How your local Library of Things can help you enjoy the holidays on a tight budget

Hi @sydmorningherald.bsky.social Heated Rivalry isn't from a "young adult series" - in publishing, young adult means 12 to 18 year olds. It's a 'new adult' (18 to 29) series. www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-a...

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Wanna avoid responsibilities while appearing responsible? Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together? Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude? Try reading a book in public! 📖 #WritingCommunity #BookSky

I admit the announcement that Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead didn't really hit me that hard, but the news that Tom Stoppard has passed is sad indeed. Rest In Peace.

"In August 2025, the University of Florida published a study that found that over the last 20 years, the number of Americans who would read a book for pleasure on any given day dropped by 40% between 2003 and 2023" (BBC). #BookSky #TLSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dl5...

Communities need used-book shops. As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories... We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.

🎁 Gift article 'Solange Knowles Wants to Lend You a Book' "The Grammy winner, now a scholar in residence at U.S.C., is expanding a one-of-a-kind library featuring rare books by writers of color. (Just mind the due date.)" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/s...

The shop phone isn’t working, but Michael has sent me this ridiculous photo and assured me that we’re open.

'Amanda carries a taser, mace and a pistol. She’s not a gang member, she’s a US librarian' "Amanda Jones spoke out against censorship at her local public library and walked straight into the battle to ban books playing out across the US." Sydney Morning Herald www.smh.com.au/national/ama...

🎁 Gift article My Kid Loves Percy Jackson. What Should They Read Next? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...

I’m not saying I’m tired but it just took me five minutes to work out why the door wouldn’t open. Spoiler alert: you need to unlock it.

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

🎁 Gift article 'Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.' (NY Times) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

'A great humanist': One of Australia's greatest poets dead at 80. I taught Robert Gray's poetry. He had a lovely eye. Students liked him too. www.smh.com.au/national/a-g...

NO ONE CAN STOP US NOW!! 😆

#TLSky #BookSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayTw...

Sydney Morning Herald 'Can the new Children's Booker Prize help the decline in reading for pleasure?' www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

Julia Baird in the Sydney Morning Herald replies to the infamous New York Times headline 'Did women ruin the workplace?' www.smh.com.au/national/her...

Stop asking the internet if people still go to the library. Yes, every day, 7 days a week. Still free. Still a safe space. Still no purchase required

Libraries host food drives, have reading challenges with certificates for free burgers & pizza to encourage kids to read, have lunch-at-the-library programs in the Summer, have seed lending libraries to help grow your own food… Libraries are adamant our neighbors be fed, that they never go hungry 💛

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🎁 Gift article Sarah Jessica Parker's Year of Judging the Booker Prize #BookSky www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

🎁 Gift article The First Time I Read 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' ▶️ Katherine Rundell, Christopher Paolini and other writers mark the 75th anniversary of the book’s U.S. publication: “It taught me to long for big pleasures.” #TLSky #BookSky #Skybrarians www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...

🎁 Gift article The First Time I Read 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' ▶️ Katherine Rundell, Christopher Paolini and other writers mark the 75th anniversary of the book’s U.S. publication: “It taught me to long for big pleasures.” #TLSky #BookSky #Skybrarians www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...

🎁 Gift article about the wonderful BBC podcast In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg (... although not any more 😕). #InOurTime #BBC #podcast www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/m...

Reading before sleeping is therapeutic ❤️

I just accidentally opened “threads” and was smacked in the face with aggressive hot takes about “audiobooks aren’t reading” — ARE WE STILL TROTTING THIS OLD NAG OUT? For the love of god, let it go to pasture already, it’s *exhausted* 😭😭😭 YES, AUDIOBOOKS COUNT AS READING 😭😭😭 DON’T MAKE ME FIGHT YOU

Just sharing this cartoon made by Niels again. Shieldwalls are awesome. Regularly check in with loved ones to make sure they're perhaps in need of a shieldwall. www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...

Happy Halloween 👻

One of the reasons I have such an affinity for librarians is we both have deeply misunderstood jobs. People think it's all leather-bound books and rolling shelf ladders, not data science and archival work. Like, c'mon. We have really strong opinions about ergonomic keyboards.

Library (archives, research) folk, could you give me your best one liners about Why Cataloguing Matters, please? Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be. Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚

AI-Generated Video and Media Literacy Librarians’ news literacy lessons are vital to teaching students to identify AI and misinformation on social media. www.slj.com/story/AI-Gen...

🎁 Gift article: Proust Manuscripts, Recently Unveiled, Bring Back Memories in Paris #BookSky www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...

🎁 Gift article: Oscar Wilde Gets His Library Card Back, 125 Years After His Death #TLSky #Skybrarians #BookSky www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/a...

🎁 Gift article: Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost). #skybrarians #tlsky www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...

'And libraries collectively remain one of “the few trusted civic institutions we have in this polarized world.”' 🎁 Gift article: Why Carnegie’s Libraries Are Getting $10,000 Checks www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/n...

Video: Dissecting Three Stephen King Adaptations www.nytimes.com/video/books/...

🎁 Gift article: AI... the debate continues www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Jane Austen's 250th birthday is coming up in December and I hope you'll celebrate by taking a turn about the room, acquiring a passion for dead leaves & closet shelves, and taking a fancy to the last person you could ever be prevailed upon to marry.

I'm at the dirty cryptid slurpee stand, lemme know what you want. Cash only.

POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈 Video Description: Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨ youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared

You know what ys the coolest thinge? Libraryes.

Censorship Alert: I published a book about Ghislaine Maxwell trial, and another on Kevin Spacey's trial- this evening I got an email from Amazon's KDP saying they are inappropriate and there all of my books are being taken down, including on Sudan, SBF, Eric Adams

reading in rehearsal breaks 🩰🥰 #booksky #balletsky

Mr. Rogers during his last broadcast: "I know how tough it is some days to look with hope and confidence on the months and years ahead. But I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger. I like you just the way you are."

When the ICE agent is Canadian… 🇨🇦 ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️