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@alabiblioheck.bsky.social
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public library assistant director. mawrter. saltwater conch. aggressively into potatoes. she/elle 🏳️‍🌈✨

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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Does your library have a Big Ass Storytime Chair? If so, please tell me where you got it. We also want a Big Ass Storytime Chair. The more whimsical the better! 📚 #skybrarians #libraries
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Absolutely only surviving the canicule in France thanks to the @librarycongress.bsky.social fan I grabbed at ALAAC Philly last year. Best. Swag. Ever #skybrarians 📚
A white paper fan with the black Library of Congress logo printed on it. OP is holding the fan up in front of a teal Paris metro car at a station, with old buildings in the background.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I love finding my favorites in bookstores when I travel. In this case, the Lightfall series en français! 📚#librarianontheroad #skybrarians
The French language cover of Lightfall: A Place Between, a graphic novel by Tim Probert, sits on a shelf in a French bookstore. The deluxe gilded French language cover of Lightfall: The Girl & the Galdurian, a graphic novel by Tim Probert, sits on a shelf in a French bookstore.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Have I been throwing up because the elimination of the SAVE plan means my loan payments go from $127 to $852/month starting next week, or do I just have an upset tummy? No, it’s definitely the first one.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I think my favorite moment of the entire USA-AUS match has been when the whole brewery I’m watching at booed RFK en masse.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I'm guessing this was meant to say "Elite" but truly I love the idea of an Elote Squad so much.
A screenshot of a cropped off-white shirt sleeve tshirt from a soccer fan website with FRANCE in large blue letters on the front and a red and blue fleur de lis design on the back. The item's description reads "France Outerstuff Women's FIFA World Cup 2026 Elote Squad Cropped T-shirt - Natural." OP highly suspects that the caption should have been Elite Squad instead.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Heading to work for our big kickoff party and traffic is already backed up southbound on the GSP for a couple miles headed toward Rt 3 to get to MetLife. It’s 9AM. The match is at 6PM.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Summer reading kickoff party day let’s goooooooo!
A close-up photograph of a painted eye on a large foam dinosaur sculpture. The eye resembles the eye of Sauron with red and yellow rings and a sharp black vertical pupil. The dinosaur’s painted skin is green with purple and black mottling.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Very normal, nothing to see here. Just summer reading business as usual… #skybrarians #cslp2026 #libraries
A large pile of 12 inflatable pteranodons, with wingspans approximately 4 feet, lay piled on a carpeted floor.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Well folks - it’s officially official! I love working with my director and I’m very excited to keep doing so in this new capacity.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It is admittedly a real buzz kill when you find a new folk artist that you enjoy, and then all of a sudden they pronounce it apa-LAY-shuh in a song.
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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
CALL YOUR REPS NOW! SPREAD THE WORD! HR 2616 was snuck onto the calendar for a vote TOMORROW. This is a pro book banning bill which seeks to ban ALL books by or about trans individuals.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Every Youth Services Manager’s least favorite phrase: “It wasn’t number 1.” 🙃💩 #libraries #skybrarians
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Got a bit of not good news and also a bit of extremely good news this week, so naturally I am treating both with 3 people’s worth of sushi as is customary. Can’t wait to share soon! (the news, not the sushi - you can’t have that 😒)
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I have transcended into a new level of cat parenthood today. I found a hairball… on top of the fridge. 💁🏻‍♀️🐈‍⬛
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I refuse to miss a single moment of rhubarb season this year.
Approximately a dozen bright red and pale green fresh rhubarb stalks with leafy tops sit in a neat row on a yellow cutting board.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Got a postcard today from one of the vendors I’ve hung out with at ALA/PLA that they sent from Minneapolis, and I forgot how utterly much I love receiving postcards. 🥹
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Hard to believe that #PLA2026 was two weeks ago already! I’ve never felt so energized by a conference (and also so exhausted). Minneapolis, you are a dream!
The Wells Fargo Tower in Minneapolis, a modern art deco style skyscraper, is lit up golden yellow on a foggy dark street. The tower glows slightly eerily and lights up the surrounding lower buildings.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Final count here was just about 2 feet, not including wading through the drifts that were higher than my waist to try and reach the car. Please send your largest bottle of ibuprofen.
