Starting fall break with Bury Your Gays by @chucktingle.bsky.social. Only reading this in the daylight hours because I don’t normally do horror 😂 #BookSky

We started moving the nonfiction books today! I love shelves that aren’t totally full 😍 Once all books are moved, we’ll do another weed for books that haven’t circed in 6 years. Then I’ll go through each shelf and start the Franken-Dewey so it’s one topic on each shelf #TLsky #EduSky #LibrarySky

The nonfiction reorganization is starting with aggressive weeding. It’s the low hanging fruit: damaged, duplicates, and extremely old. Once this weed is done and the books are back in DDC order, we’ll run a report for books not checked out in 6 years and weed those too. We just can’t find them now.

I think my “What would HUNTR/X read?” book display is going to be popular. This was after my first class visit 😂😂 Thanks KPop Demon Hunters 💛

Nonfiction Reorganization: Part 2 Electric Boogaloo has begun! #TLSky #EduSky #Library Here are the before shots:

This what would Labubu read display is so popular, I have to refill it after every class. I’m being forced to booktalk Dahl because so many other books have flown off the table 😂 Thanks to the TheBookWrangler for the idea! #EduSky #TLsky #BookSky #LibrarySky

Reading “Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion” by @kevinguyan.bsky.social, and I keep thinking about Sanford Berman’s work #BookSky #Library

Introducing classes to our new graphic novel collection and teaching kids how to read the panels sequentially! #EduSky #Library #LibrarySky

If the library itself had any spine, it would mark those books as lost, charge the patrons for replacement fees, and then ban them for intentionally destroying library property.

“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books. bookriot.com/penguin-rand...

Yes. Next question. #EduSky #Library lithub.com/is-it-time-t...

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

Bringing my fav books for the first week of school to the staff meeting, so teachers can check them out right here! #BackToSchool #EduSky #LibrarySky

I love these weeding goals with the specific intention of raising the average collection age #LibrarySky

Lavonnia Moore: “I wasn’t going to tell the kid no, I was just happy the kid was reading.” #LibrarySky #BookSky

Nobody is “forcing” you to check out books you don’t want to read at a library. But people are forcing libraries to keep you from checking out books.

Reading “Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson” by @tourmaliiine.bsky.social. It’s such a beautiful biography. I’m leaving it around the house so my nieces will ask me who she is [evil librarian laugh]

So many parents ask me how they can get their kid to read more and every. single. time. I ask them how often their kids see them read. Can’t wait to also be able to point this out in August #LibrarySky #EduSky

Saw @noethematt.bsky.social reading this on here and immediately knew that @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social’s “The AI Con” was my next beach read

Could not put this down. I’ve been waiting on a hold for @williecarver.bsky.social’s Gay Poems for Red States from my library for a while. Got tired of waiting, so I bought it yesterday! Who thought a Jerry Springer story would make me cry???

If you need a reminder of what we're fighting for, here are a bunch of authors reading short excerpts of letters sent to them by grateful readers. Recommend having tissues handy.

Loving Little District Books. Too many great choices but not nearly enough suitcase space 😭 #BookSky

Had to pay 11 euro to see the Austrian National Library. They really should have paid me to come in and weed. All these books and not a single copy of InvestiGATORS 🙄 #BookSky #LibrarySky

Reading is reading.

I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not. @chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?

"The library has been open the entire time. The library has been the community’s anchor. It’s the heart of the community at good times and bad times." Dr. Hayden has always been the best of us. americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc... #MyLibrarianForever

This is my fav profile of Dr. Hayden. Especially the part about her keeping the Baltimore libraries open after Freddie Gray’s murder in 2015. She is the absolute best of us. It’s a sad day. mag.uchicago.edu/hayden

unconscionable.

Working on our world languages section! Changed the signs to get rid of flags because, ya know, colonialism. Weeded languages not represented in our community any more. Got Korean parents with older kids to donate picture books because Korean is our third largest language group! #TLsky #Library

We are genrefying our Mandarin collection! This will make it much more browsable, and it should (🤞🏼) mean this section gets a lot more check outs. Mandarin is a home language for many of our students, so it’s exciting to be able to recognize and affirm that on our shelves! #TLsky #EduSky

Spring break book haul. I have missed shopping at Asia Books.

We are officially switching to Oliver tomorrow! We did double check outs for the last week to get us through the data migration this week when we can’t circulate in either LMS. We’ll be giving kids their pre-checked out stack of books this week. Hopefully see you never, Follett! 🤣😂🤓 #TLsky #EduSky

This is my fav bulletin board ever! Each student got a sentence starter for their hypothesis. They wrote/drew their prediction. Each class is a different color. We use it find similar hypotheses, and we use the progress pics to discuss if our hypothesis is being supported or rejected. #TLsky #EduSky

Nicely said by @wired.com's @thiccreese.bsky.social. And his argument doesn't address the content moderators in the Global South paid pennies to edit out the internet's most traumatic content. #EduSky www.wired.com/story/the-pr...

Our light maze experiment with pea plants is up and running! I got a lot of hypotheses from kindergarten with illustrations of dead pea plants 😂 #TLsky #EduSky

These pea seeds have some sprouting to do this weekend. We need them for a kindergarten experiment next week. We planted them on Tuesday and I have been checking them hourly since 🤣 #TLsky #EduSky

Sucks when people take your stuff and use it to make their stuff and don’t pay for it, eh?

I’ve been saving “The Emperor and the Endless Palace” by @justinianhuang.bsky.social for vacation because I knew I would want to read it all at once. Loved every page of it.

Listening to @circulatingideas.bsky.social’s podcast on inclusive cataloging and @violetbfox.bsky.social and the Cataloging Lab got a shout out! It’s my go-to for subject headings! #TLsky #EduSky

Lovely afternoon of ordering all of @bshum79.bsky.social’s books! My students are going to love his picture books—especially about the New Year and Mid-Autumn festival!

An annual tradition is me returning to school in January to frantically add titles from this list of lists to my annual order. Thanks @fuse8.bsky.social

I got Look Up, Handsome by @jackstrangeauthor.bsky.social last night at the bookstore. Out sightseeing today, so I had to also get the ebook so I can keep reading it while out today (no shame in my reading game). It’s the perfect Christmas rom-com! 10/10, no notes.

I know this is about public libraries, but school librarians who still don't have a manga collection, consider this your wake up call.

100% this ⤵️ #TLSky #EduSky

I just got to read “The Book With No Pictures” to an ENTIRE class of kindergarten students who have never read the book before. I’m flying high now 😂🤣🤓 #TLSky #EduSky

*tapping the ALA Library Bill of Rights poster on my office door*

Another win from reclassifying the collection to Metis: now that the wordless books are all together, they are very popular! These baskets are constantly empty. #TLSky #EduSky

The way AI is being pushed on educators and students is insidious. It frustrates and scares me.

Just another normal day at work. #TLsky #EduSky

Reading Maybe Something Beautiful and showing the kids murals around Shanghai today. A grade one kid asked me what the citation was. I explained it was to give credit to the person who took the photographs. Never too early for MLA9 🤣 #TLsky #EduSky