@librarianadhd.bsky.social
Disorganized librarian. Love reading, if I can find the book I just put down. Knits in random moments. Fascinated by genealogy, archaeology. Cats 🐈 ✡️. Fibromyalgia. Map geek. Recreational spreadsheets. She/her. Politics: equally progressive/pragmatic.
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MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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We were so impressed by the photographs and memories submitted to our 'Unearthed Edinburgh' competition that we've decided to put a selection on display this month at Central Library.
If you can't drop by to see it, you'll find them all on Edinburgh Collected, our community archive zurl.co/rCsTN
If you can't drop by to see it, you'll find them all on Edinburgh Collected, our community archive zurl.co/rCsTN
October 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
We were so impressed by the photographs and memories submitted to our 'Unearthed Edinburgh' competition that we've decided to put a selection on display this month at Central Library.
If you can't drop by to see it, you'll find them all on Edinburgh Collected, our community archive zurl.co/rCsTN
If you can't drop by to see it, you'll find them all on Edinburgh Collected, our community archive zurl.co/rCsTN
Using examples from my family in Scotland, Ireland, and the U.S., I talk about how I used both written records and DNA matches in this video to confirm and expand what I knew about one set of my Irish ancestors.
#irishgenealogy #scottishgenealogy #DNA #DNAmatches #genealogy
youtu.be/Tfg9YktIzEI
#irishgenealogy #scottishgenealogy #DNA #DNAmatches #genealogy
youtu.be/Tfg9YktIzEI
Telling genealogy stories: excerpts from my family
YouTube video by Mainely Genealogy
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May 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Using examples from my family in Scotland, Ireland, and the U.S., I talk about how I used both written records and DNA matches in this video to confirm and expand what I knew about one set of my Irish ancestors.
#irishgenealogy #scottishgenealogy #DNA #DNAmatches #genealogy
youtu.be/Tfg9YktIzEI
#irishgenealogy #scottishgenealogy #DNA #DNAmatches #genealogy
youtu.be/Tfg9YktIzEI
I'd take this class ~ it's so true and so relevant today.
April 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I'd take this class ~ it's so true and so relevant today.
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It’s #NationalLibraryWeek, so continuing to share this piece where librarians spoke about the impact of threats to library resources—and how the services, programming, and support libraries provide to communities is essential. I hope you’ll read what they shared:
For @us.theguardian.com, I interviewed librarians about the impact of Trump’s administration, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services being gutted, experiences at work, & the incredible importance of library resources, programming, and support: “We get everyone at the library.”
Being a librarian was already hard. Then came the Trump administration
Already facing burnout and book bans, librarians face a ‘catastrophe’ for institutions deemed central to democracy
www.theguardian.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It’s #NationalLibraryWeek, so continuing to share this piece where librarians spoke about the impact of threats to library resources—and how the services, programming, and support libraries provide to communities is essential. I hope you’ll read what they shared:
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The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
April 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
Not good! Not good at all!
NEW: The CDC has been gutted this morning. Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
from me, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social:
from me, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social:
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Not good! Not good at all!
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With all that's going on, the last thing you need is the encyclopedia trying to fool you so we just hope you have a nice day.
April 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
With all that's going on, the last thing you need is the encyclopedia trying to fool you so we just hope you have a nice day.
And if you love your library, let your congresspeople know that IMLS needs to be reinstated ~ federal funding is what helps libraries do what they do.
April is Love Your Library Month, but really... isn't *every* month Love Your Library Month?
It's a great time to support your local public libraries, which champion access to free, open information – and open doors – at a time when public spaces have never been more at risk.
It's a great time to support your local public libraries, which champion access to free, open information – and open doors – at a time when public spaces have never been more at risk.
April 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
And if you love your library, let your congresspeople know that IMLS needs to be reinstated ~ federal funding is what helps libraries do what they do.
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She died in binary. That’s dedication. RIP.
Bletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
Bletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
Betty Webb MBE worked at Bletchley Park during World War Two intercepting enemy messages.
www.bbc.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
She died in binary. That’s dedication. RIP.
In Maine, that "magical" includes ebook access, interlibrary loan, children's literacy programs, talking books for the visually/physically impaired, Internet access at small town libraries, and more ~ for less per year than one Trump golf trip.
A lot of what people consider magical about libraries is actually really efficient use of federal funding.
That doesn’t happen without IMLS.
That doesn’t happen without IMLS.
April 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
In Maine, that "magical" includes ebook access, interlibrary loan, children's literacy programs, talking books for the visually/physically impaired, Internet access at small town libraries, and more ~ for less per year than one Trump golf trip.
