Librarian, Writer, Speaker, Gamer
Western NY
Joined April 2007
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Thank you @POTUS for standing for the freedom to read at tonight's #SOTU! For resources and opportunities to fight book bans in your community, join the @UABookBans campaign: uniteagainstbookbans.org/tak…
ALT Quote from the State of the Union Address where Joe Biden says "Banning books. It's wrong! instead of erasing history, let's make history"
So honored to be a part of this work.
ALA is excited to announce the members of the new Policy Corps Cadre for Proactive Advocacy on Book Banning!
In a moment of record censorship and book challenges, these library professionals are coming together to protect the freedom to read. Learn More: ala.org/news/press-releases/…
ALT ALA Policy Corps - ALA American Library Association
So excited to be presenting about the Libraries.Today forum work at #ALAAC23 June 22-27 in Chicago. Almost as excited about enjoying the pizza I grew up with! Register here: bit.ly/ALAAC23-Register
90% of attempts to ban books as reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom included a list of multiple titles. 40% of the attacks against our right to read targeted over 100 titles in a single challenge. Here's an idea. Read what you want, and I will read what I want.
Libraries don’t have an agenda, we have resources for everyone. And we are always happy to share via our existing online catalogs and helpful library websites. This is why HR5, an unfunded mandate, isn’t needed. Encouraging @RepTenney to help protect the right to read!
The Libraries.Today National Leadership Forum, made possible in part through funding the the Institute of Museum and Library Services, kicks off in just over half an hour with a welcome video from Dr. Carla Hayden, The Librarian of Congress.
The MPAA spends $63M a year with 155 staff and a CEO making $3M to rate a few thousand movies. Tell me again how some external agency is going to rate the more than 1,000,000 new book titles published each year in this country?
Struggling to understand why a future of libraries conversation once again has devolved into a “print good ebook bad” discussion.
So great to hear ALA acknowledge that “It’s been hard” and we need to engage in self care. Check out one way to send some care and love on wethelibrarians.org
“I noticed the liberation [writing] provided my students.” Ashley, Exec Director of 826neworleans.org
Hah. You are like a mile from the actual hall still! Hope you brought your walking shoes! Also school lib checking in.
If you see my at #LibLearnX ask me for a wethelibrarians.org pin. I have 25 or so to share!
I love books, but even more I love the stories housed within the books. Libraries make access to stories possible, but they do so much more! GapingVoid did a great job of telling this story in our ebook for forum.libraries.today made possible in part through funding from IMLS.
I wanted to share what might be my favorite image from the school library ebook from the forum.libraries.today project made possible in part through funding from IMLS. I can't wait to have a poster printed to put this up in the hallway outside my office.
Another image from the ebook created through the forum.libraries.today project made possible in part through funding from IMLS. These graphics are all released under a CC BY-NC-ND license for wide usage. Up today is an image dedicated to the importance of credible sources.
Librarians don’t have an agenda. We have resources. All kinds of resources. And actually, we would much rather you found your own path amongst all of our resources. That is the way of libraries. Read the whole book that this image comes from at libraries.today
Libraries.Today, made possible in part through funding from IMLS, is proud to share the release of "The Day the Librarians Disappeared." This ebook, developed in collaboration with GapingVoid, tells the story of the value that school librarians bring to their communities.
