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Your favorite #Librarian 🕵🏽‍♀️ | 📍Chi ✈️ Halloweentown | Pretty Poodle of ΣΓΡ 💙💛 | Certified Nerd 🎲 | She/Her 🏳️‍🌈✊🏽| Auntie | #NMRK 🪷📿
Today's the first Winter #ALACouncil Meeting! I will try to post updates as we move through business. Not only does it help me process/remember what's happening I hope it's engaging for those who can't tune in live.
January 21, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I pray I’m NEVER, in this lifetime or the next, someone who could serve in a high level leadership role and be too cowardly to stand behind the decisions I make.

Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo 🙏🏾
December 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Obsessed with Stranger Things season 5? @screenrant.bsky.social suggests picking up #StrangerThings and Dungeons & Dragons: Rise of Hellfire, especially if you're missing a certain character. Details: https://bit.ly/4oWzara
Obsessed With Stranger Things Season 5? You’re Missing Half the Story Without This Comic
Discover the true meaning of family and friendship in this pulse-pounding comic book saga
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I’m glad that students now know what staff have lived with for months now. The last couple weeks have been so deeply sad. Receiving farewell emails from colleagues last week was devastating.
DePaul lays off over 100 staff members amid budget cuts, will close Loop Library

Joining universities nationwide, DePaul makes sweeping budget cuts amid enrollment decline and federal uncertainty.
DePaul lays off over 100 staff members amid budget cuts, will close Loop Library
Joining universities nationwide, DePaul makes sweeping budget cuts amid enrollment decline and federal uncertainty.
depauliaonline.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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*blocked
October 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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It's giving
September 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Babe’s has opened in Logan Square, giving women’s sports fans a place to call home. blockclubchi.co/46AbXUf
September 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The university is so bad at letting us know a staff or faculty member has passed away. The man been here 25 years! I should’ve had email in my inbox today at 8am.
August 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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"Barnard College has made a “painful” announcement that it will lay off nearly 80 full-time employees as part of a “college-wide staff restructuring,” school officials said." - NY Post

Note the quotation marks around the word "painful." Are they questioning the suffering of the school officials? 😆
Columbia sister school Barnard College lays off dozens of employees weeks after antisemitism suit settlement
The layoffs come on the heels of Barnard settling settle a lawsuit brought by Jewish students claiming the Columbia-affiliated school failed to properly address campus antisemitism.
nypost.com
August 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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“The public votes pro-library more often than not. That [raises] the ? of why it is the insignificant budgets of the library are first to be ✂️ when a city faces a shortfall + not, say, the 🚀 budgets of the police?^ It continues to weaken one of the strongest democratic institutions in the US…”
Public Libraries on the Chopping Block, 2025 Edition
A look at the budget cuts affecting US libraries in 2025
buttondown.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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"...the culprit is a content‑filtering layer imposed by Azure OpenAI, the service that underpins Summon Research Assistant and its Primo cousin." 📚 aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search
From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
aarontay.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Considering submitting which meant reading that privacy of thought article in its entirety and taking notes. It exhausted me. I still have so many pages left 😭
LIS Peeps: "We invite submissions to a October 2025 special issue of The Political Librarian, our journal of public policy, politics, and libraries. This special issue aims to engage with this critical and rapidly evolving political crisis that threatens the foundation of inclusive library work." 📚📜
Call for Papers - Next Special Issue of The Political Librarian on Defending DEI and the Politics of Inclusion
EveryLibrary Institute is a 501c3 organization that supports library funding in the United States.
www.everylibraryinstitute.org
July 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
thenextweb.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Some great resources here from @injusticewatch.org. We have come to rely on their judicial guides. Now they have other helpful resources all in one place—including a guide to immigration court that you can republish for free.
July 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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July 21st is Zine Library Day, one of the celebrations happening during International Zine Month! #IZM2025 #zines

Ways to celebrate:
*visit your local zine library
*check out an online zine library
*donate $ or zines to a zine library
*bring your closest zine librarian a delicious treat 🍩
July 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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"Pregnancy has increasingly become a weapon to be wielded against domestic violence victims—and those who help them."

Read an excerpt from journalist @kylietcheung.bsky.social's new book on reproductive coercion:
Reproductive Coercion Is State Abuse, Argues Kylie Cheung
"Pregnancy has increasingly become a weapon to be wielded against domestic violence victims—and those who help them."
www.teenvogue.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The ridiculousness of that one article in CRL for May 2025 overshadowed this excellent article in the same issue “Assessing the State of Publicly Available Library Accessibility Information: Guidelines Based on a Review of Policies at SUNY Libraries”. #Skybrarians #AcademicLibraries
July 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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This is exactly the book I wrote (with amazing art by @littledozerbaby.bsky.social and lettering by @micahmyers.bsky.social )
Every single one of these types is in here, and it's very much based on shenanigans I've seen while playing.
July 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If you like horror comedies + queer representation you have to watch The Parenting on HBO Max. I’ve been cackling this entire movie 😂
July 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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When I met Ryan Coogler several years ago, we were standing in a group of people chatting, when a woman with visible hearing aids walked up, and he casually began to sign the whole conversation so she could participate. She mouthed “thank you”. He nodded and just kept doing his thing.
June 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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#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
What Gives Carla Hayden Hope | American Libraries Magazine
The former Librarian of Congress talked with author Kwame Alexander at ALA's Annual Conference and Exhibition in Philadelphia on June 28.
bit.ly
June 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Why would the post office close at 1pm when that’s when all the book giveaways start? Please make it make sense! #ALAAC25
June 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Diverse representation matters so much. Excited to see Puzzles in Color at the Gaming Pavilion. If you put puzzles out at your library, coloring sheets, etc. Consider supporting and showcasing underrepresented creators #ALAAC25
June 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Today is my last chance to get some gluten free funnel cake from here!!! #ALAAC25
June 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM