Friday, July 18, 2025
Mascot, by Waters and Sorell (eBook preview)
Presenting … First-chapter Friday, the eBook edition. The July 18 selection features Mascot, by Charles Waters and Traci Sorell.
Monday, July 14, 2025
International Non-Binary People’s Day (Reading from Jamie, by L.D. Lapinski)
To commemorate International Non-Binary People’s Day — celebrated each year on July 14 — here is a reading from Jamie by L.D. Lapinski. Jamie Rambeau loves hanging out with their two best friends, Daisy and Ash. But when the trio find out that their local middle schools separate students into a school for boys and a school for girls, their friendship suddenly seems at risk. Where does Jamie, a non-binary student, fit in? Whichever of their friends Jamie chooses to go to school with, the other will have to navigate a new middle school on their own.
https://youtu.be/ysMNkOxQSEk
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Same Page, by Elly Swartz
This book raises a lot of valuable points about the importance of offering diverse books that can serve a diverse readership.
One example is when Bess’s friend June dismissed the removal of books from the vending machine. June proposed a list of replacement books, and Bess pointed out the books June was proposing weren’t the same kinds of books as the books that were removed from the vending machine.
June asked Bess, “Why do you even care so much? I mean, most of the books that were pulled aren’t even about kids like us.”
One example is when Bess’s friend June dismissed the removal of books from the vending machine. June proposed a list of replacement books, and Bess pointed out the books June was proposing weren’t the same kinds of books as the books that were removed from the vending machine.
June asked Bess, “Why do you even care so much? I mean, most of the books that were pulled aren’t even about kids like us.”
Friday, July 4, 2025
Authors and librarians are NOT groomers
Amid ever-increasing incidents of book challenges, I’m worried by inflammatory rhetoric that portrays librarians and authors as “groomers” of young people. Speaking as someone who survived an attempt at grooming, I consider this characterization to be vile and obscene.
https://youtu.be/SPMmEs7KdGM
Just Lizzie, by Karen Wilfrid (eBook preview)
Presenting … First-chapter Friday, the eBook edition. The July 4 selection features Just Lizzie, by Karen Wilfrid.
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Librarians I admire (Hohl, Threets, and Helmick)
With a couple of photos that came across my timeline, I want to honor three librarians I admire: Cindy Hohl, Mychal Threets, and Sam Helmick.
https://youtu.be/2XxcIyjl6-s
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Subject Classifications (Partial list, via Dewey Decimal System)
- 006.754-Social Media
- 020-Library and Information Science
- 020.7025-Library Education
- 020.92-Cynthia M. Parkhill (Biographical)
- 023.3-Library Workers
- 025.00285-Digital libraries
- 025.04-Internet Access
- 025.2-Libraries--Collection Development
- 025.213-Libraries--Censorship
- 025.3-Libraries--Cataloging
- 025.84-Books--Conservation and restoration
- 027.473-Public Libraries--Sonoma County CA
- 027.663-Libraries and people with disabilities
- 027.7-Academic Libraries--University of Central Missouri
- 027.8-School Libraries--Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts
- 028.52-Children's Literature
- 028.535-Young Adult Literature
- 028.7-Information Literacy
- 158.2-Social Intelligence
- 302.34-Bullying
- 305.9085-Autism (People with Developmental Disabilities)
- 306.76-Sexual orientation and gender identity
- 371-Schools--Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts
- 371-Schools--Santa Rosa City Schools
- 636.8-Cats
- 646.2-Sewing
- 658.812-Customer Service
- 659.2-Public Relations
- 686.22-Graphic Design
- 700-The Arts
- 746.43-Yarn bombing (Knitting and Crochet)
- 808.51-Public Speaking
- 809-Book Reviews