👇 Oh, look— here I am! 📚 Love our staff book club & honored to get the opportunity to share about it with @slj.com

School Library Journal@slj.com · last yr.

Faculty Book Clubs, Staff Reading Initiatives Improve School Reading Culture www.slj.com/story/Facult...

Vote for me and @mskeown-reads.bsky.social for the Page Turners READiculously Lit Contest by liking our entry reels on INSTAGRAM www.instagram.com/reel/DMdebo7...

Don’t miss this important conversation with #itstimeforyoungteenlit founding #librarians of @youngteenlit.bsky.social #youngteenlit

I’m in the running for the chance to interview @jasonreynolds83.bsky.social at the next Page Turners conference & I need your help (those of you w an IG). Go give this reel a 🩷 & share w your followers to do the same! Likes = votes & your vote matters! #TLSky www.instagram.com/reel/DMaoFpt...

I have re-started blogging for Knowledge Quest - first topic; weeding. Please leave a comment or question, & let me know if you have ideas for future topics :) ‪@aaslala.bsky.social‬ #TLSkyChat knowledgequest.aasl.org/weeding-the-...

📖 “‘That’s just what translation is, I think. That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.’” (Babel, R.F. Kuang) 😮‍💨😮‍💨 #BookSky #ReaderSky

Stop the Department of Education from withholding $6.8 billion in education funding. www.nea.org/advocating-f...

Exercise the Power of the Purse | NEA

Stop the Department of Education from withholding $6.8 billion in education funding.

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It's the spotlight on graphic novels month over at @ala-booklist.bsky.social, and @smwordsmith.bsky.social and I have TWO booklists for you, rounding up the best in manga over the last year! Please check out our work.

BIG DAY TODAY 🎉🎉 Technically earned this badge before May was over (brag much?), BUT today I finished every possible badge in the @focolibrary.bsky.social adult #SummerReading challenge, including the July-only activity badge 🤓, & am feeling very satisfied w my public-library-loving self 🥰 💅📚

I do so much *breathing* in the summer—and that’s it, isn’t it? That’s what I’m missing the rest of the year, I think? Just having the time to notice where you are when you’re there, & to feel gratitude for your breath, your body, and the simple beauty that this world has tucked away within it. 🌅 🌲

Love this read & its message. Wholeheartedly agree w the mutualistic relationship between reading/librarianship & music/music programs. 📚🎵 #TLSky, any of you have ideas or examples of collabs you’ve done with chorus, orchestra, or band classes? Would love to hear them! #TLSkyChat #SchoolLibrarian

School Library Journal@slj.com · last yr.

When we ban books or defund music programs, we don't just silence stories; we sever lifelines. We remove safe, creative pathways for young people to explore emotion, identity, and connection. (TLT)

Funding has always been an issue for school libraries - with uncertainty around fed/state budgets, grants from other sources will be vital. Here are six grants that could help toward collection development, programming, disaster recovery, and more.

6 Grant Opportunities for School Libraries

This funding can help with everything from collection development and programming to disaster recovery and more.

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Friends, add your ideas to our Passive Programming Playbook! 🥳 We shared it today in our July @follettcontent.bsky.social webinar. There are several ideas to get us started. Let's fill this @padlet with ideas & resources for the new year. ❤️ buff.ly/4MEsy77 #TlSky #EduSky #tlchat #futurereadylibs

🔑 takeaways from ch 1 of Developing Digital Detectives. 💙ing the balance of background info (like how marketing strategy transfers to journalism & the breakdown of the wall between newsrooms & advertising w/I journalism spheres) w/ practical application (actual resources!) of stepped lessons #TLSky

Lindsey Keown ✨@mskeown-reads.bsky.social · last yr.

Diving in to the book study course created by @techielibgrl.com for @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social & Darren Huggins’ book, Developing Digital Detectives, & am already feeling amped up following the introduction #TLSky 💡⚡️ Things that resonate from the intro so far ⬇️

Book burnout is not unfamiliar to most of us working to match people up with their perfect read–there is a constant stream of new releases that all sound great and backlist books that have been on that TBR list for years and backlist books you’ve just found out about.

Read Rec Rachel: Books to Rec and Read for Recc-ers and Readers Dealing with Burnout

It’s May! Summer Reading is almost upon us, the birds are chirping (probably), and some of our brains need some shuteye. I wasn’t sure who that last one could possibly be referring to other than the f...

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Diving in to the book study course created by @techielibgrl.com for @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social & Darren Huggins’ book, Developing Digital Detectives, & am already feeling amped up following the introduction #TLSky 💡⚡️ Things that resonate from the intro so far ⬇️

"We urge lawmakers to drop the private school voucher program from the spending bill and keep it out of the final budget package...it will set us on a dangerous course back toward a pre-civil rights era reality, defined by deliberate racial segregation and extreme disparities in school funding..."

Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Will Devastate Public Schools

The budget package currently includes a private school voucher program funded through tax breaks.

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My reading life this summer has been a balanced mix of personal preference, book club picks, & #HelenRuffin #ReadingBowl titles, most of which have pleasantly surprised me with their complexity. 💕 Thankful for another (almost) full month of #SummerReading ahead. #BookSky #ReaderSky #TLSky

Wondering about how to get involved in #comicslibrarianship? Check out #libcomix resources on www.ala.org/gncrt

Wherever she leads, I’ll go.✨ Morning rituals are cleansing, & I hate that my favorite one— walks in public parks w my dog, June— goes away each year when school starts. I suppose it does make me that much more appreciative of the time we have w this routine; it’s “not nothing,” as Josey would say.

Sotomayor writing what all educators are thinking: “Given the great diversity of religious beliefs in this country, countless interactions that occur every day in public schools might expose children to messages that conflict with a parent’s religious beliefs” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Registration for @slj.com Summit is OPEN!!! I won’t be able to attend this year but tune in-last year’s Summit was great and you can’t beat a conference for #schoollibrarians #tlsky #tlskychat www.eventbrite.com/e/slj-summit... SLJ Summit 2025 Tickets, Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM | Eventbrite

“When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think…you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.” ~Joy Harjo

While the comics industry continues to expand, training for library staff charged with filling shelves or creating programs around these titles has not. Join Booklist 7/23 for its first virtual workshop introducing library workers to the world of comics! Registration is FREE: bit.ly/44ct1P3

Just in time for #ReadGraphic month, it's here! Booklist's Guide to Graphic Novels in Libraries for 2025 is OUT and available now for FREE! Showcasing excellent collection development and readers' advisory tips, zines, manga and more: bit.ly/469uHeK Heading to #ALAAC25? Pick it up at Booth #1720!

Fellow @glma-inc.bsky.social members, check out these free PD offerings!

Heather Turner@techielibgrl.com · last yr.

Finalizing Summer PD. A few new ones have been added from the last time I posted. If you are interested please do sign up by Friday :) Oh and it is completely FREE. Check them all out by clicking HERE Excited to connect with educators during the summer! It is the best :)

I mean, 😮‍💨, #HelenRuffin #ReadingBowl is straight up trying to kill me 💔 We’re 70% done with Lisa Fipp’s And Then, Boom! & neither me or the mouse in my pocket is ready to name which emotion we feel most: hope, appreciation, heartbreak, absolute fury? More 💭 ⬇️ #TLSky #KidLit #BookSky #ReaderSky

My kind of Tuesday at @thefoxtheatre.bsky.social #BroadwayinATL

Just like clockwork, #kidlitchat day is here! Join us here on Bluesky today and every Tuesday at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific for an hour of chat with your #kidlit friends and family (and strangers, I suppose. But that won't last). We all hope you can join us. And I'll see you then!