350 Million Years In Different Layers In One Picture 😮😍 #Geology #GeologyPage

Ditmars, Oz SF awards

The Ditmar Award is Australia's oldest and best-known science fiction, fantasy and horror award. The 2020 nominations and results (listed in boldface) were announced yesterday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditmar_Award_results#2020:_Swancon_2020,_Perth

In response to the proposed elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, American Library Association President Julie Todaro said the Trump Administration is using the wrong math when it comes to libraries. The nation’s more than 120,000 public, school, academic and special libraries are visited more than 1.4 billion times a year by hundreds of millions of Americans across the country, Todaro said. More than 80 major corporations and trade associations called libraries “critical national infrastructure” in a letter to U.S. senators. “To those who say that the nation cannot afford federal library funding, the American Library Association, American businesses and millions of Americans say emphatically we cannot afford to be without it,” she said.

Trump Budget Draws Reaction from Inside, Outside Congress, George Nelson

Use ALA’s Legislative Action Center today to ask your Senators to sign both the LSTA and IAL letters and show their support for federal library funding. Many Members of Congress will only sign such a letter if their constituents ask them to, so it’s up to you to help save LSTA and IAL from elimination or significant cuts.

Five minutes of your time could help preserve over $210 million in library funding at risk.

We have a little time left to call! As of this morning, 34 senators have signed the LSTA letter and 31 have signed IAL.

(via libraryadvocates)

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Ray Bradbury (via bookmania)

ARGUING WITH FRONTLINE STAFF ABOUT PROPER CATALOGING

Poison and Light

Renowned artist Grania, famed as a painter of light, arrives in a sleek space ship from Lost Earth, ready to embrace New Ceres and its Ne...

I have read this, SF crossed with fantasy, modern space faring versus 18th century traditionalism, power mad versus a resistance fighter. Recommended! (Available through Smashwords so far)

"A life lived in a simulation is still a life." Emily St John Mandel, Sea of Tranquillity

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Is Looking for a Librarian

"Sometimes information about the Library gets out" she said slowly. 'not just in conversations like this. Librarians are observed, or they talk too much, or maybe the Fae are involved." … "And often when this does happen, this information ends up being recorded in works of - well, fiction."