Lindsey Keown ✨
@mskeown-reads.bsky.social
📖 Middle School Librarian
👩🏻🎓 M.Ed. Reading Instruction
✍️ Literacy Specialist
🐶🐱 Dog & Cat Mom
🧶🌱🥾 among other things
👩🏻🎓 M.Ed. Reading Instruction
✍️ Literacy Specialist
🐶🐱 Dog & Cat Mom
🧶🌱🥾 among other things
👇 Oh, look— here I am! 📚 Love our staff book club & honored to get the opportunity to share about it with @slj.com
Faculty Book Clubs, Staff Reading Initiatives Improve School Reading Culture
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www.slj.com/story/Facult...
Faculty Book Clubs, Staff Initiatives Improve School Reading Culture
Librarians facilitate reading among their peers to get staff and students excited about books.
www.slj.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
👇 Oh, look— here I am! 📚 Love our staff book club & honored to get the opportunity to share about it with @slj.com
Reposted by Lindsey Keown ✨
Vote for me and @mskeown-reads.bsky.social for the Page Turners READiculously Lit Contest by liking our entry reels on INSTAGRAM www.instagram.com/reel/DMdebo7...
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July 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Vote for me and @mskeown-reads.bsky.social for the Page Turners READiculously Lit Contest by liking our entry reels on INSTAGRAM www.instagram.com/reel/DMdebo7...
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Don’t miss this important conversation with #itstimeforyoungteenlit founding #librarians of @youngteenlit.bsky.social #youngteenlit
July 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Don’t miss this important conversation with #itstimeforyoungteenlit founding #librarians of @youngteenlit.bsky.social #youngteenlit
I’m in the running for the chance to interview @jasonreynolds83.bsky.social at the next Page Turners conference & I need your help (those of you w an IG). Go give this reel a 🩷 & share w your followers to do the same! Likes = votes & your vote matters! #TLSky www.instagram.com/reel/DMaoFpt...
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July 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I’m in the running for the chance to interview @jasonreynolds83.bsky.social at the next Page Turners conference & I need your help (those of you w an IG). Go give this reel a 🩷 & share w your followers to do the same! Likes = votes & your vote matters! #TLSky www.instagram.com/reel/DMaoFpt...
Reposted by Lindsey Keown ✨
I have re-started blogging for Knowledge Quest - first topic; weeding. Please leave a comment or question, & let me know if you have ideas for future topics :)
@aaslala.bsky.social #TLSkyChat knowledgequest.aasl.org/weeding-the-...
@aaslala.bsky.social #TLSkyChat knowledgequest.aasl.org/weeding-the-...
Weeding: The Great Library Divide: Embracing Collection Maintenance with Enthusiasm | AASL Knowledge Quest
knowledgequest.aasl.org
July 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I have re-started blogging for Knowledge Quest - first topic; weeding. Please leave a comment or question, & let me know if you have ideas for future topics :)
@aaslala.bsky.social #TLSkyChat knowledgequest.aasl.org/weeding-the-...
@aaslala.bsky.social #TLSkyChat knowledgequest.aasl.org/weeding-the-...
📖 “‘That’s just what translation is, I think. That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.’” (Babel, R.F. Kuang) 😮💨😮💨 #BookSky #ReaderSky
July 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
📖 “‘That’s just what translation is, I think. That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.’” (Babel, R.F. Kuang) 😮💨😮💨 #BookSky #ReaderSky
Reposted by Lindsey Keown ✨
Stop the Department of Education from withholding $6.8 billion in education funding.
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Exercise the Power of the Purse | NEA
Stop the Department of Education from withholding $6.8 billion in education funding.
www.nea.org
July 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Stop the Department of Education from withholding $6.8 billion in education funding.
www.nea.org/advocating-f...
www.nea.org/advocating-f...
Reposted by Lindsey Keown ✨
It's the spotlight on graphic novels month over at @ala-booklist.bsky.social, and @smwordsmith.bsky.social and I have TWO booklists for you, rounding up the best in manga over the last year! Please check out our work.
July 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It's the spotlight on graphic novels month over at @ala-booklist.bsky.social, and @smwordsmith.bsky.social and I have TWO booklists for you, rounding up the best in manga over the last year! Please check out our work.
