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The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
ALA welcomes reinstatement of all federal IMLS grants to libraries
Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that it had reinstated all the agency’s grants.
www.ala.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
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Reading a book in public is performative now. The bar is so low that looking literate makes you a performer, basically Beyoncé
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Reading a book in public is performative now. The bar is so low that looking literate makes you a performer, basically Beyoncé
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The author notes that the "performative reader" frequently mocked on social media is male.
Reading has declined in part because it became coded feminine. The obsession with STEM as the path to a career and insistence that the purpose of education is career training facilitated this.
Reading has declined in part because it became coded feminine. The obsession with STEM as the path to a career and insistence that the purpose of education is career training facilitated this.
Now Watch Me Read
“Performative reading” has gained a curious notoriety online. Is it a new way of calling people pretentious, or does it reflect a deprioritization of the written word?
www.newyorker.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The author notes that the "performative reader" frequently mocked on social media is male.
Reading has declined in part because it became coded feminine. The obsession with STEM as the path to a career and insistence that the purpose of education is career training facilitated this.
Reading has declined in part because it became coded feminine. The obsession with STEM as the path to a career and insistence that the purpose of education is career training facilitated this.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
The Secret to Getting Through Big, Dense, Difficult Books
Learning is painful, pleasant and, above all, communal. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Learning is painful, pleasant and, above all, communal. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
The Secret to Getting Through Big, Dense, Difficult Books
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Secret to Getting Through Big, Dense, Difficult Books
Learning is painful, pleasant and, above all, communal. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Learning is painful, pleasant and, above all, communal. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
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Using the results of its annual Library Insights Survey, the Urban Libraries Council found that library visits, room reservations, and e-resource use are up; physical circulation is stable; and staffing and budgets are trending down.
ULC Releases 2025 Library Insights Report
Using the results of its annual Library Insights Survey, the Urban Libraries Council found that library visits, room reservations, and e-resource use are up; physical circulation is stable; and…
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Using the results of its annual Library Insights Survey, the Urban Libraries Council found that library visits, room reservations, and e-resource use are up; physical circulation is stable; and staffing and budgets are trending down.
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And here are the 2025 National Book Award winners: bookriot.com/the-2025-nat...
The 2025 National Book Award Winners
Here are the winners of the 2025 National Book Awards in each of the five categories.
bookriot.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
And here are the 2025 National Book Award winners: bookriot.com/the-2025-nat...
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Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” about the war in Gaza won the nonfiction award at the National Book Awards.
A provocative bestseller wins the National Book Award for nonfiction
Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” criticizes Western indifference to civilian suffering in Gaza.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” about the war in Gaza won the nonfiction award at the National Book Awards.
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Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. 🏳️⚧️
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. 🏳️⚧️
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I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.
Following the recent election, leadership will be changing in many districts where conservative values previously dominated school board meetings and community actions.
epgn.com/2025/11/18/v...
epgn.com/2025/11/18/v...
Voters shift school boards toward LGBTQ+ inclusion across PA and N.J. - Philadelphia Gay News
School boards in PA and NJ are shifting fast—LGBTQ+ leaders are winning, conservatives are losing, and policy battles are heating up.
epgn.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.
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We are honored to share this year's #ALA_Carnegie shortlist titles! Join us in celebrating these six books which exemplify excellence in fiction and nonfiction.
Two winners will be announced January 27. Congratulations!
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https://www.ala.org/carnegie-medals/2026-winners
Two winners will be announced January 27. Congratulations!
💙📚
https://www.ala.org/carnegie-medals/2026-winners
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
We are honored to share this year's #ALA_Carnegie shortlist titles! Join us in celebrating these six books which exemplify excellence in fiction and nonfiction.
Two winners will be announced January 27. Congratulations!
💙📚
https://www.ala.org/carnegie-medals/2026-winners
Two winners will be announced January 27. Congratulations!
💙📚
https://www.ala.org/carnegie-medals/2026-winners
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I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
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The people who’ve spent years vilifying and harassing public school teachers and LGBTQ+ people are working overtime to avoid talking about the overwhelming deluge of information connecting their president and many of his associates and supporters with a vast network of sex trafficking child abusers.
After 23k emails from the Epstein case reveal more details abt the sex trafficker’s relationships w/the president + a large cohort of wealthy, powerful men we keep checking to see if the “leave our kids alone” have anything to say about the kids who clearly were not left alone. Spoiler- they don’t.
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The people who’ve spent years vilifying and harassing public school teachers and LGBTQ+ people are working overtime to avoid talking about the overwhelming deluge of information connecting their president and many of his associates and supporters with a vast network of sex trafficking child abusers.
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"The right’s gripe isn’t just that trans people exist, but that their existence is tearing down the old world—of good men, obedient women, traditional family structures—& unleashing a new, godless age of chaos & precarity on you."
smart piece by @schuylermitchell.bsky.social
smart piece by @schuylermitchell.bsky.social
How the right uses "gender ideology" to blame trans people for everything
MAGA learned from global autocrats the language needed to push fear.
www.motherjones.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"The right’s gripe isn’t just that trans people exist, but that their existence is tearing down the old world—of good men, obedient women, traditional family structures—& unleashing a new, godless age of chaos & precarity on you."
smart piece by @schuylermitchell.bsky.social
smart piece by @schuylermitchell.bsky.social
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In this week’s Indy Education newsletter:
📕 A book ban ‘power grab’?