A photo looking down into an enormous snowdrift, with a person’s legs in black sweatpants visible as well as the bottom of a shovel stuck into the snow. The snow is higher than the top of the person’s boots and reaches almost to their knees.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
No one wants rye bread in a blizzard, I guess? Buckle up, NJ!
The bread aisle of a grocery store at 10:30am, hours before a record blizzard is forecasted to start. Most of the bread is gone, but one whole shelf of various rye breads remains largely untouched.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
7” so far and still bucketing down with no sign of stopping. First plow sighting about 30min ago.
A black cat sits in a large window flanked by beige curtains with branch patterns. He stares out the window at a snowstorm, with snow piling up on the windowsill and a snow plow truck going down the street in the background.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I guess this means I’m supposed to stop writing performance evals for the night?
A photo of the screen of an open MacBook, which is set to a generic Italian countryside background. In front of the laptop screen is the large extended leg of a cat, mostly black fur with a white foot, stretched over the entire middle of the screen,thus preventing his human from effectively using the laptop anymore.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The sufganiyot fairy visited the library today 🤤
One of several boxes of sufganiyot, a jelly donut eaten during Hanukkah, from Beigel’s Bakery in Brooklyn NY. The donuts where brought to the library by a generous patron for staff to enjoy and are sitting on the table in the staff kitchen area.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Sweet frozen Jesus on a crispy cracker. Missing from this map is the town where my library is… which is in the purple… where it will be -3° in the morning. Help.
A meteorological chart covering New Jersey and the eastern part of Pennsylvania shows the “feels like” temperatures for Monday, December 15 at 7 AM. All of the temperatures are 5°F or under, and the temperature where the OP works is going to be zero or in the negatives.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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a truck is driving down a dirt road with smoke coming out of it
Alt: A scene from the film Priscilla Queen of the Desert. A large silver tour bus is driving through the outback, and a drag queen is standing on top of the bus singing opera with an enormous piece of silver fabric as large as the bus billowing in the wind.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
This is pigeon slander and it will not stand.
A screenshot from the Duolingo app with a grumpy bear cartoon asking you to translate from French to English the phrase: “Pigeons are the rats of the sky.”
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Happy Beaujolais Nouveau Day from my family (me & my cat) to yours (whoever). 🍷
A glass of red wine in the forefront of a photo sits on a grey bar, in the background are two standard wine bottles and a magnum.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
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a man stands in front of a screen that says ' xyz '
Alt: Two characters from the television show, Battlestar Galactica salute each other in the control room of a spaceship
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Very normal Saturday at work, nothing to see here. #libraries #skybrarians
A white man with brown hair and a brown beard is wearing a style outfit and holding a giant toothbrush. He also holds the end of a long chain, which is tied around the neck of a 7 foot tall hyper-realistic T.rex. The dinosaur is walking through the front sliding doors of the public library, on its way to meet approximately 70 children inside.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Well that’s… new.
A screenshot of the United Airlines app with a text alert that reads: The U.S. government plans to restrict flights beginning Friday, November 7, due to the ongoing federal government shutdown. We're making updates to our schedule and will let you know if your flight is affected as soon as possible. Check your flight status.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Got to go to my first manif yesterday. I was just looking for shoes, but this body doesn’t cross picket lines. 💪
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
There is a pigeon in my hotel room there is a pigeon in my hotel room there is a pigeon in my hotel room everything is very fine.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This is extremely accurate. Crazy Rich Asians is the perfect plane movie and I will not hear otherwise.