BIG DAY TODAY 🎉🎉 Technically earned this badge before May was over (brag much?), BUT today I finished every possible badge in the @focolibrary.bsky.social adult #SummerReading challenge, including the July-only activity badge 🤓, & am feeling very satisfied w my public-library-loving self 🥰 💅📚
July 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
BIG DAY TODAY 🎉🎉 Technically earned this badge before May was over (brag much?), BUT today I finished every possible badge in the @focolibrary.bsky.social adult #SummerReading challenge, including the July-only activity badge 🤓, & am feeling very satisfied w my public-library-loving self 🥰 💅📚
I do so much *breathing* in the summer—and that’s it, isn’t it? That’s what I’m missing the rest of the year, I think? Just having the time to notice where you are when you’re there, & to feel gratitude for your breath, your body, and the simple beauty that this world has tucked away within it. 🌅 🌲
July 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I do so much *breathing* in the summer—and that’s it, isn’t it? That’s what I’m missing the rest of the year, I think? Just having the time to notice where you are when you’re there, & to feel gratitude for your breath, your body, and the simple beauty that this world has tucked away within it. 🌅 🌲
Love this read & its message. Wholeheartedly agree w the mutualistic relationship between reading/librarianship & music/music programs. 📚🎵
#TLSky, any of you have ideas or examples of collabs you’ve done with chorus, orchestra, or band classes? Would love to hear them! #TLSkyChat #SchoolLibrarian
#TLSky, any of you have ideas or examples of collabs you’ve done with chorus, orchestra, or band classes? Would love to hear them! #TLSkyChat #SchoolLibrarian
When we ban books or defund music programs, we don't just silence stories; we sever lifelines. We remove safe, creative pathways for young people to explore emotion, identity, and connection. (TLT)
When Books Sing: Why Music in Literature Matters, a guest post by Rayne Lacko
When we ban books or defund music programs, we don't just silence stories; we sever lifelines. We remove safe, creative pathways for young people to explore emotion, identity, and connection.
teenlibrariantoolbox.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Love this read & its message. Wholeheartedly agree w the mutualistic relationship between reading/librarianship & music/music programs. 📚🎵
#TLSky, any of you have ideas or examples of collabs you’ve done with chorus, orchestra, or band classes? Would love to hear them! #TLSkyChat #SchoolLibrarian
#TLSky, any of you have ideas or examples of collabs you’ve done with chorus, orchestra, or band classes? Would love to hear them! #TLSkyChat #SchoolLibrarian
Reposted by Lindsey Keown ✨
Funding has always been an issue for school libraries - with uncertainty around fed/state budgets, grants from other sources will be vital. Here are six grants that could help toward collection development, programming, disaster recovery, and more.
6 Grant Opportunities for School Libraries
This funding can help with everything from collection development and programming to disaster recovery and more.
www.slj.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Funding has always been an issue for school libraries - with uncertainty around fed/state budgets, grants from other sources will be vital. Here are six grants that could help toward collection development, programming, disaster recovery, and more.
Reposted by Lindsey Keown ✨
Friends, add your ideas to our Passive Programming Playbook! 🥳
We shared it today in our July @follettcontent.bsky.social webinar. There are several ideas to get us started.
Let's fill this @padlet with ideas & resources for the new year. ❤️
buff.ly/4MEsy77
#TlSky #EduSky #tlchat #futurereadylibs
We shared it today in our July @follettcontent.bsky.social webinar. There are several ideas to get us started.
Let's fill this @padlet with ideas & resources for the new year. ❤️
buff.ly/4MEsy77
#TlSky #EduSky #tlchat #futurereadylibs
July 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Friends, add your ideas to our Passive Programming Playbook! 🥳
We shared it today in our July @follettcontent.bsky.social webinar. There are several ideas to get us started.
Let's fill this @padlet with ideas & resources for the new year. ❤️
buff.ly/4MEsy77
#TlSky #EduSky #tlchat #futurereadylibs
We shared it today in our July @follettcontent.bsky.social webinar. There are several ideas to get us started.
Let's fill this @padlet with ideas & resources for the new year. ❤️
buff.ly/4MEsy77
#TlSky #EduSky #tlchat #futurereadylibs
🔑 takeaways from ch 1 of Developing Digital Detectives. 💙ing the balance of background info (like how marketing strategy transfers to journalism & the breakdown of the wall between newsrooms & advertising w/I journalism spheres) w/ practical application (actual resources!) of stepped lessons #TLSky
July 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🔑 takeaways from ch 1 of Developing Digital Detectives. 💙ing the balance of background info (like how marketing strategy transfers to journalism & the breakdown of the wall between newsrooms & advertising w/I journalism spheres) w/ practical application (actual resources!) of stepped lessons #TLSky
Reposted by Lindsey Keown ✨
Book burnout is not unfamiliar to most of us working to match people up with their perfect read–there is a constant stream of new releases that all sound great and backlist books that have been on that TBR list for years and backlist books you’ve just found out about.
Read Rec Rachel: Books to Rec and Read for Recc-ers and Readers Dealing with Burnout
It’s May! Summer Reading is almost upon us, the birds are chirping (probably), and some of our brains need some shuteye. I wasn’t sure who that last one could possibly be referring to other than the f...
teenlibrariantoolbox.com
July 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Book burnout is not unfamiliar to most of us working to match people up with their perfect read–there is a constant stream of new releases that all sound great and backlist books that have been on that TBR list for years and backlist books you’ve just found out about.
