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Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault
@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social
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This is my personal account for personal thoughts. School Libraries are the cure for what ails education! | M.Ed., Ed.D., M.I. | 25 yr vet Tchr | he/him | Lots o' SLMS stuff @ http://SchoolLibLearning.net
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Finally got my other carts set up with names.

Introducing Rene DesCARTes and CARTosaurus, the ginormous book boat!

(And CARTosaurus is filled with the books from ALA that finally got approved for donation! Yay!)

#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
Book cart labeled with return signs. Beneath that is a sign that says Rene DesCARTes, with a picture of the French mathematician. The side of a book cart with a picture of a Tyranosaurus Rex labeled CARTosaurus. 3/4 view of CARTosaurus, who is currently packed with books waiting to be processed!
November 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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We crossed 1,000 checkouts! Woo hoo!

(No raining on my parade, ya'll with your 3,000 checkouts in the first month! 😂)

#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
A place value flip chart with the text "Total books checked out this year" and the number 1,013.
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
drtlovesbooks.bsky.social
Tried a mix of baking powder & antifungal powder to reduce some of the fusty smell in the library.

Mixed results, need to go at it again. (And bring my home vac - my lil' lib vac was not up to the challenge. 😂)

But Wife made me a great shaker bottle!

#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
The top of a Planter's Peanuts container with holes drilled in half of it to create a baking powder shaker container. The floor of Steve's library, dusted with a mixture of baking powder and antifungal powder.
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
drtlovesbooks.bsky.social
Went looking online for a cover image of a specific edition of Romeo & Juliet.

Came across this Spock and Julia and nearly did a spit take. 😂

Shared w/ WIfe, she said, "And somebody got paid to create that."

#NimoyAsRomeo #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
Cover of "Romeo ja Julia" with a Romeo who looks like Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock.
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I haven't dug into the sources, so I might be off base, but this seems like an #InfoLit lesson -

The upper infographic & lower graphic seem to be completely unrelated.

#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

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Post from reddit's economy subreddit, titled "900,000 white Americans have lost their jobs since 2020 per Bloomberg." Under this is an infographic that says "Corporate American pledged to hire more people of color. It actually did. The year after Black Lives Matter protest, the S&P 100 added more than 300,000 jobs - 94% when to people of color." Beneath this is a graph titled "Change in employment since Feb 2020." The bar graph shows -904k for White, +2m for Hispanic, +700k for Black, +882K for Asian, +4m for All Workers.
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
drtlovesbooks.bsky.social
And finally: Cart names!

(They’re not super-original, but I needed to add some joy to my carts, and I love a pun.)

/end
Two book carts with signs on their ends. Red cart reads "Jean Luc PiCart" with a pic of JLP and the text "Make it so!" Gray cart reads "Cart-2 D-2" with a pic of R2-D2. Black cart labelled "Salvador Trolley", with pic of Salvador Dali and his wildly long, up-turned mustache.
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Next up: Cart Signage

Lost track of how many times Ss asked, “Which one’s the return cart?”, despite it having "Return books here" signs on the ends, so I’m hoping labelling the hell out of it makes it a LITTLE more obvious.

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End of cart with sign: "Return School Library Books Here." Side of cart - top shelf edge is about 1.5 inches wide, has text reading, "Book Return Cart: Return School Library Books Here." Top of flat cart has a sign attached to the "floor" of the shelf: "Return School Library Books Here."
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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It was New Signage Day in the library today!

First up, Book Menus!

Took me 2 years, but FINALLY getting book menus together! (Huge thanks to @melissacorey.bsky.social for sharing so many great templates!)

#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

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Book menus: "Page to Screen - books made into movies" and "As seen on TV - books with TV series" Book Menus: "As Seen on TV", "Quick Reads - Books under 250 pages", "Neurodiverse Characters", "Mental Health Awareness". Book Menus: "Tearjerkers - the saddest books", "Coping with Grief and Loss", "African-American Voices - miscellaneous", "African-American Voices - Jason Reynolds, Kwame Alexander, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas". Book Menus: "Scary Good Reads", "Verse Novels", "Back to School Books".
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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"When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small."

