Ally

Thanks as always to Annie, who has been my cheerleader during this whole research process 🩷

any way books are awesome, get (and use!) a library card, let kids read

Faceplants and How to Recover from Them, a guest post by Gretchen Whitmer This is what I’d like to pass along to young readers: No one is perfect. Every one of us has our flaws, but we can grow and change, make a difference and achieve great things.

Faceplants and How to Recover from Them, a guest post by Gretchen Whitmer

Every one of us has our flaws, but we can grow and change, make a difference and achieve great things.

teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/01/27/f... @tltkaren.bsky.social @govgretchenwhitmer.bsky.social

I have a lot of new followers with all the migrating lately so: hi. I’m Ally. I used to be a public librarian for a lot of years and now I’m an academic librarian (for a lot of reasons). I love: genre fiction, kidlit, comics, lipstick, and Lebanese food. If we were mutuals elsewhere, please say hi!

Hiiiii always glad to find you on any platform :)

I would die for Murderbot

👀

I logged into my computer this morning and my Google calendar had a different font than yesterday and I almost had a come apart, if you’re wondering where my mental health is sitting here in November 😂😭

shared sorrow is half a sorrow, shared joy is twice the joy. i don’t make the rules.

I preordered it months ago and I’m still very tempted to download the arc 😂😂😂

I’m a public librarian in a degenerating democracy, and I am pleading: Care about your library. Use it. See what programs and events it offers. And pay attention to its governing body. See who the trustees are. Consider running yourself. Libraries will need all the community support they can get. 📚

“I voted” sticker

I did the thing. And now we wait.

The world is not built for single people, and that is a hill I will die on

Oh god I feel this so hard

🥰

I think this is the saddest thing for me about the demise of the bad place. I made lifelong friends over there. People whose homes I’ve stayed in, people who have helped me in my career immensely. Pour one out for library Twitter.

Today is my grandmother’s 92nd birthday. I feel so lucky to have her and my whole big, loud, incredible Lebanese-American family. Hold your loved ones close today, and may we all have our beloved grandmothers live into their 90s.

perfect response is perfect.

Libraries are so crazy. I can just put a "hold" on something? I can basically just wave my hand and tell them to get me a book, and then they get it for me? This must be what being a king feels like.

We checked out the VHS tape of 12 Dancing Princesses from the library so much that I think we wore it out 😂

Me: yeah, I just like to make a weekend list, and enjoy my weekend reading while also knowing I’m getting my stuff done. I really like getting up on Saturdays and starting the laundry and checking things off my list!!!
My friend: You are a librarian in 100% of your life.
😂😂

I’m at a conference this week and I looked down at my phone and FOUR of my Libby holds came in today 😱

I was a lifer; I never thought I would leave public libraries—but then I did, four months ago. And this is a big reason why. We are scared. They are coming for us.

Good morning! @anniecardi.bsky.social’s excellent new book is out today. Check out her post on Teen Librarian Toolbox: Like a Prayer, Complexities of Faith in YA Fiction and Life. teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2024/01/30/l...

Omg this happened at my last library too!!!

Congrats to you and Claire!!!

The amount of resources available for free at your library is absolutely ridiculous. Wanna do a JSTOR search? Libraries gotchu. Wanna watch a movie for free? Libraries gotchu. Genealogy? Libraries gotchu. Wanna look up digitized images of sewing patterns in 1930s ladies magazines? Libraries gotchu.

They’re SO GOOD

Mind the Middle Project: What IS Middle Grade Fiction Anyway? Teen librarian Karen Jensen kicks of the Mind the Middle Project for 2024 by discussing what Middle Grade fiction is and how it compares to Young Adult fiction

Mind the Middle Project: What IS Middle Grade Fiction Anyway?

Teen librarian Karen Jensen kicks of the Mind the Middle Project for 2024 by discussing what Middle Grade fiction is and how it compares to Young Adult fiction

teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2024/01/01/m...