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NATIONAL LIBRARIAN DAY, 04/16/2023
Libraries are a national treasure. Some states want to stop funding libraries because they dare to carry books people want to check out or read. F*ck fascists and fascism. Support your local libraries and your local librarians. Don’t let political thugs strip away the heart of civilized society!
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Happy National Library Workers Day! 📚 🦉 Today, we salute the heart and soul of libraries everywhere: the librarians and staff who guide, educate, and inspire.
At JSTOR, we deeply appreciate your dedication to making knowledge accessible and empowering communities. Here’s to celebrating your invaluable contributions today and every day. Thank you for lighting the path of learning. 🌟
Image: Voigt, J.P. Bookplate of JV. 1897. Pratt Institute.
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Saturday April 15.
Celebrating not just the weekend, but the weekend of National Librarian Day 2023, with some bookish, scholarly content.
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Adventures in Librarian-ing
"Are you really from Korea?"
-- Grade 1 to parent volunteer during National Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations after she said she was Cree.
Her response: No, not Korean, Cree. It's the name of one of the First Nations groups in Canada.
Kid: Oh, 'cause I thought since they both have the "kr" sound...
Her: No, they're different things, but you're right -- they both start with the same sound.
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04/04/2024 is World Rat Day 🐀🌎, National Chicken Cordon Bleu Day 🇺🇸, National Hug a Newsperson Day 🇺🇸, National School Librarian Day 🇺🇸, National Walk Around Things Day 🇺🇸, International Carrot Day 🥕🇬🇧, International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action 🇺🇳
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Book Recommendations: National Library Workers Day
The Librarian of Boone’s Hollow by Kim Vogel Sawyer
During the Great Depression, Addie Cowherd dreams of being a novelist and offering readers the escape that books gave her during her tragic childhood. When her adoptive father loses his job, she is forced to leave college and take the only employment she can find--delivering books on horseback to poor coal mining families in the hills of Kentucky.
The small community of Boone's Hollow is suspicious of outsiders and steeped in superstitions that leave Addie feeling rejected and indignant. Although she finds an unexpected friend in an elderly outcast, the other horseback librarians scorn her determination to befriend Nanny Fay.
Emmett Tharp grew up in the tiny mountain hamlet where most men either work in the coal mine or run moonshine. He's the first in the community to earn a college degree, and he has big dreams, but witnesses the Depression robbing many young men of their future.
Then someone sets out to sabotage the library program, going so far as to destroy Addie's novel in progress. Will the saboteur chase Addie and the other librarians away, or will knowledge emerge victorious over prejudice? Is Emmett the local ally that Addie needs--and might their friendship lead to something more?
This is the first volume in “The Librarian of Boone’s Hollow” series.
The War Librarian by Addison Armstrong
Two women. One secret. A truth worth fighting for.
1918. Timid and shy Emmaline Balakin lives more in books than her own life. That is, until an envelope crosses her desk at the Dead Letter Office bearing a name from her past, and Emmaline decides to finally embark on an adventure of her own--as a volunteer librarian on the frontlines in France. But when a romance blooms as she secretly participates in a book club for censored books, Emmaline will need to find more courage within herself than she ever thought possible in order to survive.
1976. Kathleen Carre is eager to prove to herself and to her nana that she deserves her acceptance into the first coed class at the United States Naval Academy. But not everyone wants female midshipmen at the Academy, and after tragedy strikes close to home, Kathleen becomes a target. To protect herself, Kathleen must learn to trust others even as she discovers a secret that could be her undoing.
The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence.
Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It’s a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those rules have been forgotten. Yet she knows that the Nazis are searching for the press and its printer in order to silence them.
As the battle in Europe rages, Ava and Elaine find themselves connecting through coded messages and discovering hope in the face of war.
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz.
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Hello, it's old Uncle Eli again, just popping in to remind my US based niblings that it's National Voter Registration Day...the most sacred and valuable of all US "holidays"!
Fuck Presidents Day, this is the good stuff. This is the day that you grasp some power and prepare to keep us from turning into Gilead like so many rich white men want us to.
Normally I'd be at my branch, cornering every 17 and 18 year old that comes in to beg them to exercise their voting rights while they still can but I'm on vacation and so you get the speech instead. You CANNOT let yourself be left out of the process, you MUST take your civic duty seriously, if not for yourself then for all your friends and neighbors who may get swept under the rug or swept away entirely by bad legislation and representation.
You matter every single day, by virtue of existing, but when it comes time to vote, you can be absolutely unstoppable. You can change history. But you gotta do it.
Anyway, if you're not registered yet, you can go here and get it done (or, you know, pop into a library and let another librarian give you this speech and help you fill out a card, I don't mind):
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