Finally watched this and was sobbing as @librarianjones.com talked about our responsibility to protect kids 💔💔💔 Highly recommend everyone watch this documentary. The work we do matters.

Bad Bunny like

Watching the Canada/ Swiss women’s hockey game Me: There’s not enough octopus being thrown on the ice Husband: ??? #Redwings #HockeytoownUSA

at this point when someone gets on substack I just assume that they know and don't care.

Team Czechia looks like they’re wearing the Maryland state flag #Olympics

The CIA’s World Factbook, a repository of facts on nations that for six decades provided detailed figures on birth and death rates and major exports, relied upon first by government agents and eventually researchers, educators, journalists and more, was shuttered without warning on Wednesday.

This is the way ❤️

For National News Literacy week I have all of our 8th graders in the library this week learning about credibility for health research. Media literacy is a life skill not confined to a single subject.

So it’s National Library Lovers month, how are you celebrating?

Shot through the heart, and you're to blame.....

beating my drum again: It bears repeating, at a moment when we are all too aware of the powerlessness of young people, that the mission of public libraries to treat *everyone* as a patron, regardless of age—to grant children civic standing through the library card—exemplifies *real* democracy. 📚

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.

people might be even more surprised when they learn that in my library network, children are accorded the same privacy rights as all other patrons. We will not share their borrowing history with anyone else; in fact, we do not even have access to it.

Folx are generally surprised and confused when I talk about patrons’ right to privacy and I wonder if it’s bc they don’t expect to have a right to privacy anymore or if it’s bc I primarily serve children

The teen is finally awake so it’s time to binge the new season of #QueerEye I’m ready for all the feels 🥹🥹🥹

THE UNDEAD FOX OF DEADWOOD FOREST by Aubrey Hartman is a 2026 Newbery Honor Book! Join us in congratulating Aubrey!

Woohoo! This is such a fabulous book

Congrats Aubrey!

What a year for Candace Fleming! #ALAYMA

The Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime contribution in writing for young adults goes to Candace Fleming #ALAyma

Congrats Marie! So glad we got to chat about how wonderful Split the Sky is over the summer

#ala #yma #ALAyma

Happy #ALAYMA DAY! At a dark time this is a moment of joy that we can all share in! Watch live: ala.unikron.com #TLSKYChat #TLSky #EduSky

For anyone who hasn’t watched the documentary “Paywall”, this is your reminder to do so…

My snow day plans

Thank you City Neighbors and @gholdym.bsky.social for a wonderful day of learning at the Progressive Education Summit! @mspettytweets.bsky.social

Some good news for voting rights in VA: www.arlnow.com/press-releas...

I am happy to be moderating the “History in Action” panel at #middlegrademagic on Thursday, March 5! Sign up for this free web conference from School Library Journal here: www.slj.com/event/middle... #middlegrade #books #librarians

Join me (and some fabulous authors) for the Growing Up & Finding You panel on March 5 during @slj.com ‘s #MiddleGradeMagic free virtual event Register now! www.slj.com/event/middle... @kaholt.bsky.social @aishasaeed.bsky.social

And one more thing. Students. If you have a professor who is, for some reason, outsourcing their own job to ChatGPT....drop the class. If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class. Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - On her first day as Governor, Abigail Spanberger made a decisive move: she vetoed Executive Order 47, ending Virginia’s participation in the federal 287(g) program that allowed local law enforcement to act as ICE agents

Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86 apnews.com/article/clau...

I put up with a lot of things to not “be the news” in my brief time as a reporter. This is infuriating

Happy National Rubber Duck day!

For folks needing a frame to process information in this absolute hellscape of propaganda/AI generated slop - the SIFT method is close to what I did when I was in the classroom. I love the first direction - STOP. For more guides.lib.uchicago.edu/c.php?g=1241... #sschat #edusky

So amazingly proud of this traveling museum exhibit created by my current and former Ss honoring America’s 250 year legacy of service as it relates to our community. What does service mean to you? #LewisLeadershipProgram #NMCS @drewsgotthoughts.bsky.social

Need ideas for New Year's Resolutions? We have some thoughts! 📖✅ 📸 Carol Stream Public Library

“We think that having good media literacy skills is a very big civic skill,” Kiia Hakkala, a pedagogical specialist for the City of Helsinki, told The Associated Press. They start at age THREE. apnews.com/article/fake...

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

It's a new year. Crack those new books open, readers!

Still haven’t made a dent in my TBR pile www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...

Parenting tip: If your t(w)eens also leave only a handful of various snack foods behind, clean out your pantry by putting those handfuls of snacks on a charcuterie board and watch them disappear

Biggest takeaway: what a difference an engaged active passionate school librarian has made in our HS this year (we were without one for awhile). In creating a welcoming space full of things to do, including reading, she has invited them in.

Yup

So, LLMs are a form of information laundering. They insulate you from the sources, which makes it impossible to judge the reliability of the source.

America, there's something you should know. The top three kinds of books that young people (under 25) offer to sell me on Dec. 26 are: - "Chicken Soup for the _____" - "Oh, the Places You'll Go" - Books of New Yorker cartoons I'm just saying. Keep it in mind for graduations and birthdays, too.

Cheese would also save me