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I continue to believe that a densely organized library workforce is essential to winning the world we need. Pulling together a Labor Notes training for library workers on the Thursday of annual. Watch this space!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Y’all, @haymarketbooks.org is offering 40% off their Black Liberation books—including my new book, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” and the book I coedited “Balck Lives Matter at School.” www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Can they put tariffs on AI

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Folks will need these words defined for them. This is where popular education is helpful. Create some quick two pagers explaining what all three of these things mean and get them out everywhere. Invite regular folks to use this month to run workshops, discussions, etc... on these ideas.

submitted 21 days ago • 32 comments

Reminder that if you see someone trying to figure out how to contact their reps, you now have the INCREDIBLY easy to remember URL to give to them: reps.fyi Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things! Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️ (thank you @gregpak.net!)

submitted 22 days ago • 15 comments

I would like more StoryGraph friends please! 📚 💙 #booksky app.thestorygraph.com/profile/rest...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Take yall children to those black history events that will be held at some local libraries. It starts at home

submitted 23 days ago • 139 comments

Volunteered at the community garden today and I hate to admit it but literally touching grass really helps the ol mental health

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Zines, self-published work, flyers and leaflets, small acts of defiance. These will be immensely important in the coming years.

submitted 26 days ago • 50 comments

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books. bookshop.org/ebooks

submitted 27 days ago • 150 comments

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

submitted 27 days ago • 155 comments

#Booksky: If you haven’t already, export your data from Goodreads (an Amazon company) and import it into StoryGraph, a book-tracking app founded and led by a Black woman.

submitted 28 days ago • 229 comments

JAN 29: Interference Archive’s Library Cataloging Party, 314 7th St in #Brooklyn. 6:30-8:30PM. Help catalog the book collection at this radical archive and community space in Park Slope. No experience needed. To RSVP, see the post at the link: www.instagram.com/interference... #critcat #critlib #NYC

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone, everywhere, regardless of their age, background, or political views, deserves access to information from a wide range of perspectives and books that reflect their lived experiences @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

At my first national library conference as an Emerging Leader and ended up having dinner with a retired librarian and ALA vet. It felt like a very cool passing the torch moment and reminder of the good work we’ve always done and will continue to do. #librarians #booksky

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

i see eggs benny i order eggs benny

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

If you are a visa holder/temp resident in the U.S., and your child was born here and doesn't have a passport, GET A PASSPORT FOR THEM IMMEDIATELY. Like, make the appointment this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

TikTok is back lol

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Now that I’ve gone social media lite, I’ve discovered my reading slump was just a social media addiction. I’ve read 10 books this year 🤯 📚 💙

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

submitted 47 days ago • 578 comments

Today I ate an orange while I took a bath and chucked the rinds into the bath with me. I’m calling it a Capybara Bath and this is the energy I’m bringing into 2025. 🍊 🛁

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Every year I draw all the books I read. Here’s the books I read this year. 📚💙

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

Libraries are so cute. Please get the Libby and Hoopla app on your phone and the Kanopy app for your TV. It makes the libraries so happy and you can access books, movies, magazines, audiobooks, tv shows, and joy. YOU GET FREE JOY

submitted 68 days ago • 332 comments

Currently reading two water books 📚💙

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 5 💙📚 #booksky #books #bookchallenge

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4 💙📚 #booksky #books #bookchallenge

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 3 💙📚 #booksky #books #bookchallenge