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I’ve only been in my new school for 10 days. Kids come next week. It’s feeling like a place that is closer to the pro-AI side. How do you navigate being right about how much it sucks but still being expected to teach them how to “use it ethically”? 🙄

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I spent the last two years in an early years library on what was basically a device free campus. I’m back in MS/HS and I am VERY curious about how teachers have changed or not changed practices because of gen AI 🤮 I’m sure not having enough time to practice hasn’t changed though

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I don’t use either of those methods personally either. I always feels a bit fraudy telling kids to do it lol

What kind of note taking do you want to teach?!

William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This post made me love the Metis classification system even more lol

William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Me explaining DDC to kids 😂🤣

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William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This hasn’t happened yet, but it’s only a matter of time before one of these slop buckets shows up as a donation 🤮🤮🤮

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William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

When a teacher emails and asks if you have a book, deliver it to their classroom. They love it. I also take other books they might also want but not know that we have. Oh and if you use Follett, download the app on your phone so you can check books out. Adults and kids think it’s magical lol

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William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I just donated!! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

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The new ALA Censorship Search Portal provides a vivid example of the scripted, insincere nature of book banning. Me & Earl & the Dying Girl elicited barely a peep of protest in the 8 years after its 2012 publication. Just 1 challenge.

Book cover: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

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Joel A. Machiela @machiela.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Discarding a dumpster full of books each month is necessary.

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William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I just read “Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington” by Walter Naegle, Michael G. Long, Jacqueline Houtman. It was good! It felt like it was on the younger end of YA.

William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I used to do it all the time for my grade 11-12 students. Sometimes I never got a response, but if they did respond, they always shared the article. Many of them offered to talk to my students if they had questions.

William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It’s my favorite time of the year (when your lists start coming out)!!!!

William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We live in Shanghai, so I have to wait for a digital release 😭 I’m moving to Zurich in July though, and some people on the interview panel heard you and Amanda speak at the film festival there earlier this year! Very jealous.

William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Just finished reading That Librarian by @librarianjones.com. I think I injured my neck from nodding vigorously as I read.

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William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

They also LOVE Alex’s Good Fortune! Thanks for sharing the activities 🤓 I was so happy to find your books!

William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Our shipment was delayed, so @bshum79.bsky.social’s “Mooncakes Mean Family” didn’t make it time for Mid-Autumn Festival, but his “We Are Lion Dancers” made it for New Year! A kid already tried to steal it off my desk before I cataloged it 🤣 it’s going to be popular! #BookSky #LibrarySky #TLsky

The front cover of the book We Are Lion Dancers. The cover had two children holding up the lion dancing costume for lunar new year.

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William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

We grew up in the country, so we were all on well water, but my cousins grew up in the suburbs. They were on city water, and they both went to the wastewater facility in elementary and middle school.

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William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

A high ponytail really would have pulled the whole look together 😂

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William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I clocked her banned books sweater right away! Loved it

kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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Wikipedia is a better place to begin your research now than Google is because Google is just loaded with garbage, even if you're *really good* at your search terms. Wikipedia at least gives you places to begin easily.

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William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I think this hits that sweet spot of browsable vs searchable. Kids can walk up and find topics easily, but we can also search for a specific book in the catalog and find it on the shelf now! #TLsky #LibrarySky #EduSky

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William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Our nonfiction reorganization project is complete! We ditched the baskets and did a HEAVY weed. Now each shelf is spine out but only about a single topic. We had to change lots of call numbers to move books to the right shelf, but kids are already finding more books!

Library shelving units against the wall. Each shelf has one sign with a Dewey number and topic and picture on the left-hand side. The books are spine out. Each shelf also has a front facing book on display.

William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Starting fall break with Bury Your Gays by @chucktingle.bsky.social. Only reading this in the daylight hours because I don’t normally do horror 😂 #BookSky

Me holding the book Bury Your Gays. The title is big neon purple, orange and pink letters with an LA landscape of palm trees inside of the letters

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William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Yeah I agree. I think Metis is uniquely wonderful for an early years setting. My friend did just reclassify her nonfiction collection to topic based whole word call numbers (inspired by Metis) and her circulation has increased wildly. Like some sections by 500%

William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Terrible! I reclassified my early years collection to Metis and it is SO much better. Circulation doubled because it makes sense to students AND, as a bonus, it’s not so heinously offensive.

William H @lankylibrarian.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

We started moving the nonfiction books today! I love shelves that aren’t totally full 😍 Once all books are moved, we’ll do another weed for books that haven’t circed in 6 years. Then I’ll go through each shelf and start the Franken-Dewey so it’s one topic on each shelf #TLsky #EduSky #LibrarySky

Three library shelving units. Each shelf has a sign with a Dewey number, a topic, and a picture to represent the topic. Only 2 of the 9 shelves are more than 50% full

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Yaaasss. DDC is the worst, but I don’t have the staffing, time, or resources in this library to do a full reclassification to whole word call number. This is like the bootleg version of that lol. I reclassified our early years library using Metis, and it is amazing. Gottta ditch Dewey!

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So many ancient books, so little time 🤣

Franken-Dewey! I’m making each shelf about one topic. So it’s a lot of weeding and changing call numbers. For example, we’ll have a 305 shelf about community workers that I’ll put all the jobs books on.

Hahahaha it’s my fav thing to do. It’s like finding a time capsule 😂 I work in China and I just weeded a book about the Mayflower from 1969

How will we live without this book about American football from 1992? 😂🤣 #EduSky #TLsky #LibrarySky

I’m holding an extremely old elementary nonfiction book about football

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