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@haleylyn.bsky.social
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Academic Librarian relentless in my pursuit of credible sources. Manifesting laughter, learning, and hydrated skin in 2025. Collector of enamel pens, navigating life with an invisible illness, a shellfish allergy, and a wicked sense of humor.
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CFP: The Practical Literacies Cookbook (ACRL). Seeking 500–700 word proposals on activities that extend IL into media, civic, financial, legal & professional literacies. Due Nov 14, 2025. Details: tinyurl.com/PracticalLiteraciesCookbook

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Green graphic with a checkered background. At the top, text reads: The Practical Literacies Cookbook. Edited by Haley L. Lott, published by ACRL. Below is an open book illustration next to an orange-rimmed clock. Large text: Call for Chapter Proposals. At the bottom: Proposals due November 14, 2025. Submit at: tinyurl.com/PracticalLiteraciesCookbook.
October 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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We partnered with a first-year Graphic Design class, who made food-inspired typography and then interpreted that into fresh book covers for beloved classics. Their work turned the event into a full-on art show!

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#CreativeSky #ArtSky
A display of student graphic design projects titled “FYRE MODI: Eat Your Words! Edible Typography.” Posters and book cover designs use food to create stylized letters and visuals, including designs made from pasta, chocolate, cereal, and other edible materials. A digital screen reads “Welcome to RWU’s 2025 Edible Books Festival” with a vintage-style graphic of a woman holding a cake. Below the screen is a row of printed student-designed book covers inspired by food, including Animal Farm, The Crucible, and The Silence of the Lambs.
April 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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We had so much fun—and I somehow took home:
• Critic’s Choice
• People’s Choice
• Punniest Entry
Huge thanks to everyone who participated + voted!

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#awards
Close up of the Critic’s Choice, People’s Choice, and Punniest Entry awards
April 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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The baby head + mouse were solid white chocolate. I molded them using food-safe rubber from a doll + a real mouse (the computer kind!). Fondant + edible ink for the rest.

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A close up of the white chocolate baby head
April 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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My entries:
• Ray Breadbury (Fahrenheit 451)
• Blessed Be the Fruit Pie (The Handmaid’s Tale)
• A Modest Confection (A Modest Proposal)
• This Cookie Knows Too Much (If You Give a Mouse a Cookie)

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#baking
A loaf of Dutch oven bread on a silver bakery board with a sun carved into the top and a tag explaining it was baked at 451 degrees Fahrenheit in reference to Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. A double layer yellow cake with chocolate frosting and a solid white chocolate baby head with a fondant sign that reads Eat the Babies! In red edible ink as a nod to Swift’s A Modest Proposal. A Strawberry pie topped with three fondant hats and a sign that reads Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum in red edible ink, as a nod to the Handmaid’s Tale. A tray of chocolate chip and M&M cookies on a silver bakery board with a solid white chocolate computer mouse and graham cracker covered in fondant signed scattered throughout that read: If you give a computer mouse a cookie, it’ll ask to collect your data to “improve your experience.” Then it’ll track your clicks, your habits, your location, and your late-night cravings. Soon, your cookie becomes its key to knowing everything about you. And once it knows everything, it won’t stop at just one cookie.
April 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I hosted my first Edible Books Festival today! The first year for an event is always a bit of a gamble, so I brought four entries just in case.

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#RWU #LibSky #AcademicSky #BookSky #NationalLibraryWeek #EdibleBooksFestival #RhodeIsland
Event Set up with our FYRE Methods of Design Inquiry Class. The set space with all of the entries scattered around the table.
April 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Thanks to @ezerrenner.bsky.social for the visual reminder of our work. I don’t knit, but may have to teach myself how to do something similar as a visualization of my instruction assessment to visualize student learning. #ACRL2025
April 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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It’s always a surprise when something like this is delivered to my office as a thank you for visiting a class. It’s never expected but always appreciated. Thanks, Beth!

#LibSky
A bouquet of flowers with a Thank You card displayed on a desk. A librarian with dark hair, glasses, and a lilac blazer posing with a vase of cut flowers including roses and Calla lillies.
March 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Saturday morning IRB trainings. Please send caffeine.

#LibSky #AcademicSky
Photo of a computer screen paused halfway through Participant-Centered Informed Consent Training for researchers designing human-involved studies.
March 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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It’s always a party when Swoop shows up!

Tabling for the library at today’s Life Outside the Classroom Fair at Roger’s Admitted Student Open House.

#LibSky #AcademicSky #RhodeIsland
February 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

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#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BlueSkyBooks #Library #Reading
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed For Men by Caroline Criado Perez
February 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

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#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BlueSkyBooks #Library #Reading
Ghost Girl by Torey Hayden
February 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

18/20

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BlueSkyBooks #Library #Reading
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
February 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

17/20

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BlueSkyBooks #Library #Reading
The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore.
February 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

16/20

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BlueSkyBooks #Library #Reading
How The Word is Passed by Clint Smith
February 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

15/20

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BlueSkyBooks #Library #Reading
Disability Visability edited by Alice Wong
February 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

14/20

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BlueSkyBooks #Library #Reading
Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery
February 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

13/20

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BlueSkyBooks #Library #Reading
We Carry. Their Bones by Erin Kimmerle.
February 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

12/20

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BlueSkyBooks #Library #Reading
A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs by Gulchehra Hoja.
February 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

11/20

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BlueSkyBooks #Library #Reading
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
February 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

10/20

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BlueSkyBooks #Library #Reading
Stiff by Mary Roach
February 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

9/20

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BlueSkyBooks #Library #Reading
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
February 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

8/20

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BlueSkyBooks #Library #Reading
Tree Girl by Ben Mikaelsen.
February 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

7/20

#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #BlueSkyBooks #Library #Reading
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
January 31, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Finding pockets of joy help me get through the daily news spiral.

Today, I’m making happy little bookmarks for our Mystery Date with a Book display. The bright colors made me smile.

#libraries
Picture of bookmarks with Valentine’s Day patterns.
January 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM