jessamyn
@librarian.bsky.social
Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.
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jessamyn
@librarian.bsky.social
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Hello I'm Jessamyn #librarian owner of librarian.net and a few other websites you might know. New pinned post for Spring.
I'm on Mastodon at glammr.us/@jessamyn
My reading list jessamyn.info/booklist
I work for the Flickr Foundation and do a lot of #Vermont and library civics stuff. Hello!
I'm on Mastodon at glammr.us/@jessamyn
My reading list jessamyn.info/booklist
I work for the Flickr Foundation and do a lot of #Vermont and library civics stuff. Hello!
The medium is the message. Book Riot's reporting of the Youth Media Award winners is legible, clear, and has links to all the titles (on Amazon, no one's perfect). I tried three different library association award lists and none had all three. Enjoy this list. Buy some good books. Thank you, Kelly.
Here are all of this year's Youth Media Award winners and honorees. What a great day to celebrate something, and how nice that it is youth literature.
bookriot.com/2026-youth-m...
bookriot.com/2026-youth-m...
The ALA Youth Media Awards Are Here: Meet the Latest Award-Winning Books for Young Readers
Here are the 2026 Youth Media Award winners and honorees, highlighting the best of the best in youth literature.
bookriot.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:31 PM
The medium is the message. Book Riot's reporting of the Youth Media Award winners is legible, clear, and has links to all the titles (on Amazon, no one's perfect). I tried three different library association award lists and none had all three. Enjoy this list. Buy some good books. Thank you, Kelly.
"Starting today through Valentine’s Day, e-book and audiobook copies of Heated Rivalry... and all five other books in the Game Changers series are immediately available (no wait!) to anyone with an NYPL library card."
Well played, NYPL 🏒💜
www.nypl.org/blog/2026/01...
Well played, NYPL 🏒💜
www.nypl.org/blog/2026/01...
January 25, 2026 at 9:04 PM
"Starting today through Valentine’s Day, e-book and audiobook copies of Heated Rivalry... and all five other books in the Game Changers series are immediately available (no wait!) to anyone with an NYPL library card."
Well played, NYPL 🏒💜
www.nypl.org/blog/2026/01...
Well played, NYPL 🏒💜
www.nypl.org/blog/2026/01...
Skybrarians: My local mutual aid group is buying an ad in the paper for a February Reads section. I need a slogan/concept not overtly political but which will make a sharp point about ignorance, libraries, maybe fascism. Along the lines of "Books are weapons in the war of ideas" but not that. Ideas?
January 23, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Skybrarians: My local mutual aid group is buying an ad in the paper for a February Reads section. I need a slogan/concept not overtly political but which will make a sharp point about ignorance, libraries, maybe fascism. Along the lines of "Books are weapons in the war of ideas" but not that. Ideas?
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Texas Freedom to Read is looking for help collecting data on book removals across Texas school districts AND you don't need to live in Texas to help! Fill out the form to get all the info!
Sign-Up to help Texas Freedom to Read Project collect data on book removals across Texas school districts.
docs.google.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Texas Freedom to Read is looking for help collecting data on book removals across Texas school districts AND you don't need to live in Texas to help! Fill out the form to get all the info!
Librarians, how many times have you heard the "This library has so many books, it's sinking" lore? As much as I love to hear that people are cancelling bloated subscriptions, I have to laugh at the AI-powered "learning experience" shift Microsoft thinks it can seamlessly perform. They'll be back.
Microsoft is closing its employee library and cutting back on subscriptions ino.to/UBkFaJB
Microsoft is closing its employee library and cutting back on subscriptions
Employees are expected to use new AI tools instead
ino.to
January 16, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Librarians, how many times have you heard the "This library has so many books, it's sinking" lore? As much as I love to hear that people are cancelling bloated subscriptions, I have to laugh at the AI-powered "learning experience" shift Microsoft thinks it can seamlessly perform. They'll be back.
If you see this, skeet an archer
January 11, 2026 at 11:54 PM
If you see this, skeet an archer
"Almost all the infrastructure we now use to find, access, and read books in virtual environments... has existed for two decades. So why are the vast majority of digitized books still inaccessible on the web?"
