A great listen! Via CBC: your library is open and believes in democracy www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

VERY proud that Issue 7 of Emerging Library & Information Perspectives (ELIP), FIMS faculty @westernu.ca's #openaccess student-run journal, is available! Read articles by #libraryschool students now at: ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/el... Loved being part of this editorial team 🥹 #librarians

I love this quantitative method of demonstrating the necessity of public libraries. Sometimes proving the social impact of PL's can be hard (we're not just about book circulation!) but this is one easy way to raise awareness!

One of the lesser-known struggles of a librarian www.tiktok.com/@janethebook...

OBSESSED with this argument for the Chewy Decimal System to standardize grocery stories. Libraries are the best. Make everything a library. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxMR... @hankgreen.bsky.social

Wonderful to see alternatives to Dewey/Library of Congress systems. Love reading about this important work!! www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

Incontrovertible proof that my puppy is baby

"“You don’t get paid enough to meet your basic needs. Your autonomy at work is consistently under threat. People who think that they know better how to do your job are trying to get the power to push you out of your position,” @edrabinski.bsky.social said." 📚 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thank you for everything, school librarians & library workers! At a loss for words thinking of how you somehow find a way to continue doing your unnecessarily stressful jobs. I have to think your library kids are a big part of why. Whatever the reason… thank you. We love you, we support you 💛

They are dismantling Libraries and Museums!

SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source. They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).

UM?!?!?!?!??!?!!??

FRIEND: how are you? ME: [the least okay I’ve ever been] I’m okay

My latest for @truthout.org reports on librarians who are running for office and taking power. As Ilana Stonebraker says, we need to imagine ourselves as the deciders.

Spending election night & celebrating Freedom to Read week at the Waterloo Public Library talking about the role of PL's in civic literacy ✔️

A Report: Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, Oct 2023–Jan 2024 via LibrariansWithPalestine.org librarianswithpalestine.org/wp-content/u...

This year, get her what she really wants for Valentine’s Day. Revenge.

“…in 2021, formal challenges to books in libraries began a sharp climb upward. By 2023, book challenges in Canada increased nearly four times the pre-pandemic average…Nearly half the book challenges in 2023 were related to 2SLGBTQ+ materials, up from 9.8 per cent in 2019.”

“I don’t blame the groundhog, who has no understanding of racism, but naming him after one of the Confederacy’s biggest defenders is weird.”

“I believe that every one of us can be an activist and that with the proper resources and commitment, communities can transform with the dreams of a single person — especially a child.“ — Marley Dias www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/1...

"No matter what brought you to the field [of librarianship], everyday what you wake up in the morning and do, is create systems of access for people. It's not a political job, that just is the work." 💜💜

Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Maps don't have to be static images of manmade boundaries. They can be conversations between human and non-human beings, expressions of shared space and memory, representations of ever-expanding connection.

My therapist seemed genuinely puzzled that I don’t know the difference between fear and anxiety.

Today I get to make an exciting announcement! After years of work, San Francisco Public Library's alternative headings are now live. This list represents hundreds of hours of work and I'm proud of what we've done. Here is the list if your library would like to use it: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Headed into Toronto for the OLA super conference! Can't wait to hear what everyone in the lib world is up to 📚 #librarian #OLASC

I flip flop between 6 and 8 every 3.8 seconds

A massage isn’t enough I need somebody to run me through one of those penny flattening machines like they used to have at the boardwalk

People are seeking books to teach their kids about diversity & belonging. What I hear: They're looking for books from a plethora of perspectives! Here are a few books, you & your kids may already be reading them ☺️ (🧵 1/4)

Credit: @liberaljane.bsky.social

Break up Meta into 4 companies: Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp. We need more competition and less concentration of social media in the hands of far-right who are using them to basically create forums to disinform all of us and to denigrate LGBTQ folks, women, BIPOC, and immigrants.

All hail the dark-eyed junco 🐦‍⬛

It's beautiful 🥹

Just added my Support Public Libraries sticker to my laptop 💜📚 #supportpubliclibraries

In Descriptive Cataloguing class: "would you catalogue me if I were a worm?" #gradlife #MLIS #librarian

Because so many of the people who work in and around libraries are trying to improve the world, not just hold up the status quo 📚💜