Happy Spring, everyone! Warmer weather seems to finally be on the way for many of us. And just like the sunshine and heat bring forth the flowers, so too is the reunification work blossoming into reality. This last week we saw the election of new Board members who will be laying the foundation for the newly reunified division. The ALSC Nominating Committee worked hard to engage with both ALSC and YALSA leadership to find candidates who can meet the needs of members working across children’s and teen services. And the results are in! The incoming President-Elect of the division is Danielle Jones, who has been an active member of both ALSC and YALSA for many years. In her candidate statements she noted, “We are at a critical juncture with the planned reunification of ALSC and YALSA. My active involvement in both gives me a unique perspective and commitment to ensuring…
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Pentagon: More Than 10,000 Troops Involved in Iran Blockade
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Funding: Light at the End of Tunnel For Connecticut Libraries Program May Come. It Costs $140,000
From the Hartford Courant:
A proposed 20% cut in a state program that lets library patrons check out books from public libraries beyond their own town or city has been restored by the General Assembly’s Appropriations Committee, an official of the Connecticut State Library said Monday.
Dawn La Valle, the director of the Division of Library Development, said in an email that the committee has restored $140,000 for the 50-year-old borrowIT CT program in its budget proposal.
“We are cautiously optimistic that borrowIT CT will be funded at [the] current level,’’ she said.
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The program, established in 1974 and originally known as Connecticard, has enabled libraries to loan more than 156 million items over the past 50 years, according to data from the state. A total of 191 public libraries participate in borrowIT CT.
When the Willington Public Library doesn’t have a particular book available, library director Steve Osier encourages patrons to check it out from another library through borrowIT CT.
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Erin Dummeyer, the president of the Connecticut Library Association and director of the Mark Twain Library in Redding, said that Connecticut already ranks low in state funding for public libraries compared to other states.
Dummeyer said funding has remained flat in recent years even as the costs of books and other materials has increased, putting extra strain on the library budgets. She added that despite these challenges, demand for borrowIT CT has remained strong and the reimbursement money allows libraries to add services they otherwise could not afford.
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Saving local news also means saving the archives – Poynter
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Saving local news also means saving the archives
Yes, the physical ones, but the digital ones, too. Because losing them means losing the only record many communities have of themselves.
By: Kristen Hare, April 9, 2026
Stephanie Pedersen had already been through two newspaper building moves by the time she got to Tacoma, Washington. In both those other cities, when the newspapers moved to new spaces, the physical archives moved to warehouses.
“It was very rare that we ever even went back,” she said. If it wasn’t a digital archive, “basically the archives went somewhere else to die.”
If news is the first draft of history, the loss of local news archives means a loss of memory, culture, identity and, sometimes, reality.
So in Tacoma, when it was time for the News Tribune to move out of its building during the pandemic, Pedersen knew what she did not want to happen again. Because a few journalists in the newsroom had good relationships with local librarians, they checked in to see what could be done. And, no surprise, the librarians wanted to protect those archives, which included photos, clips and research.
That first draft has been digitized and preserved and now is accessible to anyone through the Tacoma Public Library’s Northwest Reading Room. It’s beyond what Pedersen, the senior vice president of local news for McClatchy and executive editor of the Tacoma News Tribune and The Olympian, ever imagined more than a century of local news might become. And it’s exactly what more than a century of local news should offer to its community.
“The public should be able to access these archives in a way that helps them and helps us document history,” she said.
In most places, though, that’s not the case. Whether it’s decades of newspapers, photographs, VHS tapes, cassettes or digital coverage, most newsrooms are so focused on the present that they’re neglecting the past and how vital it is to understanding the future.
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We lose archives in a few ways. A newsroom moves and file cabinets full of photos, clippings, recordings and news get lost or forgotten. A newsroom closes and its work gets trashed. A newsroom merges with another and the archives become inaccessible “assets.” Or a newsroom makes changes to its technology and the digital work just disappears.
“It’s a slow-motion disaster,” said Neil Mara, whose career includes working as the technology director at the McClatchy newspaper group and a 2019–2020 Reynolds Journalism Institute fellowship aimed at stopping the loss of born-digital archives, which was part of an RJI initiative called Dodging The Memory Hole.
