Julia
@juliagertrud.bsky.social
Librarian. Storytime is the best time.
youth services & rare books and special collections
#librarylife | #bells #changeringing | #neurodivergent #NEISvoid #chronicpain #bendybrain hEDS ADHD
youth services & rare books and special collections
#librarylife | #bells #changeringing | #neurodivergent #NEISvoid #chronicpain #bendybrain hEDS ADHD
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Julia
@juliagertrud.bsky.social
· Feb 1
Storytime books today:
THE SNOWY DAY by Ezra Jack Keats
ELLINGTON WAS NOT A STREET by Ntozake Shange and Kadir Nelson
#saturdaylibrarian (Are we still using that hashtag?) #kidlit #librarylife
THE SNOWY DAY by Ezra Jack Keats
ELLINGTON WAS NOT A STREET by Ntozake Shange and Kadir Nelson
#saturdaylibrarian (Are we still using that hashtag?) #kidlit #librarylife
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"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.
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I really like what I know about Charlie Berens but I absolutely love that he is against AI and lays out all the reasons so well!
How AI data centers were invented #shorts
YouTube video by Charlie Berens
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November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I really like what I know about Charlie Berens but I absolutely love that he is against AI and lays out all the reasons so well!
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On the topic of moving, would any teachers/librarians or book club organizers be interested in class sets of EELGRASS BOG or BITTERFLY BAY? I have many spare hardcovers of both, and I'd love them to go to a loving home. I'd just ask for some help with shipping costs :)
Boosts appreciated!
Boosts appreciated!
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
On the topic of moving, would any teachers/librarians or book club organizers be interested in class sets of EELGRASS BOG or BITTERFLY BAY? I have many spare hardcovers of both, and I'd love them to go to a loving home. I'd just ask for some help with shipping costs :)
Boosts appreciated!
Boosts appreciated!
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I would love one more guest for my Rare Book Cataloging class later in November. Let me know if you've worked in this area and if you would be interested in talking about a particularly challenging item you've tackled.
Let me know, thanks!
Let me know, thanks!
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I would love one more guest for my Rare Book Cataloging class later in November. Let me know if you've worked in this area and if you would be interested in talking about a particularly challenging item you've tackled.
Let me know, thanks!
Let me know, thanks!
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Another great reason to visit Minneapolis! (This is the kind of thing that just reinforces my hatred of AI. This is iconic artwork and has spawned new illustrators, new storytellers, new librarians!)
Strega Nona turns 50 — and her art lives in Minneapolis
The University of Minnesota’s Kerlan Collection is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Tomie dePaola’s beloved picture book “Strega Nona,” showcasing the original illustrations and highlighting Minnes...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Another great reason to visit Minneapolis! (This is the kind of thing that just reinforces my hatred of AI. This is iconic artwork and has spawned new illustrators, new storytellers, new librarians!)
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you can win without billionaires supporting you
you can win without party leadership endorsing you
you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch
we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to
you can win without party leadership endorsing you
you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch
we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to
Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
you can win without billionaires supporting you
you can win without party leadership endorsing you
you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch
we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to
you can win without party leadership endorsing you
you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch
we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to
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Today is General Municipal Election Day - Voters have until 8 p.m. to cast a ballot.
Check your voting information here: boston.gov/elections
Check your voting information here: boston.gov/elections
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Today is General Municipal Election Day - Voters have until 8 p.m. to cast a ballot.
Check your voting information here: boston.gov/elections
Check your voting information here: boston.gov/elections
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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All Souls' Day, and in the blue dusk light, carrying a lantern, Old Fox walked down to the churchyard. A barn owl called down from the tower, and was answered somewhere in the trees.
November 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
All Souls' Day, and in the blue dusk light, carrying a lantern, Old Fox walked down to the churchyard. A barn owl called down from the tower, and was answered somewhere in the trees.
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One of the major fruits of research is delight. Think of how often you’ve read about a discovery and really enjoyed it. Often the most pleasurable kind of news. Public delight isn’t discussed enough as one of the major outputs of funding research.
