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Emma Morris @curtainlecture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🤩Class proposals for the Winter/Spring Adult Education Program at @newberrylibrary.bsky.social are open!!!🤩 Deadline: October 16. www.newberry.org/learn/adult-...

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Chicago Zine Fest @chicagozinefest.bsky.social · 21h

#CZF2026 is in one week! Join us Saturday October 10th at the @chipublib.bsky.social Harold Washington Library Center. Almost 100 zinesters, an Indigenous zinesters panel, two workshops, & five hands-on activities including a typewriter zoo! 🐭 Details: www.chicagozinefest.org/czf2026.html #zines

Poster for Chicago Zine Fest, with an illustration of a cute mouse wearing glasses and looking at a map, walking through a crowd of people.

Text reads:

CHICAGO ZINE FEST
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Saturday, October 10th, 2026
11 am-4pm
Free Admission
Harold Washington Library Winter Garden 9th Floor
400 S. State St.
Featuring exhibitors with zines,
self published books, and mini-comics available for sale or trade!
Enjoy workshops,
panel discussions, and readings!
chicagozinefest.org
Masks encouraged!

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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.blacksky.app · 20h

CALL FOR PROPOSALS (CFP): Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, Feb 19-20, 2027. DEADLINE: Nov 20. documentaryediting.org/archives-and... #BlackStudies #BlackHistory #DigitalHumanities

White text against a purple background: "Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies"

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

forgot to say this last time, but remote or hybrid in Chicago leads would be immensely appreciated

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 01/10/2026

Today is Primidi the 11th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate potatoes. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Potatoes.

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

everyone hates AI. everyone loves the library

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Emma Morris @curtainlecture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🤩Class proposals for the Winter/Spring Adult Education Program at @newberrylibrary.bsky.social are open!!!🤩 Deadline: October 16. www.newberry.org/learn/adult-...

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The Newberry @newberrylibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Does your congregation, community organization, or activist group have boxes of photos, newsletters, meeting minutes, flyers, or other records tucked away? Those materials may hold stories worth preserving! Join us for a free training: www.newberry.org/calendar/bey... @chicollections.bsky.social

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Beyond Belief Community Archival Training Workshop, Part 1 / Taller…

Practical, hands-on training to help communities preserve the records that tell their stories / Capacitación práctica y de participación activa para…

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The Newberry @newberrylibrary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Are you curious about how archives could take your research to the next level? Learn the fundamentals of using archives, what kinds of materials you can expect to find, and develop confidence in research strategies. Taught by our Manuscripts and Archive Librarian! @chicollections.bsky.social

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

would you like to read my book The Politics of Lonely for $0? consider requesting it at your library! to sweeten the deal, if you comment below & let me know you've requested it at your library i will enter you to win a copy of the book for keeps, plus each of my four (four???) zines on friendship.

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Chicago Zine Fest @chicagozinefest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Join us Friday October 9th for Hallowzine, an all-ages night of spooky zine readings! We'll kick off #CZF2026 with a fun, free event, thanks to our hosts at @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social in Avondale!! 👻

Playful flyer featuring a smiling ghost and the text "Hallowzine, a free, all-ages night of spooky zine readings. Friday October 9th, Skunk Cabbage Books, 2826 N Milwaukee Ave, presented by Chicago Zine Fest".

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The Newberry @newberrylibrary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now it can be told! The sci-fi series "Dark Matter" filmed at the Newberry in March 2025 and we appeared in a scene in the new season, episode 2. www.newberry.org/news/apple-t...

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Apple TV Series Films at the Newberry

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Chicago, this Sunday, stop by the Art Institute and check out the Pub Fair, 11-2pm.

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Digital Newberry @digitalnewberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gertrude Stein has joined Newberry Transcribe ✨ New letters to Sherwood Anderson + 1,500 more pages, including Ben Hecht, Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Graham Taylor, and two Rodgers family travel journals. Read more and start transcribing: digitalnewberry.substack.com/p/gertrude-s...

