Paul Signorelli
@paulsignorelli.bsky.social
Writer. Trainer-facilitator. Presenter. Consultant. Advocate for libraries, a free-press, and the communities they serve. Author, Change the World Using Social Media.
Latest addition to our California Library Association Ursula Meyer Library Advocacy Training recordings: @baldgeekinmd.bsky.social on "Building Technology Into Library Advocacy": www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLcO.... More at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis.... #libraries #advocacy #technology
July 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Latest addition to our California Library Association Ursula Meyer Library Advocacy Training recordings: @baldgeekinmd.bsky.social on "Building Technology Into Library Advocacy": www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLcO.... More at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis.... #libraries #advocacy #technology
"But anger expressed and translated into action in the service of our vision and our future is a liberating and strengthening act of clarification..." ~Audre Lorde, "The Uses of Anger" #anger #advocacy #AudreLorde
July 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"But anger expressed and translated into action in the service of our vision and our future is a liberating and strengthening act of clarification..." ~Audre Lorde, "The Uses of Anger" #anger #advocacy #AudreLorde
Our latest California Library Association Ursula Meyer Library Advocacy workshop featured a dynamic, highly-interactive session about raising funds for libraries through ballot initiatives. To view the archived version (and others): www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #libraries #advocacy #fundraising
July 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Our latest California Library Association Ursula Meyer Library Advocacy workshop featured a dynamic, highly-interactive session about raising funds for libraries through ballot initiatives. To view the archived version (and others): www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #libraries #advocacy #fundraising
"Storytelling is integral to what it is to be human....there is power in stories. A strong narrative can bring people to action at your side." ~@rdlankes.bsky.social, with Jain Orr & Qianzi Cao, "Triptych: Death, AI, and Librarianship," p. 16 #libraries #community #storytelling #advocacy
July 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"Storytelling is integral to what it is to be human....there is power in stories. A strong narrative can bring people to action at your side." ~@rdlankes.bsky.social, with Jain Orr & Qianzi Cao, "Triptych: Death, AI, and Librarianship," p. 16 #libraries #community #storytelling #advocacy
Contemplating that fire hydrant while waiting for the traffic light to change. #SanFrancisco #InnerSunset
July 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Contemplating that fire hydrant while waiting for the traffic light to change. #SanFrancisco #InnerSunset
In Philadelphia for the American Library Assoc. conference? Please join Anthony Chow & me Sun., 6/29/25 at 4pm--in the Emerging Technology STEAM Lab (end of Row 800 in the exhibits hall)--for an exploration of Virtual Teamwork & Learning With Leaders through podcasting. #alaac2025 #ala2025 #ala25
June 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
In Philadelphia for the American Library Assoc. conference? Please join Anthony Chow & me Sun., 6/29/25 at 4pm--in the Emerging Technology STEAM Lab (end of Row 800 in the exhibits hall)--for an exploration of Virtual Teamwork & Learning With Leaders through podcasting. #alaac2025 #ala2025 #ala25
Can't thank @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social enough for making it possible to hear former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden talk with author Kwame Alexander at the ALA 2025 Annual Conference here in Philadelphia. #Inspirational americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc... #alaac2025 #ala2025 #ala25
June 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Can't thank @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social enough for making it possible to hear former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden talk with author Kwame Alexander at the ALA 2025 Annual Conference here in Philadelphia. #Inspirational americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc... #alaac2025 #ala2025 #ala25
At the 2025 @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference/Philadelphia? Join @baldgeekinmd.bsky.social, @rdlankes.bsky.social, and me Sat., 6/28/25, 4pm in the ET STEAM Lab (end of Row 800) for an exploration of Virtual Teamwork & Learning With Leaders through podcasting. #alaac2025 #ala2025 #ala25
June 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
At the 2025 @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference/Philadelphia? Join @baldgeekinmd.bsky.social, @rdlankes.bsky.social, and me Sat., 6/28/25, 4pm in the ET STEAM Lab (end of Row 800) for an exploration of Virtual Teamwork & Learning With Leaders through podcasting. #alaac2025 #ala2025 #ala25
June 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
That moment of awe, inspiration, and anticipation...just before arriving in Philadelphia for #alaac2025 #ala2025 #ala25
June 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
That moment of awe, inspiration, and anticipation...just before arriving in Philadelphia for #alaac2025 #ala2025 #ala25
"A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it." ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon, "The Prisoner of Heaven," p. 188 #CemetaryOfForgottenBooks #Novels #Zafon
June 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it." ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon, "The Prisoner of Heaven," p. 188 #CemetaryOfForgottenBooks #Novels #Zafon
"The number of things I'd failed to grasp back then was as limitless as the stars in the night sky. ~Ann Patchett, "Tom Lake," p. 131
June 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"The number of things I'd failed to grasp back then was as limitless as the stars in the night sky. ~Ann Patchett, "Tom Lake," p. 131
