tools, tips, techniques, and actual action steps related to pushing back against book bans and being proactive in your support of the democratic institutions of public libraries and public schools.
It's updated regularly.
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Years and years of insisting libraries are "more than books" has certainly had an impact on the fact libraries are, in fact, BOOKS.
Librarians I beg you there are so many people who don’t realize they can go to the library and get book recommendations. They’ve been relying SOLELY on Booktok where I hardly saw any libraries ever giving Book recommendations. This is what we should be doing!!!!!Recommend books OUR JOB IS BOOKS
January 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Years and years of insisting libraries are "more than books" has certainly had an impact on the fact libraries are, in fact, BOOKS.
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The wonder of the regional art museum:
The Wonder Of The Regional Art Museum | Defector
A 24-hour business trip to Cleveland four days before Christmas was a bad idea; I see that now. There wasn’t even that much snow, by Lake Erie standards, but Delta Airlines didn’t seem to care that I…
defector.com
January 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The wonder of the regional art museum:
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“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
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every flipping time.
"you're THROWING OUT THIS BOOK?! but you're a LIBRARIAN!"
"I'm throwing out this book because I'm a librarian."
"But what about your VALUES?!"
"My values tell me that if a book has been written in by dozens of students for forty years, we need a new, legible copy."
"you're THROWING OUT THIS BOOK?! but you're a LIBRARIAN!"
"I'm throwing out this book because I'm a librarian."
"But what about your VALUES?!"
"My values tell me that if a book has been written in by dozens of students for forty years, we need a new, legible copy."
January 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
every flipping time.
"you're THROWING OUT THIS BOOK?! but you're a LIBRARIAN!"
"I'm throwing out this book because I'm a librarian."
"But what about your VALUES?!"
"My values tell me that if a book has been written in by dozens of students for forty years, we need a new, legible copy."
"you're THROWING OUT THIS BOOK?! but you're a LIBRARIAN!"
"I'm throwing out this book because I'm a librarian."
"But what about your VALUES?!"
"My values tell me that if a book has been written in by dozens of students for forty years, we need a new, legible copy."
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IPERS may not make everything better, but it’s something to look forward to. Sometimes that’s all it takes.
#raygun #ipers #iowa #publicemployees
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#raygun #ipers #iowa #publicemployees
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January 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
IPERS may not make everything better, but it’s something to look forward to. Sometimes that’s all it takes.
#raygun #ipers #iowa #publicemployees
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#raygun #ipers #iowa #publicemployees
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So I was a federal employee for years and I am going to repeat a fact that people forget every time a politician sings this song. The government is wildly understaffed and you will feel these kinds of cuts immediately because the people eligible for retirement make up the bulk of knowledgeable staff
Trump’s pick to head OMB Russell Vought says he wants government employees “traumatically affected” and “to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.” Targeting our nation’s public servants is wrong and dangerous.
Opinion | I’m a Federal Employee. This Is What We Need Most in the Trump Era.
Practical support matters more than encouragement.
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January 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
So I was a federal employee for years and I am going to repeat a fact that people forget every time a politician sings this song. The government is wildly understaffed and you will feel these kinds of cuts immediately because the people eligible for retirement make up the bulk of knowledgeable staff