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used to live-tweet tv but now I’m just trying to get more involved in #librarylife. checkout desk extraordinaire.

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working for a library is really fun especially when, god forbid, a newer employee comes up with a way to save several departments time and effort and the old guard says “no, don’t do that” without any explanation.

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Apparently a manager from another branch in our system asked if it was necessary to keep quarantining books and my director said it isn’t. So now the whole system is no longer quarantining books.

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Today we got the word that in five weeks we’ll no longer be quarantining book returns. Guess collecting fines is more important than employee lives! #librarylife

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Reading a book where the MC just got a BACHELOR’S in library science and is about to land a job CURATING A BRAND NEW LIBRARY. #librarylife

[Jarrett Lerner @Jarrett_Lerner]

A comic about “real” reading.

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I don’t even know what The Outsiders is about seeing as it was never part of my curriculum in grade school or for my Literature degree and I’m in no rush to change that now. What a bad take. Graphic novels are NOVELS.

[Grand Pasha Bet | Resmi Hesap @burayagirisyokk]

No The Outsiders is the first book many people read in their life & it shows them they CAN read a book. Not that they can turn the pages on a graphic novel.

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Apparently over the weekend my manager said she doesn’t feel bad for teachers because “there are more kids at the library than are in [her] son’s [in-person] class.” Fucking excuse me? #librarylife

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Y’all remember that bookmark alignment chart? I don’t remember what was down for chaotic evil but I just checked in a book that had a sticker as a bookmark. You think you’ve seen it all and then... #librarylife

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(We’re going to start taking money again. I’m sure the $30.15 we’ll rack up in a week is going to make SUCH a difference to the county. Assholes.)

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What’s it like to have a manager that fights for their team instead of giving in to every whim of their superior? Asking for a friend. #librarylife

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@hahalibrary Sometimes literally!

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If I had a dollar for every time I’ve personally been asked “what do you MEAN you’re not a librarian???” at the circulation desk, I would have SO many dollars. “Well what are you then??” Nunya!!! #librarylife

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On this episode of “I am in Hell,” the officer stationed at the library today said that this assignment is very boring and he’d rather be doing something more fun and exciting. #librarylife

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@Lib_Techie Yup, I run the circ department at my branch and I WILL NOT force my team to do anything I haven’t done myself. Right now I don’t technically want to be willing to do ANY of this but I’ll take the heat before I let any of them do it.

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My library opened this morning. We hit capacity at noon. And where is our director? Working from home. #librarylife

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Love it when my manager asks for my opinion so she can pretend she’s going to consider what I have to say and then do whatever she wants to do anyway! 🙃

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Being from FL is a special kind of dumb bc this is a thing that some of my former classmates need to hear: I cannot begin to explain how fucking tone deaf it is for to be absolutely SILENT about #BlackLivesMatter and then POST PICTURES FROM THEME PARKS DURING A PANDEMIC!!!

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This isn’t my main and I’ve been doing all of my retweeting on my other account but I would like to say it over here, too: libraries are not neutral and BLACK LIVES MATTER.

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Heard from a friend who works for my county’s school system that they let all of their media specialists go. In an email. For fucks sake.

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@hahalibrary Yeah we use a computer in a different part of the library and then the entire area is wiped down