LaFarge Liz
@libraryliz.bsky.social
Public librarian. Boring mom of extremely cute kid. Cat enthusiast.
Catalogers are there any ways to identify a book as being authored by a pretendian? Would that be useful. Should we move non fiction works by non-Indigenous authors who claimed to be to the fiction section? @violetbfox.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Catalogers are there any ways to identify a book as being authored by a pretendian? Would that be useful. Should we move non fiction works by non-Indigenous authors who claimed to be to the fiction section? @violetbfox.bsky.social
I am at inbox zero because I delete emails without reading or responding to them if they look like something I don't care about.
October 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I am at inbox zero because I delete emails without reading or responding to them if they look like something I don't care about.
Federal judge says “government speech” allows libraries to censor LGBTQ+ books www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/fede...
Federal judge says "government speech" allows libraries to censor LGBTQ+ books - LGBTQ Nation
One free speech organization has said the judge's ruling allows "blatant viewpoint discrimination in publicly-funded libraries."
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October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Federal judge says “government speech” allows libraries to censor LGBTQ+ books www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/fede...
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Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico is becoming the first state in the U.S. to offer free early childhood education to every family in the state. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a universal ch…
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September 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
All this terrible news of the National Guard planning to incarcerate the unhoused is making me think off all the wonderful unhoused folks I knew when I lived there like Black Cat Bill www.welovedc.com/2011/11/24/r...
Rest in Peace, Black Cat Bill (Updated: He’s Still Alive.)
Update (8:30am, 30 November 2011) Black Cat Bill is alive. Ryan Little from the City Paper was able to track down Bill in the Deanwood Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, and confirm he’s still with u...
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August 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
All this terrible news of the National Guard planning to incarcerate the unhoused is making me think off all the wonderful unhoused folks I knew when I lived there like Black Cat Bill www.welovedc.com/2011/11/24/r...
Any of my DC Librarians ?
Do I happen to know anyone who will be at the Folger in the next week or two who might be willing take a photo of a single manuscript page for me?
June 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Any of my DC Librarians ?
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SANTA FE!! Next Tuesday, June 10, I will be presenting Fargo at CCA for our monthly Closer Looks series. I'll be giving a short talk, followed by the film. Please come see it!!
Info and tickets here: ccasantafe.org
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Info and tickets here: ccasantafe.org
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
SANTA FE!! Next Tuesday, June 10, I will be presenting Fargo at CCA for our monthly Closer Looks series. I'll be giving a short talk, followed by the film. Please come see it!!
Info and tickets here: ccasantafe.org
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Info and tickets here: ccasantafe.org
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Are we ready?!?! Summer reading means bedazzling.
May 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Are we ready?!?! Summer reading means bedazzling.
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DC restaurants are on alert but ICE is also targeting schools. There is currently ICE presence at the Mondo Verde school on P Street -- parents are forming a human chain and plan to do so for the rest of the week. If you're in DC and able to, they would like help
🚨ALERT 🚨ICE reported at 5300 South Dakota Ave NE in the last couple of hours. 4 agents and 2 cars confirmed. At least one person detained.
🚨ALERTA🚨ICE/La Migra reportado en 5300 South Dakota Ave NE en las últimas dos horas. 4 agentes and 2 carros confirmados. Al menos una persona detenida. 1/
🚨ALERTA🚨ICE/La Migra reportado en 5300 South Dakota Ave NE en las últimas dos horas. 4 agentes and 2 carros confirmados. Al menos una persona detenida. 1/
May 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
DC restaurants are on alert but ICE is also targeting schools. There is currently ICE presence at the Mondo Verde school on P Street -- parents are forming a human chain and plan to do so for the rest of the week. If you're in DC and able to, they would like help
Taylor Swift Midnights 16 years after her debut album Taylor Swift.
May 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Taylor Swift Midnights 16 years after her debut album Taylor Swift.
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here's a fun game if you're a music dork: what is the best album released by a music act at least 15 years after its debut album?
May 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
here's a fun game if you're a music dork: what is the best album released by a music act at least 15 years after its debut album?
Hey librarians and avid readers. I'm trying to make a mom's in books, fiction only plz no memoirs, and I'm struggling to find fictional queer moms. Drop your queer mom fiction recs here.
April 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Hey librarians and avid readers. I'm trying to make a mom's in books, fiction only plz no memoirs, and I'm struggling to find fictional queer moms. Drop your queer mom fiction recs here.
Ahh I spy new library gear for work!!!
April 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Ahh I spy new library gear for work!!!
