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Not to mention: delivery drivers, janitorial staff, HR folks, finance folks, website folks, communication folks. And, of course, the staff you see answering questions, presenting programs, shelving books, checking out materials, teaching classes, visiting schools. #LibrariesWorkBecauseWeDo

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There are so many people behind the scenes at your local library. The folks who select materials, who buy them, who receive the materials and make sure they have covers and barcodes, and those who make sure they’re in the computer. Maybe it’s one person. Maybe it’s 30. #LibrariesWorkBecauseWeDo

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I can’t remember the last time I read a book at work. I haven’t shelved a book in at least 4 years. I make sure that our patrons have books and other resources in a huge variety of formats and that those resources are findable and accessible. #LibrariesWorkBecauseWeDo

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#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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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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This is why being involved in hyper-local politics is so important. Pay attention to your school board, your library board, your town council. Fascists don’t like kids who think. They grow into hard-to-control adults.

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

“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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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.

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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 · 14/11/2025

*sighs in librarian* *glares in cataloger*

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New target in book bans: books on mythology. If you needed more evidence that we are on track towards theocratic oligarchy, there you go.

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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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AI is not taking people’s jobs. We could allow people to work less and pay them the same. We could free people’s time for other pursuits. But HUMANS make those decisions to lay off people because capitalism

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Generative AI excels in giving you exactly what you expect. Art and innovation require the UNexpected.

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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." One you understand that generative AI is *not* magic, it’s far less impressive.

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

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

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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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

Those of you with teenagers will understand it is high praise when the teenagers put away the headphones and ASK to listen to a book with you. 5 out of 5 wizard vans!

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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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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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💙📚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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💙📚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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💙📚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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Hope Rides Again is the second book by Andrew Shaffer featuring Joe and Barack as amateur detectives. I think the premise is starting to stretch thin, but it was entertaining enough to keep me occupied for a few hours while sitting in the hospital. 💙📚

Cover of Hope Rides Again by Andrew Shaffer. Cover picture features Barack Obama hanging on to a ladder dangling from a helicopter. His left arm is outstretched and grasping on to the arm of Joe Biden to pull him up in the air. Joe is holding his aviator sunglasses in his left hand.

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💙📚 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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💙📚 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 · 27/07/2025

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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And pretzel bites with milk stout beer cheese and more tasty cocktails.

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They are not playing by the same social contract, which is a whole other layer to contend with.

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Furthermore, these bad actors like to scream loudly about the 1st Amendment when challenged or criticized. Freedom of expression and freedom of the press are NOT freedom from consequences. But they’ve co-opted the 1st Amendment as a shield against criticism.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.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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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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I have not spent much time looking into the regulations for fedex. I have spent an irrational amount of time studying USPS regulations for mailing live (and deceased) animals. I fell down that particular rabbit hole because my grandfather had a mail order alligator as a child.

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