Emily May

English librarian living the dream ❤️📚🇪🇺🇬🇧 (Views are my own.)

[Emily May @birosandarrows]

A primary school's visiting the library & a teacher's reading Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone with all the voices. Best. Shift. Ever.

[Emily May @birosandarrows]

No call/text to apologise for cancelling today’s delivery (halfway through the day!)/check if Friday suits my schedule. I don’t have email notifications so it’s lucky I saw it, let alone spotting the changed service date. Highly doubt I’ll buy from them again. 5/5
@IKEAUKSupport

[Emily May @birosandarrows]

The missing bookcase was supposed to be delivered today 7am-7pm. About 1.30pm I got an email with an invoice- nothing highlighting that anything had “updated” on the invoice- the exact same auto-sent email, but with the “service date” changed to Friday. 4/5

@IKEAUKSupport

[Em 🌱🌾🌿 @EmilyMayBooks]

Hey #LibrariansOfTwitter- I'm refreshing my Library Careers assembly and would love to know the most niche/surprising librarian specialties you've come across over the years.

Bring on the weird and wonderful job titles!

@CILIPinfo @librarianprblms

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Lincoln Project’s legal response to the frivolous threat of a lawsuit from Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s lawyer.

This will not be the last they hear from us.

[rey 🍂 @yumsilmarils]

forget comfort character what’s your comfort lotr soundtrack and why is it concerning hobbits

[Emily May @birosandarrows]

Books winging their way back to @Medwaylibraries this week 💛

My favourite was “The Giver of Stars” by Jojo Moyes.

The most niche is “Rochester Cathedral Library: It’s Fortunes and Adventures through Nine Centuries” by WH Mackean, Canon and Librarian (published 1953).⁣

[Pistachio 🇮🇷 🇵🇸 @HarleyShah]

How it started: How it's going:

[Alex Lu @alexijielu]

My PhD supervisor brought a whole box of transparent masks so I could lipread - completely unprompted. I'm crying - inclusivity done right

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

After Boris Johnson says ‘we must act now’, those in the theatre industry say they would if they fucking could.

[kg 🌾 @queenoftartan]

...well he forgot the rescue breaths. Rookie error.

[kg 🌾 @queenoftartan]

"My mum, she is my extra power". This guy is too wholesome for my heart to handle.

[Emily May @birosandarrows]

Had a thoroughly good time reading “The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club” by Katie May (@_katherine_may_). It feels like the characters have fallen from real life into the pages; their voices couldn’t be more authentic.⁣ Highly recommend. Borrowed from @Medwaylibraries.

[anita anand @tweeter_anita]

I hadn’t seen this before... incredibly powerful. Incredibly human. And so relevant today #WorldMentalHealthDay

[Kerrie Ann Gardner @KerrieDoodles]

Ask where stars come from
And people tell you many things
But I've seen the stars slip
Straight from starling's wings.

[Bill Esterson @Bill_Esterson]

1) A thread

A tale of two PPE suppliers.

The company set up on 12 May 2020 by an associate of a Conservative Peer.

The family business in Knowsley, with over 50 years proven track record.

One was given a contract for £122 million.

The other was given the run around.