#tumblarian

[commonplacebook-1816]

If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness. I would be a fox, or a tree full of waving branches. I wouldn't mind being a rose in a field full of roses.

"Roses, Late Summer" by Mary Oliver

[librarianpirate]

I love it when I can sneak some nonfiction into a storytime! Hello, sunshine!

[justthoughts03]

Pain shrinks time horizons; in extreme crises or stress thinking of the next hour is too much for the mind and body. We concentrate on the next minute going well.

[libraryschoolstudies]

The library that I work at is going down hill. Management has decided that "patrons" can do whatever they want with no consequences. I'm sorry but my job is not to teach grown adults how the alphabet works or deep clean the whole department because they let their children ground food in the carpet and completely rearrange the shelves. I had a kid using the shelving as monkey bars and was yelled at for telling the kid to get down.

I had a 16 year old come in wanting a library card but couldn't fill out the application because he didn't know how to spell his own name or knew where he lived and this in considered normal.

I'm sorry but the people that come in are acting dumber than dirt. I'd have more success and a more intelligent conversation talking to the wall.

[lakecountylibrary]

We don’t have a uniform, why do you ask?

Inspired by our friends at Rapid City Public Library (link goes to TikTok). Music only - sound not needed.

[Video Description: A librarian with glasses wearing a polo shirt and shelving books answers an unheard question from someone offscreen. His words are inaudible but the caption reads "The librarian wearing the cardigan and glasses will be able to help you." Video cuts to an information desk where four librarians wearing cardigans and glasses are working. They all turn and wave as four more librarians wearing cardigans and glasses pop out from behind the desk and wave. The librarian from the beginning walks on screen and puts on his own cardigan. And waves.]

Music credit: George Street Shuffle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

[californiastatelibrary]

[landsccape]

[karapaints]

I was trying to explain tumblr to a very offline person, and the analogy I came up with was:

Tumblr feels like the first time your parents let you peruse the public library on your own.

Yes, you kind of know what you like, but who knew there were so many books about (insert childhood obsession here). And who knew there were so many things adjacent to that?!

So yeah, tumblr is a place of discovery & wonder & tiny moments of delight.

[okayto]

Student worker at closing during finals week: We’re definitely getting a lot of people in who you can tell have never come into the library before.

[lookingforabook]

One of the librarians has been sneakily removing books from the snowman to make it slowly melt over the last couple months, and he’s finally gone. I only got a couple pictures of the process, but the later stages are hilarious

[commonplacebook-1816]

“So you’d needn’t always choose to read what’s the most edifying, or professionally useful, or most enthusiastically endorsed by the arbiters of culture. Sometimes it’s OK just to read what seems most fun. Spending half an hour reading something interesting, moving, awe-inspiring, or merely amusing might be worth doing, not just to improve who you become in the future – though it may do that too – but for the sake of that very half hour of being alive.”

Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

[vans-drop]

I be saying "it is what it is" and then have a panic attack

[justthoughts03]

Nothing will feel the same as the first hit

and you've been wasting all this time trying to find that feeling again

when now you are starting to learn that nothing will compare to it.

And instead of walking away...

You seek

and you seek

and you seek

to the point of insanity.

Walk away.

You know there is nothing left here.

[lakecountylibrary]

Just the essentials!

Music credit: "Cinema Blockbuster Trailer 7" by Sascha Ende Link: https://filmmusic.io/en/song/329-cinema-blockbuster-trailer-7 License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license (CC BY 4.0)

[Video Description: A 26 second video. Orchestral, cinematic music plays. Text reads The library is on fire! Grab the most important things!

A librarian at her computer spins around in her chair in slow motion, a look of horror on her face. Video cuts between various librarians frantically rescuing items. Each scene is labeled with the item:

The South Shore Posters: A librarian completely obscured by a framed South Shore Line poster she is carrying backs out of a room.

The hand chair: A librarian hauls away a large red plastic chair shaped like a hand.

Patron holds: A librarian shovels patron holds off the holds shelf onto a cart.

Benny the library skeleton: A librarian princess-carrying a large skeleton dressed in an oversized t-shirt frantically looks around for an exit before dashing away

The cardigan pile: A librarian almost completely obscured by the pile of cardigans in her arms runs toward the camera.

3D printer: A librarian dashes up to a large 3D printer and attempts to lift it off the table

Cecily the giraffe: A librarian pats a life size baby giraffe statue and then grabs it by the leg and begins slowwwly scooting backward to slide it across the carpet

The library tree: A librarian grips an enormous planter out of which springs an entire tree and pulls with all her might. It doesn't move.

James Patterson books? : The librarian carrying Benny sprints into frame between shelves loaded with endless Patterson books. Record scratch. The sound of a clock ticking as he considers the books for maybe two seconds.

Text changes to "Not enough hands". The dramatic music resumes as he sprints off frame with Benny.

End card with the library logo. The words 'Not actually on fire. Everything is fine.' are typed across the screen. End description]

[archivlibrarianist]

Necessary reading, here, from the digital director of EveryLibrary. From the article:

"THIS IS NOT A GOOD-FAITH DISCUSSION

"The first thing we need to understand when we’re messaging about book bans is that we are not operating in a good-faith discussion, and we need to stop acting as if we were. In a good-faith discussion, both parties agree to an honest, respectful dialogue with the willingness to change their view if facts and data are presented. However, book banners are neither acting honestly nor respectfully. They will not consume new information and change their minds once educated on the issue. The individuals and organizations banning books are not looking to be educated. They don’t care about learning about the Miller Test for pornography, they are not interested in reading the books to put their propagandist images of a handful of pages into proper context, and they aren’t going to change their minds about books being banned. We have to stop acting as they will do any of these things.

"...Pro–book banning messaging and propaganda is used as a tool to build political power and influence for people and organizations to elect or appoint individuals to positions that allow them to govern and control Americans." [emphasis added]

They don't ban books because they care about books. They ban books because they are bullies, and they want to control people.

Don't let them.

[teenslib]

This dude at the library with his two kids is pissing me off so bad right now.

His son, about four(?) asked to check out a board book. No, Dad says, no board books allowed! (Board books are a format, not a level. Also, let your kid read what he likes, asshole.)

Has refused to read two of the books that his daughter (about 7?) asked him to read to her. One of them was a kids' introductory book about the Vietnam War (so, maybe fair), but the other was Wacky Things Pets Do.

Did agree to read her a book called The Lion Queens of India about Indian women conservationists but only reluctantly and then read it very quickly in a bored monotone.

Dude, you are at the library with two kids who are excited about books but you keep killing their buzz and staring at your phone. I hate you so much rn.