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

writers! If you’re looking for mentorship & you’re of color, Periplus is going into its seventh(!) year of annually pairing 50ish writers who are newer to publishing with more established writers. Periplus is taking applications through 10/11 🌱 faqs below docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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School Library Journal @slj.com · 17/09/2026

Any school librarians with robust zines programming or using zines to collaborate with classroom teachers? We want to hear from you. Reply here or email news editor Kara Yorio at kyorio@mediasourceinc.com #Skybrarians #TLSky #EduSky #zines

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tonight! And Saturday and Sunday. Come out to celebrate 75 years of Chicago: City on the Make. pocketguidetohell.com

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Pocket Guide to Hell – True Crime, Social Justice, Labor History, Peanuts

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tomorrow! Online! Free!

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Harry #Houdini was history's most famous magician, but did you know he was also a book collector? Learn more tonight as @ecolleary.bsky.social discusses his new book, Houdini's Library. Join us @ransomcenter.bsky.social at 6 PM, CDT or watch the livestream below! www.eventbrite.com/e/author-rea...

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Eric Colleary - Houdini’s Library (2026)

YouTube video by Harry Ransom Center

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Zine Libraries @zinelibraries.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Registration Now Open! The Zine Librarians unConference will be held virtually via Zoom on Saturday November 7–Sunday November 8. The registration form for ZLuC 2026 can be found HERE & linked in our bio: pci.jotform.com/form/2516578...

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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This weekend is The Urban Birding Festival and we'll be there! Here's where to find us. Our storefront will be open for normal shopping hours.

A half tone vintage map of Chicago's geology fills the background. Over top is a light blue text banner reading, "Skunk Cabbage Books at the Urban Birding Festival, Sept. 18 - 20". Inset is a photo of a white non-binary person wearing a mask and a Skunk Cabbage Books ballcap with a pigeon sitting on their shoulder at last year's Urban Birding Festival.

A halftone map of Chicago's geology fills the background. A blue text bar with an inset photo of Dexter Patterson's Birds of the Great Lakes reads in black, "Friday: Bird Joy for All with Dexter Patterson." A second banner with an inset photo of the cover of Extremely Accurate Birds by Tommy Siegel reads in black, "Saturday: Extremely Accurate Bird Songs with Tommy Siegel and Billy Libby".

A photo of a diorama at the Nature Museum of a taxidermied deer looking up at a fake oak tree. Blue text boxes read, "Saturday + Sunday: Fest HQ @ Notebaert Nature Museum. 10 am - 4 pm."

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Huzzah! My Luddite stickers arrived. Can’t wait to distribute these on campus next week! Thanks @wolfproofpress.com and @literaturegeek.bsky.social

25 glittery Luddite stickers fanned out on a wooden table. The sticker features the iconic Luddite image and reads: Breaking machines that enshittify livelihoods since 1811

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Palestinian folk songs do more than entertain, they document occupation in real time. Serena Rasoul launches the Palestinian Folk Music Archive: a free digital collection of 800+ songs gathered from Palestinian families everywhere. Yezen Saadah reports: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...

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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🖤 The incomparable Peter Falk, born on this day in 1927! 🖤 Here he is in Wim Wenders's WINGS OF DESIRE (1987). Now playing on the Criterion Channel!

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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you work for a book publisher that has introduced AI at any point in the publishing process, I'm working on a story and would like you speak with you, on-record or off-. Same goes if you're an author and you've witnessed your publisher using AI at any point in the publishing process.

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Library Juice Press @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We're excited to announce that Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in libraries is shortlisted for the 2026 Palestine Book Awards Big, big congratulation to editors Nora Lester Murad and Mary L. Onorato, and all the contributing authors!

Resisting erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in libraries is shortlisted for the 2026 Palestine Book Awards

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Librarians! Zine-Makers! This new Temporary Services zine (made with @doormouse12.bsky.social) is for you! We interviewed 4 public librarians that maintain zine collections and the result is a beautiful 44 page booklet. See and learn how they do it! $10.00 (or $3.00 PDF) from www.halfletterpress.com

From the front and back cover of the booklet:

Public Librarians Discuss Zine Collections

We asked librarians at four public libraries to talk about their library’s zine collection. What advice can they share with zine makers that want to get their work into a public library, or librarians that want to start a collection at their library? Was it hard to convince others that zines are a resource that the library should collect? What collecting models did they follow? How did they build the collection?