I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯.
Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee
It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism
Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee
It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism
November 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
One of the major fruits of research is delight. Think of how often you’ve read about a discovery and really enjoyed it. Often the most pleasurable kind of news. Public delight isn’t discussed enough as one of the major outputs of funding research.
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Library (archives, research) folk, could you give me your best one liners about Why Cataloguing Matters, please?
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Library (archives, research) folk, could you give me your best one liners about Why Cataloguing Matters, please?
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
THIS
My primary association with girls with magic powers is still the Tamora Pierce books and so whenever I’m watching Stranger Things and El’s too drained to use her powers, my first thought is always “that girl needs to drink some tea with herbs! Has she tried stepping into the sea at ALL?”
October 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
THIS
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My dad, explaining AI to my mom: “It doesn’t think. It copies stuff wrong.”
October 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
My dad, explaining AI to my mom: “It doesn’t think. It copies stuff wrong.”
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No one is coming to save us but us.
I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.
October 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
No one is coming to save us but us.
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To all who wryte storyes & poemes, to everyone who doth wryte scriptes & screenplayes, to those who make art of all kyndes, and to those who designe and performe yn daunse, and theatre -- thanke yow. Whethir you make for a few friendes or an audience of millions, thanke yow. You helpe us all.
October 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
To all who wryte storyes & poemes, to everyone who doth wryte scriptes & screenplayes, to those who make art of all kyndes, and to those who designe and performe yn daunse, and theatre -- thanke yow. Whethir you make for a few friendes or an audience of millions, thanke yow. You helpe us all.
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Folks who knit/crochet: Boston Food Not Bombs is seeking donations of hats, gloves, and scarves, as well as yarn that they can use to make hats:
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October 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Folks who knit/crochet: Boston Food Not Bombs is seeking donations of hats, gloves, and scarves, as well as yarn that they can use to make hats:
www.instagram.com/p/DQSEViuj1s7
www.instagram.com/p/DQSEViuj1s7
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POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈
Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared
Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared
October 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈
Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared
Video Description:
Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨
youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared
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Heyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social.
We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵💫
If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵💫
If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
Sign Up
Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.
www.skypeascientist.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Heyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social.
We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵💫
If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵💫
If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
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I just loved doing this interview with Maggie - I've been a fan of hers since I read The Raven Boys, a dozen years ago. And as I tell her in this interview, I'd love to take a writing class from her.
From a forgotten line of history to a full-fledged novel, popular YA author @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social explores magic of mythic storytelling & the power of history in her first adult novel, "The Listeners." Don’t miss her conversation with @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social: youtu.be/jNCU2uchaHk?...
October 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I just loved doing this interview with Maggie - I've been a fan of hers since I read The Raven Boys, a dozen years ago. And as I tell her in this interview, I'd love to take a writing class from her.
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🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
October 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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it would be kind of metal if the Isabella Stewart Gardner team had just been lying in wait since the 90s training for this and finally struck a second time
Idc, "4 people disguised as construction workers heisted the Napoleon family jewels from the Louvre in 7 minutes by rolling up to the second-storey window on a basket lift" is an objectively hilarious event
October 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
it would be kind of metal if the Isabella Stewart Gardner team had just been lying in wait since the 90s training for this and finally struck a second time
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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
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Boston Public Library holds the “pattern pike” used by John Brown to order arms for the raid. According to BPL records, it passed from Brown to John Hopper (son of Isaac), to William Lloyd Garrison, and thence to the library. Yes, it is SHARP.
October 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Boston Public Library holds the “pattern pike” used by John Brown to order arms for the raid. According to BPL records, it passed from Brown to John Hopper (son of Isaac), to William Lloyd Garrison, and thence to the library. Yes, it is SHARP.
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Does anyone in #libraries have an example of a collection management policy that specifically excludes GenAI? I want to propose it to our board and they find examples convincing.
October 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Does anyone in #libraries have an example of a collection management policy that specifically excludes GenAI? I want to propose it to our board and they find examples convincing.