After four people were fatally shot by members of the Ohio National Guard during a protest at Kent State University on this day in 1970, young activists "restored breath to a country that had seemed in many ways close to extinction," Roger Angell wrote. nyer.cm/IloOvtj

Happy 80th birthday, Bob Dylan! 🎸🖤📽️ “Mozart to Rimbaud, to the Beats, to Bob Dylan, to punk rock. He is in this continuing stream.” - Patti Smith Here he is with D. A. Pennebaker in Europe in 1966. Watch Pennebaker's radical documentary DONT LOOK BACK on Criterion Channel.

Remarkable to note that #AnneFrank would have turned 92 today... #Anne92 On this very same day in 1942, on her 13th birthday, she also began her Diary, a symbol of the ongoing fight for human dignity. *Photo taken at the Anne Frank House #UNESCO site. Also see: US Holocaust Museum

"The next time you are passing your local public #library, don't just think of it as a welcoming space. Think of it as an engine of inclusive economic growth, today and into the future." Proud of this for CILIP in today's Big Issue MT Caroline Dinenage MP

“The New Woman Behind the Camera,” opening today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, continues recent efforts to reinsert women into the history of photography. Here's a look at five under-recognized but incredibly influential artists included in the show artnews.com/list/art-news/…

New research from IMLS, ReinvestmentFund, PennSP2 & HR&A Advisors looked at the social wellbeing impact of libraries & museums across America & found they are the “indispensable connective tissue that keeps healthy communities together.” #SWIreport Read more⤵️imls.gov/news/new-resea…

Many Thanks to Aspen Digital for sharing these important #AspenInfoCommission recommendations on #InformationDisorder with Chris Krebs Rashad Robinson Vivian Schiller and Katie Couric ... #newsliteracy #medialiteracy Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

🖤 JOAN DIDION, R. I. P. “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it changes."

Happy #MLKDay

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” — Langston Hughes Happy birthday, Langston Hughes ✨

Women “computers” worked at the Harvard College Observatory from the late 19th-mid-20th century classifying the stars, determining their brightness, and even discovering new ones. Help us transcribe their notes through Project PHaEDRA: buff.ly/33rnKDE #WomensHistoryMonth

Dreaming in the Shade of #Green for #SaintPatricksDay ☘️ "Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable." ~ Baudelaire Video: youtu.be/N70lL35Ewsw © Michele Atwater #Art #Dream #Photography

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.” Paul Auster The Brooklyn Follies

“Words are windows, doors ajar in space; I guess them by the pressure of our palms on them, by the imprints they have left there.” ~ Edmond Jabès, “The Book of Questions” thanks to susannacrossman

“Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful positive obsession blunts pain, diverts rage, and engages each of us in the greatest, the most intense of our chosen struggles.” Timeless truth from Octavia Butler, who would have been 75 today: themarginalian.org/2020/10/31/oct…

#Libraries are places of kindness, warmth, empathy, community. They are exactly the spaces our society needs in which to heal and look ahead to better days. It is why I will never stop fighting to see them get the recognition and support they deserve.

📖 SUSAN SONTAG Born on this day, in 1933 “My library is an archive of longings.”

Happy #EarthDay... "The Earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the #Earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it." ~ Chief Seattle #SDGs #Sustainability #Nature Photo ©Michele Atwater

Realizing Potential. Libraries employ (and investigate) artificial intelligence. / American Libraries americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/03/01/rea…

Happy National Library Week from the largest library in the world! Whether it’s your neighborhood public library, school library or the Library of Congress, we are all committed in providing accurate, diverse and accessible resources for everyone. #libraries #nationallibraryweek