Andrea L.ibrarian
@andizor.bsky.social
Librarian. Reader. Artist/Crafter. Feminist AF. Introvert. Auntie. She/Her.
Slow blogging about library stuff at www.teenytinylibrary.com
Slow blogging about library stuff at www.teenytinylibrary.com
Anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) -ee cummings
and In the room the women come and go talking of Michaelangelo - T S Eliot
and In the room the women come and go talking of Michaelangelo - T S Eliot
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
Dylan Thomas, Do mot go gentle into that good night (most of it) & part of Delmore Schwart’s “Calmly we Walk Through this April’s Day”
Dylan Thomas, Do mot go gentle into that good night (most of it) & part of Delmore Schwart’s “Calmly we Walk Through this April’s Day”
December 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) -ee cummings
and In the room the women come and go talking of Michaelangelo - T S Eliot
and In the room the women come and go talking of Michaelangelo - T S Eliot
I can confidently say I want none of these things. I would rather have a bookshop gift card or a donation to the public library or you know, a raise.
2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Librarians and Book Lovers | American Libraries Magazine
Looking for clever and thoughtful gift ideas for the book lover in your life? Find ideas in this eclectic list of literary-themed gifts.
americanlibrariesmagazine.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I can confidently say I want none of these things. I would rather have a bookshop gift card or a donation to the public library or you know, a raise.
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You've been hit by a car and you're fading in and out. You ask the EMTs to price the ambulance ride. You get to the ER and tell the docs you'll need a price on each service before it's done. You get cancer so it's time to put treament out to competitive bid. I can keep going...
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
You've been hit by a car and you're fading in and out. You ask the EMTs to price the ambulance ride. You get to the ER and tell the docs you'll need a price on each service before it's done. You get cancer so it's time to put treament out to competitive bid. I can keep going...
If you are a tea drinker, tell me your secrets for making tea for travel mugs. I swear the travel mug keeps it too warm and I never know when it's actually cool enough to drink.
December 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If you are a tea drinker, tell me your secrets for making tea for travel mugs. I swear the travel mug keeps it too warm and I never know when it's actually cool enough to drink.
Made some donations to local charities today for #GivingTuesday. If you can spare even a few bucks and love the arts, please share with your area arts nonprofits, libraries, community theatres. They're getting hit hard this year.
December 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Made some donations to local charities today for #GivingTuesday. If you can spare even a few bucks and love the arts, please share with your area arts nonprofits, libraries, community theatres. They're getting hit hard this year.
I do not like the new ad break music, @thepwhl.com. Bring back the old jams
November 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I do not like the new ad break music, @thepwhl.com. Bring back the old jams
Sad that there isn't a category for audiobooks in NPR's Books we Love this year.
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Sad that there isn't a category for audiobooks in NPR's Books we Love this year.
Sometimes I get things from Teachers Pay Teachers and am always surprised by how many things use the same cutesy cartoony clipart.
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Sometimes I get things from Teachers Pay Teachers and am always surprised by how many things use the same cutesy cartoony clipart.
What a garbage idea.
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users
(via THR)
(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
What a garbage idea.
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Layoffs since April:
Amazon: 30k
Intel: 25k
UPS: 20k
Microsoft: 15k
Meta: 3600
Target: 1800
Charter: 1200
Paramount: 1000
Rivian: 600
xAI: 500
Add Verizon to the list.
They just laid off 15,000 and then their stock went up.
Your reminder that the stock market isn’t the economy
Amazon: 30k
Intel: 25k
UPS: 20k
Microsoft: 15k
Meta: 3600
Target: 1800
Charter: 1200
Paramount: 1000
Rivian: 600
xAI: 500
Add Verizon to the list.
They just laid off 15,000 and then their stock went up.
Your reminder that the stock market isn’t the economy
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Layoffs since April:
Amazon: 30k
Intel: 25k
UPS: 20k
Microsoft: 15k
Meta: 3600
Target: 1800
Charter: 1200
Paramount: 1000
Rivian: 600
xAI: 500
Add Verizon to the list.
They just laid off 15,000 and then their stock went up.
Your reminder that the stock market isn’t the economy
Amazon: 30k
Intel: 25k
UPS: 20k
Microsoft: 15k
Meta: 3600
Target: 1800
Charter: 1200
Paramount: 1000
Rivian: 600
xAI: 500
Add Verizon to the list.
They just laid off 15,000 and then their stock went up.
Your reminder that the stock market isn’t the economy
In dishonor of Goodreads Choice Awards failing on children's books, what are your fav picture books or middle grade chapter books of 2025? #youthlibs #childrenslibrarians
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In dishonor of Goodreads Choice Awards failing on children's books, what are your fav picture books or middle grade chapter books of 2025? #youthlibs #childrenslibrarians
Still hate the fact that Goodreads got rid of the Children's Book categories for their choice awards.
