Lucy Podmore
@lupodmore.bsky.social
TX HS Librarian; 2024 LJ Mover&Shaker; 2024 ALA Jaffarian Award, 2024 TLA TallTexans Jack Strawn Award; Big on Intellectual Freedom ❤️📚
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Our next #LBYRExtraCredit live event is coming up next week on July 29! Register using the link below for a conversation between educator @lupodmore.bsky.social and YA historical fiction authors Veronica Chambers, @lm-elliott.bsky.social, and Nora Neus.
REGISTER: www.crowdcast.io/c/historical...
REGISTER: www.crowdcast.io/c/historical...
July 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Our next #LBYRExtraCredit live event is coming up next week on July 29! Register using the link below for a conversation between educator @lupodmore.bsky.social and YA historical fiction authors Veronica Chambers, @lm-elliott.bsky.social, and Nora Neus.
REGISTER: www.crowdcast.io/c/historical...
REGISTER: www.crowdcast.io/c/historical...
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Get ready for our next #LBYRExtraCredit live event on July 29 at 2 PM ET! Join Veronica Chambers, @lm-elliott.bsky.social, Nora Neus, and librarian @lupodmore.bsky.social for a fascinating conversation on young women in YA historical fiction. Registration here: www.crowdcast.io/c/historical...
July 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Get ready for our next #LBYRExtraCredit live event on July 29 at 2 PM ET! Join Veronica Chambers, @lm-elliott.bsky.social, Nora Neus, and librarian @lupodmore.bsky.social for a fascinating conversation on young women in YA historical fiction. Registration here: www.crowdcast.io/c/historical...
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So good! Freedom Walk. Saving best for last at #ALAAC25. Couldn’t get feedback from to work, but this was great, @lupodmore.bsky.social! #TLsky bit.ly/Freedom_Walk
June 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
So good! Freedom Walk. Saving best for last at #ALAAC25. Couldn’t get feedback from to work, but this was great, @lupodmore.bsky.social! #TLsky bit.ly/Freedom_Walk
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Be sure to read her KQ Blog: knowledgequest.aasl.org/engaging-vot...
And ALA link: www.ala.org/advocacy/rea...
And ALA link: www.ala.org/advocacy/rea...
So good! Freedom Walk. Saving best for last at #ALAAC25. Couldn’t get feedback from to work, but this was great, @lupodmore.bsky.social! #TLsky bit.ly/Freedom_Walk
June 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Be sure to read her KQ Blog: knowledgequest.aasl.org/engaging-vot...
And ALA link: www.ala.org/advocacy/rea...
And ALA link: www.ala.org/advocacy/rea...
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I am so very proud of my friend, Lucy!
“They were asking a lot of questions. I thought, Holy smokes, they’re interested in this.”
Discover how school librarian Lucy Podmore's award-winning interactive Freedom Walk sparked students' curiosity about the 1st Amendment and the freedom to read.
ilovelibraries.org/article/free...
Discover how school librarian Lucy Podmore's award-winning interactive Freedom Walk sparked students' curiosity about the 1st Amendment and the freedom to read.
ilovelibraries.org/article/free...
February 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I am so very proud of my friend, Lucy!
Thankful for this opportunity to share our program. Looking forward to presenting @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference. #skybrarian #tlsky
“They were asking a lot of questions. I thought, Holy smokes, they’re interested in this.”
Discover how school librarian Lucy Podmore's award-winning interactive Freedom Walk sparked students' curiosity about the 1st Amendment and the freedom to read.
ilovelibraries.org/article/free...
Discover how school librarian Lucy Podmore's award-winning interactive Freedom Walk sparked students' curiosity about the 1st Amendment and the freedom to read.
ilovelibraries.org/article/free...
