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@ExlibrisMrHunt

@exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social

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Teacher-Librarian, K-5 Hands-on STEAM; kidlit fanboy; love graphic novels; inclusive col’n; he/him. Co-host of The Sartorial Librarians Podcast. @sartoriallibrary.bsky.social Spotify: spoti.fi/3ANgYge Apple: apple.co/4e4mM3h Instagram: bit.ly/4dCh09b

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · Dec 1

Getting to know me, @ExLibrisMrHunt…

[Ex Libris roughly can mean “from the library of” and used to be on bookplates (stickers) inside book covers so that people knew who the borrowed item belonged to…it’s Latin, ‘cause I’m all fancy and stuff.]

@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · Dec 1

Hello new (or past) followers,

My bio says most of what you need to know, including that I’m co-host with @paulvinelli.bsky.social of a #LibrarianFashion & #kidlit podcast…

BUT,
here are 5 more “special”things (no particular order) I’d like you to know about content I share here:

1) I use ALT ⬇️

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 11h

His own relationship to water and swimming was complicated, as he reveals in some excellent back matter author/illus notes, due to family attitudes to water and feeling like an outsider “ as a light-brown body among predominantly fair-skinned ones” at the pool.

I rec pairing it w/ Together We Swim.

@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 11h

(Hmmm…mulling over what I’m maybe missing out on…if it was just my wife & a swim in beautiful bays…)

As a white guy, I’ve had no barriers other than my fear.

A main point of the book is all about breaking down barriers for swimming for BIPOC folks; celebrating them taking to the water.
Wong’s own⬇️

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 11h

kept to myself as my sons were growing up. I didn’t want to transfer that fear/dislike of swimming to them. They did lessons, we all went to the city pool, the lake, etc. Now, I never swim. Ever. Pass, thx.

Yet, poetics/beauty/joy of the swim scenes in nature in the book really had me re-thinking⬇️

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 11h

My relationship with swimming is complicated— I kinda hate it for multiple reasons, but mostly because I almost drowned (or it certainly felt like I was reallllly drowning) a couple of times when I was young; and, I especially hate indoor swimming pools; don’t get me started…all of which I kept…⬇️

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 11h

#ThisBookTheseReasons
1/
Jack Wong has literally helped me shift my attitude about swimming a little…

I always say that picture books are magic, but even knowing that, I still get surprise sometimes by their power.

This book is absolutely luminous – both in poetic & incredible swimming scenes.
&⬇️

My hand holding up the book when you can swim, by Jack Wong, against a melted buttery coloured wall. The cover is a vibrant swimming pool blue with all kinds of swirly reflective surface lines traced over top of it. Forgrounded, is a portrait of a young Asian girl, goggles perched on head, wearing a vertically striped rainbow swimsuit, standing at the edge of the pool looking upward… with a look of wonder on her face, in her eyes, since, as you find out, we read the book, her mother is telling her of all the amazing adventures swimming outdoors that they will have after she learns to swim at her lessons in the pool.

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 21h

#ThisBookTheseReasons

Due to “capybaras rising,” the collection needed another book, as kids have been asking.

Always interesting how whatever the newly popular animals are rises up in the zeitgeist.

Thoughts?
Kids wanting capybaras at your library?
Sloths still going strong?
Lots o’ axolotls?

Cover of Capybaras: A First Field Guide to the Biggest Rodent in the World, part of the new-to-me Young Zoologist series (which is really engaging and packed with great facts).
Features a large, in-your-face, illustration of a somehow slightly sardonic looking capybara rising head and shoulders out of water with lily pads on the surface and a swimming crocodile lurking in the background.

@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 21h

Nice!
Variant:
Dewey Decibel
?

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 21h

(Not being aware of how wordplay or splicing words together works in Dainish…but I love brainstorming names for things, so…)
RoskJam,
Rosk Musik,
Rosky Musik,
BiblioPlade,
GrammoBiblioPlade

(I’ll stop now🤪)

@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 22h

or maybe in Danish, BibliLyd works?

@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 22h

Biblio Audio
or
Audio Biblio

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 22h

Wow…I’ll need to come back to this on a bigger screen.

@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 1d

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · Dec 1

1) I use #ALT-text for #accessibility for folks, but also to often share (what I’ll self-aggrandizingly call) more bonus content/info/Easter Eggs/humour) so maybe look at the alt (& def use alt yourself)
See also,
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2) My personal hashtags for specific content ⬇️

@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · Nov 17

Also, maybe good to share how/why to do alt, plus extra incentive reasons to do alt-text, including some samples so that folks get it more. Disability #accessibilty efforts help everyone, of course.

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Mary Grace🕷️🕸️🎃👻 🍂🍁🍎 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 1d

Josh Johnson is one of my favourite comedians. Here he is being serious and honestly, he is so right on.

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When you strip away humanity

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

youtube.com

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 1d

wld really love to run my ALT for a bunch of my images through some sort of ALT evaluator app/site…

Does anybody know of such an evaluator thing?

I’ll search for one later, but maybe the #TLsky #skybrarian hive mind already knows?

a 3d man scratches his head in front of a red question mark that says so

Alt: Animation GIF: 3D abstracted man-like figure with a ping pong ball-ish head…He scratches his head and makes thinking gestures while standing/sitting in front of/under/on top of a big red question mark, with text that says, “So???”