While it’s easier to imagine the loss of physical archives, particularly irreplaceable photojournalism, born-digital work is also at risk. The internet, it turns out, might not be forever.
In RJI’s 2021 report, “Endangered But Not Too Late: The State of Digital News Preservation,” the report’s authors write: “What if, because of the mind-boggling complexity of modern digital publishing systems, our first draft of history is dissolving? That’s the unfortunate fact of what’s happening right now in newsrooms across the country. Quietly, in the background of the news industry’s public struggles is a nearly invisible but dramatic decline in efforts to preserve our daily news. In the rush to get the news out, with shrinking resources in the face of expanding competition, today’s newsrooms are finding it difficult to devote money or staff time to what seems like an insurmountably daunting effort to save its growing array of digital news content.”
It’s been more than a decade since Edward McCain, who worked as the digital curator of journalism at RJI and the University of Missouri Libraries, started sounding the alarm about the issue.
“I still think we have a long way to go,” he said. “There continues to be a decent amount of support for digitizing. There’s still not nearly enough funding and support for born-digital news content and the preservation of that content. I just don’t think it has really sunk in that, in my mind, the digital work is more fragile, it’s more ephemeral, than the printed pages.”
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5 Perfect Double Features To Watch With ‘Project Hail Mary’ – Collider
By Daniela Gama, Published Apr 3, 2026, 8:41 AM EDT
Daniela is a freelance writer with two years of experience covering entertainment. She is a senior writer on the Collider freelance team and has also been published in other platforms, such as Elite Daily. When she’s not writing, she’s diving into thought-provoking, existentialist films and classic literature.
Double features are a double wonder — two films exploring similar ideas and giving you twice the insight and something to ponder long after they end. With the release and success of Project Hail Mary, the fun, tender, and thrillingly existential journey based on Andy Weir‘s 2021 bestselling sci-fi novel of the same name, it’s no surprise that viewers who loved it might be itching for companions that hit the same emotional and intellectual sweet spot. Depending on the vibe you’re looking for— humor, connection, or the high-stakes mission — there are a handful of pairings that just make sense.
Think of Interstellar, with its meditation on time and love as a transcendental force, or Arrival, which fascinates with a quiet exploration of language and the power of empathy. In many ways, these films are soulmates to the most recent science fiction hit, whether because they explore similar themes or because they approach them with the same blend of heart and mind. If you loved Project Hail Mary and are ready to turn a simple double feature into a philosophical space adventure, there is a real possibility that you’d like these films, each one pairing seamlessly and completing the story’s captivating message.
5 ‘Gravity’ (2013)
Directed by Alfonso Cuáron in his second foray into science fiction after Children of Men, Gravity follows a brilliant medical engineer (Sandra Bullock) on her first Shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. What do you know, disaster strikes: their shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone in space, tethered to nothing but each other.
If you enjoyed Project Hail Mary‘s tension and that “lone hero against the void” feel, Gravity is a perfect next stop — especially if you’re looking for the edge-of-your-seat thrills. The film is all about the struggle to keep everything together when it all (quite literally) keeps falling apart. It’s nearly impossible not to be affected by its sense of danger and isolation. And although Gravity is more about physical survival and panic than clever science hacking — and a tad more serious overall — it’s an unforgettable pick for anyone craving high-stress journeys rather than the more laid-back buddy vibe that the 2026 film presents. Put simply, it’s a more claustrophobic experience, with its incredible sound design that perfectly illustrates the space’s eerie silence, while the drama amplifies the profound isolation of being untethered in the cosmos.
4 ‘Sunshine’ (2007)
Built around the sun itself, Sunshine‘s narrative is a wonderfully engaging and richly philosophical depiction of humanity’s smallness against the immensity of the cosmos. The 2007 film by Danny Boyle follows a team of astronauts — humanity’s last hope — sent to restart the dying sun.
At its heart, Sunshine holds more emotional weight than Project Hail Mary, with characters who are exhausted, scared, and burdened by the enormity of their task. The biggest difference here is in mood. Whereas Project Hail Mary is tinged with hope, Sunshine feels like a slow-motion breakdown under a burning star. That being said, the dynamics are familiar: a single lone ship heading to save a dying star, with the fate of Earth literally depending on that mission. Anchored by all-around standout performances by a talented cast, including Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, and Chris Evans, along with Boyle’s impeccable direction, Sunshine reads as the horror-tinged sibling of Project Hail Mary, heightening its tension and deepening the stakes.
