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this #library you are creating from my way of understanding people
i would like to understand why people are idouts

Victoria has a significant number of 'little libraries' that residents throughout the city have built on their property. Most are little more than boxes with a roof, shelves, a glass door & of course, free books. Some however, are much more than that. Here is are two that rise above the norm..... #reading #library

A little red house with Snoopy, the cartoon character dog, lying along the roof line.

A tall red library made to look like a British telephone booth.

I have realised recently that archiving, keeping local copies of drm free media, and playing them through open source, non-modifying players isn't just about having a copy of that rare show that I loved in the 1980s.

More importantly it is about ensuring that I have access to the "original" content, and not a "special edition" or AI enhanced version. The same with audio, keeping it local may limit my selection to just what I have on the server, but no adverts every few minutes, no drunk DJ AI generated playlist, and the knowledge that real people made every track.

As the age of AI slop media washes over us these collections of curated media public and private will become lighthouses of culture in a dark digital sea of emptiness.

#library #pirarchivist #digitalArchives

The Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appeared OTD in 1595, it was the first printed catalog of an institutional #library https://toilet-guru.com/school.html?s=mb #education #history

New article on my website! "8 credits down, 32 to go"

💕 https://librarymonster.io/ 💕

I share a lot of my work from the past semester: a zine & my two final essays (I'll reply to myself w/enticing details abt them)

#Library #Libraries #Technology #Internet #LIS #DoesTheProfessionalizationProcessIncludeLibraryMonsterPseuds??

Coffee Society, Cupertino Public Library

- Cupertino, California

Love the vibe of this tiny business: plants, espresso coffee, ice cream 🍦 ☕ 🌿 🌱🪴

#Coffee #CoffeeSociety #Library #PublicLibrary #Espresso #Brownie #IceCream #Plants #Cupertino #SFBayArea #SiliconValley

Photo of mid-day outdoor patio, showing shaded low concrete wall with silver block letters reading "Coffee Society" (large font) and "At the Cupertino Library" (small font). The light is dappled by deciduous trees. On top of the wall at right is a brownie wrapped in plastic and a to-go coffee cup.

Scientists Reveal What Happens in Our Brains When We Read – MyModMet

Have you ever wondered what’s going on in our brains as we read?

Source Links: Scientists Reveal What Happens in Our Brains When We Read

#2025 #America #Books #Brain #Health #History #ImpactOfReading #Libraries #Library #Reading #Science #UnitedStates

🐼 📕 Nou article a la biblio :anarchism: :

La Venjança Organitzada Anomenada «Justícia» de P. Kropotkin
https://www.labibliotecaanarquista.cat/library/kropotkin-piotr-la-venjanca-organitzada-anomenada-justicia

"Un estudi acurat del desenvolupament de la societat ens porta a la convicció que l'Estat i la Justícia són dos institucions que no sols coexistixen en la societat al llarg de la història, sinó que estan unides pel vincle de causa i efecte. Qualsevol que admeta la necessitat de membres de la societat separats i triats per a la funció especial de distribuir castics als qui han infringit la llei, necessita un organisme que promulgue estes lleis, les codifique, establisca normes de castic, necessita escoles especials per a ensenyar l'elaboració i interpretació de les lleis, necessita presons, carcellers, policia, botxins i exèrcit; necessita l'Estat." - P. Kropotkin

Bona lectura! :anarchoheart3:

#ebook #read #Kropotkin #justice #vengeance #State #Anarchy #anarchist #library #caturday #cat

Marcy Campbell #signed #book for the #library

Street Library, Ronco Brianto, Italy

#street #library #italy

@samlitzinger

#HeatherCoxRichardson May 23, 2025:

"...the White House has stopped publishing a database of official transcripts of President Donald J. Trump’s announcements, appearances, and speeches altogether and has taken down those it had published.

Instead it will just post videos.

And yet it is publishing just a few of the videos of the president’s term: so far, fewer than 50 videos of the first 120 days of his term, according to Brian Stelter of CNN."

So what *is* #Trump going to put in his #Library?

Heavily-edited videos?

Probably

Love this sign on the road up to Dennistoun Public Library in the East End of Glasgow (the building in the background of the photo).

#glasgow #dennistoun #library #libraries #dennistounpubliclibrary #sign #streetart #books

A sign on the road up to a Glasgow public library which reads Caution Mind-expanding Stories Ahead.