A photo of the seatback inflight movie selection on a United flight, with a list of curated films titled Perfect Plane Movies. The photo shows the film posters for Oceans 11, Mean Girls, Crazy Rich Asians, and The Blues Brothers.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy New Year, witches. The veil is thin and I am ready to rock some faces. 🖤⚡️ (work bestie is dressed as the well-behaved 80s twin with leggings and crimped hair)
A white female human is dressed in a rainbow sequin jacket, The Cure tshirt, black skirt, green and pink fishnet tights, and knee high doc marten boots. She has bold 80s makeup and a fauxhawk hairstyle. She is making rock fists while facing the camera, and is standing in a children’s library section between a large stuffed unicorn toy and a large stuffed zebra toy. A white female human is dressed in a rainbow sequin jacket, The Cure tshirt, black skirt, green and pink fishnet tights, and knee high doc marten boots. She has bold 80s makeup and a fauxhawk hairstyle. She is standing with her arms crossed in a profile shot, in a children’s library section between a large stuffed unicorn toy and a large stuffed zebra toy.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Almost had to fire someone yesterday. Staff in other dep’ts getting into fights today. Huge leak by the board books from the storm blowing sideways. 3 days until I go surprise my mom on her bday trip & almost blew the whole damn thing. HALLOWEEN HAD BETTER COME THRU
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Roll call: use a gif to share what you are being for Halloween
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a black and white photo of a group of punks standing next to each other on a street .
Alt: a black and white gif of a group of female presenting 80s punks walking next to each other down a street
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Sitting behind a Tesla with a vanity plate that says ROOMBA and that is… extremely fucking funny to me. Perhaps I am also losing my grip on sanity.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
From humble beginnings, my children begin to multiply. I also think the folks who work at the farmstand may be questioning my sanity.
A photo of a cream-colored pantry shelf with  two large jars of bright yellow wax beans, two large jars of green beans, and several smaller jars of vegetable broth stacked together. They have been home canned.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I fear my friend/coworker may have severely underestimated the queer urge to absolutely lay out on Halloween when she asked me to do a coordinated work costume with her. My suggestions were shot down & we’re now doing “the 80s” but y’all she is so unprepared for what’s gonna walk in that door. 😂💄
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Does anyone in #libraries have an example of a collection management policy that specifically excludes GenAI? I want to propose it to our board and they find examples convincing.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I just caved and ordered a pressure canner from Kohls for like 70% off and I am about to become insufferable about bartering my canned goods with others.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This week was a pile of hot garbahhhje but hey I finally finished my latest project. 9”x24” finished, crewel wool on traditional groundcloth. (pattern by Avlea Folk Embroidery)
A long rectangular cream linen table runner with fringed edges and a geometric design worked in brick pink, navy, and muted teal wool thread. The pattern is from Avlea Embroidery and is based on Prairie-style architecture leaded glass windows. It took around 45-50 hours to embroider and finish, in case anyone wonders why this would not be a lucrative side hustle.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Explain your username: “à la bibliothèque” means “at the library” in French. I am French, and also I work at a library. I started the Xitter account of the same name as an anon account to post on COVID working conditions in mine/other libraries, so “heck” seemed both punny & fitting.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Finally got the official word from our Baker & Taylor rep about 15min ago that the company is closing and all staff are being let go. What a freakin’ timeline we are living in. 📚 #skybrarians
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Lol went to the closest urgent care that lists xrays as a service and got all the way to the doctor part before they told me they don’t have an xray machine anymore and now I have to go somewhere else tomorrow, so anywayyyy blessed Mabon 🙃
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
We ordered some of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social “Censorship Is So 1984” stickers & gave them out at a community event on Saturday. A couple teens came up to the desk this afternoon to ask if I had any more (yep!). As they walked off, I heard them mutter “this is so tuff! 😤” 🖤
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Sprained ankle/possible fracture from a fall last wknd, worked over 8hrs of unpaid OT last week, topped off by a patron who yelled at & then reported me (lol) for not telling off a kid who “used profanity” (aka quietly said “stupid” to their Roblox game) in front of her 4yo. Y’all I am so so tired.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Just a little guy (and his 4 little friends) I found munchin’ on my kale from the farmstand. He and his buddies were relocated to the bush outside my kitchen window with their own individual pieces of kale for a road snack (this is why I wash my greens 😅🐛)
A very small caterpillar, about as long as a penny, with thin black and white stripes on its back and a bright green underbelly, is happily eating a piece of raw kale being held by a human hand.
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à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Got a call this morning from a parent of a new 4th grader wondering about our programs after school. P: “do you get kids attending usually?” Me: “well we have btwn 200 & 300 kids every day so there’s usually a good crowd” P: “I… I’m sorry WHAT? Can you repeat that??” They’re baaaaack! #skybrarians
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