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intothestacks · 7 months
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Shared by my library supervisor
I feel called out. lol
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comic by @myjetpack
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schoolbelles · 3 months
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School librarian Miss Watts was always open to me working off my late fines
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atheostic · 22 days
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The setting: Me at work, reading a book about Pluto* to my students
1st Grade 3: Where did the planets in our solar system come from?
Me: *explaining in kid language about the sun's accretion disk*
2nd Grade 3: No, it was God! God make the planets! >:(
Me: *makes direct eye contact with the Grade 3 teacher, who looks equally uncomfortable and tense* Well, different people believe different things. This is what scientists say happened.
* The book, "Pluto! Not a Planet? Not a Problem!", is part of a fantastic nonfiction series about our solar system that I highly recommend:
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kp777 · 10 months
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School librarians face a new penalty in the banned-book wars: Prison
Washington Post May 18, 2023
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andletforsakendidodie · 8 months
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a lovely bok about mathive dweth and mas destructive
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redowlkitchen · 1 year
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Awkward things said to coworkers: librarian edition
Coworker: I saw you at the last PD. I was going to invite you to join us, but it looked like you found someone first.
Me: Oh, thanks for thinking of us!.... *realizes I’ve spoken in the third person* Hah. I use us instead of me or I in a lot of work emails. I guess I’m in email mode.
Coworker: ....
Me: Because it’s me and the library.
Coworker:....
Me: Me and all my books.
Please send help.
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prayerandpaper · 2 years
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hello tumblr friends! I cannot believe summer went by so fast we’re already back to school. This summer my library got moved into a new space and we’re still in the process of reopening from covid, so lots of work to be done and lots of things still missing.
I am asking all my friends and family to help me fulfill some items for my library and my students. My library is intentionally set up to be an open and welcoming space for all my students, TK-6th. This Amazon wishlist has items that will make our space more inviting as well as games and toys that promote Social Emotional Learning. I have also opened up the “Give a Tip” option on my page to raise funds to grow our diverse book collection and to gift books to our low income students, which make up 87% of our student population.
Now more than ever books and libraries are so very important for our children and their futures. Especially focusing on Social Emotional Learning. A strong school library builds strong students, but it goes beyond grades and test scores for me. I want our library to be a place of learning and healing and adventure and self discovery. In a world that’s dark and dangerous to our children, we must create safe spaces for them, and what better place than between the pages of a book :’).
Any support helps and is greatly appreciated, especially your thoughts and prayers. I would love to hear your favorite books and memories from visits to your elementary school library; even ideas or things you wish your library had. Thank you in advance for your wonderful support!
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acesartemis · 2 years
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PLEASE HELP ME ORDER NEW BOOKS FOR MY WORK LIBRARy!!
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lizyarns · 1 year
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I really appreciate the graphic that shows the number of book bans by state.
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I’m a middle school librarian in a small town in midwestern, USA. I ordered about 50 books since I started in September. We use an online quizzing system for reading check quizzes so I bought mostly books from that including Heartstopper by Alice Oseman. I hadn’t personally read it yet because while I was putting it in the system and preparing it for the shelf many students had come and asked to be put on the waitlist. I figured I’d get to read it eventually or get a second copy soon based on its popularity.
The next day the principal came in with it and and armful of the subsequent books in the series that were not from the library (meaning they must be students personal books). And he said very politely that we couldn’t have that book in the library because of the language and sexual content. I was very busy at the moment and simply said “okay” and he left with the library’s copy. I wish I had thought to ask for it back to read for myself to see what he means because I’m genuinely confused what’s inappropriate for the library when we have much worse books on the shelves.
After the fact (and after I was finished with what I was working on) I looked up to make sure and the rating for the book and even the rating on the tv adaptation seemed perfectly appropriate for middle school. Considering we have other popular books with similar and heavier topics (and worse language I’m sure). We have 13 Reasons Why and Girl in Pieces and so many others that I know of that talk of “sexual content” and have “bad language” I’m just super confused why he felt this book is suddenly worth pulling from the shelves but didn’t even ask me if there was anything similar on the shelves.
Personally, I don’t like censorship. I recognize that not all the kids in the middle school are mature enough to handle some content in some of the books on the shelves and I try to redirect those kids as I feel is needed. (Kids who are reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dog Man probably aren’t ready for 13 Reasons Why or What my Mother Doesn’t Know). However I don’t remove those books from the shelves. We have some books that previous librarians have labeled as “7th grade and up” or “8th grade only” which I follow as a loose guideline not a strict rule because the books labeled as such I read and as I get to know the students I get a good vibe of what they’re mature enough for.