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A Pittsburgher trained the first French women as librarians during World War I – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A Pittsburgher trained the first French women as librarians during World War I
Jessie “Kit” Carson also read to French children whose fathers were fighting or had been killed in war-torn Europe.
By Janet Skeslien Charles, For the Post-Gazette, Apr 9, 2026, 1:00 AM
During World War I, Pittsburgh native Jessie “Kit” Carson sailed to France to create something that did not yet exist there – children’s libraries.
Long before television and radio programming for children, books were their only source of entertainment. Carson brought solace and story hour to a people in a heavily bombarded area, where one could drive for 15 hours and see nothing but ruins. After the war, she transformed dilapidated ambulances into bookmobiles, and trained French women as librarians.
This year, the 150th anniversary of Carson’s birth, we remember this fearless Pittsburgher who helped bring literacy and gender equality to France.
Carson was born in Bellevue on March 29, 1876. Her father, Thomas, worked as an executive at the Carnegie Steel Co. as her mother, Sadie, raised four daughters. At the turn of the century, Carson trained at the Carnegie Public Library. After earning her diploma, she worked in the children’s section of the Hazelwood Branch.
When her father died suddenly from pneumonia, the family fell on hard times. Yet the sisters continued to write ditties to each other and enjoy reading. Some favorite books included “The Story of a Bad Boy,” “The Boy’s King Arthur” and “The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte.”
In 1907, Carson moved to Tacoma, Wash., where she continued her library career while taking on other challenges, including becoming one of the first women to summit Mount Rainier, just a year after she arrived.
Soon, while she was the head of the children’s library, Carson’s section was declared “the most advanced in the library.”
Newspapers raved that “Miss Carson is considered the most capable children’s librarian on the Pacific coast.” According to the Tacoma Times, “Miss Carson’s fervent eloquence has won her a warm corner in the hearts of her little devotees.”
The next headline read: “Jessie Carson Goes to N.Y.”
In 1914, Carson took the position of assistant director of the children’s section of the New York Public Library, working under Anne Caroll Moore, the first librarian in America to allow children to sign for their own books.
Carson’s time in New York was deeply formative. When she wasn’t at the library, she volunteered for the National League for Woman’s Service, whose treasurer was Anne Morgan, the daughter of J.P. Morgan. Morgan handpicked Carson to head the library program of the American Committee for Devastated France, or le Comité Américain pour les Régions Dévastées (CARD).
This all-women aid organization helped French women who’d lost their homes, livelihoods and husbands. CARD volunteers had to speak French and possess a driver’s license. Many were wealthy women who’d been educated by private tutors and had taken yearly trips to France. Carson became one of CARD’s few salaried employees.
To prepare for her new role, she studied French and purchased French translations of children’s books. Though the job was in war-torn France, she jumped at the chance to lead again.
In a letter to her mother, her excitement at meeting Morgan is palpable.
“I have heard her give the most thrilling talk on France before the National Civic Association and it makes my blood hum to realize what a task I am undertaking to do,” she wrote. “I didn’t realize that Miss Morgan would be such a fairy godmother.”
In 1918, when Carson left New York for France, she was 42 years old and single, with no safety net and no savings. She didn’t even have the money to buy a steamer trunk for her clothes and books, or the $30 she needed for a train ticket to Pittsburgh to say goodbye to her family. Yet she left a secure job to cross an ocean and help French victims of war.
CARD volunteer Mary Needham later described the atmosphere in France when they arrived, during the intense fighting of the final months of World War I:
“Offensives were taking place everywhere. Events happened so quickly, activity became so feverish, that from one day to the next we had no opportunity to recover from fatigue.… More than 100 miles we traveled that day over shell-torn roads – I riding a rumble seat without any springs. When I arrived in Paris, I almost fell into my bed from utter exhaustion.
“I was awakened by Kit’s voice but I was too tired to answer. It came again, mixed with the sounds of the sirens. ‘Get up. There’s an air raid. Get up! The Germans are coming.’ ‘Let them come,’ I mumbled.