⏰ Community favors later school start times
🍎 Lombardo’s newest education executive order
Read the article and subscribe to our newsletter: thenevadaindependent.com/article/clar...
📕 A book ban ‘power grab’?
⏰ Community favors later school start times
🍎 Lombardo’s newest education executive order
Read the article and subscribe to our newsletter: thenevadaindependent.com/article/clar...
Clark County schools scrap plan to give superintendent book censorship powers - The Nevada Independent
The Nevada Independent is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news and opinion website founded in 2017 by veteran political journalist and commentator Jon Ralston. The site and its supporting channels are…
thenevadaindependent.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
In this week’s Indy Education newsletter:
📕 A book ban ‘power grab’?
⏰ Community favors later school start times
🍎 Lombardo’s newest education executive order
Read the article and subscribe to our newsletter: thenevadaindependent.com/article/clar...
📕 A book ban ‘power grab’?
⏰ Community favors later school start times
🍎 Lombardo’s newest education executive order
Read the article and subscribe to our newsletter: thenevadaindependent.com/article/clar...
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Reading proficiency is improving among Nevada elementary students. But literacy rates still largely lag behind pre-pandemic numbers as the state approaches the rollout of a policy to hold back underperforming third graders.
Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
Nevada 3rd grade reading rates up, but fewer than half proficient as retention rule looms - The Nevada Independent
Across the past three school years, third graders are doing better every year in reading proficiency. But less than half of the more than 35,000 Nevada third graders read at grade level.
thenevadaindependent.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reading proficiency is improving among Nevada elementary students. But literacy rates still largely lag behind pre-pandemic numbers as the state approaches the rollout of a policy to hold back underperforming third graders.
Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
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Kindle integration with Overdrive was bad enough, letting them into distribution is a death wish. #cmonson
"Since many libraries already use Amazon to buy a range of goods and service, it has now developed the capabilities to allow libraries to buy books."
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
"Since many libraries already use Amazon to buy a range of goods and service, it has now developed the capabilities to allow libraries to buy books."
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Libraries Look to Fill the Gap Left by Baker & Taylor
With the closure of country’s largest library wholesaler now underway, librarians are searching for new options as Ingram, Bookazine, and even Amazon make their play to court B&T customers left in the...
www.publishersweekly.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Kindle integration with Overdrive was bad enough, letting them into distribution is a death wish. #cmonson
"Since many libraries already use Amazon to buy a range of goods and service, it has now developed the capabilities to allow libraries to buy books."
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
"Since many libraries already use Amazon to buy a range of goods and service, it has now developed the capabilities to allow libraries to buy books."
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, known for philosophical and bleakly funny novels, has won the Nobel Prize in literature.
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in literature for what the Nobel committee called his compelling and visionary work.
bit.ly
October 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, known for philosophical and bleakly funny novels, has won the Nobel Prize in literature.
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National Book Award finalist. Amazing!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/b...
Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
National Book Award finalist. Amazing!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/b...
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During last night's event my interrogator asked about how "One day you're shortlisted for the National Book Award and the next day one of your books gets banned" and I had to inform them that, no, it was the same day. Grateful to people defending Max in Asheboro NC. acmenews.net/randolph-lib...
Randolph Library Board to Review Challenge to Children’s Book ‘Call Me Max’
The Randolph County Public Library Board of Trustees will decide this week whether to uphold or overturn a challenge to the children’s book Call Me Max.
acmenews.net
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
During last night's event my interrogator asked about how "One day you're shortlisted for the National Book Award and the next day one of your books gets banned" and I had to inform them that, no, it was the same day. Grateful to people defending Max in Asheboro NC. acmenews.net/randolph-lib...
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I have been trying to explain a microfiche machine to one of my dear, brilliant, talented, but clearly too young to be alive collaborators. And it is taking the last of my soul.
“Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.
“Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.
October 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I have been trying to explain a microfiche machine to one of my dear, brilliant, talented, but clearly too young to be alive collaborators. And it is taking the last of my soul.
“Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.
“Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.
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One of the first exhibitions to be terminated as a result of Trump’s attacks on DEI has found a new home at the Gillespie Gallery at George Mason University School of Art.
An Exhibition Axed Under Trump’s DEI Ban Finds a New Home
Before the Americas, a show of African-American, Afro-Latino, and Caribbean artists, was among the first to lose funding amid the president’s crackdown.
hyperallergic.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
One of the first exhibitions to be terminated as a result of Trump’s attacks on DEI has found a new home at the Gillespie Gallery at George Mason University School of Art.
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Dead guys who were making like $500 a word back in the day, their estates are fine. Marginalized authors today, many are struggling. They're having a harder time selling new books to publishers, getting into bookstores, and are having school visits canceled. They need our support now more than ever.
October 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Dead guys who were making like $500 a word back in the day, their estates are fine. Marginalized authors today, many are struggling. They're having a harder time selling new books to publishers, getting into bookstores, and are having school visits canceled. They need our support now more than ever.