These people will never stop until no one is allowed to read anything.
Utah book banners now want to make Little Free Libraries susceptible to criminal charges www.themarysue.com/utah-book-ba...
Conservative book banners in Utah are targeting Little Free Libraries and want to make the owners susceptible to criminal charges.
Literally just revisited the classic "stairs in the woods" creepypasta today! creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/I%27m_a...
"[H.] doesn't acknowledge that culturally, we do not value reading.We ban books, scrutinize classroom libraries, demonize librarians & demoralize teachers.We pay lip service to the importance of literacy, but we donât make space for the curiosity & joy that are the foundations of lifelong literacy."
I saw that "why aren't the youths reading?" Atlantic article re-shared 8 gazillion times in the last week. Here's a response from the English teacher interviewed in the article: "The Atlantic Did Me Dirty." cmsthomas.substack.com/p/the-atlant...
Early this summer I was interviewed by Rose Horowitch, an editor for The Atlantic. She told me that she had heard from a university professor that incoming students were struggling to keep up with the...
Today I learned that the French term for "writer's block" is "angoisse de la page blanche" and I'm going to use that phrase from now on. "How's the writing going?" "Ah [Gallic shrug], comme ci comme ça. Un peu d'angoisse de la page blanche."
One of the best things I think I saw posted to Mastodon was a simple phrase: âall unsolicited advice is criticism.â Is criticism sometimes warranted? Maybe. But it really changes when you want to give it. It was also amazing because so many people there MELTED DOWN over it.
This poem makes me cry without fail every time I read it, and there's no way I could recite it without embarrassing myself, so my hat is off to you, mistakes or no!
This is the sort of thing I think we as librarians need to plan for. What do we do when admin tells us to do something that violates our professional ethics? Planning ahead for it means having strategies prepared for how to respond: - call in / go home "sick" - set up data erasure plans - say no
It looks like this specific behavior: "During the study-in, library staff jotted down the names and Harvard University ID numbers of several student protesters," violates the American Library Association Library Bill of Rights. âŹď¸
Ashamed of my profession right now. Librarians, this is NOT WHAT WE DO.