#Fensterfreitag #library

Old library in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Tall windows with sunlight streaming through to old bookshelves. In foreground see backs of tourists as they view library from a balcony

#NowReading: The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

A #SciFi Series: This has been a fun change to the more real life, dystopian, surveillance books I've been reading of late. I've really enjoyed these characters.

An acclaimed modern scifi masterpiece & Hugo Award winner for Best Series! Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space.

Find a copy at your local #library - https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26318316M/The_Long_Way_To_A_Small_Angry_Planet

#BookRecommendation #Bookstodon
#SupportYourLocalLibrary

The cover of the book, The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chamber. An acclaimed modern scifi masterpiece & Hugo Award winner for Best Series! Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space. I've really enjoyed these characters. The cover shows the title on most of the page, with a ramshackled- looking space ship traveling through space, towards a red planet in the distance.

Dodgy dummy allotment books aside, a proper physical #library is increasingly worth its weight in gold in terms of material of a passable quality and provenance without the increasingly AI-fuelled chaos dross filling up the World Wide Web. I think we need to spend more time at libraries, this book alone makes the visit worthwhile. Also flicked through the shore fishing section of a fishing book.

Have borrowed the Raku book. It's mad: you can just walk into a library and take away good books.

A book on a table top, it has a dark/black cover wrapped in clear film, in red at the top the word: Raku

In white under the title: investigations into fire

And at the bottom: David Jones

Samchika – A Java Library for Fast, Multithreaded File Processing

https://github.com/MayankPratap/Samchika

#HackerNews #Java #Multithreading #FileProcessing #Samchika #Library #OpenSource #TechNews

Happy New #Book Day! 📚🥳

Building on research in critical #library systems studies, Platform Power and Libraries traverses the divide between library, #communication, and cultural policy research in the realm of platform studies.

#critLib #criticalLibraries #systems

https://litwinbooks.com/books/platform-power-and-libraries/

Book cover for, "Platform Power and Libraries"

Rewatched "Dunkirk" last night. Everyone was desperate to get on a ship. People at work seem desperate to leave our rudderless college ship: 3 fine faculty (2 hired 2years ago), Director of Admissions; #Library Director going to Harvard, other librarians to UMass & Amherst 😭

Reference librarian Natane Halasz (woman with black shoulder-length curly hair, a few streaks of gray; glasses, black top and sweater, light blue and white patterned skirt)

Library Director Rachel Beckwith (woman with dark-blonde curly hair, glasses on head, black top, white scarf, black skirt with floral pattern)

Access Services Supervisor Suzanne Karanikis (woman with shoulder-length gray and brown hair, purplish dress, long white scarf-shawl)

Suzanne is speaking at the microphone. Natane and Rachel are at center and left of the picture in front of a tall display rack for books and periodicals

The event was for Rachel and Suzanne, Natane's departure was announced only this week

I'm angered by the news #mozilla #pocket is shutting down, and not really at Mozilla.

I've scaled back most of my tech optimism to the simple challenge of salvaging web 1.0 and the mobile revolution with a "read it later on my pocket size e-ink device" button on mobile and my web browser, and pocket + #Firefox + #Kobo was exactly that thing.

This was the quietest part of my internet and anything fussier is a tragedy, both for users like me and the many users who seem to be saying they never got around to reading anything they saved to pocket. It was a treasure to find my kobo when I had some unexpected spare time on the move. I curated that algorithm, and it was better suited to me than any of the generators of breadcrumbs to lowest-common-denominator engagement pipelines masquerading as "for you". It was "for me".

#BetterOffline has re-radicalized me. I care about this thing, and I want it for others. Where's my #FOSS replacement, not just for pocket but also for a commercially available e-reader and sync service that work together? I feel entitled to an answer. It should be here by now given the promises made to me when I was young and idealistic.

Hopefully you can tell me I'm wrong and there's something everyone else is using, but it's their quiet part of the internet too so I've somehow missed it. I suspect the answer is that it's not there at all because it's too quiet and my answer is something about the lack of analytics for authors. If so then let me log in with my #library card and let the public sector tell us what we're all reading about, securely and without assuming I'm old enough to sell stuff to.

#QuietInternet #OurSoftware

#Library

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