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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger

@fhartleykroeger.bsky.social
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Scholar, chai drinker, human. Curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. PhD, MLIS; reviewer @ The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. She/her. All opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.

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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hanging out with DH folks has improved my group work skills, but apparently I’m still bad at it. Sigh. Time for a short self-pity party, a self-pep talk, and then onwards again.
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Current music: Symphony for Masonry Drill
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m in love with this hand-colored botanical border
The title page of a book. It has a hand-painted botanical decorative border.
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’ve just started Moby Dick on audiobook and all my 19th century Melville bros did not adequately impress upon me that it is FUNNY.
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Got to see some SPECTACULAR light damage today. Preservation and conservation are SO INTERESTING!!!
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
RIP to my laptop. You would have kept going—valiant, cranky, constantly overheating—if only they’d let you.
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Why yes, my writing brain DOES work better when fueled by chai and pancakes.
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The most important part of conference travel prep is decorating your suitcase.
A suitcase that has poetry copied onto it by hand. A copy of The Fellowship of the Ring lies next to it.
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School Library Journal @slj.com · 16/04/2026
Travis Jonker has built The Ultimate Caldecott Database. Yes, it includes the Medal and Honor winners since 1938, but it’s also a searchable resource with: Illustrator demographics, Artistic mediums, Publisher information, Page/word counts, and more. 100scopenotes.com/2026/04/16/t...
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Very happy to add this Le Guin quotation print from @skeuomorphpress.org to my prints about print collection!
Two prints with orange and black ink on white paper
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I’m so pleased to be heading to Boston for the Summer Children’s Literature Institute in a couple of weeks. Now where did I put my ancient CharlieCard and does it still work?
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David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Read what your ancestors might have read as children! Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online www.openculture.com/2025/06/ente... #Genealogy
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Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online
We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children's literature.
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
ChLA 2025 let’s go!
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Still not really sure how I’ll end up using this account, so for now I may just tersely proffer things that delight me, e.g., my current audiobook, which is Space Oddity by @catvalente.bsky.social
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Highlight of the day: explaining the plot of “Goblin Market” to a colleague
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
This is fantastic!
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Absolutely thrilled: I’m the new Curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida! hr.uflib.ufl.edu/current-empl...
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Employee Highlights: New Faces and Faces in New Places at the George A Smathers Libraries » Employee Highlights » Human Resources » UF Libraries » University of Florida
George A. Smathers Libraries
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
so. many. logistics.
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Logistics!
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Happy first day of classes to all my colleagues, and happy first day to me of remembering to take stretching breaks while packing everything I own. (Books. It’s at least 75% books.)
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
I do love a funky coffee shop.
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
it’s time to get going on NIMONA & A WARNING ABOUT SWANS redux: medievalisms & animal transformations!
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Excited to talk about queer & trans medievalisms in NIMONA and A WARNING ABOUT SWANS!
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Hanging out with the medievalists at Kalamazoo!
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Living that beleaguered reviewer life
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Got to play with typewriters today! A tactile and auditory delight.
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
My brain is convinced we’ve never written so much as a single line of analysis, ever, and we shouldn’t start now.
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
The exhibit: www.instagram.com/p/C2OHfabLfx...
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Literatures and Languages Library on Instagram: "New Romance Exhibit @LitLangLibrary! Which do you p...
21 likes, 2 comments - litlanglibrary on January 17, 2024: "New Romance Exhibit @LitLangLibrary! Which do you prefer? Sweet or Cruel? Bookmarks available wi..."
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
I got to look at some romance novels from the ‘80s in class today! Here’s a blog post I wrote for the LitLangLibrary on newer romance fiction: publish.illinois.edu/litlanglibra...
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Roses & Thorns: New Romance | Literatures and Languages Library - University of Illinois at Urbana-C...
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
bccb.ischool.illinois.edu/blueribbons/... The Bulletin’s best children’s books of 2023: The Blue Ribbons!
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2023 Blue Ribbons | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
* Folklore, Place, and Song, a digital mapping project on corridos, created by Fiona Hartley-Kroeger, Matthew Kollmer, Loida Pan, and Isabella Viega and reviewed by Ysabel Munoz Martinez #ReviewsInDH reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/folklore...
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Folklore, Place, and Song · Vol. 4, No. 11
A review of Folklore, Place, and Song, a digital mapping project on corridos, created by Fiona Hartley-Kroeger, Matthew Kollmer, Loida Pan, and Isabella Viega
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Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
I’m here, apparently.
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