Not The IT Librarian
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No, I'm not IT.
Librarian with some thoughts. Libraries are not neutral
Opinions and expression are my own
My writing account @sebbyire.bsky.social
Librarian with some thoughts. Libraries are not neutral
Opinions and expression are my own
My writing account @sebbyire.bsky.social
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Yes, I'm a librarian
No, I'm not IT
Yes, I will help reset your password
No, I will not help you create your personal website, but there's a book for that somewhere.
Expect librarian posting, politics, and more.
Yes, I'm a librarian
No, I'm not IT
Yes, I will help reset your password
No, I will not help you create your personal website, but there's a book for that somewhere.
Expect librarian posting, politics, and more.
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The FCC's recent removal of #ERate discounts for library & school hotspot lending is a step backwards. ALA President Sam Helmick: "Having digital connection is going to allow us to not only thrive civically but economically, educationally, & socially." More: federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2...
When the hotspots go dark, who connects the unconnected?
"We're really thinking about the broad spectrum of American life and how the lack of connectivity infrastructurally has been devastating," Sam Helmick said.
federalnewsnetwork.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The FCC's recent removal of #ERate discounts for library & school hotspot lending is a step backwards. ALA President Sam Helmick: "Having digital connection is going to allow us to not only thrive civically but economically, educationally, & socially." More: federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2...
My future is hopefully in a law library of some kind.
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
My future is hopefully in a law library of some kind.
They don't tell you in library school that the only advancement in a public library career is increasing management up to Director and at that point it's philosophy, politics, and business style management which I hate 2/3 of those professionally.
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
They don't tell you in library school that the only advancement in a public library career is increasing management up to Director and at that point it's philosophy, politics, and business style management which I hate 2/3 of those professionally.
So, we still think it's the books grooming children? Well, there's a few thousand emails that may reveal something else, but i guess reading and taking what's read as a whole is not a skill some people practice.
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
So, we still think it's the books grooming children? Well, there's a few thousand emails that may reveal something else, but i guess reading and taking what's read as a whole is not a skill some people practice.
Follow up: I'd deny most of them regardless. A lot of the teen boys want to think of me as their bro and they need to recognize that I'm not their friend.
But when one is clearly hurting and I'm their safe adult, that's when it hurts to tell them "no." Cause I know how it looks.
But when one is clearly hurting and I'm their safe adult, that's when it hurts to tell them "no." Cause I know how it looks.
As a queer librarian who regularly denies library teens hugs when they ask me for one, I hadn't made this connection.
Now im heated about it. I know how it can look and boundaries are important to teach youth, but damnit.
Now im heated about it. I know how it can look and boundaries are important to teach youth, but damnit.
Everything is grooming now except for actually grooming children - LGBTQ Nation
Megyn Kelly argued that trans people are a threat to kids before she said that molesting underage teens isn't that bad when a straight guy does it.
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Follow up: I'd deny most of them regardless. A lot of the teen boys want to think of me as their bro and they need to recognize that I'm not their friend.
But when one is clearly hurting and I'm their safe adult, that's when it hurts to tell them "no." Cause I know how it looks.
But when one is clearly hurting and I'm their safe adult, that's when it hurts to tell them "no." Cause I know how it looks.
As a queer librarian who regularly denies library teens hugs when they ask me for one, I hadn't made this connection.
Now im heated about it. I know how it can look and boundaries are important to teach youth, but damnit.
Now im heated about it. I know how it can look and boundaries are important to teach youth, but damnit.
Everything is grooming now except for actually grooming children - LGBTQ Nation
Megyn Kelly argued that trans people are a threat to kids before she said that molesting underage teens isn't that bad when a straight guy does it.
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
As a queer librarian who regularly denies library teens hugs when they ask me for one, I hadn't made this connection.
Now im heated about it. I know how it can look and boundaries are important to teach youth, but damnit.
Now im heated about it. I know how it can look and boundaries are important to teach youth, but damnit.
Had healtchare insurance premiums come up for the first time in my professional life. I have workplace healthcare, but the non-profit I sit on the board of has employees in the insurance marketplace. Premiums up by 18 to 33%
I imagine non-profits who don't offer health insurance face similar
I imagine non-profits who don't offer health insurance face similar
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Had healtchare insurance premiums come up for the first time in my professional life. I have workplace healthcare, but the non-profit I sit on the board of has employees in the insurance marketplace. Premiums up by 18 to 33%
I imagine non-profits who don't offer health insurance face similar
I imagine non-profits who don't offer health insurance face similar
SNAP benefits issues are going to continue to trickle into public libraries, and unfortunately we aren't equipped to fill this massive community need.
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
SNAP benefits issues are going to continue to trickle into public libraries, and unfortunately we aren't equipped to fill this massive community need.
Dealt with multiple escalated behaviors including folks who are currently in crisis and I am tired.
November 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Dealt with multiple escalated behaviors including folks who are currently in crisis and I am tired.
Our library has community free food pantries outside our locations. I've never seen them get depleted so fast on a daily basis.
