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Register for the USBBY @usbby.bsky.social International Literacy Association webinar July 23 with author and translator Lynn Miller-Lachmann

So happy to hear from Derrick Barnes reading aloud from his @usbby.bsky.social IBBY Honour list book I Am Every Good Thing at #asla2025 #ALlibrarians

Attending #LibLearnX in Phoenix? ⚡️ Don't miss the Opening Session on Sat, Jan 25th at 8am! ⏰ GNCRT Board Members Shira Pilarski & Soline Holmes will introduce our amazing speakers: comics legends Scott McCloud & Raina Telgemeier! ✨ See you in Arizona! #comics #libraries

I think I am going to try pre-college…but it is interesting how more formative early reading/re-reading is, and in so many ways my later reading is much the same thematically

Maggie Adam’s, Dancer book cover

Picking back up with this, and after convo with @vennlibrarian.bsky.social, limiting to things I read before college as she did

Always fab to see colleagues recognized — go Miles College!

I do think that is going to be pretty much the bifurcation

I am convinced that the wabi-sabi of the human-made is going to be the new currency in the age of AI

Cheech & Chong, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Beverly Hills Cop & Dirty Dancing additions to the wonderfully inclusive National Film Registry text.npr.org/nx-s1-5227860

Canva has a lot to answer for

we live in interesting times

WORLD READ ALOUD DAY graphic with cartoon animals celebrating.

World Read Aloud Day with @litworld.bsky.social is coming up on February 5th! Want an author to Zoom into your classroom or library for a free virtual read-aloud on that day? Check out the list of volunteers here: katemessner.com/zoom-with-an...

When #utleg passes laws that classify books by Atwood, Vonnegut, Morrison, and Alexie as “criminal porn”, it makes it that much harder to have REAL conversations about the harms of porn to teens…
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Recommending #kidlitartpostcard

Feeling this too, Sarah

Day 3

People dunk on us being the largest city in the state now, but even the art in the HSV airport has gotten better somehow

Wasn’t he just the best???

It is really astonishing how amazing it feels, isn’t it? Happy to see you & so many other friends again!

And now, like magic, social media is thought-provoking & human-centered again

Thank you!

You & @tasslyn.bsky.social? My goddesses & heroines. You will be on monuments

Thank you for your fabulous presentation Saturday & congratulations on the well-deserved NYPL inclusion. You are a bright light!

Genius

State Board of Education looks to expand control on school library books During a meeting Thursday, the State Board of Education approved a move to give it more control over library books in schools and whether what's on the shelves

"One of our biggest concerns is that this decision isn't actually about what's best for our children's education," @laneyhawes.bsky.social said. "It is part of a political movement. It's part of an agenda."
#BookBans #FreedomToRead
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
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That slippery slope, e.g. This is why we don’t want to remove books

My personal plan is to drape myself in the American flag because I am sick of the suggestion that restricting access to information is somehow more virtuous

Gorgeous!