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madison
@beastlibrarian.bsky.social
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📍 seattle-ish
📚 art librarian
👩🏻‍🏫 part-time faculty teaching arts librarianship

this is an unprofessional account! I’m here for people with librarian in their bio.
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beastlibrarian.bsky.social
that ernst lubitsch, a german jew who made films in hollywood, made this is 1942 (!!) will never not blow my mind.

no way he would have gotten away with this had he remained in germany.

watch it if you haven’t. relevant given crackdowns on entertainers even mildly poking fun at the trump regime.
Criterion collection poster of the movie “To Be or Not to Be,” a film by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny.
September 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
beastlibrarian.bsky.social
I make more money than I ever imagined I would, but it doesn’t matter bc of the cost of living. Between rent and childcare and utilities and student loans and paying down debt, it’s rare we don’t overdraft every pay period 🤷🏻‍♀️
Seattle Times newspaper headline reads, “WA households can’t afford basics, even if they’re not poor, report says”
June 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
beastlibrarian.bsky.social
exhibit C

the edina sentinel (missouri)
thursday, november 11, 1886
Newspaper clipping that reads, "Marie Schleinger committed suicide in St. Louis a few days ago by hanging herself in the kitchen on her house. She was discovered by a neighbor. Her husband testified that she was forty-five years of age; that he came to St. Louis in 1885 with his wife, five children and a bank account. A short time afterward his youngest child died, and he had to go the City Hospital. The other children were placed in an asylum, and his wife had to do her housework. The deceased got an idea that developed into insanity, acquiring the idea that her husband had fallen heir to $30,000 in Germany, and had, unknown to her, opened a big business in St. Louis. She had several times threatened suicide, but her husband did not think she would do it. On the morning in question the husband was wakened by his daughter, who informed him that the deceased had hanged herself. He cut her down and call in a physician, but she was dead."
April 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
beastlibrarian.bsky.social
exhibit B

the edina sentinel (missouri)
thursday, november 11, 1886
Newspaper clipping that reads, "Last spring a Sedalia hatter distributed to farmers a large number of pumpkin seed of a new and handsome variety and at the same time offered a premium for the best and largest specimen raised from the seed. During the past week or two a portion of his store-room has been converted into a pumpkin show and resembled a fair department. The daddy of all pumpkins was a monster weighing 141 pounds."
April 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
beastlibrarian.bsky.social
exhibit A

the edina sentinel (missouri)
thursday, november 11, 1886
Newspaper clipping that reads, "The medical fraternity of St. Louis at its last meeting had before them a singular pathological specimen in the person of Louis Botto, who is afflicted with inability to control his tongue, the organ continually darting in and out of his mouth like the tongue of an excited snake."
April 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
beastlibrarian.bsky.social
ew I threw up in my mouth a bit 🥴
ACRL is partnering with Elsevier to pilot a community of practice called, “Bridging the Gap: An AI Community of Practice.”
February 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
beastlibrarian.bsky.social
is this love is this love is this love
Text message that reads, “can u bring me a fork and a knife” second text message reads, “I mean a fork and a spoon” and the response, “Yes!”
January 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
beastlibrarian.bsky.social
bad bitches of the 1917 washington university freshman hockey team
Black and white picture from 1917 Washington University Freshman Hockey Team. Nine women are seated on concrete steps wearing matching white dress uniforms with black ties. Several women are holding hockey sticks.
December 10, 2024 at 3:59 AM
beastlibrarian.bsky.social
that 1970s women's college faculty look
Black and white photograph from Colorado Women's College 1978 Yearbook. Portrait of Art History professor Barbara Stone. Stone wears glasses, a turtleneck, and a vaguely Pendleten-patterned sweater (not sure what to call it!). Hair is cut into a pixie cut. Very 70s look overall.
December 10, 2024 at 3:52 AM
beastlibrarian.bsky.social
oh, you’re a frequent AND grateful visitor to the library? my heart ❤️‍🔥
Screenshot of an email that reads, “and a frequent and grateful user of the Art Library.”
November 26, 2024 at 3:08 AM