@himissjulie.bsky.social
Storyteller, librarian, raging against the dying of the light. Sisko is my favorite Captain and Dorothy is my favorite Golden Girl. I'll always say the thing no one else will say because I cannot help myself. I need a cookie.
If only they’d all gotten into LARPING or Civil War re-enactments or something. Instead they’re playing with our government like it’s some big game.
Can't quite believe this needs repeating, but:
If you're using commercialised LLM extruders for any reason - whether it's rewriting an email, deploying a "thinking partner" or doing "research" for your next book...
You are handling stolen goods
You are sanctioning plagiarism
Stop
"Library employees here have been ordered to remove flags — including LGBTQ pride flags— and other decor that "promotes personal beliefs" from their workspaces, officials said on Tuesday."
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Why would you waste good money healing people when you can make people suffer instead?
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
From the Theo Library Facebook page
Pretty sure everything this “author” has written is AI generated.
We said goodbye to this sweet boy yesterday. My heart is broken. Love you forever Henry.
And women are too emotional to lead.
Who do I know in San Diego? I will be there next week at the SDPL and I am afraid that I do not have enough people there.
I will be talking about the Japanese American Incarceration, book bans, and what our current climate of censorship yields for us while simultaneous state sanctioned raids occur.
Rise of the Pink Ladies is on Kanopy. Watch it while you can. It’s so so so good. www.kanopy.com/en/product/1...
The most disgusting combination of self-enrichment and failed management in the history of the entertainment business. deadline.com/2026/03/davi...
We're pretty excited about our AWP merch, fam. Come find us at Table T960 for a Library Kids Club tote! buff.ly/zARNntb
While the McDonald’s CEO gets roasted for his awkward burger taste test...
McDonald’s is among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
And McDonald's CEO recently raked in $18.2M — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
That should leave a bad taste in your mouth.
Anyway, I do need to put this into a blog post because there’s so much to consider. But I’m really concerned that the weird way the publishers decided to market this book and categorize it as YA is going to do a lot of harm.
And I understand the convenience of dividing publishing up by ages, but that is not really how human beings work. I wish we could find a way to include developmental appropriateness into the conversation because development is not linear the way age is.
With readers advisory, you are speaking with an individual to determine their individual tastes, needs, wants, desires, preferences, and comfort with certain subjects or styles. No matter what their age every person is different and wants different things.
And this is where readers advisory is so so important. By necessity libraries have to organize books in very broad categories because otherwise what do you do? Have just one big pile of books? so we have these imperfect distinctions of juvenile and teen an adult and there will be a crossover.
I’ll have to put a blog post together because there’s also an essay by Andrew Karre that talks about sex in books for teens and this is really a big topic that needs to be unpacked with more nuance. Teens are interested in sex. Their hormones are causing these thoughts and these feelings.
And I would have to agree with them. I am very open to what any person wants to read, no matter what their age, but I guess my unspoken line has always been once the sex becomes explicit and graphically described that puts it into adult territory.
This is what comes from publishing boundaries not being very well defined. I usually look at Kirkus when I’m making fine-tuned decisions about where Book should be in a collection. For example, for this book the suggested age range is 17 to adult.
Ugh the discourse around Sibylline is getting fraught. I’m still processing but this part of the Kirkus review feels important: “An unexpectedly explicit sex scene toward the end feels jarringly out of place relative to the rest of the book, making the intended audience unclear.”
Solidarity with American Library Association staff!
Without these folks hard work, nothing at ALA gets done.
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Two Documentaries That Explain This Moment in Libraries and Book Censorship
The Librarians and An American Pastoral together are a robust, if imperfect, means of understanding this censorship moment.
Can't emphasize enough if The Librarians resonated, see the other.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
Stop calling everything a distraction.
It's not funny or clever.
It's insulting to people's intelligence.
It minimizes what is actually going on.
It also discounts that some politicians are just evil and stupid.
Sometimes I wish I could slap people through the internet.
No library administrators need to make that much. Especially when so many of them are so terrible.
The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.
He spent a year in jail for this.
Following the lies and hatred targeting trans folks during the State of the Union Address, numerous republican House representatives introduced a bill that would create A NATIONWIDE BOOK BAN.
Here's what it is and what to do: bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...
Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm in a blind trust.