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NOT THE WHITE GLOVES AAAAAAAA.

I feel like there could be an entire podcast "Your movie fucked up this library scene. Three librarians discuss how you could have done it so much better."

Agreed. One of the things I love about being on my town's Board of Abatement is sometimes we can give them money BACK. So good.

Imagine living in a hamlet so upstate that they have to tell you how far it is from MANHATTAN as a way to indicate where it is. Like they could have said it's 30 miles west of Coxsackie, home of Owls Hoot Barn. Missed opportunities abound.

That is looking so sharp. A great day for plants today.

My friends had this on the wall my entire childhood.

Our police chief is a nice guy but very very expensive.

Thanks -- we'll be fine either way but the numbers the town manager used for this year's budget calculations were based on previous years' staffing and not the most recent year (and then they declined to fix) so we're all a little aggravated about it.

Monteria was the real deal, more people should know about her.

My canvas backpack with a town report for my town peeking out of the zipper compartment. On the wall a "How to report ICE" zine is hanging.

I spoke against the budget. There was a lot of support for the library. Someone spoke about how we underpay the so-called feminized professions and I was here for it. I spoke against the police. I spoke in favor of democracy. More people at town meeting than last year. Maybe we can do this...

Black and white photograph of Clara Stanton Jones, a Back woman wearing large round glasses, short curly hair, a white beaded necklace and a white dress with a scoop neck. She is at a podium looking down and smiling widely.

Clara Stanton Jones was the first Black president of ALA, guiding them towards a resolution about awareness of racism and sexism. The UAW backed her as the Detroit Public Library director when the Friends and some board members didn't. #BlackHistoryMonth
www.library.illinois.edu/ala/2016/02/...

Voting the library budget down allows the Selectboard to redraft, put it up for a new vote. Voting for the budget means making do with a budget that was based on the wrong numbers and then not fixed when the error was pointed out. Been a wild few weeks in town. Really not sure how it will shake out.

Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms poster showing a man in a flannel shirt and tan jacket standing and talking at town meeting in front of a group of people sitting and looking up at him.

Tomorrow's Town Meeting day. I may be speaking against the library budget (for complicated reasons involving errors in how the budget was created by the Selectboard - this is the library-approved tactic).

This guy's story was complex too. Democracy is hard.
www.manchesterjournal.com/news/local/a...

Who is a good boy?*

*you are.

Alex Falcone's supplement vid is definitely a good watch on this topic.

www.instagram.com/p/DU8w3i5kvJE/

What Romances by Disabled Authors Do Differently Romances by disabled romance incorporate important access of everyday life with disabilities in their stories, centering lived experiences and emphasizing boundaries and consent.

"For many years, prevalent, ableist language and stereotypes in books made me hesitant to read romances with disabled characters. This has started to change only in the past few years, as more books by disabled authors get published."

bookriot.com/what-romance...

Micah!! This is excellent. I especially liked the attention to accessibility, Indigenous and immigrant communities, and getting staff trained up to deal with digital divide issues. You should all be very proud of this.

newspaper photograph of a Black woman with short grey hair standing on front of a bookshelf. She is wearing glasses and a patterned sweater.

Monteria Hightower was State Librarian of Missouri and left when she felt she was being asked to give special privileges to state employees incl. Governor Ashcroft. She fought the politicization of the library & later became State Librarian of Nevada #BlackHistoryMonth

www.jstor.org/stable/25633...

Dog Beats Cat In Randolph Election - The White River Valley Herald In a surprise upset on March 7, the youth voters of Randolph opted for dog two to one against its opponent, cat. Noting that “They are often looking for something to do while they wait for the voter,”...

If we've got the time, we totally do. One of the joys of being in a small town with a local newspaper is that we can do stuff like this.

www.ourherald.com/articles/dog...

Past matchups have been dog vs. cat, summer vs. winter, and pie vs. creemee

A sheet of paper with two separate ballots on it. The bottom one is seahorse versus starfish and the top one is monkey versus robot robot. There are cartoon pictures next to the names of the "candidates"

This one is for @kochalka.bsky.social

context: we make up fun ballots for the kids to fill-in while their parents are voting. #vermont

screenshot from the book Broadside authors and artists; an illustrated biographical directory showing Leaonead's entry. She is a middle-aged Black woman wearing a floral dress and white earrings. He biographical information is listed next to her.

Leaonead Pack Drain-Bailey was a library director and bibliographer. She compiled a biographical dictionary of the authors of Broadside Press, a large part of the Black Arts Movement publishing Black authors often who had no other published info. #BlackHistoryMonth
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaonea...

Wikimedia Commons

And I don't love the searchability of Wikimedia Commons but they have so much content.

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Yep commons.flickr.org

Why everything eventually becomes a crab The crab shape has evolved so many times that scientists had to come up with a special term for it: carcinization.

www.popsci.com/story/animal...

Chandrasekhar!

A young black woman with short wavy hair is wearing a print dress. She stands before an old bookmobile which is black and had "Greenville County Library" written on it in white lettering. The bookmobile is parked in front of a brick building.

Annie McPheeters was a bookmobile librarian and later managed segregated libraries in Atlanta where she ran adult education programs for Black patrons especially surrounding civics and voting. She campaigned for library desegregation. #BlackHistoryMonth
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/edu...

Smaller, maybe 4' x 4' or a little less. It was amazing to get right up close to it, all the sewing to make different textures, so great.

Linda Diak Quilts Custom art quilts, longarm quilting services, and unique quilt art gifts by Vermont artist Linda Diak.

This is the website of the woman who made it. She's from Vermont but a different part of Vermont.
www.lindadiakquilts.com

A black quilt that has a close up of a rooster or chicken face. The chicken (or rooster) is white and tan colored with a bright red comb and wattle

@erikahall.bsky.social I was at a quilt exhibit today and FOR SOME REASON thought of you.