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Lisa Peet

@lisapeet.bsky.social
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Executive editor, Library Journal. Writer, artist, baker, correspondent, owner of too many animals and fountain pens, aging hipster. Opinions here are my own.

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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Mmmm
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/11/2025
"We have included an advance copy of the hardcover edition of your diary, which Simon & Schuster will be releasing this winter. We think the photo of the time you laughed so hard in the school cafeteria that milk came out of your nose makes for a perfect cover."
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We Regret to Inform You That Your Middle School Diary Has Lapsed into the Public Domain
This letter is to inform you (the author) that your intellectual property (middle school diary) has officially entered the public domain due to you...
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Following Ada's lead, I'd like to do the same. Reply to me w/ a receipt of a donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll also match your donations, up to $500. 🍎🍌🥬🍞🥩❤️
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare. I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛 #NoHunger
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megan posco @meganposco.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
here’s a great piece by @lisapeet.bsky.social about the unconventional book tour for John J. Lennon’s THE TRAGEDY OF TRUE CRIME. Over the past several years, John has showed me almost anything is possible from prison. Why not a book tour, then? www.libraryjournal.com/story/a-book...
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A Book Tour from Prison
John J. Lennon is currently serving his 24th year of a 28-to-life sentence for murder, drug sales, and gun possession at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, NY. He is also an accomplished jou...
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Was this the rapture? I don’t feel any different.
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Roger Schonfeld @rschon.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I'm incredibly grateful to @lisapeet.bsky.social of @libraryjournal.bsky.social for all the recent coverage of archives and preservation, including this interview with me about @jstor.bsky.social Digital Stewardship Services. www.libraryjournal.com/story/progra...
libraryjournal.com
New Tools for Stewardship: Q&A with JSTOR's Roger Schonfeld
Nearly all archival institutions, at every scale, holds a backlog of material awaiting processing. JSTOR’s recently created Digital Stewardship Services aims to address this situation with a next-gen ...
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I am living in a children’s book. Stray cat and raccoon on my next-door neighbor’s roof, and they appear to be buds.
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Cucuracha is too a word, Spelling Bee.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 29/04/2025
Happy Duke Ellington's birthday! [sketch by William Auerbach-Levy]
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
In search of cap only for a Lamy Safari Petrol... will gladly buy or trade. Because this guy isn't as innocent as he looks. #fountainpens
handsome heeler/Aussie mix lying on a dog bed with front paws elegantly crossed, looking innocently at the camera
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
So many things suck right now. But homemade banana bread, toasted, with butter, does not.
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I knew if I waited long enough my Bernie Sanders t-shirt would be cool again.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Oh Vanguard, thanks for the notice, but if you think I want to look at my statement right now you are so, so sorely mistaken.
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Trump is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries. EveryLibrary made it easy to take action today! action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
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Take Action To Save Federal Funding for Libraries!
Trump is attempting to destroy federal funding for libraries. We need you to take action today! That's why we made it easy to contact your reps, sign petitions, and learn about the Institute of Museum...
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
More from ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl: "By cutting off federal support from libraries, the Trump administration is cutting off opportunity for the American people – economically, culturally, professionally and socially." Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03... Take action: ala.org/showup
White House "cutting off opportunity" for Americans as administration cuts IMLS staff. American Library Association, Show Up for Our Libraries.“Whether on a campus, in the neighborhood, on a military base or elsewhere, libraries mean opportunity for everyone in our communities. By cutting off federal support from libraries, the Trump administration is cutting off opportunity for the American people – economically, culturally, professionally and socially.  
 
“Congress created IMLS by law, with bipartisan support. Republican and Democratic Presidents signed those laws, including President Trump in 2018. Any significant reductions to the IMLS’ small and talented workforce would undermine the agency’s ability to carry out that law.  
 
“To the dedicated staff of IMLS, you have the full support of ALA. We thank you for your service to America’s libraries. We are exploring all possible policy and legal responses to this order, and we promise to mobilize library supporters nationwide to return you to the vital work entrusted to you." ALA President Cindy Hohl
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
New stamps dropping this year, via USPS, and ffs I'm ordering some more of those Keith Haring stamps in opposition.
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U.S. Postal Service Announces Additional 2025 Stamps - Newsroom - About.usps.com
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service today announced stamps celebrating the 250th anniversaries of the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, a stamp previewing the 2026 World Stamp Show in Bosto...
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This artist is drawing entire L.A. neighborhoods that were lost in the fires
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.
Resist List