November 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Still hate the fact that Goodreads got rid of the Children's Book categories for their choice awards.
If you haven't played What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf? in storytime, you have not experienced the full joy of children's laughter. :D
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
If you haven't played What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf? in storytime, you have not experienced the full joy of children's laughter. :D
I hate that living in a smallish town in the Midwest with a dietary restriction means that eating out is never safe or easy. Quick meals are not readily accessible so when I hit peak tired/people/everything, eating and meals is a struggle.
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I hate that living in a smallish town in the Midwest with a dietary restriction means that eating out is never safe or easy. Quick meals are not readily accessible so when I hit peak tired/people/everything, eating and meals is a struggle.
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Which is not how research is supposed to work.
For shame.
For shame.
NEW: “In April, the Trump administration withheld $250 million in federal research funding from [Cornell], accusing [it] of committing civil rights violations.”
Cornell just settled for $60 million: $30 million to the Trump Administration & $30 million in research the Government wants it to do.
Cornell just settled for $60 million: $30 million to the Trump Administration & $30 million in research the Government wants it to do.
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Which is not how research is supposed to work.
For shame.
For shame.
I am clearly old as I do not understand video podcasts. At all.
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I am clearly old as I do not understand video podcasts. At all.
I absolutely love my Future ADHD planner. It's one you print yourself so you can print the pages that are important to you. I love not having to find a new planner every year and I can tweak it when I need to. Highly recommend.
November 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I absolutely love my Future ADHD planner. It's one you print yourself so you can print the pages that are important to you. I love not having to find a new planner every year and I can tweak it when I need to. Highly recommend.
Just started watching Weapons and my partner just commented, clearly the most unrealistic part of this movie is a class of only 18 kids
October 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Just started watching Weapons and my partner just commented, clearly the most unrealistic part of this movie is a class of only 18 kids
If you're a person who loves podcasts and science and storytelling, please consider becoming a patron of Proxy Podcast. Yowei needs less than 100 more subscribers to get funding for year 2. Highly recommend.
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If you're a person who loves podcasts and science and storytelling, please consider becoming a patron of Proxy Podcast. Yowei needs less than 100 more subscribers to get funding for year 2. Highly recommend.
THIS!
The first time a storytime kid started calling me auntie I felt like I was on top of the world. It's a regular thing now and I cherish it every time.
In a bit of a tense moment, one of the La Mega co-hosts presses Mamdani on why he "lied" about his "aunt" having been scared to ride the subway after 9/11 while wearing a hijab.
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
THIS!
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Oh Bari Weiss is just Ms Rachel’s Wario
October 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Oh Bari Weiss is just Ms Rachel’s Wario
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I don't have something I can link y'all to yet, but I have some very credible and important information I need to share.
The American Library Association laid off what I've heard is 15 people this week.
Among them was the director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom. ALA has no OIF anymore.
The American Library Association laid off what I've heard is 15 people this week.
Among them was the director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom. ALA has no OIF anymore.
October 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I don't have something I can link y'all to yet, but I have some very credible and important information I need to share.
The American Library Association laid off what I've heard is 15 people this week.
Among them was the director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom. ALA has no OIF anymore.
The American Library Association laid off what I've heard is 15 people this week.
Among them was the director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom. ALA has no OIF anymore.
Y'all, what kind of recurring programs are you having success with? I have a craft and chat which has been waning and I want to replace it with something recurring that won't take too much effort, but am stumped for ideas.
October 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Y'all, what kind of recurring programs are you having success with? I have a craft and chat which has been waning and I want to replace it with something recurring that won't take too much effort, but am stumped for ideas.
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The majority party in Congress sets the voting schedule. House Republicans canceled votes for all of the entire week.
They haven't scheduled a vote since September 19.
Remember that the next time they try to blame the shutdown on Democrats.
They haven't scheduled a vote since September 19.
Remember that the next time they try to blame the shutdown on Democrats.
October 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The majority party in Congress sets the voting schedule. House Republicans canceled votes for all of the entire week.
They haven't scheduled a vote since September 19.
Remember that the next time they try to blame the shutdown on Democrats.
They haven't scheduled a vote since September 19.
Remember that the next time they try to blame the shutdown on Democrats.
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Between this, the epstein list, obsession with trans kids playing sports, & neverending conspiracy theories about what's going on in schoolsin general, you realize that the primary concern of the Republican party and its supporters is their deep desire to abuse children
The inhumanity is accelerating.
There are multiple reports of ICE agents laughing as kids scream and cry, and one in this raid saying literally “fuck them kids.”
There are multiple reports of ICE agents laughing as kids scream and cry, and one in this raid saying literally “fuck them kids.”
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
October 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Between this, the epstein list, obsession with trans kids playing sports, & neverending conspiracy theories about what's going on in schoolsin general, you realize that the primary concern of the Republican party and its supporters is their deep desire to abuse children