The Rutherford County Library Board voted to fire Library Director Luanne James for defending the first amendment rights of her young patrons and refusing to move LGBTQ+ children’s books to the adult section of the library📚📜 fox17.com/news/local/r...

The International Archive of Teas, Tisanes and Infusions is lead and organized by the Chaibrarian 📚📜🫖

I have a joke about burning my hand on a French Press Bodum-tsssss

Was thinking back to 2022 when gender critical folks in the UK took offence at the thought of an alien reading mascot having no recognizable gender: teenlibrarian.co.uk/2022/10/04/t... 📚📜

To protect themselves when performing at clubs, most stand-up comedians wear a jokestrap

A story about Captain Hook and Long John Silver falling in love and having a fling? You could say it is a Pirate Ship!

girl are you my favorite library book because I really like checking you out!

Mashup Bands: Carole King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Now I want to make a list at work called “Did Star Trek become Woke?” The description field will have the word “No” and an exclamation mark I will include every Trek box set & movie my library holds & will describe each episode that is idealistic, egalitarian & full of hope & justice

Slept in my Bush shirt and woke up feeling like everything’s zen

#LawrenceKS setting up for the #NoKings protest #LFK

The Republican Party is responsible for the suppuration of Church and State

In #Library and #Union news I have just heard that the staff of the Midcontinent Public Library are in the process of unionizing with @cwaunion.bsky.social Local 6360 www.kcur.org/news/2026-03... 📚 📜

Vocational Awe and Librarianship by Fobazi Ettarh is an article every library worker should read. Sharing it here in case someone has missed it: www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio... 📚📜

The coming AI crash will be so far reaching and cause so much damage to the digital sphere that print materials will become more important than ever. Then librarians will seize power… or we will just be so smug and resist saying “We warned you!”

I posted my GenX reading list called "You Read What as a Kid?" yesterday 📚📜 jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...

Exciting news—We've finally found a way to do a paid indie media bundle so you don't have to separately subscribe to so many newsletters. Now you can get a 30-day trial of @katelynburns.com @kattenbarge.bsky.social and my publications in your inbox for one [heavily discounted] price! Sign up now:

Would you like a Manatea mug? Of course you would! Just look at him there. He's adorable. thelifeofsharks.com/product/mana...

The Trump Crime Family will rob and bankrupt America First then move on to other unsuspecting countries

Donald Trump is the current avatar of Tamatoa

In the Skeet of the Night #MakeaBlueskyMovie

Have you seen a skeet that made you lose your cool? Did you want to immediately respond with virulent anger, to educate whomever offended you so? If you answered yes you may be entitled to compensation! Join the class action lawsuit against @gailsimone.bsky.social & get laughed off Bluesky today!

On Sunday night I dreamt about making a booklist about historical murders that had been memorialized as murder ballads, sadly there were not enough books so I pivoted & made a list of CDs that featured one or more murder ballads murder songs instead jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp... 📚📜

Way back in 2005 I made a 'zine for colleagues containing ideas for running a Teen Reading Group

I am shocked, shocked at how many of my colleagues do not know who Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are!

11 years ago I experimented with a handlebar moustache

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson plays "Weird" @alyankovic.bsky.social in a forthcoming biopic

Hey friends and colleagues in the US! I highly recommend you check out Wild Song by Candy Gourlay - a historical fiction novel about the 1904 World Fair in St Louis told from the perspective of a young Igorot woman from the Philippines teenlibrarian.co.uk/2026/03/24/w...

The stinkiest Geat warrior is B.O.Wulf - he knocked out Grendel with his stench

do i know any full library professors who would be open to doing an external review? you are a rare breed.

Well readers (& authors) will be cheated if they do this!

#Librarymaxxing: signing up for a library card at every library that you can get to make sure you have access to every physical and digital service they offer 📚📜

#ProtestSongs 2026: Bruce Springsteen On the Streets of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATA HARI

I wonder if the 'constructive talks' that Trump has been having are with Reza Pahlavi and he has been promising to install him as Shah for a large slice of Iran's oil & gas revenue

There is a theory that no-one really discusses: it is about pachyderms being reincarnated as mini mobile vacuum cleaners. They call the theory "the Elephant in the Roomba"

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson plays "Weird" @alyankovic.bsky.social in a forthcoming biopic

The mortal remains of 63 Khoi and San people – whose remains were unethically removed & displayed in museums more than a century ago have been laid to rest at the Kinderlê Monument in Steinkopf, Northern Cape.

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones

The US book banner tactic of targeting librarians has started spreading in the UK 📚📜 www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

Weiss Washing CBS www.businessinsider.com/cbs-news-lay...

Do you have news about libraries that you would like to share confidentially? 📚 📜 teenlibrarian.co.uk/submit-news/

Chuck Norris did not die -he merely escaped the universal containment that was built around him!

I could quote @heykellyjensen.bsky.social all day: “Public libraries belong to everyone, not just to right-wing cultists angry that gay people exist.”

Not saying that PRH's decision to shutter Dial Books is related to their foray into hiring AI engineers, but they (& other publishers) are investing in behind the scenes AI: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Apparently Dan Dan the Library (hating) little man has been creeping around and screenshotting my bluesky posts and trying to get me taken away by ICE or the secret service (I have been sent screenshots)

Any authors or editors interested in sharing info about Dial Books for Young Readers being shuttered can reach me here: teenlibrarian.co.uk/submit-news/

Upsetting news from the children's publishing world: teenlibrarian.co.uk/2026/03/19/d... 📚📜

Isn't this just one of the most beautiful things you've ever seen? 25th anniversary edition of @malorieblackman.bsky.social's stunning, heartbreaking, & enraging YA novel, Noughts & Crosses. Must read it again! #KidLitUK Thanks for a copy @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @penguinukbooks.bsky.social