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William H
@lankylibrarian.bsky.social
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Early years and elementary teacher librarian in 🇨🇳 because reading is what?! Fundamental! 🌈📚 (he/him/his)
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Our shipment was delayed, so @bshum79.bsky.social’s “Mooncakes Mean Family” didn’t make it time for Mid-Autumn Festival, but his “We Are Lion Dancers” made it for New Year! A kid already tried to steal it off my desk before I cataloged it 🤣 it’s going to be popular! #BookSky #LibrarySky #TLsky
The front cover of the book We Are Lion Dancers. The cover had two children holding up the lion dancing costume for lunar new year.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Our nonfiction reorganization project is complete! We ditched the baskets and did a HEAVY weed. Now each shelf is spine out but only about a single topic. We had to change lots of call numbers to move books to the right shelf, but kids are already finding more books!
Library shelving units against the wall. Each shelf has one sign with a Dewey number and topic and picture on the left-hand side. The books are spine out. Each shelf also has a front facing book on display. Library shelving units against the wall. Each shelf has one sign with a Dewey number and topic and picture on the left-hand side. The books are spine out. Each shelf also has a front facing book on display.
October 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Starting fall break with Bury Your Gays by @chucktingle.bsky.social. Only reading this in the daylight hours because I don’t normally do horror 😂 #BookSky
Me holding the book Bury Your Gays. The title is big neon purple, orange and pink letters with an LA landscape of palm trees inside of the letters
September 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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We started moving the nonfiction books today! I love shelves that aren’t totally full 😍 Once all books are moved, we’ll do another weed for books that haven’t circed in 6 years. Then I’ll go through each shelf and start the Franken-Dewey so it’s one topic on each shelf #TLsky #EduSky #LibrarySky
Three library shelving units. Each shelf has a sign with a Dewey number, a topic, and a picture to represent the topic. Only 2 of the 9 shelves are more than 50% full
September 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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How will we live without this book about American football from 1992? 😂🤣 #EduSky #TLsky #LibrarySky
I’m holding an extremely old elementary nonfiction book about football
September 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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I think my “What would HUNTR/X read?” book display is going to be popular. This was after my first class visit 😂😂 Thanks KPop Demon Hunters 💛
A table with six empty book display stands. On the end of the table is a poster with a picture of the band HUNTR/X with the caption “What would HUNTR/X read?”
September 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Nonfiction Reorganization: Part 2 Electric Boogaloo has begun! #TLSky #EduSky #Library Here are the before shots:
A corner in a library that has three shelves. Some books are spine out on the shelves. Some books are in baskets based on topics. The baskets have signs with the topic and a picture. A wall in a library that has three shelves. Some books are spine out on the shelves. Some books are in baskets based on topics. The baskets have signs with the topic and a picture. There are baskets of books on top of the shelves.
September 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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This what would Labubu read display is so popular, I have to refill it after every class. I’m being forced to booktalk Dahl because so many other books have flown off the table 😂 Thanks to the TheBookWrangler for the idea! #EduSky #TLsky #BookSky #LibrarySky
A table with a sign that says “What would Labubu read?” The table has empty book stands with one Roals Dahl book left. There are images from Kasing Lung’s “The Monsters Trilogy” behind the table
September 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Introducing classes to our new graphic novel collection and teaching kids how to read the panels sequentially! #EduSky #Library #LibrarySky
I am standing in front of a group of kindergarteners holding a graphic novel. I am sitting on a carpet with students. We have graphic novels open and are pointing at the panels to read next.
August 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Bringing my fav books for the first week of school to the staff meeting, so teachers can check them out right here! #BackToSchool #EduSky #LibrarySky
Stack of picture books sitting on edge of table. The book on top is “Your Name is a Song” by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow. The front cover has a mother and daughter standing in the street singing with their arms up in the air.
August 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Reading “Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson” by @tourmaliiine.bsky.social. It’s such a beautiful biography. I’m leaving it around the house so my nieces will ask me who she is [evil librarian laugh]
Me holding the book Marsha. The front cover has a portrait of Marsha P. Johnson wearing her flower crown and smiling and looking directly at the reader. There are flowers in the background of the cover.
July 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Saw @noethematt.bsky.social reading this on here and immediately knew that @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social’s “The AI Con” was my next beach read
In the foreground is a book with a solid white cover and the title “The AI Com: How to fight big tech’s hype and create the future we want.” The title is the only thing on the cover in big bold sans serif font. In the background is the waves crashing on a beach
July 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Could not put this down. I’ve been waiting on a hold for @williecarver.bsky.social’s Gay Poems for Red States from my library for a while. Got tired of waiting, so I bought it yesterday! Who thought a Jerry Springer story would make me cry???
Front cover of the book, Gay Poems for Red States, in the foreground with grass in the background. The cover of the book has a silhouette of a boy. The boy’s head is a starry night and the boy’s chest is a trailer with trees in the background.
