Reference Librarian

Librarian. Podcaster. Author. Purveyor of (mostly) useful information.

[Reference Librarian @librarylife]

@ToadWetSprocket 🐋 Patchogue, NY - very much looking forward to it!

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Anonymous
I work at a public library. A teenage boy came to the desk. He looked nervous. "I found this," he said. He put a copy of Harry Potter on the counter. It was lost 3 years ago. It was battered. "I stole it," he admitted. "We didn't have money for books. But I read it. I read it ten times." He pulled out a crumpled $10 bill. "For the fine." I looked at the computer. The fine was way more than $10. I looked at the kid. He was honest. He was a reader. I took the $10. "Actually," I said, "The fine is exactly zero dollars during Amnesty Week." (There is no Amnesty Week). I pushed the money back to him. "Buy your own copy," I said. "And come back. We have the sequel." He comes in every Tuesday now. Libraries are for reading, not for accounting.

[Orlando International Airport @MCO]

No one:
Meemaw on Christmas day:

[Reference Librarian @librarylife]

That's a nice looking...Long Island doggie? https://t.co/II8PTfUqLe @flightradar24

[ITI Events @LibConf]

Learn how to strengthen community ties and boost library resource usage through makerspace programming with Sal DiVincenzo, @librarylife, @MCPL_Libraries, at #CILDC. Register today with code SOC25! https://t.co/sfQRR7Ij1X

[ITI Events @LibConf]

Learn how to strengthen community ties and boost library resource usage through makerspace programming with Sal DiVincenzo, @librarylife, @MCPL_Libraries at #CILDC. Register with code SOC25 for early bird pricing before Feb 21st! https://t.co/mgOdjRVd0a

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

Armchair Books in Edinburgh 📚

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In case you missed this, there is a Window Cleaning World Cup.

[Reference Librarian @librarylife]

@HewMoran Happy Birthday!

[Reference Librarian @librarylife]

@HewMoran Fortnite made the earthquake

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Top 30 largest fast food chains in the US

[Reference Librarian @librarylife]

If you don’t sub to this channel, you’re missing out. Check out the most recent vid: The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible https://t.co/bGscubcZ74 via @YouTube

[OpenMoon @OpenMoonAI]

13 photos of the sun, every month, in the same place, at the same time.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

120 years ago #Today, two Ohio brothers – Wilbur & Orville Wright – made the first bonafide, crewed, heavier-than-air powered flight.

It took off at 10:35 a.m. with Orville Wright on board as pilot. He flew their vehicle, called the Flyer, for 12 seconds over 40 yards (about 37 meters) of sandy ground just outside Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Only 65 years and 7 months passed before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.

[Dashiell Driscoll @dashiell]

Someone on reddit did the math to calculate Clark Griswold's 1989 Christmas bonus

[Bell Brothers @hellobellbros]

Sweet fancy Moses!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Christmas book tree at St. Pancras Station, London.

It features a staircase which winds up 270 shelves, stocked with over 3,800 hand-painted books.

The little booths at the bottom have speakers that read you a story while you wait for your train.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship’s second integrated flight test https://t.co/cahoRQ72lm

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

El Salvador’s new National Library