@drcathischlib.bsky.social
School librarian, advocate for students’ rights and school libraries, Intellectual Freedom Fighter. Instructor for future school librarians.
I want to do more to support our public schools, so I've signed up for this training to learn how. We can't just sit back and let book banning extremists take over. Let's learn how to push back! Join me! social.redwine.blue/s/5eIXp7Fx
20.02.2025 17:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Finished on Dec 31 … and the story will stay with me forever.
09.01.2025 00:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Pot pie doesn’t have a crust! And there’s no G in the name Lancaster !
02.01.2025 01:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Three cheers for New Jersey!
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Date stamp on library book. Logo: official selection Sundance Film Festival
📣 We are excited to share the 🎥 we've been a part of for 3 years, The Librarians,
premieres at Sundance Film Festival in Jan!!
Peabody Award winning director, Kim Snyder highlights the wave of book bans & the libs under siege defending Intellectual Freedom
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From state-sanctioned book bans to mass professional exodus from public school and libraries, these are even more censorship trends to prepare for in 2025:
bookriot.com/more-censors...
Great convo w/ Prof. Gay Ivey & others, @technolibrary.bsky.social suggested a strong protective strategy would be to have student & parent book clubs, parents reading alongside Ss so they can step up at board meetings to explain why the books matter for Ss. #SchoolLibrarians #TLSky
08.12.2024 16:22 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
THIS BOOK! Gut wrenching. Real. Knowing Rex Ogle comes out surviving doesn’t change how much I agonized for him throughout this memoir.Homelessness gets a face and a voice.Couldn’t put it down. Will never look at a homeless person on the street the same way again. READ THIS STORY! #schoollibraries
04.12.2024 01:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Consider donating to your local public library today! The impact they have on our communities go well beyond loaning books for FREE! #libraries
03.12.2024 21:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“There is an ecosystem, where you have the academic librarians, and the public (librarians) and the school, and the parents, and the student activists, and we all have to work together,” Jones said. “It is going to take all of us.”
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26.11.2024 22:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I will be using your post in the grad class I teach. Even with copy cataloging and imports from vendors, I teach students to examine every record for not only errors but how to enhance for their students to locate material easier.
23.11.2024 12:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Love this song ! Yesterday I mentioned REO at the circ desk and my very young para said … Never heard of them… WHAT???
Thank you for starting my day with music!
How to prepare your library before January comes around. Yes, even those who don't work in libraries will find something here.
That, plus this week's book censorship news roundup: bookriot.com/prepare-your...
Thank you for your unwavering support for libraries and the freedom to read, @velshi.bsky.social!
22.11.2024 19:46 — 👍 53 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
This week's tip from @aaslpres.bsky.social stresses the importance of making connections. Want to receive each week's tip in your email box each Friday morning? Sign up for AASL Friday Forecast: bit.ly/3YQnwmv. Want to see an archive of tips shared? Visit: bit.ly/4hEWze2.
22.11.2024 15:20 — 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0NEW: ALA is going to court to defend the #Erate program and its funding mechanism, the Universal Service Fund (USF).
E-Rate provides discounts to libraries & schools for broadband service, equipment, and other connectivity needs.
We fought to enact E-Rate. We will fight to keep it.
More below:
A copy of the green and pink 2024 movie tie-in edition of Gregory Maguire's Wicked sits on top of pink fabric with embroidered pink flowers and green leaves. A Unite Against Book Bans bookmark sticks out of the book.
Good news! 💚 💗♫
#Wicked & hundreds of other titles are available as #UniteAgainstBookBans book résumés: free resources that detail a book's significance & educational value & help teachers, librarians, parents & community advocates keep books on library shelves. bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org
Engagement is the goal of trolls & those who traffic in mis- dis- & mal-information. With that in mind, I’ve stopped asking kids (& adults) to consider whether or not info can be trusted. Here’s the question I challenge them to grapple w/instead: “Should I engage with this?” bit.ly/trollposter_...
16.11.2024 16:20 — 👍 127 🔁 35 💬 9 📌 7
Want to fight book banning? Velshi Banned Book Club member @jodipicoult.bsky.social breaks down how to help:
🎤 Run for school boards
✏️ Write to elected officials
📚 Start a banned book club at school
📖 Drop banned books in free library boxes
📣 Speak out!
#Velshi
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Elon: Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Welcome all who have left X looking for better experience. #BlueSky
14.11.2024 07:56 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
I am honored to receive the AASL Intellectual Freedom Award and represent the tireless work school librarians do everyday. Thank you @PSLA_News for your support to do this work! Let’s celebrate the day when intellectual freedom for our students are not at stake! www.ala.org/news/press-r...
23.03.2024 01:41 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
I’m running for 𝘼𝙇𝘼 𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙡𝙤𝙧-𝘼𝙩-𝙇𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚 and shamelessly asking for your vote! Vote 3/11/24 - 4/3/24. Working together, we can strengthen the ALA Ecosystem Initiative. Now, more than ever, our message needs to be clear, compelling, and a consensus of our values for all who use libraries.
08.03.2024 01:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An amazing resource just launched from #UniteAgainstBookBans.
Thanks to all who contributed!
In collaboration w/publishers, librarians, and @sljournal, #UniteAgainstBookBans is launching our FREE book résumé collection.
bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org
I’ve read about 20 books from my library. Didn’t keep track of titles since I borrowed some from local public library. I hate to read books from our shelves -it takes an opportunity away from students. This year I want to keep a better list. Also read SciFi and Fantasy which is not my favorite.
31.12.2023 15:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked key parts of an Iowa law that bans some books from school libraries and forbids teachers from raising LGBTQ+ issues
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Judge dumps ‘wildly overbroad’ Iowa LGBTQ book ban: “The court has been unable to locate a single case upholding the constitutionality of a school library restriction even remotely similar.” — U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher
www.courthousenews.com/judge-dumps-...
Curious to see what the most "interesting" public domain materials end up being.
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Freedom fighters defending the right to read. Website link: www.txfreadomfighters.us
We are grateful for all of our FReadom-fighting colleagues and all they do to support reader’s access to quality books all year long!
Happy holidays to all