“By that time, Kit was upon me like a Boston policeman! ‘You will get up,’ she said between her teeth as she flung the bedclothes off me, leaving me shivering. I did get up.”
CARD headquarters was located 75 miles to the north of Paris and just 40 miles from the front. On the grounds of a destroyed castle, “the Cards” – the informal name for the organization’s members – lived in prefabricated wooden barracks, among the population they served.
Their uniforms – a blue military jacket and matching skirt – helped erase social differences between wealthy volunteers and less affluent employees. Upon arrival, Carson wrote, “It is hard to express what it meant to find ourselves in the center of destruction on all sides … where the church, the school house, the town hall were in ruins; where no one had a complete roof over his head.”
As the head of CARD’s library section, Carson focused on kids, many of whose fathers were either fighting at the front or dead. During the brutal German occupation of northern France, mothers and children were enslaved, starved and forced to do back-breaking work in the fields. As a result, children were undernourished and their spines were permanently curved.
Committee members noted that these kids had never learned to smile. But during her story hour, Carson read French translations of books, introducing the children to characters such as Tom Sawyer and Anne of Green Gables. She created cozy reading nooks with child-sized tables, chairs and bookshelves. Elements we take for granted today were brand new back then.
At CARD headquarters, Carson befriended French villagers as well as her fellow international workers. Mary Breckinridge, a nurse from Kentucky, noted that Cards worked “almost around the clock in that land of stark tragedy.” Breckinridge praised Carson’s reading room, noting it “was as frequented as my clinic by a literate and book-starved people.”
Back home in Pittsburgh, tragedy struck. Carson’s mother, Sadie, died in 1920. A CARD report notes, “I don’t know what the death of Miss Carson’s mother will make in her plans, but it would be a distinct loss if she should leave us at this moment.”
Carson remained in France, where her impact – and legacy – truly began to take hold.
Psychology says people who constantly research self-improvement but never start aren’t lazy – they’ve confused the feeling of learning with the feeling of changing – Silicon Canals
Psychology says people who constantly research self-improvement but never start aren’t lazy – they’ve confused the feeling of learning with the feeling of changing
By Lachlan Brown. April 5, 2026 |Last update: April 5, 2026, News
I have a confession. There was a stretch of about six months where I read a self-improvement book almost every week. Books on habits, productivity, mindset, morning routines, deep work. I was consuming this stuff like it was oxygen.
And at the end of those six months, almost nothing in my life had actually changed.
I was still waking up at the same time. Still procrastinating on the same projects. Still carrying the same patterns I’d been carrying for years. But I felt like I was making progress, which is the really insidious part. Because I wasn’t making progress. I was just learning about making progress, and my brain couldn’t tell the difference.
If this sounds like you, here’s what I want you to know: you’re not lazy. Something far more interesting is happening inside your head.
Your brain rewards you for learning, not for doing
When you read an article about waking up earlier and think “yes, that’s exactly what I need to do,” your brain gives you a little hit of satisfaction. You’ve identified a problem. You’ve found a solution. It feels productive.
But here’s what the research tells us: that feeling of satisfaction can actually replace the motivation to follow through.
The Association for Psychological Science highlights the work of Dr. Timothy Pychyl, one of the leading researchers on procrastination, who argues that the real driver behind procrastination isn’t poor time management. It’s emotional regulation. We avoid tasks not because we’re lazy, but because those tasks trigger uncomfortable feelings like fear, self-doubt, or anxiety. And consuming information about the task gives us just enough emotional relief to feel like we’ve addressed it.
In other words, learning about change feels so similar to actually changing that your brain gets confused. The discomfort that would normally push you to act gets soothed by the act of researching. And so you stay right where you are, but now with a bookshelf full of self-help books and a false sense of momentum.
The “premature sense of completeness”
This gets even more fascinating when you look at the work of NYU psychologist Peter Gollwitzer.
In a 2009 study published in Psychological Science, Gollwitzer and his colleagues found that when people publicly announced their identity-related goals, they were less likely to follow through on them. Law students who told a psychologist about their commitment to working harder actually quit studying earlier than students who kept their intentions private.
The reason? When someone else acknowledges your goal, your brain experiences what Gollwitzer calls a “premature sense of completeness.” You get the emotional reward of being the kind of person who wants to improve, without actually doing the work of improving. The identity feels settled before any behavior has changed.
