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Hmmm, I wonder why the history of Volkswagen ad started in the late 40s even though they were founded in the 30s.

Checking an item off the bucket list - St. Louis Baseball Writer’s Association Dinner at the Missouri Athletic Club. #stlcards

A bookseller stands behind a desk labeled ‘Assistance’ at which a queue has formed. The people in the queue are labelled (front to back) 1. Knows the title of the book but not the author 2. Knows the author but not the title 3. Has some vague memories of the plot 4. Recalls the picture on the cover 5. Can name some of the actors from the movie adaptation 6. Thinks this is the coffee queue 7. Mind has gone completely blank but hoping something will come back before getting to the desk

My first Guardian Books cartoon for 2024

The Aurelian Cycle trilogy by Rosario Munda is epic in the best possible way. “Plato’s Republic with dragons”, yes please! It is begging to be a movie so someone with money go get those rights and make it happen. Highly recommend. #books #reading #teen #fantasy

Heard a #StLCards podcaster complain about StL winters being too cold this week.

You have to REALLY hate cold if you can’t handle the… checks forecast… SIXTY FOUR degree weather on December 23rd.

Truth. Loving the love for public libraries here.

The front of a yellow folded sheet of paper with a hand-drawn comic cover titled “boo-nan-na” clearly done by a child. The paper has been duplicated in Canva, with the cleaned up version next to it.

The inside of the yellow folded sheet featuring 8 hand-drawn comic frames, telling the story of a banana that was slain by a kitchen knife and the evidence disposed of. The cleaned up copy from Canva is below it.

A child left this behind at the computer station yesterday, so of course my only solution was to recreate it frame-for-frame in canva. 90% sure I’m gonna run off like 50 copies and set them out as a “Local Author Spotlight.” They don’t teach you this in library school either. 📚

This may be the best Christmas ad produced in 2020. Just fantastic. What do you think? Take Care of Yourself | Doc Morris Christmas Advert 2020

I’m not crying, you’re crying. So much feeling conveyed without a word of dialogue. This takes me back to those old AT&T long distance holiday ads. Give it three minutes of your life, it’s so worth it.

You never know what you might find at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Female statue with wings on pedestal, arms extended. Large shadow behind.

“Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And most of all, don't blink. Good Luck.” #doctorwho

since there are more people on here now:

I am the book content editor for Tor.com and I'm looking for 2024 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and genre-bending speculative books! If you're a writer or a publicist with an SFF book out next year, please share the link/info here! (or email me)

I was thinking about how the MCU Loki is the most misunderstood villain of all time because he (or she, as in the case of Sylvie) ALWAYS chooses good, but the minute they do (according to Kid Loki) they get deleted. Even the mostly evil 616 Loki chose good in the end.

Loki is the greatest MCU hero.

"Annihilating is easy. Razing things to the ground is easy. Trying to fix what's broken is hard. Hope is hard." - Loki

Nearly every librarian and library worker I spoke with in the last twelve months was clear that the book banners never had the numbers or popular support on their side—and I’m relieved they were absolutely correct!

I grew up in such an Ivory soap household that I’m always surprised by other bar soaps that don’t float.

Comic-Illustration: You can see a pile of books with a cup of tea on it, next to it are some crystals. A raven stands next to the books and looks up. Some herbs are behind the books. The text above the illustration says: No is protection spell. The illustration is mostly coloered in violet tones.

It's a difficult spell, I know, but you can do it 💜.

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)

It’s in St. Louis, Missouri. Technically the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial but everyone here just calls it the Arch www.nps.gov/articles/jef...

Cover of the book All Systems Red: the murderbot diaries with grey robot in a field of grey trees.

The MurderBot Diaries series by Martha Wells is one of the best I’ve read in a long while. Dark humor for days as an added bonus.

Bread Co til I die!

In St. Louis, where I grew up, the trick or treat tradition is for the kids to have a joke to tell in order to receive candy.

I didn't realize this was regional til I was like 25, I left STL at 18.

When I am the benevolent dictator of baseball, the World Series MUST finish a week before Halloween

Infographic created for the New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL) by Arlen Kimmelman in 2022. Title: Certified School Librarians: A District's Biggest Bargain! Subtitle: one salary get you all of this! Circle with 8 segments, each with an icon, the title of a professional position, and the median per year salary according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Curriculum Designer /Instructional Leader $63,740 median per year (Master's degree) Reading Teacher $59,720 median per year (Bachelor's degree) Instructional Technology Specialist, I.e., Tech Coach $120,130 median per year (Bachelor's degree) Program Administrator $96,910 median per year (Master's degree) Information Resources Specialist $99,270 median per year (Bachelor's degree) Professional Learning Facilitator $63,740 median per year (Bachelor's degree) Co-teacher $61,820 median per year (Bachelor's degree) Arlen Kimmelman (c)2022 http://bls.gov/ooh -- 2021 National data

I will argue any day of the week that a school without a school librarian is guilty of educational malpractice.

Public ed is supposed to provide a "thorough and efficient" education. Doesn't get more $ efficient than a school librarian!

…in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered able to answer, such as ‘Is this the laundry?’ ‘How do you spell surreptitious?’ and, on a regular basis: ‘Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.'

-Sir Terry Pratchett

I had to tell someone once not to ride a bike inside the library and their defense was “I didn’t see I sign that said I couldn’t do it.” #library #publiclibrary #librarian #librarylife

“A library does not have a name; a library has all of them. A library is not a place; a library is a purpose.”
- The God of Lost Words by A.J. Hackwith
#libraries #books #freadom #library #bookbans

The library feels sentimental.
Never forget that the first thing that happened to you on this earth is that you were held.
Never forget you deserve support.