#Library events

[gwen-tolios]

Planning for an author fair, and i want to try something new to increase the likelihood someone stops by my table - a game to win things!

[cscclibrary]

Join us for "Making Art From Natural Materials" with Elena Osterwalder. This free artist talk will be presented in person and live online! Learn more and RSVP: https://connect.cscc.edu/event/9505966

[epiphanytear]

Hi Friends!!

Very excited to announce that one of our local libraries will be hosting a k-pop event! If anyone is in the DFW area then stop by! We'll have vendors, games and prizes 💜

You can find more info and register for the event here

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

I love doing What Pride Had Wrought with Solas because he starts gossiping about the Evanuris and it's the most suss he's ever been.

He successfully maintained his cover as a nondescript scholarly wanderer for most of the Inquisition but needs to break character completely to tell everyone that Falon'Din was a vain idiot.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Neil Gaiman and Roz Kaveney at the British Library event Why We Need Fantasy 20.11.2023 :) ❤

Neil: I don't remember if it was you or John M. Ford, the late Mike Ford, who pointed out to me first that there is a thing that I do that I was not aware of doing. And it was.. and I remember this being pointed out to me at the time of the publication of American Gods. Or possibly even before it was published, when I sent it out a manuscript. Because it was pointed out to me that one way that you can tell that you're entering the third act of a Neil Gaiman story is there is always a kiss that sort of ends the second act. And it's never a sort of romantic kiss. It's always a kiss that is unexpected and a little bit wrong, but it symbolizes where we're going to go next.

Roz: Yeah, that was Mike, it's too smart for me.

Neil: That was Mike. And I remember arguing with him and then him pointing out that all the places I'd done it. And then I did it again in the Anansi Boys and didn't realize that I'd done it. And then I forget about this thing. And I saw somebody on Tumblr had found an interview with me from 2002 where I'm talking about this and the kiss, and they're like, 'Still doing it then'.

:)) Yep, Neil is still doing it :D <3 (this is the tumblr post)

You can watch the whole event here :).

[learnelle]

Sitting at dublin airport just thinking about how excited I am to go have little evening chats with my boyfriend again and cuddle my cat Marquis and have tea from my favourite mug and feel at home again ☕️📚🐈‍⬛🤎

[wolfstardaughter-jj]

[swingstep]

just what are you?

[esmiara]

Reading time

[common-sense-is-dead]

You guys remember in a series of unfortunate events where they wanted to do a head transplant on Violet? Fucking crazy that that was in a children's book. 12 year old me ate that shit up tho fr.

[gwen-tolios]

Hanging out at a local author fair today!

[annabelle--cane]

spotify will play me a song that I've never heard before that actively knocks my socks off and compels me to immediately add it to four separate playlists and take a quick research dive to learn everything about this artist that's available online and then spotify will manage to never play it for me again

[beljar]

Israeli-Palestinian Discourse

click to download

When does a native become a settler? by Yuval Evri, Hagar Kotef

Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native by Patrick Wolfe

The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965) by Fayez Sayegh

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky

Zionism and Colonialism by Gershon Shafir

Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race by Patrick Wolfe

The Palestinians’ Inalienable Right to Resist by Louis Allday

On Palestine By Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe and Frank Barat

Read About Palestine // Quotes

Artworks: Bethlehem Street Scene Photograph No.1 - Bethlehem, Palestine by Lantern Press // Approach to Caipha, Bay of Acre, Coast of Palestine by William Henry Bartlett // Fountain of the Virgin, Nazareth, Palestine, C1927-C1931 // Tower of the Forty Martyrs, Ramla, Palestine, C1930S by Ewing Galloway // Light Shining in Church of the Nativity Photograph No.2 - Bethlehem, Palestine by Lantern Press // The Market, Haifa, Palestine, C1920S-C1930S // Holyland Land Palestine - 1650

@liriostigre

[n-clair]

what do you guys call this genre of character? and why do they all have the same fucking bang-style

[quotesfrommyreading]

The graduate degree for librarians is not, typically, a master of arts, but a master of science—in library and information sciences. Librarians may adore books, but they are trained in the technical and data-driven work of running libraries. Unlike a privately owned bookstore, where the stock might reflect the tastes and preferences of the proprietor, at the library, books are acquired based on information about what its particular community wants and needs.

“Librarians love data,” Dudenhoffer, who now coordinates the information-science program at the University of Missouri, told me. “Knowing how to analyze your community, knowing how to look at data, knowing how to look at circulation numbers, knowing how to look at population movement, those things are becoming increasingly important in what we do, and that drives all of this.”

Public librarians, she said, are looking at such things as regional household income, age, education level, and racial and ethnic backgrounds while making their selections. They also consider patron requests. In a school library, this analysis might include information shared by students or teachers about the needs and interests of the current student body.

Librarians who showcase books about underrepresented groups, including LGBTQ people, surely believe that these stories are valuable. But the librarians I spoke with insisted that they’re making these choices because an assessment determined that there was a patron need for these books, not to push some personal social agenda. Those controversial book displays? Many, Dudenhoffer said, are a means of letting patrons know that material they might be too shy or embarrassed to ask for is in stock.

“It’s really unfair to characterize displays or programs as ‘woke,’” Dudenhoffer lamented. “That’s just such a terrible word to use right now. But it’s not about that. It’s about serving our community, and everyone in the community, to the best of our abilities.”

What seemed most painful to the librarians I spoke with—even more than the personal attacks and fear of litigation—was the way in which book bans hinder their ability to connect their patrons to information that might help them.

  —  The Librarians Are Not Okay

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Neil Gaiman and Roz Kaveney at the British Library event Why We Need Fantasy 20.11.2023 :) ❤

Neil: Good omens Season One was, for me, an exercise in adaptation. I'd taken something, and I wanted to turn it into something else. Good Omens Season Two, on the other hand, was just an absolute joy, because now I knew I have Jon Hamm, and I can get him to do this stuff, and he's going to be walking naked through Soho at the beginning, and everybody is going to think they're going to hate him, and instead, he's going to be this marvelous, goofy figure that they will all love but kind of hate themselves for loving, but not know if he's a bad guy, but they'll love him anyway. And over here, I will have my Crowley, and I know that I can get David Tennant to do anything now, there is nothing that he will not go for. And so I can ask him to do things that are even more ridiculous. And then over here, I've got Michael Sheen, and everybody in the whole world just wants to..., you know, it is now forgotten by humanity that once upon a time, Michael Sheen was thought of as that actor who plays the really creepy people.

Roz: Yeah. I saw him in Kingdom of Heaven the other night and thought, oh, that was Michael Sheen.

Neil: That was Michael Sheen.

Roz: The evil priest that gets killed.

Neil: He used to play... I mean, he used to play creepy people, and everybody knew that if you want a good, slimy serial killer person, you go for Michael Sheen. Currently - I got a phone call from him the other day - a little Marco Polo video message from him with the strangest haircut I've seen, and I get strange messed... you know, hair, but this one, and he's playing Prince Andrew, so he's absolutely capable of still bringing in the creep. But, you know, Michael having just become this cuddly, cinnamon roll creature of pure love and joy and knowing that everybody was just going to want to cuddle him for six episodes until I let him break their hearts. I'm sorry. Perhaps he will-

Audience member: No, you're not.

Neil: Not even the tiniest bit. There is no sorrow in that.

Roz: I was in hospital when I saw Good Omens Two and the moment I finished watching it, I texted you and said, 'You magnificent bastard.'

Watch the whole event here :).