MLIS. Queer. Métis. Vegan. Just a parasite in a cardigan. All opinions are my own. She/her. 30-something.
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The Library Louse retweeted
“The bill says that in order for public libraries, including in public schools and universities, to remain eligible for grant funding, they must adopt the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights or adopt their own written statement prohibiting the banning of books.”
Finally, a breath of fresh air...
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The Library Louse retweeted
Check in on doom scrolling... Are you bearing witness, or are you just cramming more pain in on top of the pain you haven’t processed?
ALT An orange cat looking down over the edge of a cardboard scratchy shelf
The Library Louse retweeted
*GIVEAWAY* We're celebrating 20 years of Rob Zombie's HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES by giving away one copy of the brand new 20th Anniversary Blu-ray Set SIGNED BY ROB ZOMBIE AND SHERI MOON ZOMBIE. To enter, simply RT this tweet. Reply with #Corpses20 for an additional entry.
The Library Louse retweeted
Missouri Republicans have just voted to defund all public libraries heartlandsignal.com/2023/04/…
The Library Louse retweeted
1. Florida teachers are being told to remove all books from their classroom libraries OR FACE FELONY PROSECUTION
The new policy is based on the premise that teachers are using books to "groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.
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The Library Louse retweeted
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED what books are banned in your state's prison system? After a YEAR of records request, today we @MarshallProj published a searchable database of all the banned books list we could get our hands on - more than 54,000 titles. themarshallproject.org/2022/…
The Library Louse retweeted
Something I’d like to share in these turbulent Twitter (potentially end)times is that
Librarians do surveys how everyone else does systematic reviews - completely winging it. There isn’t any basic social science methodology. Literally throwing questions into a Qualtrics form.
The Library Louse retweeted
This is kind of random but public libraries are so important to me. I could go even far as to say it changed my young adult life. Library was a place to get away from unhappy home, get lost for hours in all the books, graphic novels, magazines, cd’s, etc. The summer reading
The Library Louse retweeted
A book can’t turn your child gay.
Librarians are not making kids queer.
They already were. It is who they are.
Books help them figure themselves out.
Librarians help them thrive into who they are, & who they can be when they are loved.
Children have the right to be who they are.
The Library Louse retweeted
Constantly amazed by the number of men that walk around the city with no bags. Just going to work raw. Walking out the door with no emergency tissue or painkillers. Just them and their hands in their pockets against the world
The Library Louse retweeted
A student asked me this morning for LGBTQ books. I asked her fiction or non fiction and she said fiction. Pulled up my lists and told her I had titles in realistic fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, horror etc. Her eyes got wide. "They make LGBTQ books in fantasy?!"
The Library Louse retweeted
Another wonderful picture book from Charlesbridge's Storytelling Math series, Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi!, by Art Coulson, illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight, has a boy exploring volume and area as he prepares for the Cherokee National Holiday. sonderbooks.com/Picture_Book…
The Library Louse retweeted
Do you save all the voicemails from everyone you love in case they die unexpectedly or are you normal
The Library Louse retweeted
Early today, a House committee signed off on criminally charging librarians who lend “material harmful to children.”
One mother said: "The school does not need to teach our children how to do oral sex. That’s my job.”
boisestatepublicradio.org/po… #idpol #idleg
The Library Louse retweeted
@CoreyRobin I teach a class at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on Banned Books. I’ve been teaching it every few years for 25 years. Here is what I have learned.
The Library Louse retweeted
Sarah Weddington has died. She was not long out of law school when she filed Roe v Wade. She was just 26 when she argued the case before SCOTUS. She was just a year older than I and has been an inspiration and a hero to me.
RIP.
The Library Louse retweeted
the end of the year is approaching, so you know what that means: continuing to process the traumas of the past couple years while panicking that I haven’t accomplished all I wanted *this* year
