Nolan Rochford-Volk
@nrochfordvolk.bsky.social
Librarian-in-training, book lover, queer advocate for public good! 📖🎉📚
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"Violence is never the solution"
June 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"Violence is never the solution"
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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Iowa law banning books including 1984 and Ulysses blocked by US federal judge
Iowa law banning books including 1984 and Ulysses blocked by US federal judge
Judge rules that law banning school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts had been applied unconstitutionally
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Iowa law banning books including 1984 and Ulysses blocked by US federal judge
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Museums and libraries are the main places where members of the public engage in lifelong learning outside of any formal school.
Call your legislators. Tell them to protect library funding. bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...
Call your legislators. Tell them to protect library funding. bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...
Library Advocates Rally as Trump Targets Federal Funding (Gift Article)
An executive order has demanded that the Institute for Museum and Library Services be eliminated to the maximum extent allowed by law.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Museums and libraries are the main places where members of the public engage in lifelong learning outside of any formal school.
Call your legislators. Tell them to protect library funding. bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...
Call your legislators. Tell them to protect library funding. bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...
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Bill would strip state funds from public libraries based on association membership • Iowa Capital Dispatch 📚 iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/02/24/b...
Bill would strip state funds from public libraries based on association membership • Iowa Capital Dispatch
The bill that would strip state aid from public libraries based on memberships of certain state and national library associations.
iowacapitaldispatch.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Bill would strip state funds from public libraries based on association membership • Iowa Capital Dispatch 📚 iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/02/24/b...
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'Chilling effect': GOP bill would kill Iowa obscenity law exemption for libraries, schools 📜📚
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
'Chilling effect': GOP bill would kill Iowa obscenity law exemption for libraries, schools
Iowa Republican lawmakers are seeking to remove an exemption in Iowa's obscenity law that protects libraries and educational institutions.
www.desmoinesregister.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
'Chilling effect': GOP bill would kill Iowa obscenity law exemption for libraries, schools 📜📚
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
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Help public libraries today by:
✅ Downloading an ebook
✅ Registering for a program
✅ Sharing a post from your library
✅ Emailing staff and thanking them
✅ Mark your calendar to attend the next library board of control meeting
✅ Ask 5 friends to do the same
✅ Downloading an ebook
✅ Registering for a program
✅ Sharing a post from your library
✅ Emailing staff and thanking them
✅ Mark your calendar to attend the next library board of control meeting
✅ Ask 5 friends to do the same
February 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Help public libraries today by:
✅ Downloading an ebook
✅ Registering for a program
✅ Sharing a post from your library
✅ Emailing staff and thanking them
✅ Mark your calendar to attend the next library board of control meeting
✅ Ask 5 friends to do the same
✅ Downloading an ebook
✅ Registering for a program
✅ Sharing a post from your library
✅ Emailing staff and thanking them
✅ Mark your calendar to attend the next library board of control meeting
✅ Ask 5 friends to do the same
Our new cat, Odin, sitting on top one of our other cats, Orpheus! 🥰
November 10, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Our new cat, Odin, sitting on top one of our other cats, Orpheus! 🥰
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Book recommendations for this post US election Sunday. These two books are essential reading and also the reason why the outcome was not a shock to me and actually was exactly what I expected it to be. Both are incredibly well researched and beautifully written.
November 10, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Book recommendations for this post US election Sunday. These two books are essential reading and also the reason why the outcome was not a shock to me and actually was exactly what I expected it to be. Both are incredibly well researched and beautifully written.
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Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
November 9, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay