iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

So much of librarian ebook math is depressing. Ebook: $59.99 x 150 copies = ~$9,000 Eaudio: $89.99 x 150 copies = ~$13,500 Lending model: 24 months, then we need to re-buy Current holds: Ebook: 1,281 ~20 week wait Eaudio: 1,522 ~21 week wait This is a single title.

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Thomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Apropos of absolutely nothing at all….

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Me reading Democratic pols' tweets about Lindsey Graham.

Me at the New York Aquarium posing in front of an invertebrate exhibit called the Spineless Hall of Fame.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

#NationalLibraryWorkersDay I have a Master’s Degree in Library Science. Not all librarians and library workers do. On the job experience is every bit as important as a degree. In my 20+ year career in libraries, I have been shushed an order of magnitude more times than I have shushed a patron.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

What do library workers want for National Library Workers Day? Secure funding and legal protections! Show up #ForOurLibraries. Learn how: www.ala.org/advocacy/sho... #LibrariesWorkBecauseWeDo

Libraries Work Because We Do: National Library Workers Day

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

“Today, many schools and libraries rely on books from companies like Scholastic Inc.—often filled with confusing, political, or even inappropriate messages for children.” “Inappropriate messages” like slavery is bad, trans people exist, women are autonomous beings.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

ICYMI amidst all of the other dumpster fires, $14 million was stolen from libraries and funneled to Hillsdale College and PragerU to fund white supremacist revisionist history and pro-regime propaganda. Cuts to IMLS funding will impact small public libraries the hardest.

buttondown.com

The IMLS Propaganda Machine Is In Full Swing

The agency overseeing U.S. libraries and museums is now full-on regime propaganda.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

WTF? I haven’t even gotten my 2026 bingo card in the mail yet.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

*sighs in librarian* *glares in cataloger that does series tracing*

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Book banning in public and school libraries is still very much happening. booksunbanned.com supports the rights of teens to read. Teens can get a digital library card that allows them access to ebooks regardless of where they live. #coreforum2025

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

“Never trust a chatbot” — @cfiesler.bsky.social Not because it IS wrong, but because it could be. #coreforum2025

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Listening to @cfiesler.bsky.social at #coreforum2025 makes me miss teaching information literacy. It’s a whole different world from when I left academia 3+ years ago, and it has become so much more essential.

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 10/11/2025

did it happen like this

Peanuts comic strip panel. Lucy is holding a football in one hand and a sheet of paper in the other. Charlie Brown is looking at it and expressing puzzlement. Lucy says (edited by me) “Well, here’s a signed document testifying that I promise to hold a vote”

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Thomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Quisling says “let’s surrender.”

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

💙📚 Takes place prior to the events in Invasive. @chuckwendig.bsky.social plays upon my fears about computers taking over the world. It is interesting to see the early seeds of Wanderers on this book (and Invasive). Lower squick, just as many nightmares. Recommend!

Cover of Zer0es by Chuck Wendig. Black cover with ones and zeroes in red shading lightly revealing a face.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

💙📚Did @kevinhearne.bsky.social write an entire book so he could offhandedly drop in the legend of the creation of truck nutz? Uproarious humor, redemption arcs, adventure, and love cheese. And the phenomenal narration of Luke Daniels.

Cover of Paper & Blood, book two of Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

💙📚 Super high squick-factor on this one, but the story was so good that I kept reading it even while plagued by a recurring case of stress hives. I really loved how Hannah’s background informed her reactions and interactions. @chuckwendig.bsky.social, I hate you for formication nightmares. 🐜

Cover of Invasive by Chuck Wendig. Cover features many lines of ants marching across the cover.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

💙📚 The only thing better than a book by @kevinhearne.bsky.social is that book read by Luke Daniels. This laugh-out-loud wild ride accompanied me & my family on a recent road trip. The 14-year-old was locked in immediately locked in, but even the 19-year-old was quickly captivated.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Needed a book to read for the end of my trip, and this ebook was immediately available from my library. The first “I hate you, @chuckwendig.bsky.social” moment came in the second chapter. I think I should not have picked this one while suffering from hives.

Cover of Invadive by Chuck Wendig. The cover features a lot of ants.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

💙📚I am not sure where this recommendation came from, but I am very glad I came across it. I like my horror with a side of humor and The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins was a fun read. The story wrapped up neatly but I’d gladly spend more time in this world.

Cover of The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins. The cover looks like a book that is burnt around the edges with a large hole ripped out of the center. Through the hole there is the silhouette of a house with a sunset (or sunrise) behind it.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

💙📚The third book in the series, Children of Memory is a meditation on what makes someone a sentient being. The corvids, Gothi and Gethli, are an impeccable embodiment of the benefits of neurodiversity. Definite echoes of why my partner and I make such a good combination.

Cover of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Memory. It features a yellow-toned planet highlighted by a star flare. There is a space ship in the lower right corner.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

💙📚Octopodes In Spaaaaace! The sequel to Children of Time does not disappoint. Again Tchaikovsky envelopes the reader in a completely alien way of thinking. Incredible world building. Also highly recommend this as an audiobook; I alternated listening and reading.

Cover of Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Cover features a red-toned planet highlighted by a star flare, a space station/ship that may be broken, and an organic ship resembling a manta ray.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

💙📚 yet another fantastic horror book from @chuckwendig.bsky.social. Less squick in this one than in some of his others, just as much fantastic storytelling. Complex characters, a hefty dose of humor (including laugh-out-loud moments), and a sprinkle of political spite. Highly recommend.

The cover of The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig. It features a picture of the aforementioned staircase in the woods. There is a bird on the railing about halfway up the spiral staircase.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

💙📚 I don’t usually post picture books, but I kept seeing this on a book truck at work when I was having one of those days. Cute story with a funny twist. I can verify that it is good for reading out loud. I bought it for my second cousin and read it appropriately eleventy-billion times this weekend.

Cover of I Hate Everything by Sophy Henn. Cover features a cartoon ghost (white sheet with eyes variety) yelling the title of the book. Next to him is a smaller ghost saying “Really?”

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Time for more book posts 💙📚 I haven’t been reading as many books this summer. There’s also a larger number than normal in the in-progress pile because I get distracted and wander off.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Information Literacy is complicated by bad actors have learned to cloak themselves in the guise of respectability: American College of Pediatricians is NOT the American Academy of Pediatrics but they intentionally sound so similar it’s very easy to confuse them even if you know about them.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I think a lot of OPs thread misunderstands the process of source evaluation, what "verification" of information was historically and is today, how public education works in the US, and how critical thinking is taught today. But the core point about digital literacy still stands.

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Pop-Pop @dcdiversity1.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I have been, and will continue to post this often. Your Guard, Reserve and active duty family, friends, neighbors and coworkers are going to need it. Please share far, wide and often!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/06/2025

Abolish ICE. Protect immigrants. Stand up for trans people. "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." Matthew 25:40

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I don’t buy a lot of books, preferring to store them at my local library. But I recently decided I needed to have @theferocity.bsky.social words live in my house with me. 💙📚

Covers of four books by Saeed Jones: When the Only Light is Fire, Prelude to Bruise, Alive at the End of the World, and How We Fight for Our Lives. Also pictured: Prime: Poetry & Conversation by Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Saeed Jones, Rickey Laurentiis, Phillip B. Williams, and L. Lamar Wilson.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The snack I didn’t know that I have been looking for all my life: Albanese Peach Rings dipped in Tajín. Albanese Gummy Bears dipped in Tajín are a close second.

A close up photo of 1/3 of an Albanese Peach Ring with the ends dipped in Tajín. The candy is held between a thumb and finger. The gummy candy is bright orange and bright yellow covered in granulated sugar. The ends are coated in beautiful orange granules of Tajín.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

If watching library workers resist leads you to expect us to save you, you're taking away the wrong message. You should be viewing this as a clear indicator that YOU can and should stand up and push back, too. We need help, not acclaim.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Asking for a friend. What is the equivalent of “profit over people” for jobs/industries that do not exist to make money. For example: libraries?

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Some rules are too good not to follow.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

He fired Carla fucking Hayden The Librarian of Congress An amazing, badass, kind human being May he never know peace

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.” -Carla Hayden

washingtonpost.com

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.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I feel a little too seen by the books on the triage cart this morning….

Covers of two books:
Generation care: the new culture of caregiving
And
Your neurodiverse child: how to help children with learning, attention, and neurocognitive challenges thrive

I’m in this photo and I don’t like it.

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Thomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I would like it if we could call a time out for a few days. I recognize that’s probably not feasible, but still.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I am reading, just haven’t been posting about it. Reading is an escape for me. A way to relax and set aside the realities of living in The Worst Timeline (tm). Social media means diving headfirst into that timeline. Here’s what I’ve been reading/listing to for the last two months. #booksky 📚💙 🧵

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Dolly Parton is the hero we need, not the one we deserve. Imagination Library is an unadulterated good in this increasingly horrible timeline.

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Dan Yocum. Ugh. @yocum137.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

what the FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUIUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK?? @nytimes.com fuck you. Fuck you with a cactus. Fuck you with a rotorooter. Fuck you with a chainsaw. Fuck you.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Rest in Peace, Tom Robbins. So any of your words will live rent-free in my mind for the rest of my days. Thank you for shaping me in my younger days. 📚💙

A hand holding a book open to chapter 45. The text begins:
“Who knows how to make love stay?
1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheese-cake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay.
2. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a mustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.
3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep.
Love will be there in the morning.”

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Thomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I was in so much trouble. Like… no words. I’d been spoiled. She hadn’t.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

There are RULES at my house as a result of this.

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Wise words from @neolithicsheep.bsky.social. What do we want? A nap! When do we want it? Zzzzz

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Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

@govofco.bsky.social I am deeply saddened (but not surprised) to see the conciliatory stance you have taken towards the Trump administration. Perhaps you think that your money will buy you a seat in the oligarchy, or you think that your family will be safer because you are demonstrating fealty. 🧵

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