Jamie A Becker
@librarianofnote.bsky.social
Teacher-Librarian | PhD candidate @ Emporia State | ‘20/‘21 ALA Emerging Leader | Ms NOT Mrs | ΣΑΙ ❤️🌹🎶 | Genealogy - WikiTree-er - Appalachian Roots! (Biscuits!) | Disney | Chi-town girl livin in Cardinals land | posts=mine
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Been MIA for a hot minute. Sorry. 🤷🏻♀️ To sum up: got diagnosed stage 2 melanoma-had surgery for removal-did biopsy-found it traveled to lymph node-now considered stage 3-got MRI/PET scans-all clear-now starting a years worth of immunotherapy. Oh also I’m a hard stick so had to have a port put in.
The worst part about all of these conferences… I can’t go to all the sessions at one time!!! 😭😭😭😭 #AASL25 I definitely need a Time Machine or something…
October 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The worst part about all of these conferences… I can’t go to all the sessions at one time!!! 😭😭😭😭 #AASL25 I definitely need a Time Machine or something…
Excited to be at #AASL25 this week! Presented my poster session today, saw a bunch of my school library friends, and now chilling before more shenanigans tomorrow!
October 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Excited to be at #AASL25 this week! Presented my poster session today, saw a bunch of my school library friends, and now chilling before more shenanigans tomorrow!
Got to hang with the always amazing @slupodcast.bsky.social both this morning on the drive to the @maslonline.bsky.social 2025 summer PDas well as throughout the day! I love seeing my PLN anytime I can!!! ❤️
July 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Got to hang with the always amazing @slupodcast.bsky.social both this morning on the drive to the @maslonline.bsky.social 2025 summer PDas well as throughout the day! I love seeing my PLN anytime I can!!! ❤️
Today! Come see what I’ve been up to for the last year with one of my professors! There are also implications for school librarians (which is somewhat what my dissertation will focus on!)
Just looked through ALA’s schedule and realized I’m presenting a “timely topic”! #ala2025 who else is heading to ALA this year??
June 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Today! Come see what I’ve been up to for the last year with one of my professors! There are also implications for school librarians (which is somewhat what my dissertation will focus on!)
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Here is a *good thing*.
I put together a FREE TOOLKIT with the Brooklyn Public Library's Books Unbanned team to help raise and support the next generation of anti-book ban, pro-library advocates.
Check it out: bookriot.com/freedom-to-r...
I put together a FREE TOOLKIT with the Brooklyn Public Library's Books Unbanned team to help raise and support the next generation of anti-book ban, pro-library advocates.
Check it out: bookriot.com/freedom-to-r...
June 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Here is a *good thing*.
I put together a FREE TOOLKIT with the Brooklyn Public Library's Books Unbanned team to help raise and support the next generation of anti-book ban, pro-library advocates.
Check it out: bookriot.com/freedom-to-r...
I put together a FREE TOOLKIT with the Brooklyn Public Library's Books Unbanned team to help raise and support the next generation of anti-book ban, pro-library advocates.
Check it out: bookriot.com/freedom-to-r...
Been MIA for a hot minute. Sorry. 🤷🏻♀️ To sum up: got diagnosed stage 2 melanoma-had surgery for removal-did biopsy-found it traveled to lymph node-now considered stage 3-got MRI/PET scans-all clear-now starting a years worth of immunotherapy. Oh also I’m a hard stick so had to have a port put in.
June 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Been MIA for a hot minute. Sorry. 🤷🏻♀️ To sum up: got diagnosed stage 2 melanoma-had surgery for removal-did biopsy-found it traveled to lymph node-now considered stage 3-got MRI/PET scans-all clear-now starting a years worth of immunotherapy. Oh also I’m a hard stick so had to have a port put in.
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Stay safe everyone. And know your rights
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June 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Stay safe everyone. And know your rights
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🚀 AI is changing the way teachers plan and deliver instruction, and Google has a great set of tools!
🖼️ Want to generate custom images to support vocab instruction #EduSky? Try ImageFX.
📚 Need quick book recaps? Illuminate Books can help.
🔗 Check out the post: classtechtips.com/2025/01/15/a...
🖼️ Want to generate custom images to support vocab instruction #EduSky? Try ImageFX.
📚 Need quick book recaps? Illuminate Books can help.
🔗 Check out the post: classtechtips.com/2025/01/15/a...
February 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🚀 AI is changing the way teachers plan and deliver instruction, and Google has a great set of tools!
🖼️ Want to generate custom images to support vocab instruction #EduSky? Try ImageFX.
📚 Need quick book recaps? Illuminate Books can help.
🔗 Check out the post: classtechtips.com/2025/01/15/a...
🖼️ Want to generate custom images to support vocab instruction #EduSky? Try ImageFX.
📚 Need quick book recaps? Illuminate Books can help.
🔗 Check out the post: classtechtips.com/2025/01/15/a...