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 1d

1/2, Q coming:
Obvs, thought I was so fromage-y witty w/ this book photo, but also like to experiment w/ #ALTtext mix of good details/my weird humour…but never sure if what I’m doing is effective/shite/exemplary ALT sharing…
I’ve read how-to posts + shared 🧵s on it, BUT I would…

@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 2d

#ThisBookTheseReasons
@linseedling.bsky.social rocks it again w/ a #scienterrific crossover nonfic/ #graphicnovel w/ her comics-style & realistic-enough details illustrations. Fab facts. Great example of how modern illustrator-driven nonfic is so highly engaging vs trad photoreal/text block books

Cover of
The Dark! Wild Life in the Mysteries World of Caves (which I ever-so-wittily snapped a photo of in the darkness under some chairs in my kitchen…like the book in a cave…cause I’m so tricky).

The main title in slightly jagged, shivery, “spooky” all-caps…purple dark cave background…

stalactites and awesome creepy insect thing (!?) plus snake, glow worm strings and bat coming down from top…stalagmites insects, critters (?), a newt (?), a mouse at the bottom

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 2d

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 2d

B)
Game On!
re: innovative, blockbuster video games from Pong, 1972 to Overwatch, 2016.
I was mostly only 80s/very early 90s gamer—but found myself intrigued browsing sections beyond my era.
B&W images + trade pb trim size made awkward reading for me; dedicated gamers & keen noobs won’t be deterred?

@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 2d

#ThisBookTheseReasons
2 books on video gaming history:
A)
Blips—great narrative nonfic pic book re: creator of Odyssey, a game that later became immortalized as Pong (Atari copied it).
@katehanniganbooks.bsky.social nails whittling down info to best narrative tidbits; Ohora nails 60s/70s vibes.

& …

Photo of two books about video gaming history:
1)
Narrative nonfiction picture book Blips On A Screen: How Ralph Baer Invented TV Video Gaming and Launched a Worldwide Obsession.
+
2
Game On: Video Game History…

Blips features an illustrated scene with a perhaps middle aged 1968 Ralph seated on the floor with his “brown box” console, playing his Odyssey game—playing the first wide-market video game (later copied and renamed Pong by Atari)—on a huge wooden box TV from the era.

Game On features…schematics style background lines?…the title centred with circular subtitles around it, and little circular inset images in the four corners—showing Pong, Pac-Man, Mario, and the Minecraft cube.

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 2d

#ThisBookTheseReasons
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Great book! Kids will love it. Gorgeous cover. Fab photo examples & clear facts and tips about understanding pet animal body language and sounds.

(Doesn’t have a pet rats section…nor lizards…but quite a few others.)

Loafing bunnies are especially cute.

#TLsky #skybrarians

Cover image of the book
How to speak animal.
Subtitle: decode the secret, language of dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, and more.

It features a bright pink background with a subtle sort of zebra stripe that is mostly all covered over by the title, running through the middle with various animal head photos peeking out around from under the title: basset hound, and some other dog, a snake, a rabbit, a goldfish, some other fish, a budgie or parrot, and some other parrot, and a cat.
(ha ha! I barely know what some of these animals are)
(Sorry)

This is a shot of the table of contents that shows that it refers to the various “languages” you can learn to interpret from dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, hamsters, guinea pigs, horses, snakes, fish.

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 2d

No, yours is the nicest compliment!

Thx.

(But, also, though I dress up all funky half the time, the other half, I’m just schlepping it in t-shirt and jeans. But are good.)

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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #ComingOutDay! I’ve been out for more than half my life at this point and every single day, I feel more powerful.

If you can be visibly queer, do it. Role models and visibility still matter so much.

It's ok if you can’t come out too. What matters most is who you choose to invite in.

a colorful graphic for national coming out day

Alt: a colorful graphic for national coming out day

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 4d

Very cool!
Plus, check out (hee, hee) the whole backpack full of pins: Best in #LibrarianFashion!

The Bride (aka Rain) I ❤️ the Monster @simplyrain.bsky.social · 4d

I am in l❤️ve! Thank you @erikaslong.bsky.social!!!

New enamel pin two hands holding up a sign that says, "This is what a LIBRARIAN looks like" on the card it was shipped on from Not Yo Mama's Librarian.

New enamel pin two hands holding up a sign that says, "This is what a LIBRARIAN looks like" from Not Yo Mama's Librarian on my red backpack with other pins.

New enamel pin two hands holding up a sign that says, "This is what a LIBRARIAN looks like" from Not Yo Mama's Librarian close up on my red backpack.

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Library Girl @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social · 4d

Just an FYI for #bannedbooksweek. This fight isn't about books. It's about freedom.

#TLSky #TLSkyChat #Booksky #Edusky #Librarians #Skybrarians

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t often get stumped for a book rec…
Anybody else have something that fits really well here?
📚👍

Kelly Kaloti @kaloti.bsky.social · 5d

Can anyone recommend a picture book or read aloud about plagiarism or copying? Or taking credit for something you didn't do? 📚

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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 5d

Fab!
I have a bunch of these, but got some more possible future purchase ideas—thx.