DancinLibrarian

I got both my covid annual and my trivalent flu vaccines yesterday at a pop-up clinic held by the local health department. Sore arm, a little muzzy, didn't sleep well, but otherwise doing great for it!

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Michigan libraries secured stable funding in the FY26 budget! LSTA is fully funded, MeL receives a one-time $900K boost. State Aid remains steady at $16.5M.

Thank you advocates for making your voices heard!

View the report for general omnibus budget: ow.ly/LTne50X6fGc

Being a #saturdaylibrarian isn't so bad.

A book repair shop? I might have the same going on; a teacher brought me a book to glue back together just yesterday.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

#saturdaylibrarian today.

No evidence linking Erika Kirk’s charity work to trafficking Social media users circulated the baseless claim that Erika Kirk is banned from Romania after her charity work was linked to child trafficking. None of the purported evidence supports these claims.

No, the former beauty pageant contestant did not engage in trafficking Romanian orphans. www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...

My husband & I went in 2018. It was amazing.

If you have to stay, you'll be part of the 10% of the population there that are published authors!

A car killed their mother, and they in turn died because they couldn't learn how to hunt from her. One car collision, three resulting deaths. People need to know the full consequences.

Honestly, you could have included that in the OP (& the email newsletter), instead of giving us the very false hope that something could be done for these cuties.

A black cat with a collar investigates a clear shower curtain while standing on it, inside the white bathtub.

Y'all deserve more cat posts.

Here's Anji, exploring the shower.

Epic sad!

Can a wildlife rescue organization take them?

Ear worm. Not brain worm.

I think my colleague Evelyn talked me into doing Summer Scares next year. Sounds like a really cool program. Might just piggyback on her Zoom calls with the authors, at least to start, for big programs. I hope horror can resonate with my patrons & open people to new genres.

Attended a great library conference last week. Caught up with many colleagues, got new ideas, relaxed & felt refreshed. And I came back to work afterwards to find good notes on my desk from my assistant, no "fires" to put out. Great working vacation.

Instant brain worm of "Time of My Life," thank you very much, I agree.

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Jimmy Kimmel did nothing wrong.

I put forth the idea of a book club at the start of the school year. Eight students have signed up. They range from 2nd-8th grade, have a wide variety of skills & interests.

Maybe it will be a silent book club, or a show & tell book club, or maybe they'll have ideas of their own of what they want.

I'm doing my best to remember a language I majored in but rarely have used in years.

And thus, my accomplishment this week is that in reading a bilingual info book to that class, I managed to bore the native Spanish speaker. 😅

Since we no longer have a Spanish teacher at school, we of course now have a native Spanish speaker in a class. I'm adding books to the library that the previous teacher left behind, that *my* HS Spanish teacher donated to the cause, & what I can order through Scholastic. /1

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

What you need to know about getting the COVID-19 vaccine in Michigan - Bridge Michigan Changes at the federal level are making access to the mRNA shot, as well as insurance coverage challenging, while doctors still tout the treatment as effective in treating and preventing coronavirus i...

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#goals

Let's do the hiring process again! *facepalm*

I'm happy for them, I'm happy for them, I'm happy for them. I'll be happy for ME once I fill whichever position I need to post (the new hire that started last week is interested in the opening, which has more hours).

Protect Wild Forests: Say No to Trump’s Roadless Rule Repeal The Roadless Rule has protected nearly 60 million acres of forests for over two decades, keeping them free from logging, road building, and other industrial development. Now Trump is trying to take aw...

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I felt so refreshed and energized after yesterday's open house at school! It's amazing how good it was to reconnect with my colleagues.

Looking forward to being at the school again, because that one day each week really is how I stay sane at my other job.

Orca Books has a lot of novellas available for YA and MG, in a wide range of genres.

Will it be a pen name, or will your future books be under Lee?