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Emily Clasper
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Library gadfly, provocateur, iconoclast.
Rochester, NY
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Rochester & Monroe County friends! Help us gather feedback on our online library catalog! 📖❤️📚
Everyone who completes the survey and enters contact information will be entered in a drawing to win a gift card to a local bookstore!
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November 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
eclasper.bsky.social
Happy Pride Eve to all who observe.
May 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Eliminating IMLS would harm ALL Americans who rely on library programs and services, from summer reading programs to library delivery services for older Americans. #ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries

Take action: bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
Late Friday night, President Trump issued an executive order attempting to dismantle the institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) - the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services. This order would harm communities across the country. Millions of people rely on library services and programs supported by IMLS.
March 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1

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March 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Confirmed DOGE is currently inside IMLS headquarters.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Mar 19
NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
March 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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When I asked the media specialist how she felt when banned books were pulled from the shelves of the St. Francis High School library, she told me, “Each book I have had to remove crushes me inside.”

minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/19/t...
'The Handmaid's Tale' could really teach something to the kids in St. Francis. Too bad it's banned. • Minnesota Reformer
“The Bluest Eye” and “The Perks of Being A Wallflower” are out.
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March 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
eclasper.bsky.social
It's a five alarm fire.
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White House Attacks Libraries | American Libraries Magazine
On March 14, President Trump launched an assault on libraries, signing an executive order targeting the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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March 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders.

Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
ALA response to White House assault on IMLS To dismiss the mission of an agency that advances opportunity and learning is to dismiss the aspirations and everyday needs of millions of Americans. And those who will feel that loss most keenly live in rural communities.  As seedbeds of literacy and innovation, our nation’s 125,000 public, school, academic and special libraries deserve more, not less support. Libraries translate 0.003% of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 billion people every year. Show Up for Our Libraries, ALA American Library Association, #ForOurLibraries
March 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients.

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Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries
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March 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
eclasper.bsky.social
Eliminating the Institute of Museum and Library Services is just one more way of coming for the most vulnerable people in our country. #IMLS
March 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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By Jeff Parker
A preponderance of evidence in support of libraries.
February 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
eclasper.bsky.social
If you don't know why this is super alarming, you're not paying attention.

Trump administration dismisses national archivist

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Trump administration dismisses national archivist | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump’s administration announced it had dismissed Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan in a surprise move Friday evening.
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February 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Groundhog Day is stupid. There I said it.
February 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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February 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Take yall children to those black history events that will be held at some local libraries. It starts at home
February 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION SUBJECT: New Annual Media Rotation Program for Pentagon Press Corps For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department's top military and civilian leaders. Known as the Correspondents' Corridor, this office space loaned to media outlets by the Secretary of Defense stands as a tribute to the importance the Department has long placed on informing the public about the U.S. military and all it does to project peace through strength. It also honors the many correspondents who put their lives on the line, and in many cases died, while covering our finest in battle. In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents' Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalistic value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs will implement a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces. Each year, one outlet from each press medium - print, online, television and radio - that has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps. This year, the following news outlets will begin their rotation by vacating their physical office space effective Friday, February 14, 2025: Print - The New York Times TV - NBC News Radio - National Public Radio Online News - POLITICO In their place, the following outlets from each medium will be invited to move into the Correspondents' Corridor workspaces formerly occupied by the above four outlets. Print - New York Post TV - One America News Network Radio - Breitbart News Network Online News - HuffPost News (aka The Huffington Post) To be clear, the outlets that vacate the spaces loaned to them by the Secretary will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps. They will continue to enjoy the same media access to the Pentagon and will be able to attend and cover briefings and be considered for travel with civilian and military leaders in the Department as they have previously. The only change will be giving up their physical workspaces in the building to allow new outlets to have their turn to become resident members of the Pentagon Press Corps. Thank you in advance for participating in the Pentagon Press Corps Annual Media Rotation Program. By turning over the office space loaned to you by the Secretary, you will ensure that new outlets will have the same opportunity you have enjoyed covering our nation's finest up close from office spaces inside the walls of the Pentagon. (John Ullyot Acting
February 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
eclasper.bsky.social
I have never needed Spring Training to start as badly as I need it this year. ⚾️
February 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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November 28, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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I'll watch every video from every angle of this.
sassylibrarian.bsky.social Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · Nov 28
A Thanksgiving treat for you!
November 28, 2024 at 4:19 PM
eclasper.bsky.social
Remembering when the kids were little and Claire loved going into Radio City at Christmas time to see the "Rock Heads". She was sure they were robots.
November 28, 2024 at 4:19 PM
eclasper.bsky.social
Anyone surprised by Glinda being shady in Wicked didn't pay attention in the Wizard Of Oz...
November 28, 2024 at 4:09 PM
eclasper.bsky.social
F Ronald McDonald. Grimace in a Mets hat is the balloon New Yorkers deserve in the parade this year.
#macysparade
a purple monster is standing in front of a building with the words `` lets go mets '' written below it .
ALT: a purple monster is standing in front of a building with the words `` lets go mets '' written below it .
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November 28, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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Had a slight issue with the stream settings, so here is a new link: youtube.com/live/-a9g0AU...
We'll be live in about 2 minutes. Come hang with us.
November 27, 2024 at 5:08 PM
eclasper.bsky.social
So, we're at it again.
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Join my fabulous self and my insufferable son starting at noon today as we prep for Thanksgiving dinner. We love welcoming family and friends we don't usually get to see into our home via the interwebz.
Hey, I cook once a year... don't miss it!
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November 27, 2024 at 2:29 PM