I love finding my favorites in bookstores when I travel. In this case, the Lightfall series en français! 📚#librarianontheroad #skybrarians

Set my out of office reply this morning and of course promptly answered an email 30min later. Received a chiding (in good humor) from the boss and quite frankly I really appreciate that encouragement of good boundary setting. 🫡

Have I been throwing up because the elimination of the SAVE plan means my loan payments go from $127 to $852/month starting next week, or do I just have an upset tummy? No, it’s definitely the first one.

I think my favorite moment of the entire USA-AUS match has been when the whole brewery I’m watching at booed RFK en masse.

I'm guessing this was meant to say "Elite" but truly I love the idea of an Elote Squad so much.

Heading to work for our big kickoff party and traffic is already backed up southbound on the GSP for a couple miles headed toward Rt 3 to get to MetLife. It’s 9AM. The match is at 6PM.

Summer reading kickoff party day let’s goooooooo!

Very normal, nothing to see here. Just summer reading business as usual… #skybrarians #cslp2026 #libraries

Well folks - it’s officially official! I love working with my director and I’m very excited to keep doing so in this new capacity.

It is admittedly a real buzz kill when you find a new folk artist that you enjoy, and then all of a sudden they pronounce it apa-LAY-shuh in a song.

CALL YOUR REPS NOW! SPREAD THE WORD! HR 2616 was snuck onto the calendar for a vote TOMORROW. This is a pro book banning bill which seeks to ban ALL books by or about trans individuals.

Every Youth Services Manager’s least favorite phrase: “It wasn’t number 1.” 🙃💩 #libraries #skybrarians

Got a bit of not good news and also a bit of extremely good news this week, so naturally I am treating both with 3 people’s worth of sushi as is customary. Can’t wait to share soon! (the news, not the sushi - you can’t have that 😒)

I have transcended into a new level of cat parenthood today. I found a hairball… on top of the fridge. 💁🏻‍♀️🐈‍⬛

I refuse to miss a single moment of rhubarb season this year.

Got a postcard today from one of the vendors I’ve hung out with at ALA/PLA that they sent from Minneapolis, and I forgot how utterly much I love receiving postcards. 🥹

Hard to believe that #PLA2026 was two weeks ago already! I’ve never felt so energized by a conference (and also so exhausted). Minneapolis, you are a dream!

Final count here was just about 2 feet, not including wading through the drifts that were higher than my waist to try and reach the car. Please send your largest bottle of ibuprofen.

No one wants rye bread in a blizzard, I guess? Buckle up, NJ!

7” so far and still bucketing down with no sign of stopping. First plow sighting about 30min ago.

I guess this means I’m supposed to stop writing performance evals for the night?

The sufganiyot fairy visited the library today 🤤

Sweet frozen Jesus on a crispy cracker. Missing from this map is the town where my library is… which is in the purple… where it will be -3° in the morning. Help.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

This is pigeon slander and it will not stand.

Happy Beaujolais Nouveau Day from my family (me & my cat) to yours (whoever). 🍷

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

Very normal Saturday at work, nothing to see here. #libraries #skybrarians

Well that’s… new.

Got to go to my first manif yesterday. I was just looking for shoes, but this body doesn’t cross picket lines. 💪

There is a pigeon in my hotel room there is a pigeon in my hotel room there is a pigeon in my hotel room everything is very fine.

This is extremely accurate. Crazy Rich Asians is the perfect plane movie and I will not hear otherwise.

Happy New Year, witches. The veil is thin and I am ready to rock some faces. 🖤⚡️ (work bestie is dressed as the well-behaved 80s twin with leggings and crimped hair)

Almost had to fire someone yesterday. Staff in other dep’ts getting into fights today. Huge leak by the board books from the storm blowing sideways. 3 days until I go surprise my mom on her bday trip & almost blew the whole damn thing. HALLOWEEN HAD BETTER COME THRU

Roll call: use a gif to share what you are being for Halloween

Sitting behind a Tesla with a vanity plate that says ROOMBA and that is… extremely fucking funny to me. Perhaps I am also losing my grip on sanity.

From humble beginnings, my children begin to multiply. I also think the folks who work at the farmstand may be questioning my sanity.

I fear my friend/coworker may have severely underestimated the queer urge to absolutely lay out on Halloween when she asked me to do a coordinated work costume with her. My suggestions were shot down & we’re now doing “the 80s” but y’all she is so unprepared for what’s gonna walk in that door. 😂💄

Does anyone in #libraries have an example of a collection management policy that specifically excludes GenAI? I want to propose it to our board and they find examples convincing.

I just caved and ordered a pressure canner from Kohls for like 70% off and I am about to become insufferable about bartering my canned goods with others.

This week was a pile of hot garbahhhje but hey I finally finished my latest project. 9”x24” finished, crewel wool on traditional groundcloth. (pattern by Avlea Folk Embroidery)

Explain your username: “à la bibliothèque” means “at the library” in French. I am French, and also I work at a library. I started the Xitter account of the same name as an anon account to post on COVID working conditions in mine/other libraries, so “heck” seemed both punny & fitting.

Finally got the official word from our Baker & Taylor rep about 15min ago that the company is closing and all staff are being let go. What a freakin’ timeline we are living in. 📚 #skybrarians

Lol went to the closest urgent care that lists xrays as a service and got all the way to the doctor part before they told me they don’t have an xray machine anymore and now I have to go somewhere else tomorrow, so anywayyyy blessed Mabon 🙃

We ordered some of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social “Censorship Is So 1984” stickers & gave them out at a community event on Saturday. A couple teens came up to the desk this afternoon to ask if I had any more (yep!). As they walked off, I heard them mutter “this is so tuff! 😤” 🖤

Sprained ankle/possible fracture from a fall last wknd, worked over 8hrs of unpaid OT last week, topped off by a patron who yelled at & then reported me (lol) for not telling off a kid who “used profanity” (aka quietly said “stupid” to their Roblox game) in front of her 4yo. Y’all I am so so tired.

Just a little guy (and his 4 little friends) I found munchin’ on my kale from the farmstand. He and his buddies were relocated to the bush outside my kitchen window with their own individual pieces of kale for a road snack (this is why I wash my greens 😅🐛)

Got a call this morning from a parent of a new 4th grader wondering about our programs after school. P: “do you get kids attending usually?” Me: “well we have btwn 200 & 300 kids every day so there’s usually a good crowd” P: “I… I’m sorry WHAT? Can you repeat that??” They’re baaaaack! #skybrarians

School starts on Thursday, and of course like clockwork every high school student in town has come in today looking for a summer reading book and each one is subsequently S H O C K E D that 90% of them are checked out.