"You can't do everything, but you can do something. Make it a well-chosen something." ~Dan Heath, "Reset: How to Change What's Not Working," p. 226 #Reset #DanHeath #change #transformation #advocacy
May 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"You can't do everything, but you can do something. Make it a well-chosen something." ~Dan Heath, "Reset: How to Change What's Not Working," p. 226 #Reset #DanHeath #change #transformation #advocacy
Highly recommend Michael Lewis's fabulous "Who is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service" to anyone interested in knowing the stories of federal employees who make tremendous positive differences through their work: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788713... #government #publicservice
April 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Highly recommend Michael Lewis's fabulous "Who is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service" to anyone interested in knowing the stories of federal employees who make tremendous positive differences through their work: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788713... #government #publicservice
“To lose someone is to be exiled from the landscape of their knowledge—to be reminded of all the things you didn’t know or didn’t ask." ~Laura Marris, "The Age of Loneliness," p. 64
March 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“To lose someone is to be exiled from the landscape of their knowledge—to be reminded of all the things you didn’t know or didn’t ask." ~Laura Marris, "The Age of Loneliness," p. 64
Inspiring example of what alums/students can do together through an alumni network (The Daily Bruin Alumni Network) to support student journalism at a time when it remains an essential player in fostering civic engagement:
view.eamail4.support.ucla.edu?qs=99fa183a3... #journalism #students #alumni
view.eamail4.support.ucla.edu?qs=99fa183a3... #journalism #students #alumni
March 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Inspiring example of what alums/students can do together through an alumni network (The Daily Bruin Alumni Network) to support student journalism at a time when it remains an essential player in fostering civic engagement:
view.eamail4.support.ucla.edu?qs=99fa183a3... #journalism #students #alumni
view.eamail4.support.ucla.edu?qs=99fa183a3... #journalism #students #alumni
A second set of reflections inspired through training-teaching-learning with students and advisors at the recent Associated Collegiate Press conference in Long Beach, CA: "Exploring Roles, Responsibilities, Values, and the Impact of Our Work." buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/a...
March 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A second set of reflections inspired through training-teaching-learning with students and advisors at the recent Associated Collegiate Press conference in Long Beach, CA: "Exploring Roles, Responsibilities, Values, and the Impact of Our Work." buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/a...
“To keep our minds open when so much pushes them closed we’re...going to have to talk—really talk—with actual different people...inviting fresh insights to crack the walls of our silos and flood in.”
--Monica Guzman, "I Never Thought of It That Way," p. 50
--Monica Guzman, "I Never Thought of It That Way," p. 50
March 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“To keep our minds open when so much pushes them closed we’re...going to have to talk—really talk—with actual different people...inviting fresh insights to crack the walls of our silos and flood in.”
--Monica Guzman, "I Never Thought of It That Way," p. 50
--Monica Guzman, "I Never Thought of It That Way," p. 50
March 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Just finished updating my website to list current projects and upcoming presentations, including the three sessions I'm facilitating (one solo, two with colleagues) at the Associated Collegiate Press conference in Long Beach, CA later this week: paulsignorelli.com/current-proj...
March 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Just finished updating my website to list current projects and upcoming presentations, including the three sessions I'm facilitating (one solo, two with colleagues) at the Associated Collegiate Press conference in Long Beach, CA later this week: paulsignorelli.com/current-proj...
New set of reflections on civility--this one centered on civility, pandemics, and public health--inspired by @weparmet.bsky.social's "Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health": buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/c... @kellyhayes.bsky.social #civility #covid19
March 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
New set of reflections on civility--this one centered on civility, pandemics, and public health--inspired by @weparmet.bsky.social's "Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health": buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/c... @kellyhayes.bsky.social #civility #covid19
"The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” ~Robert Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (50th Anniversary Edition)," pp. 310-311
March 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” ~Robert Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (50th Anniversary Edition)," pp. 310-311
February 26, 2025 at 5:19 AM
A set of reflections inspired by my return to historian/author Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s "The Disuniting of America" to see what it might suggest three decades after its initial publication: buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/c... #history #conflict #collaboration #civility
February 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A set of reflections inspired by my return to historian/author Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s "The Disuniting of America" to see what it might suggest three decades after its initial publication: buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/c... #history #conflict #collaboration #civility