Diving in to the book study course created by @techielibgrl.com for @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social & Darren Huggins’ book, Developing Digital Detectives, & am already feeling amped up following the introduction #TLSky 💡⚡️ Things that resonate from the intro so far ⬇️
July 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Diving in to the book study course created by @techielibgrl.com for @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social & Darren Huggins’ book, Developing Digital Detectives, & am already feeling amped up following the introduction #TLSky 💡⚡️ Things that resonate from the intro so far ⬇️
Reposted by Lindsey Keown ✨
"We urge lawmakers to drop the private school voucher program from the spending bill and keep it out of the final budget package...it will set us on a dangerous course back toward a pre-civil rights era reality, defined by deliberate racial segregation and extreme disparities in school funding..."
Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Will Devastate Public Schools
The budget package currently includes a private school voucher program funded through tax breaks.
time.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
"We urge lawmakers to drop the private school voucher program from the spending bill and keep it out of the final budget package...it will set us on a dangerous course back toward a pre-civil rights era reality, defined by deliberate racial segregation and extreme disparities in school funding..."
My reading life this summer has been a balanced mix of personal preference, book club picks, & #HelenRuffin #ReadingBowl titles, most of which have pleasantly surprised me with their complexity. 💕 Thankful for another (almost) full month of #SummerReading ahead. #BookSky #ReaderSky #TLSky
July 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My reading life this summer has been a balanced mix of personal preference, book club picks, & #HelenRuffin #ReadingBowl titles, most of which have pleasantly surprised me with their complexity. 💕 Thankful for another (almost) full month of #SummerReading ahead. #BookSky #ReaderSky #TLSky
Reposted by Lindsey Keown ✨
Wondering about how to get involved in #comicslibrarianship? Check out #libcomix resources on
www.ala.org/gncrt
www.ala.org/gncrt
June 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Wondering about how to get involved in #comicslibrarianship? Check out #libcomix resources on
www.ala.org/gncrt
www.ala.org/gncrt
Wherever she leads, I’ll go.✨ Morning rituals are cleansing, & I hate that my favorite one— walks in public parks w my dog, June— goes away each year when school starts. I suppose it does make me that much more appreciative of the time we have w this routine; it’s “not nothing,” as Josey would say.
June 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Wherever she leads, I’ll go.✨ Morning rituals are cleansing, & I hate that my favorite one— walks in public parks w my dog, June— goes away each year when school starts. I suppose it does make me that much more appreciative of the time we have w this routine; it’s “not nothing,” as Josey would say.
Reposted by Lindsey Keown ✨
Sotomayor writing what all educators are thinking:
“Given the great
diversity of religious beliefs in this country, countless interactions that occur every day in public schools might expose
children to messages that conflict with a parent’s religious beliefs”
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
“Given the great
diversity of religious beliefs in this country, countless interactions that occur every day in public schools might expose
children to messages that conflict with a parent’s religious beliefs”
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
June 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Sotomayor writing what all educators are thinking:
“Given the great
diversity of religious beliefs in this country, countless interactions that occur every day in public schools might expose
children to messages that conflict with a parent’s religious beliefs”
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
“Given the great
diversity of religious beliefs in this country, countless interactions that occur every day in public schools might expose
children to messages that conflict with a parent’s religious beliefs”
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Reposted by Lindsey Keown ✨
Reposted by Lindsey Keown ✨
Registration for @slj.com Summit is OPEN!!! I won’t be able to attend this year but tune in-last year’s Summit was great and you can’t beat a conference for #schoollibrarians #tlsky #tlskychat
www.eventbrite.com/e/slj-summit... SLJ Summit 2025 Tickets, Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM | Eventbrite
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SLJ Summit 2025
The Summit will assemble school library leaders and community stakeholders to consider the challenges facing libraries today.
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June 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Registration for @slj.com Summit is OPEN!!! I won’t be able to attend this year but tune in-last year’s Summit was great and you can’t beat a conference for #schoollibrarians #tlsky #tlskychat
www.eventbrite.com/e/slj-summit... SLJ Summit 2025 Tickets, Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM | Eventbrite
www.eventbrite.com/e/slj-summit... SLJ Summit 2025 Tickets, Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM | Eventbrite
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“When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think…you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.”
~Joy Harjo
~Joy Harjo
June 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think…you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.”
~Joy Harjo
~Joy Harjo
Reposted by Lindsey Keown ✨
While the comics industry continues to expand, training for library staff charged with filling shelves or creating programs around these titles has not. Join Booklist 7/23 for its first virtual workshop introducing library workers to the world of comics! Registration is FREE: bit.ly/44ct1P3
June 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
While the comics industry continues to expand, training for library staff charged with filling shelves or creating programs around these titles has not. Join Booklist 7/23 for its first virtual workshop introducing library workers to the world of comics! Registration is FREE: bit.ly/44ct1P3