The Schooled Librarian

Never too old to get schooled.

[fanonical]

minerva mcgonagall looks in the mirror of erised

she sees herself wearing sunglasses and sipping a martini. there are no schoolchildren around. she is in the bahamas.

[beeps-bravely-through-her-fear]

bitch me too

[schooledlibrarian-blog]

Blow me to Bermuda!

[translesbianethics]

[nelle90]

THAT PART.

[tschaikovsky]

[barelyup]

Oh my god ❤️

[lilbluemoo]

Absolutely love this

[caffeinatedlanddetective]

Wow.

Please watch this. 

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

This is part of a longer documentary, and you can view more of these interviews here.

[providencepubliclibrary]

““To find out what a story’s really about,” the Librarian said, “you don’t ask the writer. You ask the reader.”

— Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose (via listentothestories)

[cheshirelibrary]

This is so great!

[tgpgifs]

[whenalibrarian]

Don’t Talk To Me Or My Son Ever Again

When a librarian is very put off by the fact that someone left the room crying after being told that he was “too old” for this book.

[schooledlibrarian-blog]

Malarkey!

[louisvuitttonn]

Dolce & Gabbana RTW Fall ‘16

[maggie-stiefvater-deactivated20]

I just had a pleasing experience in a Barnes & Noble in Lititz, PA.

“I’m looking for a good fantasy recommendation,” I said.

“Have you read any Maggie Stiefvater?” the bookseller asked.

(I told her who I was and she began to cry, which was flattering)

(A friend snapped the moment of the reveal)

[teenvogue]

Scotland Announces Plan to Make Period Products Free for All Students

Scotland is taking major steps in making pads and tampons more accessible and affordable for people with periods.

On Friday, August 24, the Scottish government announced their plan to provide students at schools, colleges, and universities with free period products, The Guardian reports. 

The £5.2 million plan makes Scotland the first country in the world to take such an action, which, in part, aims to ensure that lack of period products won’t interfere with students’ education. 

Every year, hundreds of thousands of young people globally miss school due to limited or no access to period products; a 2017 survey by Always found that one in five students aged 16-24 in the U.S. who menstruate had left school early or missed school entirely at least once due to lack of access to period products.

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📸: Getty Images

[everythingfox]

The wolf is so done with the fox’s bs 😂

[evilkillerpoptarts]

Foxes are cat software being run on dog hardware.  Clearly this fox is operating on the Kitten OS.

[misselaineofoz]

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

[advanced-procrastination]

Oh my god the sacred prophecy

[highschoolconfidentialteacher]

School Starts Tomorrow

Me hanging onto summer:

[schooledlibrarian-blog]

God help me

[humansofnewyork]

“I’d been putting it off because I didn’t have the money or time.  But a program at the VA offered to help with tuition, so I enrolled in Empire State College.  I wasn’t there to play.  I wasn’t there to party.  My only goal was to get an education. And more than the degree, I discovered that I needed the people.  I met people at college that I could bounce ideas off.  People who could challenge me to go further with my interests.  Two of my mentors were Dr. Fullard and Professor Whiteside.  Both of them had retired from corrections so they had a passion for helping black males.  They’d tell me: I notice you have a strong ability for ‘such and such,’ and I’d love to see you develop it further.  So that’s what I did.  Even though I majored in business, I found myself learning all about history and economics.  Right now I’m reading a book about the Haitian Revolution.  It has nothing to do with my major, but it’s important to me.  It’s part of my personal curriculum.  And that’s the most important thing that I got from college.  I got a degree.  But more importantly I developed a personal curriculum that I’ll be using for the rest of my life.

[beeps-bravely-through-her-fear]

I notice you have a strong ability for ‘such and such,’ and I’d love to see you develop it further.

Commit that phrasing to memory

[towlersnow-deactivated20210528]

This seems like something everyone should know if they’re in the sciences and/or interested in reading scientific papers.

[superselected]

30 Books by Black Women to Read in 2018.

[dudeinthestacks]

I mean, I get that the blog is called teacher misery, and I have felt trapped and miserable in my classroom on more days than I care to admit, but goddamn.

[abcoconut]

Seriously, that blog is just hateful. The title of their book including “special snowflakes” is a clear warning sign.

“Look, kids are stupid before you teach them things.” 

“Parents are ruuuuuuuude.’

“Screw doing any work in the summer!”

“These students suck”

“Having kids is horrible, but mine will be better than everyone else’s”

“Parent want thing?! WTF!”

Somewhere early in my teaching career, someone told me to avoid spending time in the staff/break room, because that’s where everyone would spill out all their frustrations about everything, and it would just be a horrible feedback loop that made you angry all the time.

Teaching is hard. Anyone who says otherwise has either never been a teacher or is likely doing it wrong. There will be miserable days, days when you hate everyone on your staff, when you feel absolutely locked down by your admin or policies, and days where your students take every last drop of your energy leaving nothing for you to take home.

But none of that means that you should constantly seek out the bad, revel in frustration, or spew such vitriol about your students. If anything, stuff like this is a reminder to seek out positive influences. Who are the teachers and staff that gush about how hard the students worked? Who are the admin that try their damnedest to showcase the positive action in their school? Who are the parents that love what you do and try to support the school every day? THESE are the people you want to surround yourself with to keep up in this profession.

Let professional friendships with grossly negative people taper off. Minimize your time in toxic environments. Purposely seek the positive. To be clear, I’m not saying “don’t feel like you have no right to be frustrated or upset.” I am saying that how you deal with those feelings will determine whether you spend the majority of your time feeling miserable or the majority of your time bringing positive change into the world.

[dudeinthestacks]

All of this 

[916gawd-deactivated20190411]

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