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@librarian.bsky.social

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Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · Apr 2

Hello I'm Jessamyn #librarian owner of librarian.net and a few other websites you might know. New pinned post for Spring.

I'm on Mastodon at glammr.us/@jessamyn
My reading list jessamyn.info/booklist

I work for the Flickr Foundation and do a lot of #Vermont and library civics stuff. Hello!

black and white photo of a woman in slacks and a white shirt oiling a windmill against a cloudy sky

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 8h

"Will make you eat lentils and wonder where lentils have been all your life."

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 9h

I actually had a picture of mine handy. My current longtime partner and I both grew up in the same part of Massachusetts where we listened to Dr. Demento on the same radio station in high school. Didn't meet til 30 years later, it was an early thing we shared.

A generic audio cassette that is white with a label on it that just has list of numbers across the top and Dr. Demento written in a child's handwriting on the bottom

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 11h

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 13h

Might I suggest the Wikipedia library? It's not the same, certainly, but for the low low cost of 500 edits you can get access to some good stuff (and ask for more). It's how I get access to some of the stuff I get.

wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org

The Wikipedia Library

More than 100 of the world's top subscription-only databases, with content in 30 languages, free for Wikipedians of all backgrounds

wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org

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Society of American Archivists @saa-official.bsky.social · 21h

#AskAnArchivist Day is coming up this Thursday, October 16, and we want YOU to participate. Join SAA and archives across the country to promote the work of archives. Participate across social media, with #AskAnArchivist.

For more information, see our announcement: https://ow.ly/Hhr950X1LYR

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 19h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"The bathroom. It's... bad."

Ryan "Spirit Halloween of '76" Randall @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 19h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Mandatory mid-semester LMS migration.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 1d

relaxed saturday evening reading through "women designers of book plates (1902)" and flipped past a couple of beautiful professional designs only to see this perfect plate by a young Miss Page

an open book with a hand-drawn bookplate on the right side. the top of the plate has "A. Helen Page" written in tentative cursive. below that is a child's drawing of a girl with wavy hair and a triangle skirt. at the bottom, in tentative print "HER BOOK 1899"

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

A Banned Books Week love letter to libraries from blind/gay romance writer @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy

"Its only goal is to take the most valuable things in the world-stories, knowledge, ideas, a quiet place to think-& give them away for free"

sightlessscribbles.com/posts/202509...

The Gospel of the Public Library, Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

sightlessscribbles.com

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not quite as up on how e-book purchasing works because we do it through a statewide consortium, but whatever your library's request system is, it's always good to use it.

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 2d

Libraries are also really happy to hear from their patrons about the sorts of things they would like to read. There's always a certain amount of guesswork in book buying for a library. It's a rare library that does not take requests.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 2d

If you could've told me that I would be telling all my friends in 2025 about what happened with lighthouses during the American Civil War, I would never have believed you.

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. This appears to be the vampire movie we deserve. And also Eric Bogosian? Awesome.

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 2d

A Short Bright Flash by Theresa Levitt, a history of lighthouses and the way the Fresnel lens revolutionized all of it. More dramatic than you'd expect!

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Aug 21

In response to this, name the last book that you read that you would recommend.

abcnews.go.com/Health/ameri...

Americans spend less time reading for fun and more time on screens: Study

Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the U.S. down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study published Wednesday found.

abcnews.go.com

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 2d

This one?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_cn...

“Alaska School of Government Presents:”

YouTube video by Politadick

www.youtube.com

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 3d

I fondly remember the Billionaires for Bush people who showed up at the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004. Such excellent fun protesting.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 3d

. @404media.co is investigating book bans. They could use your pointers on where to be looking. You can do it anonymously.

"We need help deciding... which school districts and cities to seek public records from and... where we should point our reporting efforts. "

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 3d

If you could, wait until March. Then the sap is running and at the local maple place, they sometimes let you drink it right from the tap.