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'But if my novel displayed none of the usual commercial trappings—not even a bar code, because I had no intention of selling it—how then would I reach readers?'
Philip Graham turns self-publisher and distributes his latest novel by hand across the US:
OK, book lovers, we're out with another #podcast episode! Check out our conversation with poet @olliethewobbly — we're talking #libraries, #poetry, #history, Somerset Maugham, and more!
Stakeholders from across Open Science will discuss preservation of the scientific record. Using special collections as a starting point (JuOSC: go.fzj.de/JuOSC), we will address accessibility and usability of scientific information as an endowment for humanity.
This seems to be a new development in the UK. Any thoughts about strategies and tactics which have successfully opposed this kind of #censorship much appreciated.
Dozens of UK school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books, survey finds
Loss is universal, but there are different types of loss - loss of home, family, connection with heritage and roots.
Communities come together and find solidarity in shared grief. Explore this topic and more in the Coming in From the Cold: Taking Centre Stage Exhibition where Global Majority community groups define aspects of their heritage: https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/spotlight-2/
The £250,000 raised to help rebuild & repair Liverpool's Spellow Hub library is an effective two fingers up to the far right arsonist(s) who set it alight....
Mind you I half expect Nigel Farage will at some point try to claim that his work helped get the library refurbished.... which in a way it did (although of course without the fire no refurbishment would be required)
Every time an author states that borrowing from a library "steals" sales from them, I want to scream.
Publishers have indoctrinated authors against libraries, to authors' own detriment. Libraries buy your book, and if it gets popular, they buy more copies--but more, they introduce readers to your work, and those readers will spread the word, even if they don't buy your books themselves.
And the thing is, as Courtney Milan pointed out in @willaful's link (https://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings/2011/02/25/on-eating-your-seed-corn/), libraries help create the habit of reading when people don't have the money to buy their own copies--most readers, once they reach a certain income security threshold, will buy their own copies, and spread the word further.
Labeling libraries as bad is self-defeating and shortsighted, period.
Simplify your film screenings with Discussion Guides from Journeys in Film! To celebrate #SimplifyYourLifeWeek, we're highlighting our free Discussion Guides for award-winning films from around the world.
We create Discussion Guides for social impact films that cover topics and themes that are valuable for classroom use and in other film- and learning environments. Hosting successful film screenings has never been easier.
Our film discussion guides can enhance film screenings in setting like classrooms & homeschooling, family viewings, higher education, after school activities, library programs, community group events, film clubs and more. Even book clubs, for films with literary connections. The sky's the limit.
If you happen to be connected in some way shape or form to British Columbia and the preservation of historical memory, you may be interested in the BC History Digitization Program. The initiative that offers "matching funds to undertake digitization projects that will result in free online access to unique historical material from around the province." @histodons
The Explore your Archive campaign encourages everyone to visit, use, celebrate and be inspired by archives in the UK and Ireland.
One of the ways we do this on Twitter is monthly hashtags, where you are invited to share archive stories on a particular theme. This month for example, the theme is #EYASustainability
Does this work on Mastodon? What's the best way to share and promote archive engagement on Mastodon? At the moment we've been replicating a bit of what we do on Twitter on this platform, but perhaps we should take a different approach on here?
Kelly Jensen on the quiet censorship of pride at #Libraries in 2024:
"This year’s quiet Pride was not quiet because the world became more accepting. Pride was less contentious because of the quiet/soft/self-censorship of Pride itself."