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MineEyesDazzle

#ALA Officers/Members, if you're reading this thread, I ask for your help.

Please add the account registration link to the ALA Connect FAQ on how to create a free ALA Connect account.

Please add Circulation and/or Access Services to the Principal area of work: dropdown list for the ALA Connect account registration form.

Please fix your Paraprofessiona typo in the Type of responsibility: dropdown. (Consider adding Library Assistant to that list, but that's less critical.)

Thank you <3 #LSSIRT

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MineEyesDazzle

One of our library assistants is trying to make a free ALA Connect account (for non-members) to attend a webinar about IMLS' defunding and it's a webform nightmare. The ALA Connect FAQ on how to do it doesn't provide the account registration link! I find it for her. Then, the webform immediately presents a field they don't have the information for (e.g. ID Number field), which it turns out isn't even a required field +
#ALA #libraries #librarianship

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Trina Corey

from the American Library Association:

Trump’s trying to gut funding for libraries: you can fight back with ALA.

The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out.

Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.

app.oneclickpolitics.com/campa

app.oneclickpolitics.comTrump’s Trying to Gut Libraries: Fight Back with ALATrump’s Trying to Gut Libraries: Fight Back with ALA
#library#libraries#books
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ALA Editions | Neal-Schuman

Following the Trump Administration's disastrous decision to pause most federal grants and loans, ALA has put out a call to library workers, patrons, and advocates across the country to share their library story. What would be at stake in your community with federal funding for libraries? What would you lose without long-term support for your local library? airtable.com/appTIEEt9RjDbjmv8

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#ALA#AmericanLibraryAssociation#LIS
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Jeannette Ho

The Core division of the American Library Association is looking for new instructors for the following web courses:

Fundamentals of Acquisitions
Fundamentals of Collection Development & Management
Fundamentals of Digital Library Projects
Fundamentals of Institutional Repositories
Fundamentals of Management

See alacorenews.org/2025/01/16/tea for more details and requirements.

The deadline for applications is February 9th.

alacorenews.orgTeach for Core: Apply Now! – Core News
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petersuber

2/ See the #ALA (@alalibrary) response:
schoollibraryjournal.com/story

"Book bans are real. Ask students who cannot access literary classics required for college or parents whose children can’t check out a book about penguins at their school library. Ask school librarians who have lost their jobs for protecting the freedom to read. While a parent has the right to guide their own children’s reading, their beliefs and prejudices should not dictate what another parent chooses for their own children.

The new administration is not above the U.S. Constitution. Federal judges have repeatedly ruled that removing books from school library shelves based on the objections of a person or group, or due to prejudice against a group – book banning– is unconstitutional censorship that violates students’ First Amendment rights. Already several states have wasted countless taxpayer dollars defending lawsuits that seek to vindicate students’ Constitutional right to read freely in a safe and supportive environment."

School Library JournalALA Responds to Department of Education Dismissing Complaints: Book Bans Are RealThe American Library Association:
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Florida education officials: 100s books pulled f. school libraries
apnews.com/article/book-bans-e

* FL state law empowers parents/residents to challenge school library books
* requires districts to submit annual report to state detailing restricted schoolbooks
* FL leads U.S. in pulling books f. school libraries

#AmericanLibraryAssociation #ALA #PENamerica
#Florida #DeSantis #censorship #education #antiLGBT #transphobia #homophobia #ParentalRightsMovement #M4L #LibsOfTikTok #fascism #Christofascism

AP News · Florida education officials report hundreds of books pulled from school librariesBy KATE PAYNE
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jmac

I wrote the attached post for Masto.NYC after the #ALA published this press release: ala.org/news/2024/11/ala-vows-

My partner, an ALA division director, shared the press release with me after I asked her how ALA intends to face the coming changes. We've also had a conversation about how comfortable we are making personal, signed political posts on public social media.
masto.nyc/@warren/113442705116

www.ala.orgALA vows to defend intellectual freedom and access to information against political threats In response to results of the 2024 United States election, the American Library Association vowed to continue its defense of the core values of librarianship in the face of political threats. 
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petersuber

𝘛𝘸𝘰 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘰 the American Library Association (#ALA) wrote an open letter to the #FBI about the growing problem of "bomb and shooting threats" against #libraries, in that case, public libraries.
ala.org/advocacy/letter-concer

I just learned about it in this excellent article by @oconnellwhittet on violent threats against #university libraries. Recommended.
lithub.com/when-threats-of-vio

#Academia
@academicchatter

www.ala.orgLetter of Concern to FBI Regarding Threats of Violence in LibrariesDuring the Summer and Fall of 2022, threats directed to public and school libraries and library workers escalated, including the forced temporary closure of five public library systems due to bomb and shooting threats.
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