Put a local piece of art in your wallet!!!

Local artists! Help us make the new Hamline Midway Library reflect our communities! ♥️

Laser loon card from @stpaulpublibrary.bsky.social spotted in the wild!

Digital equity resources and strategies that took years to build and that actually work are being eliminated one by one by federal government, leaving all responsibility for digital inclusion at the local level. 😡

Thank you @mollycoleman.bsky.social

Brilliant. Always.

Ahem. The “mobile library” at Grand Old Day parade was from @stpaulpublibrary.bsky.social and your tax dollars support it. Invest more in municipal infrastructure and less in local influencers.

Feel like we need to talk about how you can have contrary opinions and disagree on how the city is running without abusing public servants and wasting limited city resources. I am not one to diagnose but really, this is not okay and happens every day to public servants on a wide variety of issues.

It's easier to buy an AR-15 in most parts of this country than it is to get mental health care.

Ahem. 😉

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

Required reading for everyone who cares about public spaces and people.

Great piece!

All.the.time

Pigeon That Flew Down Into Subway Going To Need All His Wits To Get Out Of This One

We enter both 'home in' and 'hone in' in our dictionary (because both are commonly found), but most usage commentators consider 'hone in' to be a mistake.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

I guess I don't have a problem with folks who prefer to live in the suburbs (I sort of live in one now), but I do have a problem with folks who conflate their discomfort with "crime."

Mom Hasn't Ordered Favorite Pizza Topping In Over A Decade theonion.com/mom-has...

Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.” Word.

Yes. And also this particular issue is not related to banned books.

This is a bad-ass and awesome thing to do as a public sector leader.

Cute. www.nypl.org/blog/2025/07...

Love this piece

Hennepin County Library has her papers—her story and life are so fascinating. archives.hclib.org/resources/gr...

It’s why we have libraries and library staff!!!

Carla Hayden AND Stacey Abrams?!?! Be still my liberal librarian heart! 🤩

There are few things as beautiful as this poem by Dilruba Ahmed. Read here by Padraig O Tuama onbeing.org/poetry/phase...

Never ever ever

Same strategy used to (unsuccessfully) block new Hamline Midway Library. This is not what MERA and MEPA (and the EAW process) were designed for. The way library and city leaders were treated (and time wasted and money spent) was heartbreaking.

Happy anniversary to Milwaukee Avenue in Minneapolis, one of the city's hidden gems. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

'Pony up' has nothing to do with horses. It probably comes from the Latin phrase ‘legem pone,’ found in Psalm 119 of the Bible. It essentially meant “money down” and was invoked on March 25, which was the first payday of the year and the date when debts were settled.

why order books through Am*z*n when you could order from Wild Rumpus Books Dot Com and probably get some cat hair packaged in with it

Congrats @stpaulpublibrary.bsky.social staff—great piece!

My kid last night, attempting to justify some questionable behavior, “it was like that French guy who got arrested for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean-Paul Gaultier!”

Rice Street Library was gifted a monarch egg by a gardening volunteer. Visitors watched it grow from tiny caterpillar to chrysalis—then, earlier today, emerge as a butterfly. We'll release it once it's ready to fly!

Don’t overlook this good news about e-rate!

#ALAAC25 It was an honor to celebrate Dr. Carla Hayden at ALA Annual—a visionary who has shown us, time and again, what it means to lead with wisdom, purpose, and grace. Learn "What Gives Carla Hayden Hope" at American Libraries. bit.ly/4eskLzf

One of us; one of us! 🫠

#OurForeverLibrarian A class act, Dr. Carla Hayden. #ALAAC25

ALA joins 140+ organizations to decry the cancelation of billions of dollars in Digital Equity Act funds. Secretary Lutnick MUST restore these funds. This funding would help transform the lives of Americans without digital access or skills: broadbandbreakfast.com/group-of-140... #ForOurLibraries

St. Francis School Board members recently restricted certain books to appease conservative ideologues. But the Trump-voting exurban community isn’t as monolithic as the book banners thought.

We don’t know exactly what this means, but if it means what it seems like it means, it's very bad. "Effective July 7, 2025, the National Archives will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need..." www.archives.gov/college-park

Moo, Baa, La La La

Any successful wealth tax should include a 6,000,000% levy on any kids picture book written by somebody who isn't famous for being a writer.

This is why you gotta stick with the GOATs - Sandra Boynton, Taro Gomi, Mo Willems. Too many fly by night operations ruining bedtime.

Exactly what foundations and well-resourced non-profits should be doing.

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

Seeing Nic Zapko today at press conference reminded me so much of 2020 that I burst into tears. It was really nice to see them, though. 💔

Thank you, everybody who came by today. Neighbor after neighbor stopped me to thank us for working so hard for this new library and for providing a time this morning to be in community together in celebration and grief.