June 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Loving Little District Books. Too many great choices but not nearly enough suitcase space 😭 #BookSky
Inside of a bookstore. There is a white wall length book case with front facing books and Pride flag bunting
June 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Had to pay 11 euro to see the Austrian National Library. They really should have paid me to come in and weed. All these books and not a single copy of InvestiGATORS 🙄 #BookSky #LibrarySky
A baroque library. It’s filled with ostentatious statues, columns, and murals on the ceilings. Gold adornments and real old books. Bookcases of aforementioned old books. They are very tall. Marble statue in foreground
June 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Working on our world languages section! Changed the signs to get rid of flags because, ya know, colonialism. Weeded languages not represented in our community any more. Got Korean parents with older kids to donate picture books because Korean is our third largest language group! #TLsky #Library
White bookshelf holding baskets filled with picture books. Each basket has a sign on it with a different language on it. There are Japanese, Korean, and Spanish signs.
May 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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We are genrefying our Mandarin collection! This will make it much more browsable, and it should (🤞🏼) mean this section gets a lot more check outs. Mandarin is a home language for many of our students, so it’s exciting to be able to recognize and affirm that on our shelves! #TLsky #EduSky
Three brown bookshelves holding baskets filled with picture books. Most of the baskets have an index card label on the front. Some of the labels say home, seasons, living things, and pets
April 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Spring break book haul. I have missed shopping at Asia Books.
Stack of books on a patio table in front of a pool with the Gulf of Thailand in the background. The books are: Dancer from the Dance, Fake Dates and Mooncakes, Bored Gay Werewolf, Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, and Somewhere Beyond the Sea.
April 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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We are officially switching to Oliver tomorrow! We did double check outs for the last week to get us through the data migration this week when we can’t circulate in either LMS. We’ll be giving kids their pre-checked out stack of books this week. Hopefully see you never, Follett! 🤣😂🤓 #TLsky #EduSky
Stacks of picture books under a reading loft. Each stack is made of a bundles of picture books tied together with string or ribbon.
March 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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This is my fav bulletin board ever! Each student got a sentence starter for their hypothesis. They wrote/drew their prediction. Each class is a different color. We use it find similar hypotheses, and we use the progress pics to discuss if our hypothesis is being supported or rejected. #TLsky #EduSky
A bulletin board with a poster in the middle that says “kindergarten hypotheses.” There are many smaller pieces of paper that are different colors (pink green, red, orange and purple). Above the bulletin board are two sets of pictures. The first set of pictures says, “box of science number one.” It has four progress pictures of a pea plant growing inside of a box. The second set of pictures says, “box of science number two.” It also has four progress pictures of a pea plant growing inside of a box.
February 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Our light maze experiment with pea plants is up and running! I got a lot of hypotheses from kindergarten with illustrations of dead pea plants 😂 #TLsky #EduSky
An open cardboard box sitting vertically. There is a hole in the top left of the box. There is a pea plant sprout about 8 cm tall in a white cup inside the box on the left. There is a piece of cardboard taped inside of the box blocking the plants growth. The extra piece of cardboard has a hole in the right side cut into it. The pea plant is just starting to lean to the right toward the hole in the cardboard.
February 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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These pea seeds have some sprouting to do this weekend. We need them for a kindergarten experiment next week. We planted them on Tuesday and I have been checking them hourly since 🤣 #TLsky #EduSky
Seven white cups filled with soil. No plants are visible YET. The seven cups are inside of a green basket beside a window.
February 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Another win from reclassifying the collection to Metis: now that the wordless books are all together, they are very popular! These baskets are constantly empty. #TLSky #EduSky
Two wicker baskets sitting on a white bookshelf. They both have signs on the front that say “Wordless.” The basket on the left is empty. The basket on the right has one pink book in it titled “Flora and the Flamingo.”
December 2, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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Just another normal day at work. #TLsky #EduSky
This is a photograph of me, a tall man with brown hair, wearing a super hero costume. I’m wearing a yellow headband with a red S on the front of it. I have on a red cape. I am wearing a costume onesie that is meant to look like Superman (blue body suit with red underwear on the outside and red boots). On my chest, there is a big yellow badge that says Super Reading in bold red letters. I am standing in an empty elementary school hallway holding some papers in my left hand and a basket of papers in my right hand. I’m standing sideways to the camera looking back at the camera with my knees bent like I’m about to run with a skeptical look on my face.
November 27, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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Reading Maybe Something Beautiful and showing the kids murals around Shanghai today. A grade one kid asked me what the citation was. I explained it was to give credit to the person who took the photographs. Never too early for MLA9 🤣 #TLsky #EduSky
Title slide of a slide deck. The title is Murals in Shanghai, in both Mandarin and English. Underneath the title is an MLA citation for an article written by Yang Jian. Underneath of the screen, there are baskets of picture books on shelves.
November 27, 2024 at 3:02 AM