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Cheryl
@cherylzobel.bsky.social
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Connecting folks with stuff they want & need - plus healthy dashes of Serendipity.
Huge fan of trees, privacy & Mr Rogers.
My interests & opinions alone, not the views of my employer.
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doh.wa.gov
We have educational resources and materials to help you share information about measles disease and vaccination. Visit www.doh.wa.gov/measles. We also have a Measles Basic Information flyer available in 19 languages.
Measles
Measles is a highly contagious disease caused by the measles virus. Measles can cause serious health complications, especially for babies and young children.
www.doh.wa.gov
March 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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karlykingsley.bsky.social
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ripples. when you create a difference in someone's life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime. no act is ever too small. one by one, this is how to make an ocean rise.
March 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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slayla123.bsky.social
*sighs* here's the alt text version again since @libbyapp.com seems to be set on just not doing it... Lets ratio them this time? #AltText #Accessibility
Maroon backdrop with clip art of books on top right corner saying What happens when you check out a book from your library? Maroon backdrop with clip art on top right corner of femme person holding a book with words saying Checkouts demand, helping libraries secure funding, expand collections, and provide the books people want. Every checkout proves libraries are essential for learning, literacy, and discovery!
March 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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noethematt.bsky.social
The Book Business Prepares for Tariff Turmoil

If things get bad, library budgets are going to be in trouble 📚

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
The Book Business Prepares for Tariff Turmoil
With new Trump Administration tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China now in place, publishers and printers have been left seeking clarity on what the levies mean for their businesses.
www.publishersweekly.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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mmmletsgo.bsky.social
#2025MMM Roots and Relicts Rnd 1
BATTLE WINNERS:
Coelacanth, Gar, Frilled Shark, Ringed Seal, Ginkgo/Rhizo, Asian Forest Tortoise, Tuatara, Horseshoe Crab

Join us on MONDAY, March 17th at 8PM EST for Round 1 of Same & Different!
March 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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mammalssuck.bsky.social
THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS!!!!
Tortoise
Ringed Seal
Coelacanth
Tuatara
Frilled Shark
Horseshoe Crab
Gar
GINKGO & RHIZO...
ADVANCE!!!
#2025MMM
a cat sitting on top of a turtle
Alt: a hyrax riding a tortoise.
media.tenor.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Trump signed an executive order to dismantle seven federal agencies: the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Institute of Museum and Library Services,
March 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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simplyrain.bsky.social
I don't wanna be left out!

My favorite library tee to wear...

@nimcoinc.bsky.social @themisterlibrary.bsky.social
Head of a Librarian tee It is a white skull with red arrows pointing to the various parts of a librarians head: intellectual freedom, readers' advisory, technology, collection development, media literacy, collaboration, equity of access, inclusive, career readiness
February 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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annethegnome.bsky.social
I need to tell you about Internet Archive Scholar, which is a fulltext search index with over 35 million research articles & other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive -- and has the most synthwave logo ever
scholar.archive.org
INTERNET ARCHIVE (blue steel-like metallic bold print) SCHOLAR (in marker style-gloing red text) surrounded by yellow sparkles
February 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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fsmith827.bsky.social
Congratulations to @alyssacolelit.bsky.social for her NAACP Image Award win for One of Us Knows. Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction.

✍🏾📚 #BookSky #BlackBookSky #NAACP #NAACPImageAwards #AlyssaCole
fsmith827.bsky.social Frederick Smith, Ed.D. @fsmith827.bsky.social · Jan 8
Congratulations to @alyssacolelit.bsky.social and all the @naacp.bsky.social Image Award nominees in the Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction - category. Alyssa Cole is nominated for her novel “One of us Knows.” Great books nominated. ✍🏾📚 #BlackBookSky #BookSky
Photo of author Alyssa Cole holding her novel One of us Knows. Photo of the NAACP fiction nominees: A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams; Grown Women by Sarai Johnson; Neighbors and other Stories by Diane Oliver; One of us Knows by Alyssa Cole; and What You Leave Behind by Wanda M. Morris.
February 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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beccafes.bsky.social
New library display. The world needs more kind people.
February 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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wadnr.bsky.social
Can someone let Carole King know that if she feels the earth move under her feet she should probably drop, cover, and hold?
February 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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debbieohi.com
Heads-up for those who have purchased Amazon's Kindle ebooks: Starting Feb. 26, Amazon is removing feature that allows you to download purchased books to a computer (which is useful for backup or converting to formats compatible with non-Kindle e-readers)