#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
Social media post from Just-Shower-Thoughts: "When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small." Reply from sonyaliloquy: "...dude."
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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By the dawn's early light...
Dawn starting to break over the Atlantic Ocean by Atlantic City, NJ. Dawn starting to break over the Atlantic Ocean by Atlantic City, NJ.
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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My principal wanted some images of our #SchoolLibrary to share, and I happened to've just been looking at a vid I made of the space when I first opened it; so I made a Before & After video.

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November 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Not sure if these pics really show them off to full effect, but they at least give a bit of a view of them:
The sideways window - so bright the image can't be seen. The sideways window with a better exposure to reveal the desert scene it depicts. The tall window with its waterfall view. A side-on view of the waterfall window, with the desert window far in the back.
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Here's a side-by-side vid of the library space from opening to now. The windows are tough to see b/c the exposure is tough to get right; either the windows are too bright to register, or the room looks like it's a deep, dark cave. 😂
#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Then the lil' sumbitch starts coming RIGHT FOR ME.

So I'm running, and keeping an eye on this incoming monster; then grabbing my sweat towel and trying to swat the thing away, which is throwing off my balance, which has me stumbling...

(This GIF is my artist's rendering of the scene.)

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November 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
drtlovesbooks.bsky.social
Got some editions of THE OUTSIDERS in Chinese.

Trying to figure out why:

A) it has a motorcycle on the cover of a book that never once mentions motorcycles, and

B) why that motorcycle is from the 1980s at the earliest for a book that takes place in the 1960s.

#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
Photo of the cover of the Chinese edition of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Cover is yellow on the cop and dark blue at the bottom, suggestive of a sunset over a hill. In silhouette is a man standing by a motorcycle with a sport bike appearance.
November 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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As part of a discussion about AI in middle school, I put together this slide deck with reasons why we owe it to our students to be very critical, and links to recent supporting articles & info.

docs.google.com/presentation...

#AIIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
A slide titled: The case against AI adoption Text on the slide: The recent wide adoption of generative AI tools has happened with lots of fanfare but a curious lack of critical examination. If one looks at the facts surrounding the creation, use, and effects of generative AI, it quickly becomes clear that there are some serious considerations involved. These areas in need of more careful reflection include: Hyperlinked list of issues: Legal issues Moral issues Ethical issues Environmental issues Psychological issues Privacy & security issues Economic issues Philosophical issues Education issues Racism & bias issues Text under list: This is by no means a comprehensive list; but the extent of this list goes to show that there are considerable problems with generative AI that have not been fully or clearly addressed. Before AI is adopted into use at an educational institution, it would seem like educational malpractice to avoid reaching conclusions about where the institution stands on these issues.
October 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Bringing some more outdoors indoors with a fake ficus and a real cement pot.

Couple curb finds that cleaned up nicely, I think!

The concrete bunker that is our library space continues to grow more homey!

#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #SchoolLibrary
A fake ficus in a tall, thin blue ceramic pot.
October 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Amazon, the company that started as a book seller, shipped my book in a box that in no way made sense, and which has pre-damages the spine.

So, thanks for that, Jeff!
A hardcover book in a box at least three times wider than the book.
October 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Apparently, students love tape! 😂😂
Student feedback - almost every bullet point included the joy of using tape!
October 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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So smart - made individual lessons & created step-by-step process for resource students to follow to identify & report the repair needed, and what repair process was needed.
Short outlines of the lessons Rain creates for the job experience resource students, lessons 1-3. Short outlines of the lessons Rain creates for the job experience resource students, lessons 4 & 5.
October 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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So excited to hear @simplyrain.bsky.social at #AASL25!

Brilliant idea - book repairs as a way to grow the school library community!

#TheRealDeal #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #SchoolLibrary
Rain ready to share her AASL presentation "Broken Books Grow Community".
October 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Feelings matter!
Feelings of stakeholders affect their library interactions!
October 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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"Positivity breeds positivity!"
Positivity breeds positivity.
October 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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We need to provide students with a place where they feel they belong, are seen & are safe.
Qualities students associate with positive library engagement.
October 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Admins can make a HUGE difference in how library programs operate!

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3 categories of administrative engagement with the library - positive, neuteal, or negative.
October 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM