#library lockdown

[hella1975]

in the showing up to the library with an overnight bag part of exam season

[corvidaedream]

oh shit, the graphic novel i was assistant colorist on is finally out tomorrow

i didn't even realize (probably should have put it in my calendar but the pandemic caused the date to be moved so much that i just totally forgot)

anyway uhh if u see "courage to dream" by neal shusterman and andrés vera martínez at ur local library or book store, that's my flat coloring work, baby!

[isfjmel-phleg]

The campus is under lockdown until further notice. All I know is that some kind of shooting threat was made somewhere, but I am okay and safe and stuck at work indefinitely.

[freakscircus]

so sad about the events in chapel hill today. i fell in love with this place and changed my entire life trajectory to be able to spend forever here. the fact that the peace of this loving and sweet community has been destroyed in a few hours is just heartbreaking. my students and colleagues don’t deserve this.

[trainingdummyrabbit]

yknow . despite being a ruina girlie. i have only read one, Maybe two of the books.

[spaceydelusions]

I just wanted to show off my little library

[a-study-in-dante]

February 7th & 8th, 2023 | Managed to wake up early (coughs 7 am coughs) two days in a row, and I can feel my motivation to work coming back. Hell, I went to the library. Mindblowing.

[blueberry-beanie]

Die Anstalt im Homeoffice pt.1/2 | 24. März 2020

[rumiraclemi]

"ok today for SURE i'll sit down and catch up on jrwi, i have nothing else to do and i really do wanna know what i've missed. i'll absolutely watch them today. i w-

[inkdrawndreamer]

Attention folks! Are you concerned about book bans? Do you have a lot of books you found helpful and no longer need? Do you want to increase access to books that risk getting banned? Let me introduce you to Little Free Libraries 📚

Little Free Libraries are just what the name implies: a small cabinet that you can leave books in and take books from for free. You can even stick one in your yard! They exist in multiple countries, and you can look up Little Free Libraries near you on the organization's websites. They're great places to go if you want to unload a few books you're done with or find a few new ones.

[girls4etho]

ok here ^_^ bookshelves. i took a bunch id never read or been interested in out so i could finally fit in most of the books that before had just been sitting on the shelves (like new irish race still is. but that deserves pride of place anyway). not pictured is the shelf full of books i dont have thr courage/will to throw out but also dont want to look at (ie. um. my cassandra clare collection and a few others)

[icterid-rubus]

I need to know if you called the alumni guy or not!

I have not, he said he’d call tonight. Although, I’ve got my phone in a death grip and am mentally wrestling with myself to not text him that I’ve like been hospitalized or something and can’t talk lmao

[igbeh]

STOPPPP i keep having dreams im pregnant. nightmares,??? someone in my family is gonna have a baby or is that when u dream abt fish??

[the-fearful-one]

I've never explicitly said it before but I'm currently a student at MSU and. I don't know if I'm going to be normal after this

[slightlytoastedbagel]

I miss my school's old library...

[dandelion-network]

If you don't use your library's Libby and Hoopla collections, you run the risk of losing that access. Your library will see the low numbers and think "no one is using this service and we need to save money so let's get rid of it". I am saying this because at the library I work at, the collections team reduced the number of books you can check out each month for Hoopla. They reduced the amount by more than half - 25 to 10 - all because people weren't using it at the same capacity they were during lockdown.

Digital collections are expensive yes but when libraries are able to show the library board or city that their services are highly sought after and used in large numbers, that aids in arguing for increasing the budget - or at least keeping the budget where it's at.

Whatever your opinion on pirating is, you are doing not a single person favors by not using library resources just because you have a misunderstanding in how it actually works.