Monica Westin says it doesn't need to be this way.
asteriskmag.com/issues/12-bo...
Monica Westin says it doesn't need to be this way.
asteriskmag.com/issues/12-bo...
The Dream of the Universal Library—Asterisk
The Internet promised easy access to every book ever written. Why can’t we have nice things?
asteriskmag.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:31 PM
"Almost all the infrastructure we now use to find, access, and read books in virtual environments... has existed for two decades. So why are the vast majority of digitized books still inaccessible on the web?"
Monica Westin says it doesn't need to be this way.
asteriskmag.com/issues/12-bo...
Monica Westin says it doesn't need to be this way.
asteriskmag.com/issues/12-bo...
* makes $18 donations to a bunch of worthwhile causes and lives it up *
I'm doing חי January.
I'm doing חי January.
*makes a clever ironic comment* yeah, I’m doing Wry January
*pulls out binoculars* yeah, I’m doing Spy January
January 5, 2026 at 10:44 PM
* makes $18 donations to a bunch of worthwhile causes and lives it up *
I'm doing חי January.
I'm doing חי January.
Every billboard in Vermont: ...
(billboards have been banned in Vermont since 1968)
(billboards have been banned in Vermont since 1968)
Greater Boston: "hey how about genomics? pretty neat."
Every billboard in Los Angeles: “hey how about television? pretty neat.”
January 4, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Every billboard in Vermont: ...
(billboards have been banned in Vermont since 1968)
(billboards have been banned in Vermont since 1968)
Book I would swear an oath on.
January 2, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Book I would swear an oath on.
I braved the supermarket today because
1. I needed a lemon for my lemon pig
2. I always enjoy getting flowers and walking across the frozen slushy mess of a parking lot in my idgaf snow gear cradling three bouquets of flowers in my elbow like Miss Crampon America
1. I needed a lemon for my lemon pig
2. I always enjoy getting flowers and walking across the frozen slushy mess of a parking lot in my idgaf snow gear cradling three bouquets of flowers in my elbow like Miss Crampon America
December 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I braved the supermarket today because
1. I needed a lemon for my lemon pig
2. I always enjoy getting flowers and walking across the frozen slushy mess of a parking lot in my idgaf snow gear cradling three bouquets of flowers in my elbow like Miss Crampon America
1. I needed a lemon for my lemon pig
2. I always enjoy getting flowers and walking across the frozen slushy mess of a parking lot in my idgaf snow gear cradling three bouquets of flowers in my elbow like Miss Crampon America
One of our Vermont library directors is retiring in 2026 and the local paper wrote such a sweet article about her that really captures her personality and mood. I will miss being colleagues with Starr LaTronica.
www.commonsnews.org/issue/846/84...
www.commonsnews.org/issue/846/84...
Brattleboro library director will retire aft... | Issue 846
BRATTLEBORO-For a decade, Brooks Memorial Library has been the front door of Brattleboro. Now the woman who flung open that door is leaving. Starr LaTronica, 71, resigned as head librarian just before...
www.commonsnews.org
December 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
One of our Vermont library directors is retiring in 2026 and the local paper wrote such a sweet article about her that really captures her personality and mood. I will miss being colleagues with Starr LaTronica.
www.commonsnews.org/issue/846/84...
www.commonsnews.org/issue/846/84...
Search your first name and then “glamour shot” And post a photo.
(first result: this is Jessamyn Stanley, she seems excellent)
(first result: this is Jessamyn Stanley, she seems excellent)
December 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Search your first name and then “glamour shot” And post a photo.
(first result: this is Jessamyn Stanley, she seems excellent)
(first result: this is Jessamyn Stanley, she seems excellent)
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I love a most borrowed list! www.nypl.org/spotlight/to... NYC library users are a quirky bunch--and maybe not much in common with the NYT bestsellers list. Solidarity with my fellow thrifties who don't need to own books. 📚
www.nypl.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I love a most borrowed list! www.nypl.org/spotlight/to... NYC library users are a quirky bunch--and maybe not much in common with the NYT bestsellers list. Solidarity with my fellow thrifties who don't need to own books. 📚
Share an actor who nailed a role so hard that nobody else will ever be able to live up to it…
December 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Share an actor who nailed a role so hard that nobody else will ever be able to live up to it…
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We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.
