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dshensleyedu.bsky.social
Human. Learner. Librarian. He/him
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A massive thank you to @katchowrites.bsky.social for an incredible school visit yesterday! An amazing author, presenter, and person. Fellow librarians, you’ve GOT to get her in for a visit if you can. Could not recommend any higher.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

No one is USING AI. They are TRAINING AI. No LLM is ready to be fully deployed. It's all early beta testing they are trying to convince you is actually a product. It is nowhere near its target goals for its intended uses. People aren't paying to use it; they're subsidizing its training. It's a scam.

submitted 29 days ago • 36 comments

I used the Library of Congress Citizen DJ to make this beat and a recent graduate wrote a library rap. Check it out here! on.soundcloud.com/WmCC2m7y3gBg...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Hey fellow #librarians! I’ve received grants for well over $3 million over the past ten years, and just received $375,000 more. As you line up your yearly conferences, I would love to come talk about grant writing and community-engaged learning in libraries!

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Longtime side quest achieved: I’m now a certified notary public. Here to assist if you need something notarized or would like for me to officiate your wedding with the power vested in me by the State of Tennessee.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social A local high school that was destroyed by Hurricane Helene has completely lost its book collection. Do you think you could help supply a classroom set of The Fault In Our Stars for them? They need 25 copies. Thank you so much for any consideration you can provide.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

This is 35.

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

When rumors of banning LGBTQ+ books hit the library board in a small Louisiana town, @librarianjones.com took action, facing death threats. For her, silence was never an option. “Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned,” she writes. Join us at 11aET for the latest #VelshiBannedBookClub. #Velshi

submitted 86 days ago • 362 comments

Students have internalized the message that "school is work." The thing is, we know work sucks, too, and most of the time it sucks on purpose to protect existing hierarchies of wealth & power. Students who repeat to us that "school is work" have already internalized those hierarchies. 😬

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

who did this

submitted 191 days ago • 18 comments

Weekend trip to Georgia

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Pokémon checkpoint. Favorite Pokémon.

submitted 259 days ago • 0 comments

Listen, America is a weird, tacky, frequently bizarre place, but the best of it is like Dolly Parton and puts that shit in service to the world. You do not mess with Dolly. People will come out of the woods and cut you. *I* will come out of the woods and cut you.

submitted 261 days ago • 32 comments

So excited to join @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social for the @schoollibln.bsky.social podcast this week! My discussed lesson is all about getting students involved in your local community through the school library. Hope you’ll check it out! sllnpodcast.libsyn.com/community-im...

submitted 371 days ago • 1 comment