Interviewees:

Tim Devin / Somerville Public Library
(Somerville, MA)
Angi Brzycki & Ziba Pérez /
Los Angeles Public Library
(Los Angeles, CA)
Alicia Tate / Multnomah County Library
(Portland, OR)
Alina Josan / The Free Library of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)

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Bob Dolgan @twibchicago.com · 14/09/2026

Today I wrote about our rarest turtle, the Blanding's Turtle. Only 500 or so remain in Illinois, in a few isolated populations. All photos taken with permission. 🐢 www.twibchicago.com/p/blandings-...

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Blanding’s Turtle: a conservation success story

Lake County program is expanding and maintaining their numbers.

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Matt Freeman @mfreemanwriter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Come see my new play, THE ASK. It dramatizes a meeting between a second wave feminist on the Upper West Side and a young non-binary fundraiser. It's about the generational tension on the Left, and having a job, and of course, how money drives even the most idealistic conversations.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 11/09/2026

So freaking excited for this October 1 event for SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME. If you're in Chicago or anywhere near or if you just want to drive a million miles to come to this, please do! It's with the amazing @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social & @anandalima.bsky.social

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Some of you know that I co-founded Liberation Library in 2015 with great comrades in Chicago. The org is volunteer led and has continued it's amazing work. They are trying to raise $15,000 to send books to incarcerated children as a back to school fundraiser - mailchi.mp/cc51694705fc...

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Stack the Books for Back 2 School

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The Newberry @newberrylibrary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We are thrilled to share that "Collecting Stories: New Acquisitions at the Newberry," is open! The exhibition introduces pairings that say something about the Newberry’s past, present, and future. Each acquisition is displayed with something longstanding in the collection. Open through 12/30.

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

it's not a self-help book, but it is pretty opinionated. The Politics of Lonely: Why is Friendship So Hard? is officially out today! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

$Three pieces of advice from The Politics of Lonely (swipe to see one more that got cut from the finished book) - “Each of us needs a lot of people, and we need them very badly.” - “It is worth considering whether you might let your friendships inconvenience you a fraction as much as your job does.” - “Kill the Margaret Thatcher in your head” out today, 2026-09-10$

stated reason for not writing a self-help book: “I believe that the message that you can fix all your problems on an individual level implies that they’re your fault to begin with.”

actual reason for not writing a self-help book: i do not give good advice :)

screenshot from the book manuscript, where i have written "have sex with one of your friends! just kidding.... unless?", with a comment asking "too unhinged?" and my very patient editor replying "probably, haha!"

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Media Burn Archive @mediaburn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Announcing the 1st World Poetry Slam Day!!! 📅9/26 ⏰2-4pm 📍Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610 💸 FREE, though a $10 donation is suggested 💌RSVP via link in comments Join us as part of an international celebration of the Poetry Slam featuring founder Marc Kelly Smith.

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Michigan State University Library is hosting the second Common Knowledge Zine Fest on Sun Oct 18th during their Open Access Week. CKZF asks: what can #zines teach us about creating & sharing knowledge outside traditional channels? Apply by Sept 20th: www.cognitoforms.com/LICZ/CommonK...

Flyer for Common Knowledge Zine Fest, with a drawing of a brain and text reading "Applications open! 15+ spots for research and nonfiction zinesters".

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David Safran @davidsafran.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My mom co-wrote the stage adaptation of "Free To Be...You And Me," a cultural behemoth that Gloria Steinem helped shape. Growing up in the Free To Be community was indispensable. It's hard to imagine Gloria Steinem resting as the US lurches backwards. It's on all of us now to make sure she doesn't.

Photograph of two women, one is Gloria Steinem (L) and the other is educator-writer Regina Safran (R). Both are joyfully smiling and wearing black clothes with accessories. (Concha belt on Gloria; necklace on Regina.)