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April 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Hello friends! University of Chicago is hiring 3 subject librarians. You deserve to be part of a lovely, adorkable workplace. Our library does outreach to the south side, we're trying all sorts of new things and the dean is absolutely a magic user of some kind. www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/thelib...
March 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Hello friends! University of Chicago is hiring 3 subject librarians. You deserve to be part of a lovely, adorkable workplace. Our library does outreach to the south side, we're trying all sorts of new things and the dean is absolutely a magic user of some kind. www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/thelib...
Once a week I get a notice that I'm still on the waitlist for full day public preschool. We went from 68th to 43rd pretty quickly. Now it just hovers it 43rd. Taunting me. I think we should just do a hunger games style brawl for pre-k. The adults obviously!
March 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Once a week I get a notice that I'm still on the waitlist for full day public preschool. We went from 68th to 43rd pretty quickly. Now it just hovers it 43rd. Taunting me. I think we should just do a hunger games style brawl for pre-k. The adults obviously!
As a pre-popped corn enthusiast I endorse this article. I will say that I like the plain kind like a freak. I LOVE the skinny pop plain. Hell yeah. Also if you're looking for some cheese non popcorn food item I recommend Pirate's Booty. My son recently started eating it. It's pretty good.
Recently I realized that Smartfood white cheddar popcorn, the snack of snacks, did not taste as good as it used to. Was it me? Please accept my mad investigation into the recipe www.eater.com/24394718/sma...
Why Doesn’t Smartfood Popcorn Hit Like It Used To?
One woman’s quest to figure out why her beloved white cheddar popcorn started to disappoint.
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March 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
As a pre-popped corn enthusiast I endorse this article. I will say that I like the plain kind like a freak. I LOVE the skinny pop plain. Hell yeah. Also if you're looking for some cheese non popcorn food item I recommend Pirate's Booty. My son recently started eating it. It's pretty good.
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I've been so impressed with Lindsay's thoughtful approach to making change within ALA. She has the discernment to focus on what truly matters (protecting library workers) & the drive to make things happen. She'll be a terrific ALA president!! #CronkTheVote
#ALA Polls are open! Please #CronkTheVote so we can secure the future of libraries. www.ala.org/aboutala/gov...
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March 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I've been so impressed with Lindsay's thoughtful approach to making change within ALA. She has the discernment to focus on what truly matters (protecting library workers) & the drive to make things happen. She'll be a terrific ALA president!! #CronkTheVote
Librarians get on it! You’ll take Denali from my cold dead hands!
Today is the last day to submit comments about proposed LCSH changes, including changing to Mt. McKinley and Gulf of America.
h/t @katscade.bsky.social
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Tentative Monthly List 12 LCSH 2 (February 13, 2025)
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February 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Librarians get on it! You’ll take Denali from my cold dead hands!
I Resent My Accursed Allergy Shots, Unless They Work, In Which Case I Love Them! - defector.com/i-resent-my-... hard same! Oof my allergy shots are such a pain.
I Resent My Accursed Allergy Shots, Unless They Work, In Which Case I Love Them! | Defector
The heady scent of apple cider is in the air, the foliage has begun its annual transition from life to death, and the Defector staff has once again retreated to a secret wooded location to conduct ann...
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February 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I Resent My Accursed Allergy Shots, Unless They Work, In Which Case I Love Them! - defector.com/i-resent-my-... hard same! Oof my allergy shots are such a pain.
I was in the Army during don't ask don't tell. And there were little army cops whose whole job it was to investigate possible homos. Nobody would cooperate with them at all and it was really funny. I hope everybody can keep that vibe now that we are going back to the 1860s.
February 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I was in the Army during don't ask don't tell. And there were little army cops whose whole job it was to investigate possible homos. Nobody would cooperate with them at all and it was really funny. I hope everybody can keep that vibe now that we are going back to the 1860s.
I feel like global pride 2025 in DC should be a gay version of the purge where dykes on bikes rule the streets and gay sex on Vance’s lawn.
January 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I feel like global pride 2025 in DC should be a gay version of the purge where dykes on bikes rule the streets and gay sex on Vance’s lawn.
I try to order every requested book because I KNOW that there is at least one patron who wants it. And we don’t get a ton of patron requests so honestly it’s the least I can do!
If you want to read a new book coming out but don't want to buy it, a great thing you can do is ask your local library to order it. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to acquire it and then lots of people will get to read it who othewise wouldn't.
January 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I try to order every requested book because I KNOW that there is at least one patron who wants it. And we don’t get a ton of patron requests so honestly it’s the least I can do!