December 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.
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This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
Got to edit yet another Wikipedia page for a Republican Vermont state congressman who is resigning early (N=3 so far). I don't hate it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_H...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Har...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_H...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Har...
Jim Harrison (Vermont politician) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Got to edit yet another Wikipedia page for a Republican Vermont state congressman who is resigning early (N=3 so far). I don't hate it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_H...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Har...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_H...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Har...
TIL: Vermonters can visit the Green Mountain National Forest and cut down their own Christmas tree (up to 20') for $5. #TakeTheWholeTree
www.recreation.gov/tree-permits...
www.recreation.gov/tree-permits...
Green Mountain National Forest Christmas Tree Permit in New York - Recreation.gov
Explore Green Mountain National Forest Christmas Tree Permit in Green Mountain & Finger Lakes National Forests, New York with Recreation.gov. This permit allows you to cut up to two Christmas Trees wi...
www.recreation.gov
December 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
TIL: Vermonters can visit the Green Mountain National Forest and cut down their own Christmas tree (up to 20') for $5. #TakeTheWholeTree
www.recreation.gov/tree-permits...
www.recreation.gov/tree-permits...
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
"Vermont DEC’s Air Quality & Climate Division (AQCD) and the Department of Libraries have co-sponsored a state-wide wood moisture meter loan program. Hand-held wood moisture meters are available at 63 public libraries for patrons to borrow for free" Love this program
dec.vermont.gov/node/18261/f...
dec.vermont.gov/node/18261/f...
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"Vermont DEC’s Air Quality & Climate Division (AQCD) and the Department of Libraries have co-sponsored a state-wide wood moisture meter loan program. Hand-held wood moisture meters are available at 63 public libraries for patrons to borrow for free" Love this program
dec.vermont.gov/node/18261/f...
dec.vermont.gov/node/18261/f...
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win. (ht OT)
The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the federal agency that provides funding for America's libraries, has announced it is reinstating all grants it had previously terminated, including those to libraries and library organizations across the U.S.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4496W4V
Read more: https://bit.ly/4496W4V
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win. (ht OT)
A delightful interview that @andrewliptak.com did with @scalzi.com when he came to VT.
"When Old Man's War took off and they were like, "you have to write more novels." And I was like, "Do I?" They're like, "yes, here's money," and I was like, "I guess I do." And then off we were to the races."
"When Old Man's War took off and they were like, "you have to write more novels." And I was like, "Do I?" They're like, "yes, here's money," and I was like, "I guess I do." And then off we were to the races."
Me talking about writing and my career and how book censoring and white supremacy both suck a lot and also how I got my side gig as the DJ to the nerds
Earlier this fall I interviewed @scalzi.com at the Green Mountain Book Festival, and we spoke about his career writing and the state of science fiction in 2025.
You can read our conversation here: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/john-scalzi-...
You can read our conversation here: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/john-scalzi-...
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A delightful interview that @andrewliptak.com did with @scalzi.com when he came to VT.
"When Old Man's War took off and they were like, "you have to write more novels." And I was like, "Do I?" They're like, "yes, here's money," and I was like, "I guess I do." And then off we were to the races."
"When Old Man's War took off and they were like, "you have to write more novels." And I was like, "Do I?" They're like, "yes, here's money," and I was like, "I guess I do." And then off we were to the races."
I live in a part of the country where people go at Xmas like it's their job and good on them for trying to scrape up some joy.
It's not my holiday, but I do sponsor a kid-drawing in the newspaper's holiday section with a nice "we're in this together" message, but I do have stipulations. #grinch.
It's not my holiday, but I do sponsor a kid-drawing in the newspaper's holiday section with a nice "we're in this together" message, but I do have stipulations. #grinch.
December 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I live in a part of the country where people go at Xmas like it's their job and good on them for trying to scrape up some joy.
It's not my holiday, but I do sponsor a kid-drawing in the newspaper's holiday section with a nice "we're in this together" message, but I do have stipulations. #grinch.
It's not my holiday, but I do sponsor a kid-drawing in the newspaper's holiday section with a nice "we're in this together" message, but I do have stipulations. #grinch.