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Manga in The Crosshairs: The State of Manga Bans in 2025 Coop Bicknell interviewed librarians across the country about how the latest Executive Orders and lists targeting LGBTQ+ are affecting students' ability to read age-appropriate comics.

Next, I have to give a huge thanks to @mangalibrarian.bsky.social, @st741.bsky.social, @bespokelib.bsky.social, Hillary Chang, @jrlibrarian.bsky.social, and the other librarians I spoke with while covering the manga bans that've flared up across the country

www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2025...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

A book cover that says The Restorative School Library: Building Spaces and Programs where Students are both seen and celebrated.

Coming in 2026: The Restorative School Library! I don’t know how to talk about librarianship without situating it as restorative. Thrilled that libraries will now officially be a part of @paulgorski.bsky.social’s Equity and Social Justice in Education series. 💙💜

The cruelty is the point

Looking forward to sharing about librarians Building Libraries collaboration with Kids Discover on our trip to Kenya, the Nonfiction work we’re doing in the library, and the powerful pairings of primary sources and literature! Hope you can join!

My new library slogan is "genAI hallucination rate: 30-80%; librarian hallucination rate: 0%"

A graphic announcing sessions got AASL 2025: Carnegie: Great Immigrants - Great Americans; Manga Goes to School: Cultivating Engagement and inclusion in k-12 settings; Manga Goes to School authors recommend: grades 3-8; Manga Goes to School authors recommend: grades 9-12; myth-hating manga misconceptions

I’m gonna be a busy lady this #AASL2025! Along with my co-presenters @mangalibrarian.bsky.social, @bespokelib.bsky.social and Emily Ratica, were presenting on 3 of the conference days! Come say hi and learn about some fabulous manga in your libraries. #MangaGTS

Listing of manga related presentations at AASL on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Final stages of prep for #AASL25! Excited to talk SO MUCH manga with @mangalibrarian.bsky.social @smwordsmith.bsky.social Emily Ratica. Going to be there? Come to one of our sessions—or multiple. They are all different! @alaeditionsns.bsky.social @aaslala.bsky.social

Orange floofy cat on back.

Walnut says hello. And hopes tomorrow is a better day!

YouTube video by Kidzuko No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko​

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹

This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨

Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
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Kusonoki's Flunking Her High School Glow-Up by Mitsuki Mii This adorable manga has all the elements that will attract middle school readers: an engaging, colorful cover, relatable school events, and a high school protagonist (!). Main characters Kusoniki and....

Looking for more school-set manga? *Kusunoki’s Flunking Her High School Glow-Up* is a great option for MS and HS. Micro-review here: mangainthemiddle.weebly.com/reviews/kuso...

1.2M immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows As parades and other events celebrating the contributions of workers in the U.S. are being held for the Labor Day holiday, experts say President Donald Trump’s stepped-up immigration policies are impacting the nation’s labor force.

More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center.

In “Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library,” I examine LIS as in need of a values-realignment, asking readers to refuse the technosolutionism we are so often offered in place of human-centered possibilities, like taking racism, climate change, and labor rights seriously

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Slide that says Welcome to Queer Comics! We’re so glad you’re here.

Queer (Representation in) Comics camp is a wrap! Queer (Representation in) Anime camp starts Monday. ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

Make a purchase from the shop during Pride Month and automatically be entered to win 1 of 2 Barnes and Noble Special Edition copies of Cemetery Boys! All purchases from the shop will enter you into this drawing automatically. Two winners will be chosen at the end of the month and contacted in early July. You will receive a email from our business email address notifying you.

Why are we choosing LamBda Legal? Lambda Legal has won PRECEDENT-setting civil rights cases on everything from marriage equALITy to expressions of gender identity and health care desrimination. -Lambda legal.(2025).Lambdalegal.org To find out more about Lambda Legal please visit lambdalegal.org

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️HAPPY PRIDE! let's do a book giveaway!

make a purchase from www.aiden-thomas.com/graveyard-goods during the month of June and you'll be entered to win 1 of 2 @barnesandnoble.com special editions of "Cemetery Boys"!

and this quarter, we're supporting @lambdalegal.org with proceeds from the shop!

Conference promo

We’re going to #AASL25, and we’ll be talking all things manga and how to utilize them in an engaging and inclusive school setting! @smwordsmith.bsky.social @bespokelib.bsky.social @st741.bsky.social
#SchoolLibraries #TLSky #Edusky

Removing a vital service for anime clubs at this time? In this economy? It’s inexcusable! Do better @crunchyroll.com!

Bring Back Crunchyroll's Library Outreach Program - Save Library Anime Clubs Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

A youth services librarian has set up a petition asking Crunchyroll to reinstate their library outreach program - you can sign it here:

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#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibraries

@mangalibrarian.bsky.social @bespokelib.bsky.social

As promised, @bespokelib.bsky.social and I have written about the @crunchyroll.com situation for @aaslala.bsky.social, why we feel they should reconsider, and what school and public librarians should do next. #tlsky #libraries #animeclub

So refreshing to see librarian views centered in a convo about book banning. Thank you Coop Bicknell and @animenewsnetwork.com! #mangagoestoschool #librarysky

Coop did a very thorough job explaining the current challenges we’re facing in the field, and I’m glad I could provide some insight! There other amazing librarians quoted in this piece, and I encourage everyone to take a look! @bespokelib.bsky.social, @st741.bsky.social.

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ALA Sues Trump Administration Over Dismantling of IMLS The American Library Association and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees are taking the Trump administration to court to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

📰 Breaking News: ALA Sues Trump Administration Over Dismantling of IMLS
The American Library Association files suit against the administration's move to dismantle a crucial source of library funding.
www.slj.com/story/ALA-Su...
#libraries #advocacy #IMLS #libraryfunding

And now we're honored and shocked and thrilled to be on that list with you! ;)

Congratulations Tim!! ♥️

Dear <Rep>,
I am writing to strongly oppose the executive order calling for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

gorgeous cover of We Are Villains by Kacen Callender.

gorgeous cover of On Again, Awkward Again by Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia.

Hey School Librarians! www.thriftbooks.com has new books, too! At competitive prices to the big bad place. Filling in some lost titles w/ used books + I just pre-ordered these new beauties from Kacen Callender, @kwamembalia.bsky.social + @erinentrada.bsky.social. @thriftbooks.bsky.social #librarysky

How to Keep Teaching Well When DEI is Under Attack | Cult of Pedagogy You may be able to keep much more than you think.

We can still prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion if we look to the work of Zaretta Hammond, @teachbk.bsky.social, @gholdym.bsky.social, @jamiladugan.bsky.social, @nqcliteracy.bsky.social, @novakeducation.bsky.social, Shane Safir, & Common Sense Media.
www.cultofpedagogy.com/dei-under-at...

Covers of Goodbye Eri, Galaxy: The Prettiest Star, Victor LaValle's Destroyer, Persepolis, The Best We Could Do, and Tiger Girls.

So excited to create and teach a Comic Lit 12th Grade English seminar next term! These will be our class texts ❤ and obvs, using @scottmccloud.bsky.social's seminal work to guide our learning. I. Cannot. Wait. #mangagoestoschool #comicsareliterature @planetx.bsky.social @victorlavalle.bsky.social