Stacy Derleth
@stacyderleth.bsky.social
Librarian 📚 Artist 🎨
Read everything. Read anything.
Read banned books. Read whatever you prefer or can get your hands on in whatever format you like.
Read.
Read everything. Read anything.
Read banned books. Read whatever you prefer or can get your hands on in whatever format you like.
Read.
Have you been to your local public library recently?
You should go. They have new books!
You should go. They have new books!
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Have you been to your local public library recently?
You should go. They have new books!
You should go. They have new books!
If you need a good book that will make you smarter or give you a more global perspective, go to your local library and ask a librarian for some book suggestions!
August 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need a good book that will make you smarter or give you a more global perspective, go to your local library and ask a librarian for some book suggestions!
You can find all kinds of good books and stories at your local library.
And it’s free.
#readmorebooks
And it’s free.
#readmorebooks
Some tips for a good life:
1. Go outside and be in awe of this world.
2. Do what you love and are gifted at.
3. Go out of your way often to serve others.
4. Read good books and stories.
5. Take the posture of curiosity and humility.
1. Go outside and be in awe of this world.
2. Do what you love and are gifted at.
3. Go out of your way often to serve others.
4. Read good books and stories.
5. Take the posture of curiosity and humility.
July 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
You can find all kinds of good books and stories at your local library.
And it’s free.
#readmorebooks
And it’s free.
#readmorebooks
Libraries are amazing! Go get a card to support your local library and help keep them open!
Oh! And library books are free to borrow, so grab some books while you’re there!
#readmorebooks
Oh! And library books are free to borrow, so grab some books while you’re there!
#readmorebooks
Either renew your library card or go get one, please. I don't care how often you'll use it, get one. Librarians can use those numbers to help prove that people use the library and you'll have access to amazing online and in person services. If you don't know what's available, ask a librarian!
June 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Libraries are amazing! Go get a card to support your local library and help keep them open!
Oh! And library books are free to borrow, so grab some books while you’re there!
#readmorebooks
Oh! And library books are free to borrow, so grab some books while you’re there!
#readmorebooks
Do you know where you can find amazing librarians like this?
At your local public library!
Really. You should go there.
#readmorebooks
#booksky
At your local public library!
Really. You should go there.
#readmorebooks
#booksky
I went to the library to return some books and the librarian gave me a big stack of weaving books someone had donated because I'm always requesting weaving books through the interlibrary loan! 🥹
May 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Do you know where you can find amazing librarians like this?
At your local public library!
Really. You should go there.
#readmorebooks
#booksky
At your local public library!
Really. You should go there.
#readmorebooks
#booksky
May 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The really good books are available at your public library!
I got the Murderbot Diaries from mine today.
#readmorebooks
#murderbot
#murderbotdiaries
#booksky
I got the Murderbot Diaries from mine today.
#readmorebooks
#murderbot
#murderbotdiaries
#booksky
You know what's good? Books.
May 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The really good books are available at your public library!
I got the Murderbot Diaries from mine today.
#readmorebooks
#murderbot
#murderbotdiaries
#booksky
I got the Murderbot Diaries from mine today.
#readmorebooks
#murderbot
#murderbotdiaries
#booksky
ICYMI…The Library of Congress doesn’t allow anyone under 16 yo access, and under 18 needs parental consent.
The public can only look at materials on premises.
LOC only lends books to members of Congress, meaning Senators and House Representatives, their staff, and Supreme Court justices.
FFS
The public can only look at materials on premises.
LOC only lends books to members of Congress, meaning Senators and House Representatives, their staff, and Supreme Court justices.
FFS
May 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
ICYMI…The Library of Congress doesn’t allow anyone under 16 yo access, and under 18 needs parental consent.
The public can only look at materials on premises.
LOC only lends books to members of Congress, meaning Senators and House Representatives, their staff, and Supreme Court justices.
FFS
The public can only look at materials on premises.
LOC only lends books to members of Congress, meaning Senators and House Representatives, their staff, and Supreme Court justices.
FFS
If you haven’t been in a public library in ages, you should go and see how amazing they are.
#readmorebooks
#booksky
#readmorebooks
#booksky
Public libraries don’t get the overall credit they deserve in this day and age. They provide so much access to free knowledge and entertainment for people. They are quiet, calm, and soothing. I can sit in one for hours and get lost in different worlds.
May 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If you haven’t been in a public library in ages, you should go and see how amazing they are.
#readmorebooks
#booksky
#readmorebooks
#booksky
I read this book with a local library book club! I bet your local library has a copy too if you want to read it!
It was excellent!
