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Libraries & Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library

By Daphna Blatt & Dr. E.K. Maloney
Dr. James O. Pawelski & Dr. Katherine N. Cotter

www.nypl.org/spotlight/li...

#libraries #publiclibrary
Libraries & Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library
By Daphna Blatt & Dr. E.K. Maloney, The New York Public LibraryDr. James O. Pawelski & Dr. Katherine N. Cotter, University of Pennsylvania In today’s society, libraries stand out as among the last tru...
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January 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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thebookwizard.bsky.social
Some cool stuff my local library has:

- free passes to museums & botanical gardens & zoos
-seed library w/radish, asparagus, green onion, spinach, bok choy
-hot spots & Chromebooks
-vinyl record players & vinyls
-developmental toys
-book club kits
-eBooks & eAudiobooks

And amazing programs!
December 22, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
One of my favorite parts of Ministry for the Future was the abolition of the billionaires. Just to be that rich makes you an enemy of democracy. Wrote early this year:
Let me put it this way: if you made $10,000 a week – a princely sum by the standards of most people – you would have to work every week from the year of Jesus’s birth until this week to earn over a billion dollars. To earn as much as Elon Musk’s net worth at that rate – currently $180bn, according to Forbes – you’d have to work every week for more than a third of a million years – that is, since before Homo sapiens first emerged in Africa. Being a billionaire is arguably a disqualification for participating in the affairs of ordinary people Another way to put it is: one day last year, walking on San Francisco’s western edge, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, I saw whales spouting, and then I came home and rescued a bee buzzing at my window. The extremely disparate scale of these two wild creatures impressed me, and so I did the sums: a honeybee weighs about 0.11 grams and 4,000 bees weigh a pound; a grey whale weighs between 60,000 and 90,000 pounds, meaning that, even at the lower weight, it weighs about as much as a quarter of a billion bees. According to Oxfam, 81 billionaires hold more wealth than the poorest half of all humanity, meaning that in monetary terms 81 people are bigger than 4 billion people. So when it comes to wealth and impact, billionaires are whales and poor people are bees. Except that whales aren’t a menace to bees.
December 18, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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shashj.bsky.social
Some exciting news from @economist.com. All American service members—all 1.3m active duty, and those retired—now have free access to The Economist's website, thanks to a deal with DoD. If I'm not mistaken, you can access it through DoD's library pages: www.dodmwrlibraries.org. Happy reading.
DoD MWR Libraries
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November 22, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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knoxdiver.bsky.social
Just a reminder to support your local public libraries! Write letters of support. Use the library often & in many different ways. Show up to meetings.

Library staff have been begging for help, advocacy, and action for years. Please show up for libraries.
November 9, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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loish.bsky.social
happy belated halloween, spooky art pals!
November 1, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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nuclearanthro.bsky.social
Nitrate film is extremely flammable.

So the Library of Congress uses the old Federal Reserve nuclear cash vaults to climate control & segregate nitrate film collections:

www.wired.com/2015/07/film...

Pretty cool, actually.
October 30, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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severinlee.bsky.social
Post your most popular art from Twitter🌸✨

I think I haven't yet posted anything that moved these two baddies of Daechwita 🐅🐉

#YOONGI #art #btsfanart
Yoongi portrait as a king (with tiger) Yoongi portrait as a rebel (with dragon)
October 23, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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Back to Blue side
#bts #btsfanart
October 19, 2024 at 5:35 PM