Getting Dressed out of the Dryer

Book reviews and other thoughts

[profeminist]

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[librarianproblems]

WHEN I FIND THE RIGHT BOOK AFTER A PATRON GIVES ME A MISHEARD TITLE

[librarianproblems]

WHEN I FIND AN ITEM MY COWORKER COULDN’T

[librarianproblems]

Millennials Are Keeping This One Dying Industry Alive

Millennials are the group most likely to use library services – and this is a big deal.

“Dying Industry”?

[librarianproblems]

"I MISS WHEN LIBRARIES WERE QUIET”

[librarianproblems]

DESCRIBING LIBRARIANSHIP TO NON-LIBRARIANS

[weneeddiversebooks]

Get ready for OurStory, available June 15!

Created by the We Need Diverse Books team, OurStory is a tool for kids, parents, educators, and librarians to discover books with diverse content and by creators from marginalized communities. An interactive quiz helps you find the perfect book, and membership levels include access to exclusive content from authors and illustrators and materials that educators and librarians can incorporate into their curriculum and programming.

There are three versions of OurStory. All are accessible via the internet browser on your computer and tablet, and downloadable apps for iOS and Android tablets are forthcoming.

OurStory Kids: for ages 12 and under

OurStory Teen: for ages 13 and above

OurStory Pro: for educators and librarians

For more information, visit us here. And stay tuned for details!

[gameraboy]

Super Grover

[toydreamrest]

Female staffers adopted a meeting strategy they called “amplification”: When a woman made a key point, other women would repeat it, giving credit to its author. This forced the men in the room to recognize the contribution — and denied them the chance to claim the idea as their own.

Here’s How Obama’s Female Staffers Made Their Voices Heard (via toydreamrest)

[himissjulie]

“We’ve heard stories of parents saying to their kids, ‘We don’t want you to borrow books because you might be late with them and then you’ll have fines to worry about,’” he told WNYC. In fact, overdue fines can end up keeping thousands of kids from accessing library resources, just because they’re unable to pay what they owe.

Libraries Are Dropping Overdue Fines – But Can They Afford To? | HuffPost (via himissjulie)

[everylibrary]

In the war on fake news, school librarians have a huge role to play

Concern about the prevalence of fake or sensationally biased news sources has escalated in the days following the presidential election, with many citing it as a factor (some even the primary cause)...

[jaidajones]

I love it when cats sigh. You know those full-bodied sighs, like “WHOOF, damn, boyo, what an intense day of licking my own tumble-dummy and scooping all the litter onto the floor of the bathroom, wow, it is a LIFE this life, I’d better sleep on you for the next 6 hours to recuperate while your ass falls asleep and you become increasingly desperate to pee”

[thesylverlining]

eloquent yet accurate

[himissjulie]

I now have a new theory: Tove Jansson began her Moomin series during the Nazi occupation of Finland; Paddington Bear was modelled on the Jewish refugee children turning up alone in London train stations. Arnold Lobel, the creator of the Frog and Toad books, came out to his children as gay and died relatively young, from aids. I wonder if the truer unity among children’s-book authors is sublimated outrage at the adult world. If they’re going to serve someone, it’s going to be children.

Mo Willems’s Funny Failures - The New Yorker (via himissjulie)

[scishow]

There might be a way to get the benefits of medical marijuana without the high caused by THC.

[profeminist]

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[fatangryblackgirl]

This is important.

[aflcio]

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