www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.
www.theverge.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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npr.org
Each culture that celebrates the Lunar New Year has traditions passed down from generation to generation that are thought to bring good luck. NPR readers share theirs.
Want good luck this year? Try these Lunar New Year traditions from NPR readers
Each culture that celebrates the Lunar New Year has traditions passed down from generation to generation that are thought to bring good luck. NPR readers share theirs.
www.npr.org
January 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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slothandenvy.com
What’s wrong with pancake mode, we ask you?
tuexplorer1.bsky.social Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · Jan 22
Another Cirroctopus in pancake mode. I'm told they do stuff, but I haven't seen them do anything more than this. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 779 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
January 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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fpianz.bsky.social
It's publication day!
Available in print and Open Access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255091...

A book about how digital social reading apps are changing and nurturing the way we read. I talk about Wattpad, Goodreads, AO3 and more.

@mitpress.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social
Digital Social Reading
How digital social reading apps are powerfully changing—and nurturing—the way we read.Conventional wisdom would have us believe that digital technology i...
mitpress.mit.edu
January 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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archive.org
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN is now in the #publicdomain! 🎶☔️

Why celebrate? This 1929 song inspired the 1952 musical of the same name. Now it's ours to remix & reimagine.

Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/16/public-domain-spotlight-singin-in-the-rain/

#InternetArchive #PublicDomainDay
January 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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doh.wa.gov
#Wildfire Safety Tips

Create a defensible space around your home using the @wadnr.bsky.social Firewise guidance. www.dnr.wa.gov/firewise

Use fire-resistant plants in your landscaping to reduce risk.
Defensible Space - Prepare Your Home | WA - DNR
Each year, wildland fires consume homes in the wildland-urban interface – defined as areas where homes are built near or among lands prone to wildland fire. Studies show that as many as 80 percent of ...
www.dnr.wa.gov
January 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
cherylzobel.bsky.social
Perfect timing for me. I'm looking forward to reading this!
#BookSky #GraphicNovel #Book
January 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
cherylzobel.bsky.social
Read, Noted, Sharing - 10 Books from this Year:
Published & read in 2024. In no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#10 of 10
💙📚 #BookSky #ReadNotedSharing #Books
Book Cover: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky Cover image of a dark, blackened foreground of destruction/collapse. Horizon is green & yellow, showing ghosts of buildings, heavy clouds, and a planet. Across the dead present walks a robot holding a tea tray and tea pot, balanced in one hand.
December 31, 2024 at 1:14 AM
cherylzobel.bsky.social
Read, Noted, Sharing - 10 Books from this Year:
Published & read in 2024. In no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#9 of 10
💙📚 #BookSky #ReadNotedSharing #Books
Book Cover: Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford. Cover image: Background is green with colorful sprinkles, in the center is the torso of a woman (from shoulders to hips) in a red dress and green apron, holding a cake topped with strawberries.
December 30, 2024 at 3:57 AM
cherylzobel.bsky.social
Read, Noted, Sharing - 10 Books from this Year:
Published & read in 2024. In no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Um. So, there ARE comments on this one... 😉

#8 of 10
💙📚 #BookSky #ReadNotedSharing #Books
cherylzobel.bsky.social Cheryl @cherylzobel.bsky.social · Dec 28
The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science.

*jumping up & down. waving book.*

Delightful and so incredibly funny so far!
I'm partway through the audiobook (via Libby). It is BRILLIANTLY performed! The voices are off-the-charts fun!
Audiobook cover: The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by G. Edwina Candlestank as told to Kate McKinnon Cover image has a green background. A red massive worm is emerging from the ground, eating a very old, crooked-looking house. Worm has very sharp, big, pointy teeth and many eyes. Standing on the back of the work are three girls and their teacher. Off to the side stands a little, poofy white Bichon Frisé dog. A gold ornate frame surrounds the title & picture.
December 28, 2024 at 8:19 AM
cherylzobel.bsky.social
Read, Noted, Sharing - 10 Books from this Year:
Published & read in 2024. In no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#7 of 10
💙📚 #BookSky #ReadNotedSharing #Books
Audiobook Cover: Devil Is Fine by John Vercher Image on cover: Paintings (watercolor?) or drawings of two colorful jellyfish with lots of long appendages and a photograph of a small pile of soil.
December 28, 2024 at 4:04 AM