#readmorebooks
#booksky
It was excellent!
#readmorebooks
#booksky
I had the pleasure of hearing @pdjeliclark.bsky.social last year and he's so cool and this book , if you missed it because I had missed it--- fuuuuck pick it up. Also I love love love bringing up "backlist" titles because not everyone reads hundreds of books a year and so many do get missed.
So, I hear ya’ll like #Sinners. might I also humbly suggest…
April 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I read this book with a local library book club! I bet your local library has a copy too if you want to read it!
It was excellent!
#readmorebooks
#booksky
It was excellent!
#readmorebooks
#booksky
Need a good book?
Bet you could borrow any of these from your local library!
#booksky
#readmorebooks
#restoreIMLS
Bet you could borrow any of these from your local library!
#booksky
#readmorebooks
#restoreIMLS
Hey Blueksy, if you're looking for magic books and magic school books that *aren't* horribly exclusionary, let me share some fantastic examples with you. #BookSky 💙📚
April 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Need a good book?
Bet you could borrow any of these from your local library!
#booksky
#readmorebooks
#restoreIMLS
Bet you could borrow any of these from your local library!
#booksky
#readmorebooks
#restoreIMLS
You can find the complete works of Maya Angelou at your local library! Go get them so you can read her phenomenal poetry!
#readmorebooks
#booksky
#restoreIMLS
#readmorebooks
#booksky
#restoreIMLS
“You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.”
— Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise”
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.”
— Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise”
April 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
You can find the complete works of Maya Angelou at your local library! Go get them so you can read her phenomenal poetry!
#readmorebooks
#booksky
#restoreIMLS
#readmorebooks
#booksky
#restoreIMLS
Want to read about Presidents who threatened democracy (in the past) & citizens who fought to defend it?
Borrow “The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It” by Corey Brettschneider from your local library!
#booksky
#readmorebooks
Borrow “The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It” by Corey Brettschneider from your local library!
#booksky
#readmorebooks
April 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Want to read about Presidents who threatened democracy (in the past) & citizens who fought to defend it?
Borrow “The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It” by Corey Brettschneider from your local library!
#booksky
#readmorebooks
Borrow “The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It” by Corey Brettschneider from your local library!
#booksky
#readmorebooks
Reposted by Stacy Derleth
SLJ Special Project: Reasons to Love Libraries
Our ongoing celebration of what makes libraries essential, innovative, and beloved community institutions. Share yours!
More: slj.com/page/reasons...
#exclusivetoBlueSky #libraries #LibraryLove #advocacy @staceyabrams.com @mychal3ts.bsky.social
Our ongoing celebration of what makes libraries essential, innovative, and beloved community institutions. Share yours!
More: slj.com/page/reasons...
#exclusivetoBlueSky #libraries #LibraryLove #advocacy @staceyabrams.com @mychal3ts.bsky.social
Reasons to Love Libraries
slj.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
SLJ Special Project: Reasons to Love Libraries
Our ongoing celebration of what makes libraries essential, innovative, and beloved community institutions. Share yours!
More: slj.com/page/reasons...
#exclusivetoBlueSky #libraries #LibraryLove #advocacy @staceyabrams.com @mychal3ts.bsky.social
Our ongoing celebration of what makes libraries essential, innovative, and beloved community institutions. Share yours!
More: slj.com/page/reasons...
#exclusivetoBlueSky #libraries #LibraryLove #advocacy @staceyabrams.com @mychal3ts.bsky.social
Sure, I go to the library for books, but also sometimes I go just to exist in a space that's welcoming, organized, comfortable, judgement-free, and run by knowledgeable, helpful, passionate people, because that energy is straight up medicinal.
April 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I’m saying this in my capacity as an author and once and future library worker:
Read whatever the hell you want.
I cannot impress enough on you that the “important” books aren’t important if you don’t jive with them. The popular books, the canon, the whatever. Read what you want.
Read whatever the hell you want.
I cannot impress enough on you that the “important” books aren’t important if you don’t jive with them. The popular books, the canon, the whatever. Read what you want.
April 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Need a brain break?
Can’t sleep?
Read a book!
Even if it doesn’t solve the world’s problems, you’ll feel a little better.
#readmorebooks
#booksky
Can’t sleep?
Read a book!
Even if it doesn’t solve the world’s problems, you’ll feel a little better.
#readmorebooks
#booksky
April 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Need a brain break?
Can’t sleep?
Read a book!
Even if it doesn’t solve the world’s problems, you’ll feel a little better.
#readmorebooks
#booksky
Can’t sleep?
Read a book!