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Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) covers 1/3- 1/2 of state library agency budgets. Do you know what your state library agency does? Here in RI ours covers programs to ensure our public libraries have online services, interlibrary loan, disaster planning, & data collection. 1/ olis.ri.gov
OLIS Homepage | RI Office of Library & Information Services
olis.ri.gov
April 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) covers 1/3- 1/2 of state library agency budgets. Do you know what your state library agency does? Here in RI ours covers programs to ensure our public libraries have online services, interlibrary loan, disaster planning, & data collection. 1/ olis.ri.gov
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Reminder that IMLS supports Libby and Interlibrary Loan, so if you like things like rural borrowers having the same access as city residents and immunocompromised people being able to still use their library despite ableds demanding libraries open without masks…time to push back.
March 31, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Reminder that IMLS supports Libby and Interlibrary Loan, so if you like things like rural borrowers having the same access as city residents and immunocompromised people being able to still use their library despite ableds demanding libraries open without masks…time to push back.
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Established in 1996, the IMLS provides funding to libraries and museums in every U.S. state and territory—primarily supporting essential but low-profile functions such as database infrastructure and collections management.
April 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Established in 1996, the IMLS provides funding to libraries and museums in every U.S. state and territory—primarily supporting essential but low-profile functions such as database infrastructure and collections management.
Yes, IMLS funds go to supporting ebook access through libraries in many states, so today's move closing IMLS will almost certainly reduce access to Libby, CloudLibrary, Hoopla, and other such services.
If you're an ebook person — like me! — this is a major alert. IMLS is part of what makes the Libby App possible.
(Plus like a million other library things)
(Plus like a million other library things)
SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source.
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
March 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Yes, IMLS funds go to supporting ebook access through libraries in many states, so today's move closing IMLS will almost certainly reduce access to Libby, CloudLibrary, Hoopla, and other such services.
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They put the entire IMLS staff on leave. One thing the agency does is provide infrastructure or funding for many public libraries and tribal libraries to connect to the internet. In 50 states!
It's gonna suck when kids can't do homework, adults can't apply for jobs, and seniors don't get services.
It's gonna suck when kids can't do homework, adults can't apply for jobs, and seniors don't get services.
This is the email just received by IMLS staffers placing them on paid administrative leave for up to 90 days.
“Please understand that this action is not punitive but rather is taken to facilitate the work and operations of the agency.”
“Please understand that this action is not punitive but rather is taken to facilitate the work and operations of the agency.”
March 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
They put the entire IMLS staff on leave. One thing the agency does is provide infrastructure or funding for many public libraries and tribal libraries to connect to the internet. In 50 states!
It's gonna suck when kids can't do homework, adults can't apply for jobs, and seniors don't get services.
It's gonna suck when kids can't do homework, adults can't apply for jobs, and seniors don't get services.
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Again, the IMLS is mandated to exist by statutory law.
SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source.
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
March 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Again, the IMLS is mandated to exist by statutory law.
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there are so many amazing things IMLS does. just to take one:
more than 50% of public libraries get grants (known as e-rate grants) to help pay for their internet access.
more than 50%.
what will happen to those libraries now?
source for that statistic: www.ala.org/news/2024/07...
more than 50% of public libraries get grants (known as e-rate grants) to help pay for their internet access.
more than 50%.
what will happen to those libraries now?
source for that statistic: www.ala.org/news/2024/07...
March 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
there are so many amazing things IMLS does. just to take one:
more than 50% of public libraries get grants (known as e-rate grants) to help pay for their internet access.
more than 50%.
what will happen to those libraries now?
source for that statistic: www.ala.org/news/2024/07...
more than 50% of public libraries get grants (known as e-rate grants) to help pay for their internet access.
more than 50%.
what will happen to those libraries now?
source for that statistic: www.ala.org/news/2024/07...
IMLS costs taxpayers about 75 cents per person per year, to fund library programs that help everyone: Internet at libraries, children's literacy programs, talking books for the visually/physically disabled, and much more.
So early next year if not sooner the US Public Library Service will be a scattered network of large library systems that have been damaged by the gutting of the IMLS surrounded by library deserts where smaller systems that were reliant on IMLS funding used to exist
March 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
IMLS costs taxpayers about 75 cents per person per year, to fund library programs that help everyone: Internet at libraries, children's literacy programs, talking books for the visually/physically disabled, and much more.
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IMLS is the primary source of federal support for U.S. libraries and museums. The agency supports them through grants, research and policy development. The agency has about 75 employees. As of fiscal 2024, it had an annual budget of nearly $295 million. #IMLS
federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...
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Agency funding libraries and museums puts all employees on leave ahead of major cuts
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is one of seven agencies President Donald Trump is looking to cut "to the maximum extent."
federalnewsnetwork.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
IMLS is the primary source of federal support for U.S. libraries and museums. The agency supports them through grants, research and policy development. The agency has about 75 employees. As of fiscal 2024, it had an annual budget of nearly $295 million. #IMLS
federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...
federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...