February 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Thankful for this opportunity to share our program. Looking forward to presenting @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference. #skybrarian #tlsky
In addition to providing access to books, how else did your library serve you recently? Have you shared that experience with the librarian or your friends? Libraries need all advocates to be vocal about how they have served their communities. #libraries #schoollibraries #tlsky
January 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
In addition to providing access to books, how else did your library serve you recently? Have you shared that experience with the librarian or your friends? Libraries need all advocates to be vocal about how they have served their communities. #libraries #schoollibraries #tlsky
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56 small tasks to be proactive against book censorship in 2025. Choose one per week to help ensure that public goods like schools & libraries remain viable democratic institutions & to protect our most vulnerable populations.
Book censorship is about more than books.
bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Book censorship is about more than books.
bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
56 Small Tasks to Be Proactive Against Book Censorship in 2025 and Beyond: Book Censorship News, January 3, 2025
Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.
bookriot.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
56 small tasks to be proactive against book censorship in 2025. Choose one per week to help ensure that public goods like schools & libraries remain viable democratic institutions & to protect our most vulnerable populations.
Book censorship is about more than books.
bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Book censorship is about more than books.
bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
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On the eve of Thanksgiving, we want to express our gratitude to all of our #FReadom Fighter followers who are actively supporting book access & intellectual freedom for all readers everywhere!
November 27, 2024 at 1:26 PM
On the eve of Thanksgiving, we want to express our gratitude to all of our #FReadom Fighter followers who are actively supporting book access & intellectual freedom for all readers everywhere!
So happy to see some of my favorite journalists on here. I’ve missed you!! @tomorsborn.bsky.social @caryclack.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 9:38 PM
So happy to see some of my favorite journalists on here. I’ve missed you!! @tomorsborn.bsky.social @caryclack.bsky.social
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Thankful for the lessons learned, lives discovered, and places traveled courtesy of my top 10 books of 2023!
December 31, 2023 at 4:40 PM
Thankful for the lessons learned, lives discovered, and places traveled courtesy of my top 10 books of 2023!
Nice to see my friends from other spaces on here. Like starting a new school and searching for familiar faces in the crowd😉
December 31, 2023 at 4:02 PM
Nice to see my friends from other spaces on here. Like starting a new school and searching for familiar faces in the crowd😉
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Judge dumps ‘wildly overbroad’ Iowa LGBTQ book ban: “The court has been unable to locate a single case upholding the constitutionality of a school library restriction even remotely similar.” — U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher
www.courthousenews.com/judge-dumps-...
www.courthousenews.com/judge-dumps-...
Judge dumps ‘wildly overbroad’ Iowa LGBTQ book ban
A federal judge determined a law banning hundreds of books, from
www.courthousenews.com
December 30, 2023 at 10:10 PM
Judge dumps ‘wildly overbroad’ Iowa LGBTQ book ban: “The court has been unable to locate a single case upholding the constitutionality of a school library restriction even remotely similar.” — U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher
www.courthousenews.com/judge-dumps-...
www.courthousenews.com/judge-dumps-...
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We are SO proud of
the student group, Students Engaged in Advancing Texas aka SEAT in Katy, TX for their work fighting censorship | Learn more about them via Salon
www.salon.com/2023/12/30/2...
the student group, Students Engaged in Advancing Texas aka SEAT in Katy, TX for their work fighting censorship | Learn more about them via Salon
www.salon.com/2023/12/30/2...
2023 was the year the students fought back
In one Texas town, students fought back with banned-book clubs, pride events and political activism
www.salon.com
December 30, 2023 at 10:15 PM
We are SO proud of
the student group, Students Engaged in Advancing Texas aka SEAT in Katy, TX for their work fighting censorship | Learn more about them via Salon
www.salon.com/2023/12/30/2...
the student group, Students Engaged in Advancing Texas aka SEAT in Katy, TX for their work fighting censorship | Learn more about them via Salon
www.salon.com/2023/12/30/2...
Took a nice long break from social media the past few weeks. Looking forward to finding that light of inspiration again. ⭐️❤️ #schoollibrary #schoollibrarian #highschoollibrarian
December 30, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Took a nice long break from social media the past few weeks. Looking forward to finding that light of inspiration again. ⭐️❤️ #schoollibrary #schoollibrarian #highschoollibrarian