few emails i am so excited to receive
Introduced last week, Iowa's librarian criminalization bill has already made it to the House floor.
Activity tagged "libraries"
update: the library director was in today and showed me his secret space opera hoard. new additions to the list:
- August Kitko and the Mechas from Space, Alex White
- You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo
(haven’t read either yet, but he highly recommends)
he also had two of the books i’d been wanting to include in the display!
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
- Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
in case you needed a reason to volunteer at your local public library: today the librarians let me pick a theme for and then curate one of the featured displays.
time to get this town reading more space operas!
my picks, if you want to read along:
- All Systems Red, Martha Wells
- Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie
- Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi
- Empire of Silence, Christopher Ruocchio
- Foundation, Isaac Asimov
- Leviathan Wakes, James A. Corey
- Olympos, Dan Simmons
- Saga (graphic novel), Brian K. Vaughan
- Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Stars are Legion, Kameron Hurley
- The Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin
was working with a somewhat limited selection, or else I’d have tucked in some others:
- The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks (this is my current read!)
- Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks
- The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
- Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
- Nova, Samuel R. Delany
- Pandora’s Star, Peter F. Hamilton
- Revelation Space, Alistair Reynolds
- Shards of Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
- We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Dennis E. Taylor
(I haven’t read all these, but the ones I haven’t are all on my to-read!)
made some new stickers based on the linocut print i did earlier this year. the fight to protect libraries and access to information will be more important than ever.
Thank you to everyone who helped raise $4,211 to support the Internet Archive’s Open Library!
6 × 8” linocut relief print, CC BY 4.0
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy
The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.
Combining lending with digital technology is tricky to do within the constraints of copyright. But it’s important to still be able to lend, especially for libraries. With a system called Controlled Digital Lending, libraries like the Internet Archive (IA) made digital booklending work within the constraints of copyright, but publishers still want to shut it down. It’s a particularly ghoulish example of companies rejecting copyright and instead pursuing their endless appetite for profit at the expense of everything worthwhile about the industry.
So what’s Casual Poet Library? It’s a shared library in the heartlands of Singapore run entirely by individuals in the community. Each individual pays a small amount of money every month to be a bookshelf-owner. On each shelf, bookshelf-owners share about themselves and their book recommendations via little note cards, and tend to their shelves like they are tending to a (book) garden. The library is open to everyone and all books are for people to browse and borrow.