"Those who never interrogate their biases reinforce them.... I am asking those who experience privilege and gatekeepers of all varieties in the book space...to question your assumptions – something that requires us swallowing our egos" www.thebookseller.com/comment/are-...

Libraries and museums are hosting and it was Yo-Yo Ma who decided to open the doors for more than BSO ticket holders--and named librarians as a grouo to whom he wanted to make it accessible www.bso.org/events/tli-s...

A thoughtful booklist for ages 16-18 notes that "in the US 88% of all 16-18-year-olds pass English at the age of 18 & in England only 8.4% study English up to the age of 18" yet the titles here are more realistic & engaging than books used in US classrooms schoolreadinglist.co.uk/secondary-ks...

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Library Joy in a human being. Thank you Mychal Threets for your work, for celebrating libraries, and for staying one more day 💙💙💙 Thank you @aaslala.bsky.social for making this visit possible. #ReadingRainbow #AASL25 #libraryJOY #libraries #MentalHealth #TLsky

Gang member found! You know those fiercesome criminals about which Drumpf's been fulminating here in my home territory? This one (and her numerous companions) was NOT in Boston, but over the line one town....definitely posing a threat to FIFA fans...oh, wait, they're smaller in summer than in fall

#LibrariesMatter "I remember my mother walking us to West Norwood library in South London, where I was allowed to choose five whole books to take home. Those five books represented a passport to five different worlds, each waiting to be unlocked" www.thebookseller.com/comment/libr...

A cogent view of "bad times" reading choices www.thebookseller.com/features/fra...

Call to action to librarians to dig into providing families with accessible info regarding family safety www.doe.mass.edu/commissioner...

Week after week Frazz does it www.gocomics.com/frazz/2025/0...

How I appreciate a good thought piece early in the morning arstechnica.com/science/2025...

All the places #AI doe not belong: Springer Nature retracts Machine Learning book after citations ‘reference works that don’t exist' www.thebookseller.com/news/springe...

Outside innovation www.thebookseller.com/news/tiny-bo...

Local reporting: "Danielle described the effort to get ICE out of hotels as 'very strategic' compared to mass demonstrations and marches, which can be a good show of force but often don’t include a 'call to action.'” lapublicpress.org/2025/06/fede...

#Pride in history British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Poetry speaks fact and feeling thebulletproofpoet.medium.com/we-made-a-be...

#TBR euppublishingblog.com/2025/03/07/5...

#IndexDay “qualities in the indexer who creates…Empathy: the ability to put oneself in the place of the reader…Judgement: the ability to make rational decisions about what to include in the index…Understanding: the content of a book and implications of a text” www.thebookseller.com/comment/the-...

Gonna go see next month www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

I miss #IHC edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...

Pairing new #kidsbook authors with mentor #librarians... www.thebookseller.com/news/new-gll...

May you be inspired to find the point of activism here that you can join www.berkeleyside.org/2025/02/20/j...

Yes

Sometimes a reminder that community, hope, and growing food still happen is all one can offer others www.berkeleyside.org/2025/01/24/f...

Excellent walkthrough of how a teacher uses the Socratic method to move students from being passive to active critical thinking medium.com/prismnpen/ho...

Took too long and glad it finally hapened!

"Readers perceive the impact of small actions and the value of loving one's neighbor" as presented in NOAH AND HIS WAGON glassofwineglassofmilk.blogspot.com/2025/01/noah...

I'm going to say this once (again). I'm an Episcopalian. It is a sin that both St. John's and the Washington National Cathedral are doing ANYTHING at all to support this president and act as if this is normal. The worst tendency of my church is that it still seeks to be the church of the King.

It's a good day when Corita gets boosted on Bluesky!

Warms my heart that @fuse8.bsky.social includes SIGNS OF HOPE on her 2024 list of Biographies for Kids afuse8production.slj.com/2024/12/26/3...

For folks beyond #libraryland this could help you help others too: ALA Office for Diversity, #Literacy and Outreach Services Making Space for Meaningful #Storytelling: Lessons from #StoryCorps December 11, 4 pm ET Duration: 90 minutes ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A must read and must act upon for #teachers #librarians #parents #kidsbook allies

I need funny books! I have 9th graders who want funny books- no apocalyptic ideas, no death, no sadness- because of *waves hands* all of this going on in the world. These readers mentioned Stuart Gibbs as an author they love, so I’m looking for challenge them a bit more. Any ideas?

#GoodNews Corita Art Center, Dedicated to the “Pop-Art Nun,” Gets New Home in LA hyperallergic.com/954189/corit...

Celebrated for creating diverse, timely and relevant opera, White Snake Projects presents premiere of "Is This America?", a 90-min opera celebrating the life of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. @ Dorchester’s The Strand Theatre from Fri, Sep 20, to Sun, Sep 22. BosTix & discounts available

Think of all the times you can apply Michelle Brown's wise advice--across race, gender, even political alliances...“Risk getting it wrong. If you’re asking a person ‘What should I say?’ you’re having a conversation, rather than whacking on a catch-all label” www.thebookseller.com/news/publish...

Know a few of such would-be ghosts... www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

In a week when the only person with whom I share all things Corita Kent has died this strip notes her #sorrow

So glad to see Mine Okubo get some note! a favorite proto-gn of mine is her CITIZEN 13660, her drawn account of the Internment first published in 1946 www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/a...

Pair this with Richard Powers' first big novel THREE FARMERS ON THEIR WAY TO A DANCE www.apollo-magazine.com/august-sande...

Hello! Not only does Grammarly steal your work to train it's bot, but now it tells you lies and tells you to pay if you want the 'correct' suggestion. This example came from someone else. Get this shit off your phones and delete it from your computers.

Hey #nsta24 folks this one's for you! PLUS: perfection in the alt image text!

It’s Tuesday and this week already seems old (and grizzled)

What's YOUR favorite #wordless #picturebook to share with #kidsbook lovers? Here are some, with great discussion pointers from @florisbooks.bsky.social www.florisbooks.co.uk/blog/2024/01...

Fascinating article on accountability in research publishing ; has paywall but if you can't access lemme know as I have a pdf version, too www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/28/m...

Intersting British research on the connection between social engagement and independent reading for pleasure in children clpe.org.uk/blog/why-ind...

Fascinated by this study conducted with adults who value audiobooks discussing how the format’s affordances include building capacity for greater reading time and increased emotional depths experienced due to narrator voicing journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...