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For The People
We all love libraries, and we all love reading - but that’s not enough. It’s essential that more leftists become involved in their local libraries. We’re being out-organized by a right-wing movement that’s focused on taking over public institutions to privatize & weaken them.
10 Tips from GetUp's Decade of Campaigning
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Library — The Idealists Collective
Elections and Activism: Case Studies
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Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse | Library of Congress
More than 100 sets of rights-free images are ready for you to explore and add to your own projects. The topics range widely--from Classic Children’s Books and Disability Awareness to Dragons, Football, Jazz, and Shoes. With 25 to 50 historical photographs, posters, maps, and movies in each set. Enjoy!
Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries
Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console games, Will...
Everything is Miscellaneous
I’m at a Hubweek event called “Libraries: The Next Generation.” It’s a panel hosted by the Berkman Center with Dan Cohen, the executive director of the DPLA; Andromeda Yelton, a developer who has done work with libraries; and Jeffrey Schnapp of metaLab
What Libraries Actually Do – Libraries as Epistemic Institutions
One of the biggest challenges for libraries telling their story is that the library means something different depending on who’s in the room. For a student, it’s a place to study and a staff full of people who want them to succeed. For a faculty member, it might be the invisible infrastructure that delivers electronic articles or the subject liaison who visits their class each year. For a graduate student, it’s often something more: a research partner, a data collaborator, a guide through the methodological expectations of a discipline. And that’s before accounting for the larger information environment that those users are already swimming in, where disciplines publish at high rates; trade publications and newsletters and Substacks produce sense-making content daily; and social media, messaging apps, and community channels add still more. The information environment is a flood around us, and the library is one stream of that flow.
Local Power: Shifting Power at the Local Level - Candidate School
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Films For Action: A Documentary Library for Changing the World
Browse and watch 6000+ documentaries and videos - 99% free. No ads. Submit films. Share with friends. Let's change the world together!
Is Digital Campaigning Dead?
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New_ Public
We are researchers, engineers, designers, and community leaders working together to create digital public spaces where people can thrive and connect.
A City in Common: A Framework to Orchestrate Large-scale Citizen Engagement around Urban Issues
As part of the Digital Library's transition to Open Access, new features for researchers are available in the Premium Edition. Click here to learn more.
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
A lecture explaining why using our imaginations, and providing for others to use theirs, is an obligation for all citizens
