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👏Governor Maura Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll recently announced that Regie Gibson has been selected to serve as Massachusetts Inaugural Poet Laureate. This selection follows an exhaustive search with more than a hundred applicants designed to identify a poet who will amplify poetry and creative expression across Massachusetts.
🔗 Read more at tinyurl.com/MA-1st-Poet or the link in bio.
Photo Credit: Mass Cultural Council
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⚠️"The Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has been the subject of federal administration gutting since mid-March. Among the casualties are the bulk of its small staff, the bulk of its budget, and the bulk of its services and purpose."
🔗 Read more at the link in bio.
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☀️😊Happy #FortifyingFriday! In the latest installment of Fortifying Your Library, MBLC Library Advisory Specialist Al Hayden gets into the details of Public Comment Policy. Does your library have open meetings with public commentary? What about policies to keep public commentary as orderly as possible? Read more at 🔗the link in bio!
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‼️ It`s been just over 2 months since President Trump issued an executive order targeting the IMLS and library funding. Librarian Kelly Jensen has put together a comprehensive timeline with updates at 🔗the link in bio!
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✨ Hey, it`s a #FortifyingFriday! In the previous post from MBLC Library Advisory Specialist Al Hayden, we looked at meeting room policies and today she`s got an even closer look at *use agreements* for meeting rooms. What`s that all about, you ask? Find out at 🔗the link in bio!
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ALT: Informative graphic for a new blog post on meeting room use policy in libraries. The image shows a stack of books and text, "Fortifying Your Library with Al Hayden, Policy: Meeting Room Use" with a URL to read more.
✨ 👏 This week, 25 students and their families, legislators, teachers, and members of the library community gathered at the State House to celebrate the 25 years of the @masscenterforbook Center for the Book (MCB), and 25th Annual Letters About Literature (LAL) Awards! 📝 Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa congratulated the students “for reading voraciously, for being committed to learning more about the world that surrounds [them], and for sharing [their] experiences.”
📜 For more about the awards, the honorees and their letters, please visit the link in bio!
Photo Credit: Mass Center for the Book. Pictured: Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa addressing the audience at the 25th annual LAL awards
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Monday was a gorgeous day to celebrate the ribbon-cutting and completion of construction of the new @@sharonpubliclibraryma! 🥳😍 Congratulations, town of Sharon and the dedicated #LibraryStaff, #LibraryTrustees, Sharon #LibraryFoundation, and Friends of the Sharon Public Library! 💖
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Did you know that there`s a long history of dogs and #libraries in Massachusetts? In 1869, the dog tax became a funding source option for public libraries. Our very own Preservation Specialist at the MBLC, Jessica Branco Colati, puts the dog tax from 150 years ago into perspective in this piece from New England Public Media.
🔗 You can read more at the link in bio!
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