Orange Shirt Day yesterday in local schools.
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation today.
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N'we Jinan Artists - "WE WON'T FORGET YOU" // Sk'elep School of Excellence, B.C.
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Teacher-Librarian, K-5 Hands-on STEAM; kidlit fanboy; love graphic novels; inclusive col’n; he/him. Co-host of The Sartorial Librarians Podcast. @sartoriallibrary.bsky.social Spotify: spoti.fi/3ANgYge Apple: apple.co/4e4mM3h Instagram: bit.ly/4dCh09b
![Billy Idil meme:
80s rockstar wearing a cowl neck cardigan, presumably a “pumpkin spice latte” on a fall leaves tree-lined street.
Caption:
It’s a nice day for a light sweater…
It’s a nice for
CARDIGAAAAAN!
[the word “cardigan” stretched out with a bunch of final letter As]
[referencing a twist on chorus lyrics, but in the correct rhythm, of his hit White Wedding.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:duqvrp37fjewl6n65n3p77mb/bafkreickvor47oemijlknbysissd3ur73uljbpuaix7hnd24x2u6saflvy)
![From an email update:
“Great News:
Prison Librarians Saved!
Dear BCFI friends, supporters, and volunteers,
Today the Commissioner of Correctional Service Canada (CSC) announced an official rejection of the proposed budget cut that would eliminate federal librarian positions. This means, thanks to your support and advocacy, librarians in federal penitentiaries across Canada can continue their invaluable work.
We are grateful to Commissioner Talal Dakalbab for his swift review and sound rejection of such a harmful cut. We are also encouraged and inspired by his thoughtful message, in which he confirms that "access to reading materials, information, and learning supports plays an important role in offender rehabilitation, including literacy development, education, and personal growth. This will continue."
We are thrilled by this news and want to extend our deepest gratitude to everyone who raised their voice and took action in support of prison librarians. At a time when access to books, literacy, and learning within our institutions is more important than ever, your advocacy sent a powerful message: prison libraries matter, and the work done by prison librarians is not only necessary, but life-changing.
We were fortunate to be supported by a remarkable community of writers who set aside their own work to write compelling and heartfelt articles about this misguided decision. Their voices helped galvanize public attention, sparked important conversations, and inspired so many Canadians to take interest and action.
While there is still work ahead, the response to this campaign has demonstrated the strength of a community united around a simple belief: that access to books, knowledge, and professional library services should remain an integral part of Canada's correctional system.
Thank you … …ensuring every incarcerated individual has access to the literature they need to imagine a different future… [some truncations]
Tom Best
Executive Director
Book Clubs for Inmates”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:duqvrp37fjewl6n65n3p77mb/bafkreidlb4krmib5joy2zvgz5kfo7jvjqqvtdrn5kvwnrjt3lsppqwkysi)
![A lot going on in this photo…
First of all, there’s a paper, Mr. Hunt on the wall: A self portrait drawing, which is below a squared-off word bubble picture frame thingy I made…and taped into the word bubble is a sign saying, “Check out the mini-museum exhibit!”
Next to that is a 3x3’ white board…I screw-mounted a low-profile wooden display case divided into six boxes into the centre…in it are various artifacts (fossilized shark tooth, anthracite in a jar, selenite, urchin spines…)
Surrounding the case are two “Don’t Touch” signs and photocopied sheets of the specimen descriptor cards.
At the top of the whiteboard, in blue marker, it says, Identify the Artifacts: Read the description cards and see if you can match them to the objects…Look With Your Eyes [not your hands].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:duqvrp37fjewl6n65n3p77mb/bafkreiga2avs7wa76uzlxcyucdnuadjt47d3gotcc4li4rpusgpzqetfjq)
![Since it came up with a friend again recently…to-may-to, to-mah-to…
pssssttttt…
ZINE Hot Tip:
(sound like an insider)
Say “zeen”
(not z-eye-n)
[ zine = short for magazine = like a mini-magazine = zine ]
Spread the word; help others be in the know
(although it’s not really that big a deal).
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXCwV8mgR44/?igsh=YjF2eDJwNnE3eXAz](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:duqvrp37fjewl6n65n3p77mb/bafkreib33mxcreos7bgihzuystlhq2ohj6rst4ney3bezpnga5g2fzz4au)
