Kara A.
@bibliothekara.bsky.social
A feed full of crime & cats. Urban historian & digital projects archivist. Views my own. Previously @archivistadams on twt. (they/them)
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"Dirty jokes and sacred texts: YIVO marks 100 years of preserving Yiddish culture" www.timesofisrael.com/dirty-jokes-...
Dirty jokes and sacred texts: YIVO marks 100 years of preserving Yiddish culture
Artifacts from 1,000 years of Ashkenazi Jewish life including literary transcripts, Herzl's diary, everyday notes and children's scrawls connect prewar Jews with generations to come
www.timesofisrael.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Dirty jokes and sacred texts: YIVO marks 100 years of preserving Yiddish culture" www.timesofisrael.com/dirty-jokes-...
haha yaaay the IMLS funds my jooob 🙃
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
haha yaaay the IMLS funds my jooob 🙃
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Also encourage people to email LC to oppose this proposed revision, which was announced a few hours ago (with comments deadline of today 😡).
Your email can be short (1-3 sentences) and can focus on impact to your patrons. #critcat #LCSH #cataloging 📚
Your email can be short (1-3 sentences) and can focus on impact to your patrons. #critcat #LCSH #cataloging 📚
LC published a tentative list to change #LCSH Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America & Mt Denali to Mt McKinley. Comments on the proposed changes can be sent to [email protected] by Tues. February 18, 2025 (which is TODAY). If you oppose the change, please email! #critcat (classweb.org/tentative-su...
Tentative Monthly List 12 LCSH 2 (February 13, 2025)
classweb.org
February 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Also encourage people to email LC to oppose this proposed revision, which was announced a few hours ago (with comments deadline of today 😡).
Your email can be short (1-3 sentences) and can focus on impact to your patrons. #critcat #LCSH #cataloging 📚
Your email can be short (1-3 sentences) and can focus on impact to your patrons. #critcat #LCSH #cataloging 📚
A regressive bootlicking proposal posted the Thursday before a long weekend with a five-day comment deadline. Pathetic.
Call for IMMEDIATE action: LCSH is officially proposing changes from "Mexico, Gulf of" to "America, Gulf of" and "Denali" to "Mt. Mckinley": classweb.org/tentative-su...
Send feedback to [email protected] by TODAY, Tuesday, February 18, to oppose these changes
Send feedback to [email protected] by TODAY, Tuesday, February 18, to oppose these changes
Tentative Monthly List 12 LCSH 2 (February 13, 2025)
classweb.org
February 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A regressive bootlicking proposal posted the Thursday before a long weekend with a five-day comment deadline. Pathetic.
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Lukewarm take: if you call the cops on someone on the subway who's just sitting there not bothering anyone because they look like they might be homeless, you're a jerk and everyone else on the train should be allowed to be annoyed at you for holding up their ride
April 6, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Lukewarm take: if you call the cops on someone on the subway who's just sitting there not bothering anyone because they look like they might be homeless, you're a jerk and everyone else on the train should be allowed to be annoyed at you for holding up their ride
Listening to @chrislhayes.bsky.social's conversation with Judith Butler [!!!] on today's #WITHpod and it was a herculean effort to not bust out laughing at work at "gender makes aliens of us all." WHAT a mood. Definitely enjoying this one so far. tunein.com/podcasts/New...
“Who’s Afraid of Gender?” with Judith Butler
Why have attacks on gender become so pervasive, especially within right-wing movements? Our guest this week points out that “the question of gender is fundamentally linked with the future of our democ...
tunein.com
March 19, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Listening to @chrislhayes.bsky.social's conversation with Judith Butler [!!!] on today's #WITHpod and it was a herculean effort to not bust out laughing at work at "gender makes aliens of us all." WHAT a mood. Definitely enjoying this one so far. tunein.com/podcasts/New...
Digitizing 80-year-old newspapers like
March 11, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Digitizing 80-year-old newspapers like
Brooklyn Botanical Garden's light show for the season is GREAT. Highly recommend!
December 10, 2023 at 3:15 AM
Brooklyn Botanical Garden's light show for the season is GREAT. Highly recommend!
@zackbudryk.bsky.social sometimes I see people in your replies getting relatively-minor organized crime facts wrong and I have to pace around the apartment muttering "don't pick fights, don't pick fights, no one cares" to myself
November 28, 2023 at 10:07 PM
@zackbudryk.bsky.social sometimes I see people in your replies getting relatively-minor organized crime facts wrong and I have to pace around the apartment muttering "don't pick fights, don't pick fights, no one cares" to myself
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Another L for summer-lovers: Getting inside when it’s cold out feels like a hug from your mother, getting inside when it’s hot out feels like you were just saved from being drowned in Kool Aid
November 28, 2023 at 9:53 PM
Another L for summer-lovers: Getting inside when it’s cold out feels like a hug from your mother, getting inside when it’s hot out feels like you were just saved from being drowned in Kool Aid
Serious question for other archivist/librarian folks on the job hunt: is a multiple-months-long wait to hear back from a second- or third-round interview the new normal now or am I just really unlucky? The job posting isn't closed so they haven't filled it with someone else, but...
November 27, 2023 at 9:12 PM
Serious question for other archivist/librarian folks on the job hunt: is a multiple-months-long wait to hear back from a second- or third-round interview the new normal now or am I just really unlucky? The job posting isn't closed so they haven't filled it with someone else, but...
*laughs in organized crime historian*
Rudy Giuliani jailed mobsters with a charge he now faces
Rudy Giuliani jailed mobsters with a charge he now faces
The "Rico" Act helped earn Rudy Giuliani a reputation as a "mob buster". Now he's facing a Rico charge.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 16, 2023 at 8:21 PM
*laughs in organized crime historian*
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American Library Association President Emily Drabinski is facing massive attacks. Attempts to silence her because of her political and sexual identity must not be allowed to succeed. See this statement from LAWCHA, and spread the word:
July 30, 2023 at 12:19 AM
American Library Association President Emily Drabinski is facing massive attacks. Attempts to silence her because of her political and sexual identity must not be allowed to succeed. See this statement from LAWCHA, and spread the word: