Lisa Bishop she/her
@lisabishopsf.bsky.social
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Newly retired bilingual Teacher Librarian, love learning journeys, redwood forests, perritos, familia y mucho más.
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Research repeatedly shows: schools w/ robust library programs have students with higher outcomes across all measures - academic, social, & personal!
If we want to provide NJ students with strong educational foundations, school librarians are essential.
www.saveschoollibrarians.org/njasl_ratiob...
If we want to provide NJ students with strong educational foundations, school librarians are essential.
www.saveschoollibrarians.org/njasl_ratiob...
SEND AN EMAIL: Every Student in New Jersey Needs a School Librarian
A1712 / S2316 (2024) requires a “ratio of school library media specialists to students” allowing every student to have access to the support of a certified school librarian.
www.saveschoollibrarians.org
"The Tennessee Association of School Libraries found in a survey of its members that in 20% of school districts, books were removed from the shelves at the command of district leaders without any sort of review process."
How profoundly sad. The kids deprived of reading Calvin and Hobbes are the kids who need them the most. My brother put it best: "We know we’re fucked when they come for your cartoon stuffed tigers."
Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
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Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
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Alberta youth have the right to school library books that reflect their lives, including sexuality
Alberta youth have the right to school library books that reflect their lives, including sexuality
Recent policy directions introduced by Alberta Education raise alarm bells, with PEN Canada saying the actions of the government pave “the way to a new era of government-sponsored book banning.”
theconversation.com
“[Oregon’s] new law prohibits removing and banning books from school libraries for reasons exclusively based on the fact that their content includes a protected class.”
Bill prohibiting book bans in Oregon school libraries becomes law • Oregon ArtsWatch
Senate Bill 1098, signed this week by Gov. Tina Kotek, is based in Oregon’s discrimination law related to protected classes.
www.orartswatch.org
Please call your members of Congress right away, and ask them to sign their colleagues' "Dear Appropriator” letters. These letters close in just a few days, so now is the time to act #ForOurLibraries.
bit.ly/Call2FundLibraries
#FundLibraries
bit.ly/Call2FundLibraries
#FundLibraries
“Carla,” read the email. “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as the Librarian of Congress is terminated effective immediately.”
Carla Hayden is first woman and first African American to hold the position.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Carla Hayden is first woman and first African American to hold the position.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
Hayden, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, was the first woman and the first African American to hold the position.
www.washingtonpost.com
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In Michigan and Virginia, the Governor has proclaimed April as #SchoolLibraryMonth. In Minnesota, today is School Library Media Specialist Day. Has your state made a proclamation? Share with us here! #AASLslm www.ala.org/aasl/slm
IMLS staff were placed on administrative leave following the Trump Administration’s Executive Order, which eliminated federal funding for libraries. Take action today! www.everylibrary.org/statement_im... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Statement on IMLS Staff Administrative Leave
IMLS is responsible for distributing Federal Funding for libraries.
This action will interrupt IMLS's vital, congressionally funded work. We cannot allow IMLS to be dismantled by executive action.
www.everylibrary.org
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Naomi Klein
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
· Apr 2
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
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Donalyn Miller
@donalynbooks.bsky.social
· Mar 16
Call to action: nationwide protests and sit-ins. Saturday April 5th.
“REMOVE REVERSE RECLAIM”
#3E #USprotests
“REMOVE REVERSE RECLAIM”
#3E #USprotests
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For those folks who have been waiting to climb the pole and ring the “constitutional crisis” bell, it would appear we have arrived. Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.
We’ve Officially Entered the Next Phase of Trump’s Dictatorship Era
Taken together, these actions and declarations amount to a significant escalation in Trump’s transformation of his own presidency into an autocracy.
slate.com