Now apply that to self-improvement content consumption. Every time you read an article about building better habits and think “this is me, I’m the kind of person who cares about growth,” your brain registers a small sense of completion. As one Psychology Today analysis of Gollwitzer’s work explains, this premature reward effectively signals the brain to move on. The motivation to actually execute drains away because, emotionally, it feels like the job is already done.
Information as a comfort zone
I think about this a lot in my own life. I practice Buddhist meditation daily, and one of the things meditation has taught me is how skilled the mind is at avoiding discomfort. It will do almost anything to stay in a zone that feels productive but doesn’t actually require vulnerability or risk.
And that’s exactly what constant self-improvement research is. It’s a comfort zone dressed up as ambition.
Reading about how to start a business feels like progress toward starting a business. Watching videos about fitness routines feels like progress toward getting fit. Listening to a podcast about difficult conversations feels like preparation for having one. But none of these activities involve the actual discomfort of doing the thing.
Princeton University’s research on procrastination puts it plainly: for most people, procrastination is not about being lazy. It’s about protecting yourself from the possibility of failure. If you never start, your abilities are never truly tested. And consuming content about starting is the perfect way to feel engaged without being exposed.
That’s not laziness. That’s a deeply human defense mechanism.
The gap between knowing and doing is not an information problem
Here’s the thing that took me way too long to understand: the gap between where I was and where I wanted to be was never an information gap. I didn’t need more books. I didn’t need a better productivity system. I didn’t need another framework or another podcast or another article telling me the five things successful people do before breakfast.
I needed to do one thing. Badly, imperfectly, and without any certainty that it would work.
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Pope Leo and Trump are feuding. It’s not the first time the president has clashed with a pontiff – CNN Politics
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Trump is feuding with a pope — again. Why it’s different this time
Analysis by Aaron Blake, 3 hr ago
Few demographics were more important to President Donald Trump’s 2024 win than Catholics. While Catholics usually split close to 50-50, the data shows Trump won between 55%and 59% of them — apparently the most of any presidential candidate in decades.
Just 17 months later, Trump is clashing with a pope … again.
This time, it might have a more lasting impact.
Trump went on to win the 2016 election after a brief spat with Pope Francis. But his new dispute with Pope Leo XIV is different.
What happened
Late Sunday, Trump lashed out at Pope Leo’s criticisms of the Iran war in a lengthy social media post, which:
- Called the pope “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.”
- Claimed Leo was only elected pope “because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump.”
- Said Leo should “get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician.”
- Said Leo was hurting the Catholic Church.
A member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, Bishop Robert Barron, called the post “entirely inappropriate and disrespectful” and said “the President owes the Pope an apology.”
Trump then took things to a whole new level by posting an apparently AI-generated fake image depicting himself as a Christ-like figure healing a sick person.
Editor’s Note: That fake image is taken down off Truth Social, but added below for those who wish to see this childish Trump fake.
It’s an image that many critics, including some who supported Trump, like the Knights Templar International, labeled blasphemous. Trump later deleted the post and on Monday claimed he thought it depicted him as a doctor, which it did not. (“I don’t know too many doctors that have glowing hands,” Father James Martin, a Jesuit priest, quipped to CNN.”)
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Early voting points to an edge for Virginia Democrats trying to enact a US House map that … – CNN
Groups backing the redistricting measure in an April 21 special election had long pointed to Saturday, April 11, as a date to watch, when many … Read original article: Read More
This Artemis 2 astronaut really loves Rise | Space photo of the day for April 14, 2026
“Rise Wiseman” might be the most beloved mission mascot in history. Read original article: Read More
7 movies that were tragically cut from our Best Literary Film Adaptations bracket.
I’ve worked on a number of brackets now for Lit Hub, and I don’t think I’ve seem as much internal contention over what to include than this one. We’ve got a lot of opinions on film adaptations over here. What Read original article: Read More
What is the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years? Day Two
After a big first day of voting, we’ve got the results—you can see more exact percentages of how everything shook out in yesterday’s updated post. As a lot of you pointed out yesterday, there were some absolutely heartbreaking matchups. My Read original article: Read More
The Audacity of Pope
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