jessamyn

Such an incredible classic.I saw John Sayles in a recent episode of Poker Face and I screamed!

We are here! We are free!
We have a lot of stuff including good AC!

(...in summer, and it's warm in the wintertimes and there are clean bathrooms and places to sit. We are for EVERYONE. Come say hello.)

A dirt road leading to a large white barn with a field and some trees and beyond them some low mountains. It is a very sunny day and the sky is slightly hazy.

Facts.

Polaris. But don't update it *too* much.

That was me just a few weeks ago.

We deal with this in the public library world all the time. Everyone thinks they can reinvent the public library better, until they actually try to do it.

I both feel like it's a manufactured scandal but also that people are nudging the idea of "good genes" into a place where, historically, you'd have to also add a lot of "but not like that" qualifications. Those qualifications are IMPORTANT and also missing where they should be present.

We did this in my town in Vermont, a very small branch of the White River and it's been a really good thing.

And he always shows up where you least expect it.

And there's so little social media coverage because the cell signal is so bad.

Buses full of Googlers on team building exercises for work.

No true Masshole would. But it is true that we're not quite at the point where you need to start "traffic calming" by adding random noise to Waze so that my sister's neighborhood doesn't become undriveable/cycleable (she's in a different apple town that rhymes with GO)

I'll allow it.

Oh thank you for this, I drove by there on my way home from Ferrisburg last night and was wondering what the HUGE crowd was there for.

Hey nice shout out for Burlington VT!

A man with a beard and a big smile holding an assembled Star Wars lego kit with the caption next to him " “I loved building LEGOs as a child, but after I lost my eyesight I couldn’t do it anymore. Then I found Bricks for the Blind, and now I can build… View More Jacques C."

"Bricks for the Blind is a non-profit organization that
brings the joy of building Lego sets to blind people."

As someone who works in one of the many libraries with a hefty Lego collection, this is RTMI

bricksfortheblind.org

More about the man behind it

www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha... #Lego

that's two of a/s/l !

Age verification? My parents were hippie enough to want to go to Woodstock but square enough that they would not bring a one-year-old.✌️☮️

I'm a little surprised they didn't try to blame Anna's Archive a little bit more.😂

I am very sorry Violet, that completely sucks.

Should have checked their website first!

newtonfreelibrary.net/about/more-i...

I wish I had a photo of it but Newton Public Library (MA, iirc) had display cases that were just for the display of people's collecting hobbies. Could be kids or adults, so ti would have so-and-so's rock collection or so-and-so's lego collection, everything with labels like a "proper" exhibit

Every now and again you'll see one coming up for sale and it's all I can do to not think seriously about uprooting everything just so I could live in one.

For people who want to know more about segregated Carnegie libraries

"The Roots of Community: Segregated Carnegie Libraries as Spaces for Learning and Community-Making in Pre-Civil Rights America, 1900-65"

one of the many things IMLS funding has helped bring to life.

aquila.usm.edu/rocoverview/

Carnegie Libraries Across America Use this tool to learn about the nearly 1,700 Carnegie Libraries that were built in the United States.

Carnegie Corp now has an interactive map of all their libraries.

carnegie-libraries.carnegie.org

In Meridian MS Carnegie funded two separate and unequal libraries.

carnegie-libraries.carnegie.org/map/?lib=cul...

The primary source materials are a journey

dlc.library.columbia.edu/carnegie/cul...

Awww, we lost her eight years ago this week. 💗

omg!

Cosigned.

Sincerely,

Someone whose zip code starts with a zero and it's a crap shoot whether it's going to show up the right way in shared spreadsheets

My #FantasticFour

This one might need a little context for some people.
americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/09/01/d...

I checked all the sources and I don't see it. My best guess is that there may have been a bad source used for this and the source got removed and maybe the fact remained? Or perhaps it's inside one of the early animations he was in.