Even if it doesn’t solve the world’s problems, you’ll feel a little better.
#readmorebooks
#booksky
Proof your public library loves you: they leave you alone when you're reading, they love when you bring your kids over, and they'll literally let you borrow any book you want...even their hardcovers
April 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Need information? Need help?
Your local public library is waiting to help you!
What are you waiting for? Go!
Also, they need you too. Now more than ever.
#readmorebooks
#restoreIMLS
Your local public library is waiting to help you!
What are you waiting for? Go!
Also, they need you too. Now more than ever.
#readmorebooks
#restoreIMLS
Look, people probably wouldn't be trying to curtail libraries' activities and cut their funding if libraries didn't engage in problematic behaviors like "having information" and "helping people."
April 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Need information? Need help?
Your local public library is waiting to help you!
What are you waiting for? Go!
Also, they need you too. Now more than ever.
#readmorebooks
#restoreIMLS
Your local public library is waiting to help you!
What are you waiting for? Go!
Also, they need you too. Now more than ever.
#readmorebooks
#restoreIMLS
Do something super nice for National Library Week…go to the library and check out some books.
Also, call your reps and demand the IMLS be restored.
#readmorebooks
#booksky
Also, call your reps and demand the IMLS be restored.
#readmorebooks
#booksky
Next week is National Library Week and everyone should do something nice for a librarian.
April 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Do something super nice for National Library Week…go to the library and check out some books.
Also, call your reps and demand the IMLS be restored.
#readmorebooks
#booksky
Also, call your reps and demand the IMLS be restored.
#readmorebooks
#booksky
I’m reading Solito by Javier Zamora!
What are you reading?
#WeNeedDiverseBooksDay
#readmorebooks
#readdiversebooks
What are you reading?
#WeNeedDiverseBooksDay
#readmorebooks
#readdiversebooks
How are YOU celebrating the inaugural #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay?!
@weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social @bookshop.org #kidlit #yalit
@weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social @bookshop.org #kidlit #yalit
🎉 We Need Diverse Books Day is April 3rd!
#WeNeedDiverseBooksDay was created to celebrate a decade of WNDB’s efforts to diversify the publishing industry. This holiday is intended to highlight the importance of reading books that reflect our beautifully diverse world.
#WeNeedDiverseBooksDay was created to celebrate a decade of WNDB’s efforts to diversify the publishing industry. This holiday is intended to highlight the importance of reading books that reflect our beautifully diverse world.
April 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I’m reading Solito by Javier Zamora!
What are you reading?
#WeNeedDiverseBooksDay
#readmorebooks
#readdiversebooks
What are you reading?
#WeNeedDiverseBooksDay
#readmorebooks
#readdiversebooks
Please call your representatives. Leave a voicemail if their office is closed. Libraries can’t afford to lose access to library and museum funding. Rural communities will be the hardest hit by this.
#saveIMLS
#saveIMLS
NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1.
More here:
More here:
EveryLibrary Condemns the Trump Administration's Termination of IMLS Grants as an Attack on Libraries, Museums, and Archives Everywhere.
State Library Agencies and other grant recipients across the country began receiving official notices from the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services terminating their grants,...
www.everylibrary.org
April 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Please call your representatives. Leave a voicemail if their office is closed. Libraries can’t afford to lose access to library and museum funding. Rural communities will be the hardest hit by this.
#saveIMLS
#saveIMLS
Sometimes the smaller the book, the bigger the ideas—at least that's what we found in this list: "23 Hefty Titles for Small Hands | Board Books Roundup"
www.slj.com/story/childr...
www.slj.com/story/childr...
23 Hefty Titles for Small Hands | Board Books Roundup
As board books continue to evolve, they’re cleverly expanding to meet the needs of readers even as they approach early school age.
www.slj.com
April 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Raise your ✋ if you support libraries.
April 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Need a good book?
My current reading is Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora. The memoir tells a story of a nine-year-old boy on his journey from a small town in El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his parents. Hopeful and heartbreaking at the same time.
#booksky
#readmorebooks
My current reading is Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora. The memoir tells a story of a nine-year-old boy on his journey from a small town in El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his parents. Hopeful and heartbreaking at the same time.
#booksky
#readmorebooks
April 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Need a good book?
My current reading is Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora. The memoir tells a story of a nine-year-old boy on his journey from a small town in El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his parents. Hopeful and heartbreaking at the same time.
#booksky
#readmorebooks
My current reading is Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora. The memoir tells a story of a nine-year-old boy on his journey from a small town in El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his parents. Hopeful and heartbreaking at the same time.
#booksky
#readmorebooks