Good morning #ALAAC25! Let's make it a great day for hotel service workers here in Philadelphia! Remember to leave a daily in-room gratuity.

#5ADayHotelStay

@djmontgomery.bsky.social thank you for saying yes to ALA!!! library folks, this is such good news for us i can't even stand it. 🎉 🥰 #ALAAC25

@tyleraking.com The Mutual Aid L.A. team's resource list is up. Please boost, it's the best one I've seen: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

We took the guesswork out of how to find a wide range of Black children's literature creatives and their work through our 28 Days Later initiative. An annual campaign that pays homage to #Blackkidlit vanguards and those under the radar. One stop, all the books. thebrownbookshelf.com/28-days-later/

Library People: The 2025 ALA/ALSC Ballot is now public. A huge thank you to the fabulous division members who are standing for election & a shout-out to the ALSC Nominating Committee for all of the work it took to put this slate together. 🌟💚 Please remember to vote starting March 10!

i work w/readers at the younger end of the 8-12 range and here's what i see: #1. kids just getting out of beginning chapters/series want SHORTER MG books #2. comics & graphic novels are the default reading choice #3. they need a hook EARLY or they are not going to commit

We volunteer our time to research how state laws have impacted educational opportunities for our children. That research requires public records, and public records require money.

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They want to say shit that upsets you and then watch you get upset. Starve them of that shit. Block them all. There's nothing constructive about the conflict fetish that drove the algorithm in the bad place. Arguing online only hardens most people's positions anyway. We don't have to live that way.

It’s apparently been 6 years ago today since my article Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves was published in @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social! It’s worth a read for everyone working in institutions that are "considered inherently good... and therefore beyond critique."

library & kids' book people! ALSC notables discussions are happening this week online & they are one of the only youth media evaluation committee deliberations for which anyone can be a fly on the wall. hope to see some of you there: www.ala.org/alsc/awardsg...

Now more than ever, we need academic and small trade presses, just as we need local media. Desperately.

finally deactivated my other account. cheers to a new era!