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Knowledge is power…
February 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Knowledge is power…
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
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February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
I dare say that one of the most tedious things of beginning this dissertation process is the lit review. My eyes and brain literally want to cross from all the articles I’ve been reading. But, I’ve got checkpoints and goals to hit, so read I must!!! #doctoralcandidate #phdlife
February 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I dare say that one of the most tedious things of beginning this dissertation process is the lit review. My eyes and brain literally want to cross from all the articles I’ve been reading. But, I’ve got checkpoints and goals to hit, so read I must!!! #doctoralcandidate #phdlife
This this and more this. You don’t like what I’m saying? Unfollow or block me. Trust me, I won’t be hurt.
Lot of new folks showing up, too. Hello and welcome! Here are some tips that might be useful for keeping your timeline a little safer and more pleasant in these troubling times. Big hearts!
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Bluesky hygiene and safety - Greg Pak
In the weeks since the election and in the midst the giant surge of new accounts on Bluesky, I’ve seen multiple people talking about bad vibes on the site due to the questionable online behavior of so...
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January 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
This this and more this. You don’t like what I’m saying? Unfollow or block me. Trust me, I won’t be hurt.
Wow! Hello all my new followers! Just a fair warning to those thinking of following me - I quickly block p0rnbots and other suspicious accounts. What makes you NOT suspicious? Well, a bio definitely helps, as well as a post or more. Easy peasy! Anyhow, happy cray cray Monday!
January 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Wow! Hello all my new followers! Just a fair warning to those thinking of following me - I quickly block p0rnbots and other suspicious accounts. What makes you NOT suspicious? Well, a bio definitely helps, as well as a post or more. Easy peasy! Anyhow, happy cray cray Monday!
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The American people have been set up. Create a problem only to be the one to solve it is part of the authoritarian playbook.
January 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The American people have been set up. Create a problem only to be the one to solve it is part of the authoritarian playbook.
Bye bye TikTok. I’m so sad right now. Currently the F app and the I app are in a BANNED folder - I will not feed the machine. If you need me I’ll be reading for my dissertation readings or on the Y app…
January 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Bye bye TikTok. I’m so sad right now. Currently the F app and the I app are in a BANNED folder - I will not feed the machine. If you need me I’ll be reading for my dissertation readings or on the Y app…
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BREAKING: TikTok officially shuts down in the US.
January 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
BREAKING: TikTok officially shuts down in the US.
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Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
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January 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
Self censorship is real. I don’t blame librarians - it’s a difficult position to be put in. I *cant* have some of those books just in the picture based on MO law (sigh). But to be instructed by a district? Not cool, KISD…
Katy ISD librarians have been instructed to steer students away from more than 400 books with LGBTQ+ themes, even though the school district hasn't yet officially banned the titles, records show.
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Katy ISD students denied access to 400 LGBTQ titles during review process
Katy ISD librarians have been instructed to steer students away from more than 400 books with LGBTQ+ themes, records show.
www.houstonchronicle.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Self censorship is real. I don’t blame librarians - it’s a difficult position to be put in. I *cant* have some of those books just in the picture based on MO law (sigh). But to be instructed by a district? Not cool, KISD…
Love this, especially as I’m starting my dissertation readings!!!
January 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Love this, especially as I’m starting my dissertation readings!!!
I love love love these! ❤️❤️
Just for fun, I create FREE monthly reading challenges/coloring sheets for readers of all ages b/c both #reading & #coloring help reduce stress. Here’s the Jan update w/a nod to @jmalphy.bsky.social! #tlsky #edusky #skybrarians Happy reading AND coloring, y’all!
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🖍️ Library Girl Reading Challenges: January 2025
Last year, just for fun, I started creating monthly "reading challenges" that: • focus on authentic reasons for reading (instead of having kids log page numbers, etc), and... • couple reading with col...
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January 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I love love love these! ❤️❤️
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Snow-magaddeon is on the way. 🌨️❄️🧊🥶
Make sure to stock up on eggs, milk, bread, & these #libraryadvocacy tees, hoodies, stickers, Eracelets, & patches I developed through my company NIMCO, Inc.
#Skybrarians #TLSky #EduSky #FutureReadyLibs
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Make sure to stock up on eggs, milk, bread, & these #libraryadvocacy tees, hoodies, stickers, Eracelets, & patches I developed through my company NIMCO, Inc.
#Skybrarians #TLSky #EduSky #FutureReadyLibs
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January 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Snow-magaddeon is on the way. 🌨️❄️🧊🥶
Make sure to stock up on eggs, milk, bread, & these #libraryadvocacy tees, hoodies, stickers, Eracelets, & patches I developed through my company NIMCO, Inc.
#Skybrarians #TLSky #EduSky #FutureReadyLibs
nimcoinc.com/product-cate...
Make sure to stock up on eggs, milk, bread, & these #libraryadvocacy tees, hoodies, stickers, Eracelets, & patches I developed through my company NIMCO, Inc.
#Skybrarians #TLSky #EduSky #FutureReadyLibs
nimcoinc.com/product-cate...
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Now with Alt text!
December 23, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Now with Alt text!
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Winter break reminder 😊 #TLsky #schoollibrary
December 22, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Winter break reminder 😊 #TLsky #schoollibrary