DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
This is awesome.
Also...Thank you, DCPL!
Also...Thank you, DCPL!
Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching it anyway.
All thanks to people power and community support-- especially from you all on Bluesky!
Happy to announce I'll be teaching Race Media and International Affairs 101 online-- hosted by D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library!
All thanks to people power and community support-- especially from you all on Bluesky!
Happy to announce I'll be teaching Race Media and International Affairs 101 online-- hosted by D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library!
June 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This is awesome.
Also...Thank you, DCPL!
Also...Thank you, DCPL!
No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL:
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.
Libraries can't afford e-books. D.C. lawmakers have a plan.
The demand and price for e-books is up — and it’s busting the D.C. Public Library budget.
51st.news
January 17, 2026 at 4:44 AM
No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL:
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.
If I lived in Maryland or Virginia, I’d absolutely make the trip to DC just to get a DCPL library card.
September 24, 2026 at 7:37 PM
If I lived in Maryland or Virginia, I’d absolutely make the trip to DC just to get a DCPL library card.
Update: DCPL stocked it this morning! Because PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE THE BEST
April 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Update: DCPL stocked it this morning! Because PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE THE BEST
January 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Blockempfehlung (Queer-/Transfeindlichkeit)
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June 21, 2024 at 11:01 AM
Blockempfehlung (Queer-/Transfeindlichkeit)
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The shirt is from DCPL 📜📚
February 28, 2024 at 11:20 PM
The shirt is from DCPL 📜📚
I see your shade dcpl
📰 Stay informed with The Atlantic—Access full-text articles on politics, culture, tech & more through Newsbank’s Access World News. Free with your DC Public Library card!
🔗 Start reading today: bit.ly/4hM0F35
🔗 Start reading today: bit.ly/4hM0F35
March 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I see your shade dcpl
Just tried to do interlibrary loan - which I have been planning on using heavily in the research phase of this book - only to be told interlibrary loan at the DCPL no longer exists thanks to Trump’s cuts
July 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just tried to do interlibrary loan - which I have been planning on using heavily in the research phase of this book - only to be told interlibrary loan at the DCPL no longer exists thanks to Trump’s cuts
On January 20, you set a new record with 10,916 digital loans in a single day at DCPL. 👏🏾
February 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
On January 20, you set a new record with 10,916 digital loans in a single day at DCPL. 👏🏾
@kenclarkefitness 🧔♂️❤️ keeps on flexing it
💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
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#beardedhairyscruffhunks #biceps #muscles #hairybody #hairymen #gymrat #fitness
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#beardedhairyscruffhunks #biceps #muscles #hairybody #hairymen #gymrat #fitness
November 21, 2024 at 6:32 PM
@kenclarkefitness 🧔♂️❤️ keeps on flexing it
💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
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#beardedhairyscruffhunks #biceps #muscles #hairybody #hairymen #gymrat #fitness
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#beardedhairyscruffhunks #biceps #muscles #hairybody #hairymen #gymrat #fitness
No Library Wrapped from us — we don’t track what you read.
DCPL protects your privacy because it’s the law and the librarian way. 📚🔒
DCPL protects your privacy because it’s the law and the librarian way. 📚🔒
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
No Library Wrapped from us — we don’t track what you read.
DCPL protects your privacy because it’s the law and the librarian way. 📚🔒
DCPL protects your privacy because it’s the law and the librarian way. 📚🔒
DCPL does this, too!
Cancel your NYT subscription and get yourself a library card! www.denverlibrary.org/nytimes/
August 30, 2024 at 12:13 AM
DCPL does this, too!
If you’re in DC, you should cancel your subscription to the NYT and WAPO and subscribe to @51st.news instead.
Why? Your already HAVE A FREE SUBSCRIPTION to NYT & WAPO through the DCPL. I’ve been reading them both free and daily for a year.
Support local journalism
Why? Your already HAVE A FREE SUBSCRIPTION to NYT & WAPO through the DCPL. I’ve been reading them both free and daily for a year.
Support local journalism
September 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If you’re in DC, you should cancel your subscription to the NYT and WAPO and subscribe to @51st.news instead.
Why? Your already HAVE A FREE SUBSCRIPTION to NYT & WAPO through the DCPL. I’ve been reading them both free and daily for a year.
