Nicole Connell
@nicoleconnell.bsky.social
She/her | Archivist & Librarian | Illinois MLIS '24 | Currently working on congressional papers!
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We can read 4000 year old texts. We can't open 20 year old digital documents
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
We can read 4000 year old texts. We can't open 20 year old digital documents
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If you're going to talk about aging up YA characters into adults, you have an obligation to talk about how it adds fuel to the book ban fire. This article never even bothers. bsky.app/profile/book...
If you want a perfect example of the aging up of YA fiction to appeal to adult readers at the exclusion of teen readers, it's getting rid of any references to the specific ages of the teen characters in the Six of Crows duology. www.tumblr.com/vilecemetery...
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💬 70 🔁 987 ❤️ 1691 · leigh bardugo has massively edited and rewritten the six of crows books and no one has noticed · or has for some reason decided not to mention it at all or let anyone else kn…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you're going to talk about aging up YA characters into adults, you have an obligation to talk about how it adds fuel to the book ban fire. This article never even bothers. bsky.app/profile/book...
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People write about teens doing things because, and I know this comes as a shocker, but teens do things. They have interior lives and interests. They experience things. People (are supposed to) write YA because teens also read things. YA isn't for adults. We're tourists.
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
People write about teens doing things because, and I know this comes as a shocker, but teens do things. They have interior lives and interests. They experience things. People (are supposed to) write YA because teens also read things. YA isn't for adults. We're tourists.
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"...It is our responsibility as archivists to properly describe and give context to those materials, but we also need to make sure we are taking care of our own mental health while doing so.” – Nicole Connell, Congressional Papers Processing Archivist
October 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"...It is our responsibility as archivists to properly describe and give context to those materials, but we also need to make sure we are taking care of our own mental health while doing so.” – Nicole Connell, Congressional Papers Processing Archivist
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“Papercuts. I keep Band-Aids in my desk drawer! On a more serious note, sometimes archival materials discuss or depict difficult topics...."
Photo: A letter to former Senator Ben Cardin from former President Joe Biden, in October 1988.
Photo: A letter to former Senator Ben Cardin from former President Joe Biden, in October 1988.
October 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“Papercuts. I keep Band-Aids in my desk drawer! On a more serious note, sometimes archival materials discuss or depict difficult topics...."
Photo: A letter to former Senator Ben Cardin from former President Joe Biden, in October 1988.
Photo: A letter to former Senator Ben Cardin from former President Joe Biden, in October 1988.