"Facilitating learning + creating community" That's is why Google can't undermine "the roots of librarianship" http://t.co/YqEP2Rm9h9

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

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Meet a winner! 🎬 "WHEN I LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND" by Queline Meadows (@kikikrazed) took home first place in the 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest. Let its poetic mix of film, music & text reflecting on the passage of time inspire your entry for the 2026 contest! 📆

Libraries were a good start, but we need more places where people can’t talk.

The early web was driven by curiosity, openness, and play, not monetization. Creativity flourished because experimentation was encouraged. Creator Audrey Witters reflects on that era, using her now-famous animated alien GIF as an example of how playful, freely-shared work helped

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@SharkEntangle A sad find yesterday - a dead dogfish with a hair tie through its mouth @SharkTrustUK

“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @GuardianBooks

I wouldn't normally trouble y'all with a "prize binding" of The Complete Works of Shakespeare but I like this one for a couple of reasons. First, Midhurst Grammar School is local to us and second, how cool to get a prize simply for "common sense".

❄️ ’Tis the season to celebrate with Sierra On-Line’s 1986 "A Computer Christmas." ❄️ Thanks to #softwarepreservation, this retro holiday classic is now a perennial gift for new generations of holiday revelers. 🦌🎄 See all the animated sequences ⤵️ https://t.co/gvYjxzdSgV

⬇️ LE TEST DU LECTEUR ⬇️ Additionne les points pour chaque toc qui te correspond. 1) Ne jamais corner les pages (tu préfères perdre ta page plutôt que de plier un coin) → 12 points 2) Refuser de casser le dos du livre (tu l’ouvres délicatement pour qu’il reste comme neuf) →

My neighbour deals in 20th-century collectables, and outsize pieces quite often end up in his small garden until there's room for them in the shop. Just now, there's a 1950s RNIB collecting box in the shape of a child reading braille, and it is the most melancholy & eerie sight😳

Et si lire un livre vous faisait gagner de l’argent ? Incroyable mais vrai, dans cette vidéo, on découvre une librairie dans laquelle vous payez le livre moins cher si vous vous engagez à le lire dans un certain délai ! C’est aussi délirant qu’effrayant ! On parle quand même de

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It is done. Here are clickable links of over 400 books in the western canon, separated by age group. It's meant for all of you who want the best for your child's education and for your own as well. The good news? Emily Dickinson was right when she said of books: "How frugal is

It seems, just now, To be happening so very fast; Despite all the land left free For the first time I feel somehow That it isn’t going to last... First slum of Europe: a role It won’t be hard to win, With a cast of crooks and tarts. And that will be England gone Philip Larkin

If you would rather read a book ( or anything) than watch crap movies on a long haul flight, never fly with @united as they've abolished overhead reading lights. 😡

Leslie Caron was dancing with Ballets des Champs‑Élysées in Paris when Gene Kelly spotted her and later invited her to screen-test for An American in Paris (1951). She was just 18 years old at the time...

Well done Markus - thank you for your integrity We just don’t behave like that in Cumbria and he has the good sense to know it

Somebody call the Indexing Police because I've just seen an index where Burchard of Worms is listed under 'O' as 'Of Worms, Burchard' 😱

My cartoon for this week’s @GuardianBooks. Lots more here: https://t.co/XrussZxYBb