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Ayana
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Librarian working as a Library Assistant. Here for #SkyBrarians, #LibrarySky, and #BookSky. One cannot survive on books alone. One also needs cats. @ayanalibrarian on the bad site.
An abstract sculpture of a cherry tree in Sacramento, CA. Playfully pink colored glass orbs blossom beneath a clear blue sky.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright #Photography
November 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Library of Things: Check out useful household items like mini golf sets, wood chippers, sewing machines, and *radon detectors* for free with your library card! #morethanbooks
Libraries have the coolest stuff I just got a radon detector!
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Imagine coming off an incredible Election Day mandate from coast to coast and going 'you know what voters want? to be completely sold out by a bunch of craven cowards too pathetic to hold the line against a bunch of fucking weirdos'
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I'm surprised we #SkyBrarians aren't talking about the Obama Presidential Library. I just saw a picture, & the architecture immediately brought to mind Fobazi Ettarh's article www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio.... I see a grandiose & silent space.

www.obama.org/presidential...
About the Obama Presidential Center
The Obama Presidential Center represents a historic opportunity to build a world-class museum and public gathering space that celebrates our nation’s first African American President and First Lady on...
www.obama.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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JUST IN: California voters have approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats, marking the party's biggest victory to date in a national battle over redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms.
California voters OK new congressional lines, boosting Democrats ahead of midterms
California voters have approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats, marking the party's biggest victory to date in a national battle over redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Don't boo, vote.
October 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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btw did you know you can subscribe to PBS for only like $5/mo or a $60 one-time for a year donation, and get access to their Passport streaming service? They mail you a little live programming guide and everything, too. The 40-something seasons of NOVA alone are worth it.
Donate to your local PBS/NPR stations. It's up to us now.
July 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Someone at Ex Libris has a quirky sense of humor, and I'm here for it 😆

"I have yet to meet a history that cannot be illuminated by the right charts and the flicker of analytical light. — Virginia Woolf, 1934 / Your Analytics report is attached."
May 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I can't believe I had to earn a Master's degree and have 3+ years experience to be an entry-level librarian with near zero responsibility and *these* people are in the federal government.
May 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Many data sets held by NOAA are being "retired" in may, including datasets relevant to ocean sciences and climate. If you have need for these data, or are an archivist, it would be good to download this now. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Notice of Changes
Notices of changes are formal public announcements of planned services changes to applications and other products.
www.nesdis.noaa.gov
April 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
See also "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone" by Sarah Jaffe
"By promoting passion-seeking as the most morally valuable way to make career decisions... academic institutions and the instructors and advisors therein simply perpetuate the socioeconomic inequalities that students entered college with."

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open.substack.com/pub/annehele...
The Trouble with Passion
Erin A. Cech on "choicewashing," the passionate applicant, and radically reconsidering career advice
open.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Wildfires in Los Angeles have destroyed over 40,000 acres, displacing families & devastating Altadena. Local fundraising efforts include Walk Good LA’s Black Displaced Families GoFundMe Directory & Ashley Taylor’s Amazon Wish List. Every contribution helps:
thewakeful.substack.com/p/naziyah-ha...
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January 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM