https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/11/01/alabama-libraries-have-no-business-censoring-books-jim-vickrey/86879859007/

#z_lib #Library #Libraries #BookBans #Alabama #MontgomeryAdvertiser #Censorship

Wonder if this is when white gloves should be used:

https://glammr.us/@overholt/115475286890312138

#z_lib #Library #Librarirs #Archives #GLAM

The article explains why my 50 year old cassette tapes sometimes squeal during playback.

https://glammr.us/@overholt/115474717620088000

#z_lib #m_music

I have a hard time believing I did this.

I was offered to go down into a basement full of books and take whatever I wanted without paying for them.

Told myself I didn't have space & walked away.

Told my wife and she asked what I did with her husband.

For context, in the past, I had a 2 room apartment with a kitchen and bath. When we moved, my books filled up 4 rooms of our new to us rental house.

#books #bookstore #libraries #z_lib #bf_psychology #ct_biography_marriage #ct_biography

Bridges of Fillmore and Houston Counties on the Root River Trail.

Bicycled from Rushford to Houston. Lunch, explored library & shops.

Houston Library had a free Minnesota State Parks pass. Since I'm a member of SELCO through the Rushford Library, I was able to get it. Only good till the 30th, but we'll try to use it.

Bicycled home, enjoyed a wonderful breeze.

#BikeTooter #tr_photography_timelapse #Minnesota #RootRiverTrail #Bridges #HoustonMN #MNastodon #z_lib #Bicycling #TimeLapse #SELCO

Finished the book "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée.

Good book that should be read by a lot of people, especially younger people. The people who really need to read it to learn some empathy have already tried to ban it, the cowards.

#p_lit_ps_American #z_lib #GoodTrouble #AGoodKindOfTrouble
#LisaMooreRamée #BooksWorthReading #Books

40 miles yesterday to Lanesboro, Minnesota.

28 miles today to Houston, Minnesota. This a bit harder as it has a steep hill.

Glad I did both. Hot and humid reminded me of North Alabama.

Tomorrow I catch up on reading "Moon Lake" by Joe R. Lansdale.

Then listening to "The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae.

#RootRiverTrail #BikeTooter #Minnesota #MNastodon #Bicycling #Lanesboro #LanesboroMN #HoustonMN #InternationalOwlCenter #Dam #z_lib #p_lit_ps_american tr_photography #Photography

@everylibrary

Library of Congress classification system.

Oversized first. Over 14 inches vertically.

Subjects next.

Special work section for currently reading/using.

Had it by DDC until I got a job as academic staff in an academic library. I prefer LLC, but I think Public Libraries use Dewey so they dont have to pay catalog fees for most of their collection.

#z_lib #PublicLibrary #Libraries

One bike is in the shop. Backup bike is currently without a chain. Checked out a bicycle from the Rushford Public Library. Adjusted and tightened loose seat after I got home.

Went for a pleasant jaunt around town.

Pleasant after I adjusted to using coaster brakes. A little terrifying when my hand gripping did nothing, nothing I tell you!

I now ❤️ handgrip brakes so much more.

#BikeTooter #Bicycling #BikeShare #Rushford #RushfordMN #RushfordPublicLibrary #PublicLibrary #z_lib #Minnesota

Finally copied it all, saved to my own laptop and left with hers for her to copy.

I'm sure others would have an easier way to this, but I felt accomplished that I got it done.

6/6

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

Couldn't find the hardware detection program so turned it off and on again. Hardware detected, searched for driver on that CD.

Not found.

Huh?

Oh.

Copied to hard drive and ran as executable and searched again.

Winner!

I ❤️ love love The Internet Archive!

Tried to copy and nothing would copy. Then realized I was trying to copy on wrong part of the USB drive.

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

5/6

Turned it off.

And remembered the Internet Archive https://archive.org

Maybe they had older drivers?

Searched and used CTL-F to search for USB mentions in each old Windows98 page I used. Downloaded a few that might have it.

Found one that seemed promising.

Extracted it on my current laptop. Burned it to CD.

Copied from CD to Windows98.

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

4/6

And remembered the Internet Archive https://archive.org

Maybe they had older drivers?

Searched and used CTL-F to search for USB mentions in each old Windows98 page I used. Downloaded a few that might have it.

Found one that seemed promising.

Extracted it on my current laptop. Burned it to CD.

Copied from CD to Windows98.

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

5/?

So I tried the wifi dongle to connect to wireless. Probably too old to connect to modern wifi. Got an ethernet cord out. No ethernet port to connect.

Turned it off and on again, hoping Puppy Linux would detect it.

Nope.

Turned it off and on again, hoping Windows98 would detect it.

Yes!

But no driver!

Oh, fiddlesticks.

Maybe I could get a USB 3.5 floppy to USB reader? Or take it to a computer repair place?

Turned it off.

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

3/6

So tried to copy to USB in the USB port in the back. No USB Flash drives could be read. And I don't have a floppy drive in my current desktop or laptop.

Then I found older USB Flash drives. I found one that was only 512mb and thought that maybe it could be read.

Couldn't be found in Puppy Linux. Windows98 didn't find it.

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

2/6

Long thread. 🧵

Found old 3.5 floppy 💾 disk.. 20 unused, 3 of my wife's used. One of them with old family recipes on it.

Then found an old laptop, a Toshiba Satellite 320cdt I'd forgotten I'd had. Windows98 and a version of Puppy GNU/Linux on it.

Floppy drive worked.

Oh, this should be easy.

Tried to burn a copy of her floppies to a CD. Kept failing. Copied to the hard drive in both OSes.

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

1/6

This is so true.

https://m.filmfreedom.net/notes/a45wftjpp7

What finally helped with my thousands of photos, analog and digital, was using this format to organize both folders and files*:

Initials_yyyymmdd_number_location_location2_event_person_people

*spouse just told me this younger generation don't know what those are (How?!!).

#cataloging #z_lib #z_lib_cataloging #preservation #archives #libraries #archiving #History #d_history #tr_photography #Photography #photos #Organization #Organizing

@ascentale @meganL

A7. The local Public Library has bikes to check out during the Spring and Summer. If I could get maintenance for them, I would love to do the same and have them distributed to as many small town librariess as possible with funding to keep them going.

#BikeNite #PublicLibrary #z_lib #Libraries #he_BikeAsTransportion

I watched the original British version of "Ghosts" 📺 on HBO for 2 episodes and was enjoying it. Then they yanked it. Happily, my Public Library has 3 seasons on DVD.

"If the mountain can't come to Mohammed then we're going to bring the Vicar here." -Alison (played by Charlotte Richie

#pn_tv #Television #ButtonHouse #GhostsTV #Ghosts #gt_humor #Humor
#Humour ##PublicLibrary #Libraries #z_lib

Still too cold, but I needed to get out. Bicycled around town for a bit, then went to the library. My SouthEast ears are having to adjust to hearing MidWest accents. A [bag] "beck" is a "bahg".

This is a great library for such a small town. Defend your library from narrow minds, and make sure they're funded. Join the board if you can.

#Bicycling #Library #Rushford #Minnesota #BikeTooter #z_lib #PublicLibrary #Libraries