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Sherri Hartlen-Neely<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Middleboro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Middleboro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Massachusetts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Massachusetts</span></a> is basically in a town-wide power outage. </p><p>Want to know why you should <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupportYourLocalLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupportYourLocalLibrary</span></a>? Our town library is staying open until 11pm so that folks can come in and stay cool and safe.</p><p>They’re doing this in conjunction with one of the middle schools and the Council on Aging. </p><p>Our local officials don’t often get kudos. Today they deserve all the applause and gratitude.</p>
Sherri Hartlen-Neely<p>I love the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Middleboro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Middleboro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Massachusetts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Massachusetts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicLibrary</span></a>! Our YA and Children's librarians kicked of the summer reading programs with creative and engaging videos...</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/3cZ7Yiqyk0A?si=iwt4ttj1mW-m5SZi" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/3cZ7Yiqyk0A?si=iwt4tt</span><span class="invisible">j1mW-m5SZi</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupportYourLocalLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupportYourLocalLibrary</span></a></p>
Scott Starkey<p>Just a reminder that your local <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a> is an F'n treasure that we probably don't appreciate enough. I hadn't gone to my local one in quite a while, and boy-howdy it's so cool. I remember when my wife and I were poor and kidless, and that was our refuge. And then we had kids, and we used it even more often.</p><p>They probably need your help more than ever.</p><p><a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/SupportYourLocalLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupportYourLocalLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/MastoSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoSupport</span></a></p>
Death By Stereo<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NowReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NowReading</span></a>: The Cuckoo’s Egg:<br>Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage </p><p>by Clifford Stoll</p><p>I've seen this book referenced many times over in books about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a>. The true story that's “as exciting as any action novel”, an astronomer-turned-cyber-detective begins a personal quest to expose spies that threaten national security. </p><p>Find a copy at your local <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a> : <a href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2189508M/The_Cuckoo%E2%80%99s_Egg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openlibrary.org/books/OL218950</span><span class="invisible">8M/The_Cuckoo%E2%80%99s_Egg</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupportYourLocalLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupportYourLocalLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ReadingIsSexy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingIsSexy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Stoll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stoll</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CuckoosEgg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CuckoosEgg</span></a></p>
Sherri Hartlen-Neely<p>The MBLC has to eliminate some good services and grants that support <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Massachusetts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Massachusetts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> and patrons, including:</p><p>- 12 Perkins Accessibility training sessions designed to increase library accessibility for people w/disabilities.</p><p>- Access to training &amp; continuing education for all library directors, staff, Trustees, Friends of the Library groups, &amp; foundations.</p><p><a href="https://mblc.state.ma.us/news/news-releases/2025/nr250403.php" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mblc.state.ma.us/news/news-rel</span><span class="invisible">eases/2025/nr250403.php</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupportYourLocalLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupportYourLocalLibrary</span></a></p>
KSev 🇳🇴🌻🚲 :donor:<p>John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger</p><p>–John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his 'swagger' portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience.</p><p>Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, Exhibition on Screen's film will examine how Sargent's unique practice has influenced modern art, culture and fashion.</p><p>Filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Britain, London, the exhibition reveals Sargent's power to express distinctive personalities, power dynamics and gender identities during this fascinating period of cultural reinvention. Alongside 50 paintings by Sargent sit stunning items of clothing and accessories worn by his subjects, drawing the audience into the artist's studio. Sargent's sitters were often wealthy, their clothes costly, but what happens when you turn yourself over to the hands of a great artist? The manufacture of public identity is as controversial and contested today as it was at the turn of the 20th century, but somehow Sargent's work transcends the social noise and captures an alluring truth with each brush stroke.</p><p>Step into the glittering world of fashion, scandal and shameless self-promotion that made John Singer Sargent the painter who defined an era</p><p>Explore the unique creative process of the late 19th century's favourite portrait artist and the way in which his portraits captured the spirit of a vibrant and rapidly changing age.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Kanopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kanopy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SupportYourLocalLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupportYourLocalLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/JohnSingerSargent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnSingerSargent</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>painting</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ExhibitionOnScreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExhibitionOnScreen</span></a></p>
PetterOfCats<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SilentSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilentSunday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Kitsap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kitsap</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SupportYourLocalLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupportYourLocalLibrary</span></a></p>
Sara Passmore<p>The Libby app from the library is so good. 💚</p><p>Just borrowed The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell.</p><p>Also, it is an audiobook version, so I can listen to it while riding my bike to work.</p><p><a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/FreeBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBooks</span></a> <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/SupportYourLocalLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupportYourLocalLibrary</span></a></p>
Lorraine Gypsum<p>This post brought to you by my local library, where membership includes access to a movie streaming site.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/supportyourlocallibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>supportyourlocallibrary</span></a></p>
Luke<p>"Before the internet, librarians were the gatekeeper of knowledge. For your reading pleasure, the New York Public Library released a cache of queries and conundrums called in from the 1940s to the 1980s."</p><p><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/before-internet-librarians-were-gatekeeper-of-knowledge-reading-pleasure-new-york-public-library-released-cache-of-queries-conundrums-called-from-1940s-to-1980s-100MhvX" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">imgur.com/gallery/before-inter</span><span class="invisible">net-librarians-were-gatekeeper-of-knowledge-reading-pleasure-new-york-public-library-released-cache-of-queries-conundrums-called-from-1940s-to-1980s-100MhvX</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SupportYourLocalLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupportYourLocalLibrary</span></a></p>
Solarpunk Presents Podcast

Is there anything more solarpunk than public libraries? Serving at the heart of communities, they’re a place where anyone regardless of income, ability, race, class, or gender can go to read books, listen to music, use the internet, learn things, hear story hour, get out of the weather for a while, and ask librarians for information on just about anything, including what organizations to turn to for additional support in your life or endeavor.

In Episode 2 of Season 2 of Solarpunk Presents, Christina talks to Don Gardner, a librarian for many years for the Salinas Public Libraries in Monterey County, California. Hear about how people rescued the library after the city council tried to close it down to save money, about what libraries can do for you and your community, and about what you can do for your local library.

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YouTubeLibraries: A Community Endeavor, With Don GardnerBy Solarpunk Presents
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