I've also never seen the community restock them so quickly.
Never lose hope in an individual's capacity for grace and kindness.
I've also never seen the community restock them so quickly.
Never lose hope in an individual's capacity for grace and kindness.
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Our library has community free food pantries outside our locations. I've never seen them get depleted so fast on a daily basis.
I've also never seen the community restock them so quickly.
Never lose hope in an individual's capacity for grace and kindness.
I've also never seen the community restock them so quickly.
Never lose hope in an individual's capacity for grace and kindness.
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“While the Rosenbach was able to partly recover NEH funding by submitting project expense reports, Bates characterized the information coming from the NEH throughout the process as conflicting, infrequent, & irregular, which contrasts w/ the transparency of the NEH before Trump.” shorturl.at/c9maJ
Literacy Dies in Darkness
Philly’s local Rosenbach Museum faces uncertainty months after the Trump administration cut federal funding.
www.34st.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
“While the Rosenbach was able to partly recover NEH funding by submitting project expense reports, Bates characterized the information coming from the NEH throughout the process as conflicting, infrequent, & irregular, which contrasts w/ the transparency of the NEH before Trump.” shorturl.at/c9maJ
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Me putting holds on library books: Ahahaha yes
Me receiving all the holds at once: oh n o
Me receiving all the holds at once: oh n o
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Me putting holds on library books: Ahahaha yes
Me receiving all the holds at once: oh n o
Me receiving all the holds at once: oh n o
Don't let baker and taylor going under distract from Overdrive's growing monopoly over digital services libraries can offer
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Don't let baker and taylor going under distract from Overdrive's growing monopoly over digital services libraries can offer
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Someone help this man’s bookshelf 😆
October 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Someone help this man’s bookshelf 😆
The saving grace for public libraries right now is they are vastly founded by municipality.
Various services or grant projects using LSTA funding however.....those are federal dollars
Various services or grant projects using LSTA funding however.....those are federal dollars
October 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The saving grace for public libraries right now is they are vastly founded by municipality.
Various services or grant projects using LSTA funding however.....those are federal dollars
Various services or grant projects using LSTA funding however.....those are federal dollars
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The crazies thing I have learned is that kindness doesn’t always look like kindness to those whose heart and empathy are dark and damaged.
A warrior still exists inside kindness. Kindness doesn’t not mean complacency.
A warrior still exists inside kindness. Kindness doesn’t not mean complacency.
October 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The crazies thing I have learned is that kindness doesn’t always look like kindness to those whose heart and empathy are dark and damaged.
A warrior still exists inside kindness. Kindness doesn’t not mean complacency.
A warrior still exists inside kindness. Kindness doesn’t not mean complacency.
Was at a No Kings protest. Thousands of people. Organized well. 0 incidents.
There wasn't even an obvious local police presence. I spotted one cop car a distance away from the main protest area
There wasn't even an obvious local police presence. I spotted one cop car a distance away from the main protest area
October 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Was at a No Kings protest. Thousands of people. Organized well. 0 incidents.
There wasn't even an obvious local police presence. I spotted one cop car a distance away from the main protest area
There wasn't even an obvious local police presence. I spotted one cop car a distance away from the main protest area
Had to have a hard conversation with my bosses. Good things for me. Maybe not as great for the org, but we'll be ok
October 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Had to have a hard conversation with my bosses. Good things for me. Maybe not as great for the org, but we'll be ok
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Please book a study room
I'm taking my next date to the library so I can hear him read aloud.
October 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Please book a study room
So I love the use of silly outfits in protest in Portland. I was wondering if someone could connect that to wearing your "Sunday Best" during the civil rights movement and turns out multiple people have looked at dress and resistance. This is just one article. news.stanford.edu/stories/2021...
What dress codes reveal about politics, social change
According to Stanford legal scholar Richard Thompson Ford, dress codes are a Rosetta Stone to decode social norms and resistance of a time and place.
news.stanford.edu
October 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
So I love the use of silly outfits in protest in Portland. I was wondering if someone could connect that to wearing your "Sunday Best" during the civil rights movement and turns out multiple people have looked at dress and resistance. This is just one article. news.stanford.edu/stories/2021...
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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In 2024, ALA tracked 821 attempts to censor library materials, targeting nearly 2,500 unique books. That’s 10× more than five years ago.
Join the fight for the freedom to read: UniteAgainstBookBans.org
Donate to ALA: ilovelibraries.org/1984
#BannedBooksWeek
Join the fight for the freedom to read: UniteAgainstBookBans.org
Donate to ALA: ilovelibraries.org/1984
#BannedBooksWeek
October 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
In 2024, ALA tracked 821 attempts to censor library materials, targeting nearly 2,500 unique books. That’s 10× more than five years ago.
Join the fight for the freedom to read: UniteAgainstBookBans.org
Donate to ALA: ilovelibraries.org/1984
#BannedBooksWeek
Join the fight for the freedom to read: UniteAgainstBookBans.org
Donate to ALA: ilovelibraries.org/1984
#BannedBooksWeek