They want us to think we’re alone. We are not.
The Resistance is Everywhere.
Hopescroll through stories of people’s noncooperation against Trump’s coup.
Jump to databases of noncooperation or trackers of ligitation and impact.
Follow our social media accounts to stay updated.
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Kathy Ishizuka @kishizuka.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Librarians—school or public: Are you seeing a change in user habits, such as an uptick in requests for materials/info about immigration, social justice, reproductive health, climate issues? Working on a story. #booksky #TLSky #libraries
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Are you following Alt National Park Service yet? Do so.
bsky.app
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“the applause grew louder and louder until hundreds were standing and clapping: the crowd, the choir, the bishops, all on their feet..." www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...
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What happens after you ask Trump to ‘have mercy’? Threats, praise and hope.
It had been 12 days since the Episcopal bishop of Washington pleaded with President Donald Trump to “have mercy” on immigrants, LGBTQ children and others.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Because everything is worth examining, a great article from Crossword puzzle folks—great piece by Abigail Popple in Maisonneuve on Puzzle Politics (puzzle folks—wasn't today's @nytimes.com xword the most satisfying thing?) maisonneuve.org/article/2024...
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Puzzle Politics
Often dismissed as frivolous games, crosswords can be a force for change.
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I'm thinking this summer—and the next few—might be a good time to get serious about the vegetable gardening. Has anyone made raised beds with those modular corner pieces and planks? My soil is crap, so I'd have to containerize everything (and oy, my back hurts just thinking about it).
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The kids are all right. And now I'm hungry for cheese.
tastecooking.com
Gen Cheese
A new era of cheese rebels is cracking the code on wonderfully weird, climate-friendly, and Instagrammable dairy.
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
You know who I’m really going to miss in the White House? Besides democracy, that is. @karinejean-pierre.bsky.social.
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Phil Shapiro @philshapiro.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Los Angeles City Librarian John Szabo Is Library Journal's 2025 Librarian of the Year -- beautifully written, detailed article at www.libraryjournal.com/story/city-l... by @lisapeet.bsky.social #LibrarySky #PublicLibraries #InspirationalLeaders
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City Librarian: John Szabo Is LJ’s 2025 Librarian of the Year
Los Angeles Public Library director John F. Szabo connects with every corner of his adopted city through innovation and compassion, earning him Library Journal's 2025 Librarian of the Year award.
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Thank you, Gentium Basic, for saving me on those days when I'll scream if I have to look at another page of Calibri. (No offense, Calibri, you're just so WORKY.)
Alphabet of upper and lower case letters and numbers in Gentium Basic typeface
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The sun came out for a minute. Happy New Year, friends, and here’s to whatever sunny moments we can bask in when they come.
Dog lying on deck in sun, relaxed, snout up and smiling
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Well, many of you know where I fall on this one. But it's still worth saying (as someone who sends 50-60 holiday cards each year)—it's a thoroughly altruistic effort, but a really reverberative one, IMO.
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Opinion | Why I Still Send Holiday Cards — and You Should, Too (Gift Article)
They serve a social function that’s surprisingly important.
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Forest creature
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I make a nice omelet.
Plump spinach omelet on a blue plate with toast
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Ahh, found it. Rest in power, good poet.
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It's worth noting that Library Journal InfoDocket is here now 📚 @infodocket.bsky.social
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 02/12/2024
It is time.
An enormous raccoon the size of a building jumping out from behind a snow covered mountain. The text reads: you can't summon the grand raccoon to end winter. You can: keep your space heater at least 3ft away from anything flammable. Plug it into the wall, never a power strip. Turn it off before you go to sleep.
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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Really lovely piece on our local libraries by @elizmccrack.bsky.social texashighways.com/culture/texa...
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Texas Libraries Are Engines of Optimism
At the frontline of their communities, libraries connect people to information, resources, and each other
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is my favorite hour of my favorite day of the year.
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Yesterday it wasn’t raining. Jasper thought it was a much better setup than today #dogsofbluesky
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Next gen! And yes I am utterly stoked.
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I painted a bookcase for my grandbaby-to-be
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My sweetest buddy.
Dog with big ears and soulful eyes lying on the kitchen floor gazing at the photographer.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/11/2024
SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
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Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board
SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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Lisa Peet @lisapeet.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I love this project! Anyone is interested in doing a little grassroots, not-necessarily-professional-design-participant, version? I'm into any and all ways to kickstart creativity and community right now.
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