@sassylibrarian
📎2023 NJLA Librarian of the Year📎Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians📎NCAC Outstanding Librarian📎AASL, NJLA & NJASL Intellectual Freedom Awards📎InsiderNJ 2025 Policy Makers Power List📎2026 MLK Spirit Hall of Fame📎Ban book banners!
Here we go again.
When the federal government starts punishing libraries for carrying books about gender identity, it is not defending families. It is policing ideas.
That's what the "Stop the Sexualization of Children Act" is designed to do.
Call it what it is and oppose it.
“We don’t know if there will be a happy resolution to the problems plaguing our country, and we can’t skip ahead to find out. But I believe if we support and uplift librarians, there will be more sunlight for all of us.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
Stunned to be included on this list of badasses 😳 High praise. Incredible cohort. Honored!
A bipedal red fox paints a rainbow across the sky. They have a determined look on their face. To the right of the rainbow are segments of text from newspaper articles about grim news for LGBTQIA+ folks, especially trans folks. On the left, there are flowers on the ground, with butterflies flittering about. The discouraging words are illegible faint smudges. Artist: BriarhideIllust
Persist against all odds
Cool display! If I still had a library, I’d be stealing that one first sure.
I can’t begin to count the number of times it’s been challenged. Further proof, as Steven Pico said recently, that book banners are “very good at choosing excellent literature.”
Smaller pins (on strings), shorter lanes, smaller balls ( no holes, about the size of a grapefruit). Lotsa fun!
Letterboxd review of The Librarians documentary, posted by username Becca on March 4, 2026. Text: “just reaffirmed my belief that north hunterdon high school is actually hell on earth”
I feel ya, Becca. NHHS was a toxic stew of misogyny, racism & incompetent coach-bro-dude administrators that nearly killed me. For real. If it was that awful for me as a an adult, I hate to think what kids endured. I hope the library offered relief. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
“The [Door County Film Festival] People’s Choice Award for Best Feature Film was awarded to Kim A. Snyder for her documentary film The Librarians.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
Martha & Doug holding duck pin bowling balls
Restaurant sign: Hollow Pines
Today in retirement: Played a concert for the senior center with the Bayside Ukulele Club, followed by lunch and duck pin bowling at Hollow Pines, the new restaurant in town.
New merch available from THE LIBRARIANS: Hats and kids’ tee shirts. Would love that tee shirt in adult sizes, too. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
This could not exist in this form in a high school. The next generation of 5th graders would be conceived under that table.
Storyboarding. Goals for the next 6 months. Draw the view from your dream window.
The “telling your boss” part sold me.
Whenever a king sees that his people are about to revolt against him, he starts a war with another country. - Napoleon Bonaparte
For those who have read their history books...
The people banning books have NEVER been the good guys.
Sign the petition to stop the Federal Book Ban bill!
action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
The federal government should not decide what your kids are allowed to read.
Oppose the Federal Book Ban bill!
Sign the petition and defend the freedom to read.
action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Same. Breathing fire.
This sounds like a fantastic talk. Lucky library!
Hearing Lisa Rinna talk about burning Andy Cohen’s book reminds me of when Doug & I incinerated the motivational “You Matter” t-shirt my school gave staff, with the demand that we wear it on Fridays, despite daily evidence that we didn’t matter. Background music: “This is Easy” by Marshall Crenshaw.
Sounds like Warren County, NJ. On top of the nepotism-driven political patronage appointees with no credentials or relevant experience, the library board calls concerned community members “stupid” behind closed doors and is secretly changing the bylaws, refusing to hear input from the community.
“We know that without libraries, without education, which is based largely on libraries, we cannot have an educated people who will carry on successfully our form of government.”
cover of the nowhere girls
THE NOWHERE GIRLS by Amy Reed meets teens where they are and challenges them to think bigger. It explores friendship, consent, sexism, and the courage to speak up. Books like this spark important conversations about respect and accountability. Silencing them limits the dialogue teens need.
Awww, look, Bruce gets a shoutout in this review 😂😂😂 Well deserved. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
Every Democrat in the House should sign on to articles of impeachment for Kristi Noem. This is fruit so low-hanging it's practically below ground.
Proud to support my dedicated colleague @becalzada.bsky.social for @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social President! She is principled, brave, and focused! I respect all the candidates but hope you will consider supporting Becky!
Great news! Congratulations!
To me this says FUND LIBRARIES‼️
Fund collections. Fund staff. Fund more folks working in reference and research. Fund teen library space & teacher in the library programs
We ALREADY have a wildly popular institution that helps kids learn, respects their privacy, and teaches critical thinking 📚
“If they’re willing to force a voting system change, create mass confusion, and then rush to court to block the fix—in March—what do you think November looks like? …
Write it down. March 3, 2026. They just showed you their whole playbook.”
Stop sacrificing America's children to hide your involvement in the Epstein sex trafficking ring.
Send Barron.