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Ann Arbor District Library @aadl.org · 27/08/2026

AADL will celebrate the amazing life of Dolly Parton with Dolly Day on 9/25 at the Downtown Library. More details as we get closer to the date!

A black and white portrait of Dolly Parton, smiling brightly. Below, black text reads "Dolly Day" with a pink butterfly above the words. It also notes the event is on Friday, 9/25 at 5:30 PM at the Downtown Library.

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East Lansing Public Library @elplibrary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

September is Library Card Sign-Up Month! 📚 Show, renew, or sign up for your library card to receive a free gift and enter into a raffle drawing! 📚 Show your card at participating local businesses to receive a discount at check-out! #LibraryCardSignUpMonth #LibSky #Library #BookSky

"Enter to win a raffle drawing!

Against the Odds Bundle:
The Man who Died Twice, by Richard Osman
The Eighty-Dollar Champion, by Elizabeth Letts
A tasty twist coupon

Family Ties Bundle:
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai
The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese
A tasty twist coupon

Fantasy Bundle:
Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman
Dominion, by Jean Kwok
A tasty twist coupon

Perils of the Sea Bundle:
The Wager, by David Grann
Twist by Collum McCann
A tasty twist coupon

Community Center Bundle:
Four single visit passes to the East Lansing Hannah Community Center.

"Receive a sticker, a yard sign, and a prize from the treasure chest!"

A blue yard sign with an open book reads "Libraries are for everyone" in English, Arabic, Spanish, and Chinese. Next to it, a treasure chest, filled with beanies, pencils, stickers, socks, plastic dinosaurs, and more. Next to that, a holographic sticker that says "I got my library card!"

Show your ELPL library card at participating local businesses for a discount!

Logos for Biggby Coffee, Capital City Sweets, Carousel Consignments, Constellation Cat Cafe, Dave's Hot Chicken, Flesh Adornments Piercing, Fuel'd, H Tea Cafe, Launch Family Entertainment, Mahabir Wellness, Peculiar Coffee Co, PKSA East Lansing, Sacred Wisdom LLC Massage and Healing Arts Space, Urban Roots Salon, and Wild Birds Unlimited East Lansing.

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh also (thank you for the reminder @levistahl.bsky.social and @uchicagopress.bsky.social ) you can use this code if you want to pre-order Beer Ghosts at a 30% discount: UCPNEW 🍺👻📖

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is how you do it, folks: Tell people about your books! Your publisher (in this case Chicago) probably has or will make you a discount code—use it! You’re proud of your book! You put a lot of work into it! Don’t be shy now!

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Detroit's Jazz Festival is this weekend, so we pulled together a little Reading Jazz bibliography: Mingus, Monk, Miles, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, Detroit jazz, and some Backroom oddities. A few books for the jazz curious—and the jazz obsessive: www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

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trash wizard the iv @ourcityburning.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

hello! if you are bemoaning the lack of solidarity in tech, please consider helping others attend the coolest tech labor conference called Circuit Breakers! If you are someone who would benefit from attending but don’t make engineer monies, plz fill out our fund request form!

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 01/09/2026

Today is Sextidi the 16th of Fructidor in the year 234. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate lemons. #JacobinDay See today's page

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Emma Morris @curtainlecture.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just a few of my many favs on @chirpradio.org, the greatest independent radio station possibly of all time!

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Sarah Mead Leonard @smeadleonard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Applications are now open for 2027-28 Short-Term Fellowships at the Newberry library! @newberrylibrary.bsky.social These fellowships support PhD-holding scholars and PhD candidates for 1-2 months of intensive research in the Newberry collection. Deadline: Dec 4 www.newberry.org/research/fel...

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Short-Term Fellowships

Short-Term Fellows investigate specific Newberry collection items that are essential to their scholarship.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Cool event! Celebrate 75 years of Nelson Algren’s classic "Chicago: City on the Make" with literature, history, and music over three days at three taverns in three Chicago neighborhoods. pocketguidetohell.com

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Pocket Guide to Hell – True Crime, Social Justice, Labor History, Peanuts

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