Kelly Mueller

I'm in IL. We have a fantastic governor.

I'm sorry to hear that. My library is very autism friendly if we ever have another job opening.

Hi, I hope you are doing ok.

I definitely missed something, so could someone please tell me why LJ stopped awarding star libraries? I can’t find a notice or anything, it’s like they just…stopped #libraries #librarysky

We saw four white-tailed deer run across the road in front of us today! Well, yesterday. They even all had their white tails up!

Could it be a type of loom?

Excellent, thanks Alex!

Is 64 GB enough for an iPad used mostly for educational app games like Osmo?

I'm sorry you feel that way. I've been reading your reviews on Edelweiss to decide what might be worth requesting to read.

Wait, why?

We baked our gingerbread cookies today, too! But we use my grandma's recipe.

Awesome! Yeah, I am super excited! Can hardly believe it really.

Yes, 2026! Thank you! Oh that's awesome! I wonder if she was the other late addition (I just got added in November).

The cool thing about being on the Newbery is that even non librarian/book people know what that is! Wow, how did I get so lucky?

Thank you Laurie!

Thanks. It's doing weird sizing and displaying things I don't like, so I'll mess with it later.

Ok thanks, found that. But you can't change a picture's size to fit?

How do you add a cover image to your profile?

It wasn't terrible but I was definitely making my "ugh" face while drinking it.

I just drank a latte by accident. I'm not entirely sure what this level of caffeine is going to do to me.

Thanks Kiley! I'm so excited!

Thank you!

Ok good so I'm not crazy to do that!

Thanks! Yes, I was just telling my boyfriend about the note pages I'm creating. Were you on any of the book committees before?

I have news, folks!
I am a member/appointee of the 2026 Newbery Award Committee!
It's the biggest honor of my life, so I am thrilled to have been selected.

Sending you both good thoughts!

Hi! Glad you're here, too.

"All the study rooms now have holders for dry erase markers and an eraser."

Am I just too literal or what? I was like, ok, holders for the dry erase markers, sure. Seems a bit unnecessary but ok. Turns out (I think) that all rooms have markers now.

I should probably post something here, huh? I can't tell you what I'm reading for my committee, but I can tell you that I'm still reading The Bletchley Riddle!

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