Support local journalism
Why? Your already HAVE A FREE SUBSCRIPTION to NYT & WAPO through the DCPL. I’ve been reading them both free and daily for a year.
Support local journalism
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#Blockempfehlung
Lest euch mal die Kommentare dieses "Professors" durch.
Und dann ab inne Hütte mit dem Arschloch
#Blockempfehlung
Lest euch mal die Kommentare dieses "Professors" durch.
Und dann ab inne Hütte mit dem Arschloch
bsky.app
June 23, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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#Blockempfehlung
Lest euch mal die Kommentare dieses "Professors" durch.
Und dann ab inne Hütte mit dem Arschloch
#Blockempfehlung
Lest euch mal die Kommentare dieses "Professors" durch.
Und dann ab inne Hütte mit dem Arschloch
📚 @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social joined Bluesky!
@dcpublicschools.bsky.social & @dchealth.bsky.social & @dcpolicedept.bsky.social are, too, but none authenticated on .gov.
Please help that happen, @octodc.bsky.social ? cc @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social @robertwhitedc.bsky.social @chenderson.bsky.social
@dcpublicschools.bsky.social & @dchealth.bsky.social & @dcpolicedept.bsky.social are, too, but none authenticated on .gov.
Please help that happen, @octodc.bsky.social ? cc @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social @robertwhitedc.bsky.social @chenderson.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
📚 @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social joined Bluesky!
@dcpublicschools.bsky.social & @dchealth.bsky.social & @dcpolicedept.bsky.social are, too, but none authenticated on .gov.
Please help that happen, @octodc.bsky.social ? cc @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social @robertwhitedc.bsky.social @chenderson.bsky.social
@dcpublicschools.bsky.social & @dchealth.bsky.social & @dcpolicedept.bsky.social are, too, but none authenticated on .gov.
Please help that happen, @octodc.bsky.social ? cc @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social @robertwhitedc.bsky.social @chenderson.bsky.social
The only photo of a famous person in @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social Executive Director Richard Reyes-Gavilan's office: Dolly Parton.
More on why the meeting meant so much, from @ecwilliams.bsky.social:
More on why the meeting meant so much, from @ecwilliams.bsky.social:
What Dolly Parton did for DC kids
The superstar performer supported a DCPL program that has mailed 4 million books to more than 100,000 D.C. children.
51st.news
August 30, 2026 at 2:01 PM
The only photo of a famous person in @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social Executive Director Richard Reyes-Gavilan's office: Dolly Parton.
More on why the meeting meant so much, from @ecwilliams.bsky.social:
More on why the meeting meant so much, from @ecwilliams.bsky.social:
EXCUSE me. DCPL does not have any copies of @emilystjams.bsky.social’s novel on Libby? This is bigotry, right?
April 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
EXCUSE me. DCPL does not have any copies of @emilystjams.bsky.social’s novel on Libby? This is bigotry, right?
SUPER COOL: DCPL Mobile/Cycle Library!! - Anyone else ever spot this awesomeness around town? www.popville.com/2026/09/supe...
SUPER COOL: DCPL Mobile/Cycle Library!! - PoPville
Thanks to JP for sending this super cool sighting in Dupont Circle: "Best idea evah!" DC Public Library - Library on the GO GO Anyone else ever spotted this elsewhere around town? Awesome.
www.popville.com
September 18, 2026 at 4:29 PM
SUPER COOL: DCPL Mobile/Cycle Library!! - Anyone else ever spot this awesomeness around town? www.popville.com/2026/09/supe...
DCPL has three copies of my book and my county library system is about to acquire it too!!!!
May 10, 2024 at 5:42 PM
DCPL has three copies of my book and my county library system is about to acquire it too!!!!
Yes! DCPL punk archive and memory lab made fantastic zines on preservation: memorylabnetwork.github.io/zines.html. I assign these in my digital curation course
November 30, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Yes! DCPL punk archive and memory lab made fantastic zines on preservation: memorylabnetwork.github.io/zines.html. I assign these in my digital curation course
Sing it, DCPL!
We are PROUD to live in the gayest city in the world. 🥰 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
June 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Sing it, DCPL!