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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Thanks as always to Annie, who has been my cheerleader during this whole research process 🩷

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

any way books are awesome, get (and use!) a library card, let kids read

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I have a lot of new followers with all the migrating lately so: hi. I’m Ally. I used to be a public librarian for a lot of years and now I’m an academic librarian (for a lot of reasons). I love: genre fiction, kidlit, comics, lipstick, and Lebanese food. If we were mutuals elsewhere, please say hi!

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I logged into my computer this morning and my Google calendar had a different font than yesterday and I almost had a come apart, if you’re wondering where my mental health is sitting here in November 😂😭

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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

shared sorrow is half a sorrow, shared joy is twice the joy. i don’t make the rules.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 07/11/2024

I’m a public librarian in a degenerating democracy, and I am pleading: Care about your library. Use it. See what programs and events it offers. And pay attention to its governing body. See who the trustees are. Consider running yourself. Libraries will need all the community support they can get. 📚

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I did the thing. And now we wait.

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

I think this is the saddest thing for me about the demise of the bad place. I made lifelong friends over there. People whose homes I’ve stayed in, people who have helped me in my career immensely. Pour one out for library Twitter.

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Today is my grandmother’s 92nd birthday. I feel so lucky to have her and my whole big, loud, incredible Lebanese-American family. Hold your loved ones close today, and may we all have our beloved grandmothers live into their 90s.

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Sassy Smokeshow @sthrnsmokeshow.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

If you're secretly in love with me, you better tell me before I choose a life of knitting and Murder, She Wrote reruns.

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Libraries are so crazy. I can just put a "hold" on something? I can basically just wave my hand and tell them to get me a book, and then they get it for me? This must be what being a king feels like.

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

Me: yeah, I just like to make a weekend list, and enjoy my weekend reading while also knowing I’m getting my stuff done. I really like getting up on Saturdays and starting the laundry and checking things off my list!!! My friend: You are a librarian in 100% of your life. 😂😂

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

I’m at a conference this week and I looked down at my phone and FOUR of my Libby holds came in today 😱

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

I was a lifer; I never thought I would leave public libraries—but then I did, four months ago. And this is a big reason why. We are scared. They are coming for us.

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Good morning! @anniecardi.bsky.social’s excellent new book is out today. Check out her post on Teen Librarian Toolbox: Like a Prayer, Complexities of Faith in YA Fiction and Life. teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2024/01/30/l...

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

The amount of resources available for free at your library is absolutely ridiculous. Wanna do a JSTOR search? Libraries gotchu. Wanna watch a movie for free? Libraries gotchu. Genealogy? Libraries gotchu. Wanna look up digitized images of sewing patterns in 1930s ladies magazines? Libraries gotchu.

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Amanda MacGregor @amandamacgregor.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Mind the Middle Project: What IS Middle Grade Fiction Anyway? Teen librarian Karen Jensen kicks of the Mind the Middle Project for 2024 by discussing what Middle Grade fiction is and how it compares to Young Adult fiction teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2024/01/01/m...

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Mind the Middle Project: What IS Middle Grade Fiction Anyway?

Teen librarian Karen Jensen kicks of the Mind the Middle Project for 2024 by discussing what Middle Grade fiction is and how it compares to Young Adult fiction

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Sitting in front of my light box with my coffee and my existential dread at 6:30am. Tomorrow is the shortest day of the year. But the days get longer from there.

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

I’ve been nose deep in my data all day without an internet break and my brother just texted me the Murderbot news and I almost screamed in my cubicle. I love you, Murderbot.

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 02/10/2023

I hate absolutely everything in the world except Romance novels right now.

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

As a librarian, I have a lot of interesting feelings about banned books week but this??? This is the good shit. Please do these things.

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

I like fall as much as the next girlie, but actually watching the days get shorter as we do our slow inexorable march towards 4:30 sunsets is not something my seasonal depression will just idly observe, you know?

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

There’s nothing like shared trauma to really bond siblings, amirite? The upside of this is sometimes my brother and I laugh so, so hard together about something so ridiculous (to the complete bewilderment of my sister in law) that that catharsis gets me right through the week.

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

my lovely coworker gifted me a cross stitch pattern for a 2023 reading tracker. The max is 50 books. I thanked her profusely for the kind gift, not exactly knowing how to tell her I’ve already read 95 books so far this year. #librarylife #readerlife #genrereader

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Ally @aswatki1.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

I’m going on vacation TOMORROW and I feel like one trillion bucks

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