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When I went to college decades ago, and first walked into the main library, it took my breath away. I'd never been in the presence of so many books.

Finding WorldCat.org yesterday, felt like that.

"WorldCat.org is a resource for locating unique, trustworthy materials that you often can’t find anywhere except in a library. By connecting thousands of libraries’ collections in one place, WorldCat.org makes it easy for you to browse the world’s libraries from one search box."

"In the past fifty years, thousands of libraries have represented their collections in WorldCat. Today, you can search WorldCat in nearly 500 languages to find physical items like books, audiobooks, maps, musical scores, and recordings, along with electronic items like ebooks, e-journals, articles, and digital images you can access online."

https://search.worldcat.org/

Just finished listening to a corruption of blood by ambrose parry. Its the third book in the raven crime series, set in victorian Edinburgh. Dr. Raven is the assistant to the famous dr. Simpson and lives in his household together with the former maid sarah, who he solves a series of murders with. Definitely worth a listen to people who enjoy crime fiction or historical novels. Available for free on the borrowbox app.

The cover of the book. It is gree and has an ornate gold frame around the edge. The name of the author is on the top of the cover in the same gold cover. Underneath is a black and gold circular emblem with a snake slithering around a wine glass. The title of the book is written in white at the bottom, followed by the names if the narrators (Brian dick and cathleen mcCarron)

Reminder that today is Douglass Day (Frederick Douglass's chosen Birthday)! From 12-3 ET there will be a live stream with talks, music, and good vibes on youtube. You can also spend just a few minutes helping to transcribe Library of Congress records to help make Black stories more visible and findable. You can participate and get connected to the YT and the transcription site through https://douglassday.org/

hey and fedi,

I'm in an interesting position where I might be able to suggest some exciting ideas for my local libraries around open access to computers and technology. Do you have stories of cool things your library/another library has done around digital equity?