Librarian Wynn

Hi! My name is Wynn. I'm an information professional who is committed to fostering reading and information literacy skills for lifelong learning. This blog is dedicated to all things library and literary. Please make yourself at home.

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Dr. Carla Hayden

In February, President Obama nominated Hayden to lead the ­Library of Congress. If confirmed, she will be the first woman and the first African American to do so—and fresh leadership for a 216-year-old institution in sore need of a technological upgrade.

That feeling when Fortune names Dr. Carla Hayden one of the World’s Greatest Leaders.

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Ursula K. Le Guin on the sacredness of public libraries. 

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If you are a bookseller, teacher or librarian, do not pigeonhole diverse books by bringing them out only for “themed months” or holidays. All displays should have a diverse component.

Hannah Ehrlich, Directer of Marketing & Publicity at LEE & LOW Books (via tubooks)

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Librarians are how libraries speak. Theirs are the small faces behind a million stories and facts. Theirs are the simple hands that introduce you to the people who will shape you, and the ghosts that will haunt you, and the ideas that will drive you, and the friends that will never leave you. They know the science of knowledge and beauty and laughter, and – though you can’t quite imagine it – they’ve cried over the same books that have broken and rebuilt your heart. They’ve ridden in the same sleigh with the snow queen. They’ve flown over London and sailed on pirate ships and visited Shangri-La and watched the world be destroyed and created and destroyed again. And what they want more than anything else is to share those impossible journeys with you.

The Bloggess, A Love Letter to Librarians (via libraryadvocates)

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To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.”

R. David Lankes

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Vintage library club pin. 

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In this 1935 South Omaha News article, librarian Catherine Beal shared some of the items she found in returned books that were used as bookmarks, including a garter and a strip of bacon!

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Noam Chomsky #library #book #quote http://ebks.to/1FO8aA4

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Several years ago, at a vegan potluck we had dubbed ThanksForNuthin, a few of my friends and I determined that librarianship, as a career, resonated best with the “punk rock” ethos we had grown to identify with. One of those friends is now my wife, and we have both recently graduated from library...

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[tubooks]

I talk about race and gender openly with my students, and they respond openly. They are passionate about the stories we read, always looking for connections to their own lives and experiences. As for the cis straight white students at my school, I believe it is also important for them to see me, a multiracial teacher, deeply in love with the texts I teach. It’s important for them to realize that most of the books they’re going to encounter in other English literature classes were written by white authors for largely white audiences, and that it’s necessary to look and read beyond that.

Noah Cho, “Why I Teach Diverse Literature.” (via tubooks)

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More communities are finding that it is beneficial to invest in a public library combined with community and learning centers. There is benefit in providing space for people to gather, to team with other groups, both nonprofits and individuals, to share a learning experience. Sometimes this is compared to a “community living room.”

Mary Ellen Goddard, Friends of the Libraries: Rethinking the library (via libraryadvocates)

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Breaking News: Library cart can’t take it anymore! 

We lost a friend today here at MoMA Library. RIP, little buddy. -ds  

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Hahaha!