Mandy Bellm

Mandy Bellm

@mandybellm.bsky.social

K-12 Library Media Content Lead for Minneapolis Public Schools. 2026 ITEM Co-President. MLA 2024 School Media Innovator of the Year. INFJ, SLMS, EdS. (She/Her)

594 Followers 658 Following 242 Posts Joined Nov 2024
4 hours ago
Moiya smiling and holding a copy of mothers of invention. The cover is orange with black trim and the title is in white. Broken pieces of ceramic depict inventions like the light bulb and fire.

My first time holding my new book!! 🥹🤓

You can preorder MOTHERS OF INVENTION to tell my publisher I deserve a big marketing push 🙏🏽

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1 week ago

Haymitch’s behavior makes much more sense

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1 week ago

The most important question: Did you reread HG in pub order or chronologically?

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2 weeks ago
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a man in a white shirt with the word legislation on the sleeves Alt: a balding idiot in a white shirt with the word legislation on the sleeves and a giant medal around his neck staring confusedly into a snow globe

BIG WORDS AND LOUD NOISES

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2 weeks ago
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Award-winning local author writes first graphic novel PLATTSBURGH — New York Times best-selling author Kate Messner racks up a new genre with the publication of “Camp Monster,” her first complete graphic novel published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books.

Always grateful to be featured in my hometown newspaper! www.pressrepublican.com/news/award-w...

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2 weeks ago

Database Drama Queen is actually pretty accurate

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2 weeks ago
Co-President of Information & Technology Educators of Minnesota speaking into microphone at Senate Education Finance Committee hearing table

Today I testified at the MN Senate Education Finance Committee Hearing about the impacts of the ICE Metro Surge in School Libraries across Minnesota. My testimony on behalf of ITEM membership starts at 40:30 and Hennepin County Public Library is immediately after. tinyurl.com/266xukmn

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2 weeks ago
Black and white photo of Porter seated at a desk in front of a row of bookshelves and a card catalog. She is a Black woman with shoulder length wavy hair. She is wearing a dark dress with white accents, and is reading a book which is open on her desk.

Dorothy Porter was a librarian at Howard University where she took a small collection of donated materials by and about Black Americans and curated it for 40 years into the 180,000 item Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. #BlackHistoryMonth
www.historians.org/perspectives...

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2 weeks ago

Aldi birria roast and Old El Paso birria kit with a whole bunch of fresh veggies and lime

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2 weeks ago

I would guess most of the athletes are like, “who is this dude and who let him in here”

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2 weeks ago
Birria tacos with cilantro lime rice, jus and fruit

My 16yo said my queso-birria tacos were, and I quote, “phenomenal” 🤩 so if anyone needs me, I’ll be over in a corner crying happy tears 😂😭

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3 weeks ago

I would like my refund rolled into my tax return, pretty please. I suppose it’s too much to ask for the money to go to the end customers who actually paid it, as opposed to the companies who just rolled it into higher prices… and will likely not lower them much even after all the dust settles.

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3 weeks ago

If I hear the word “corridor” one more time, I’m going to throw up. It’s a HALLWAY. Is this some unwritten rule that copy editors insist on running “find and replace”? I am 100% certain that the future’s technobabble will never use that word.

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3 weeks ago

Excellent reminder!

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3 weeks ago
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Can confirm.

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3 weeks ago

Thanks for seeing us 😢🥶❤️

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1 month ago
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a woman wearing glasses is eating a cake with whipped cream on it . Alt: a woman wearing glasses is eating a cake with whipped cream on it .

Eating my feelings, angry and tired and sad all the time. I work in Minneapolis. It’s gonna hit 50 this weekend, so there’s that.

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1 month ago

I love all these posters self owning that they don’t even know basic Spanish. Like, you have the internet, look up the lyrics and translate them. Being monolingual is not some sick brag to be proud of. (Sincerely, the rest of the bilingual and trilingual world)

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1 month ago
Starter Villian cat with his moms book

Can confirm 🙋🏼‍♀️

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1 month ago

I was reminded today of why I am a librarian and not an English teacher. We have totally different tastes in books. I don’t care how many awards and literary merits a book has. If it’s boring, it’s boring. And I will not recommend it to today’s kids! 🥱

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1 month ago

Seriously, do they think some poop bag fairy is gonna come by and dispose of all the little baggies? We used to see these all the time at the dog park.

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1 month ago

I would wager the time and effort it requires to qualify for jeopardy renders a social life / social media / library friends outside of work to be a near impossibility 🤷‍♀️

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1 month ago
Bonfire and Bud Light

Not sure how long this is going to last but cheers! 🍻

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1 month ago

Thanks for the nudge. I’ve been meaning to and now I think I will!

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1 month ago

I really want to listen to the audiobook but I might just have to buy a hard copy. #TBR

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1 month ago
overflowing fire pit ready to burn

It’s gonna hit 18 degrees in MN today! Might finally be time to crack open a 🍺 and burn some 💩 in a big FU sendoff to “icy” January

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1 month ago

I’m too tired to start knitting again. Can someone make me one and I’ll buy it? 🙏🏻

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1 month ago
Currently Reading the Spanish Love Deception and The Martian Contingency (Lady Astronaut book 4)

Weekend goal - finish these two and then I am also onto the Heaven & Earth Grocery store! #TBR

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1 month ago
Barnes & Noble book purchases or When the Moon hits your eye, Starter Villian, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store and Parable of the Talents

February self care goal - stop doom scrolling and read some physical books. #TBR #Sci-Fi #ReadingBlackout

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1 month ago

I am currently eating breakfast pizza and grapes out of a Dollar Tree holiday bucket. How are you celebrating?

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