I’m just upset that this book (and subsequent books) are getting pulled before they even circulate the school because they have content that is mildly mature and very hot topics honestly. Like I get it’s an LGBTQ+ book and that it’s getting a lot of backlash for that but we have plenty of other LGBTQ+ books too. But no graphic novels which are super popular in our school. (We have a very low literacy score as a school district and I’ve found that if I get them hooked on a series of graphic novels they get more reading in and then work their way up to chapter books. Some students are even raising their grades after getting hooked on some graphic novels).
There was a waitlist of around ten students for that first book and he confiscated it off of the first girl who checked it out. I was disappointed but after doing research about the book rating I’m confused why it was taken. Honestly, I’m at a loss what to do. Do I just accept defeat for that one book and keep quiet about the others that are worse? Do I fight back citing the many great books we have that are as bad or worse? Do I fight back while keeping quiet about the other books?
It’s also important to note that I just started in September and I’m technically only acting librarian because we don’t have one and I’m only a paraprofessional. I love most of my job (except when I get pulled all over out of the library because we’re short staffed like most schools because of unfair work environments), but I’m just confused what to do about this. I don’t know what would be best for the students.
Also I haven’t read heartstopper yet. It’s not my cup of tea so I didn’t want to buy it personally (also I work in a school I don’t have a lot of money to spend on much of anything 😥). I would’ve read the copy at the library eventually as I try to read the most popular books when I can to know exactly what the kids are into but I didn’t get the chance on this. If I fight for the book in the library maybe I could find a way to buy it. I’m just lost. Looking for book lover help. Please. Thanks.
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xxlittle0birdxx · 1 year
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One of my grade 6 classes had a moment yesterday.
I told them I had a degree in library science.
They didn’t know that was a thing and thought I was the librarian just because I like books.
Which I do… and we had this conversation while I was behind the wall of books I was prepping and cataloging.
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intothestacks · 6 months
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As a children's librarian, people who harass fans of Harry Potter indiscriminately really worry me.
Here's why.
1. The majority of Harry Potter fans are children.
I've had people call me disgusting and scum and an embarrassment to my disabled community. I've been suicide baited and have received death threats. All of this can be heavy enough stuff for an adult to deal with.
And then I think of how most of my 700+ elementary-aged students are huge Harry Potter fans. Because, you know, Harry Potter is a children's series. And they also have access to the internet and social media like TikTok and YouTube.
Now imagine the stuff that's been said to me being said to a kid. Because Harry Potter's main audience are KIDS.
2. This black-and-white mentality isn't healthy.
Very few things in life are cut-and-dry good vs bad. And if you employ this kind of thinking in one area of your life, odds are you'll apply it to other areas too(more on that in a moment).
And people who go out of their way to harass people who like Harry Potter don't seem to particularly care about any context beyond "If you like Harry Potter in any way whatsoever you're scum".
It hasn't mattered when I've pointed out that I absolutely and unequivocally think Rowling's TERF views are awful and scummy and wrong. It hasn't mattered that I try my best to consume the content only in ways that won't monetarily support her, (which kids typically can't do, btw). It hasn't mattered that it's literally in my job description to keep up with children's media to procure content for my patrons as well as to be able to hold conversations with them.
3. Saying "You're not allowed to read this without being harassed" is no different from saying a book should be banned.
This is ironic, seeing as the people doing the harassing are also often up in arms about queerphobic and racist book bans (as they should be) while demanding book bans of their own.
Because in their all-or-nothing way of thinking, book bans are only bad when the "bad" people do it.
No. Book bans are always bad, no exceptions.
Book bans aren't bad because they're banning the "good" books, they're bad because banning access to different ideas is always bad. Because every book has a lesson to teach us (perhaps not the lesson intended by the author, but a lesson nonetheless).
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ami-ven · 2 years
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Happy National School Librarian Day!
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mysharona1987 · 1 year
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newbiebooklady · 10 months
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Another great podcast!
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funniest moments from my east london secondary school library, a non-comprehensive list:
1. my indian head librarian having the laugh of her life when she used an accelerated reader sticker as a bindi
2. turkish student threatening head librarian with "Allah is watching you!" after he was given penalties for throwing books around for fun.
3. niqab-wearing english teacher (she wears it outside, she usually flips it back in the school) puts niqab on and jumps out from behind bookshelf to spook students slacking off, not picking books. she laughs for ten minutes.
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