jessamyn

Hello I'm Jessamyn #librarian owner of librarian.net and a few other websites you might know. New pinned post for Spring. I'm on Mastodon at glammr.us/@jessamyn My reading list jessamyn.info/booklist I work for the Flickr Foundation and do a lot of #Vermont and library civics stuff. Hello!

The Michigan Road Branch of The Indianapolis Public Library won an AccessAbility Award from Helen Keller services (right up there with Canon and OXO) for showing "what accessible employment looks like in practice." Details in their press release. 📚 www.indypl.org/news-and-ann...

I wrote a short non-technical blog post about the two big recent security vulnerabilities with a few good links for learning more about it and some simple things you can do. www.librarian.net/stax/6002/wh...

30 Women and 1 Man: A Brief History of the Library School at NYPL (1911-1926). $45/year for locals. 📚 www.nypl.org/blog/2025/04...

I worked at Github for eleven days as a contractor doing spam fighting. I don't know if I was fired b/c they saw I'd signed a lot of my (unreasonable amount of) paperwork "Abolish ICE" or because I, at the advice of my boss, used a computer which was not my own for a few hours. Probably the former.

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain for Tax Purposes

Via my state's Dept of Libraries newsletter, I learned that we deliver books to six correctional institutions in the state as well as to Mississippi where Vermonters are incarcerated. Made sure the DOL knew about the Abolitionist Library Association. Do you? 📚 modest-colden-86b261.netlify.app

Show a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie.

My newsletter, Today in Librarian Tabs, is back in business! Read the last issue (very short) online at Medium, or sign up via EmailOctopus in the sidebar of my website. 📚 medium.com/tilty/tilt-1... www.librarian.net

I grew up rural in a house my folks were fixing up so it was always under construction. It wasn't until I went to school and had to wear shoes all the time and meet other people's standards of cleanliness/manners that I realized our "free range" life was... out of the ordinary.

"...under the leadership of the Big Five and their equally hegemonic national retail partners, the flagship product favored by elite-facing bookstores in wealthy enclaves got cheaper, and the format with the proven mass potential got many times more expensive." 📚 jacobin.com/2026/10/book...

Tears on a Touchscreen: An Interactive Tale About Doing Emotional Tech Support Work by by Amy Linville & Justin Unrau. This short interactive game gets to the heart of my library job in a nutshell. From Strathcona County Library, in Alberta. Picture is unrelated librarianaut.com/TouchscreenT... 📚

I love that everyone’s excited about #bannedbooksweek, but please remember that there’s so much more to it than just buying or reading a banned book. Its also about people- librarians, educators, and readers- Kelly’s body of work is a starting point to understand this more.

Librarians, start your engines.... 📚

It's finally here! Are you ready to join us in kicking off #BannedBooksWeek?! This year's event is too big for just one piece of art, so we have THREE! #LetBooksBe bannedbooksweek.org

@bondcliff.bsky.social One of our Vermont libraries did a Phish-themed book-araoke, thought you'd like it. www.instagram.com/reels/Dd9sMt...

"What's your oldest book?" Libraries and historical societies can be ready for this question with a Designated Oldest Book (DOB). 🗃️📚📜 buffaloresearch.com/designated-o...

Today is World Postcard Day. Send a postcard to someone you like. Mail is fun. worldpostcardday.com

Feminize a band name Mrs. Bungle

"Are You A Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians follows the librarians who kept the doors open when the law said they shouldn't-from segregated reading rooms to freedom libraries to the branches serving our communities now" Rentable/streamable 📚 www.historysplayground.com/are-you-a-li...

My state library association is writing a letter to the Governor to suggest using some of our Meta settlement $$ to set up a Youth and Teen Library Spaces Grant Program, administered through the Department of Libraries. Here's the letter, if you want to copy it. vermontlibraries.org/vla-proposes...

Beloved friend and colleague JJ Pionke, librarian, library and information studies educator, and advocate for people with disabilities, has died. jj-pionke-memorial.org/in-loving-me... #skybrarians #medlibs

@jtkantor.bsky.social I have a local friend from my town here in Vermont who is turning 98 soon and is going to the Red Sox game on Friday with a group of friends. I don't think Goodnight Irene is appropriate but is there either a birthday song (Stevie?) or another song you'd suggest or could play?

"Hiring a “litigation consultant” to conduct a market study certainly suggests... that rather than collaborate with libraries ... the publishers’ primary trade organization instead appears to be gearing up for a court battle" Read this, and demand better. Excellent work, Guy.

No Soft Cops, No Saviours: Abolitionist Notes Against Social Work in Libraries by @gossippractice.bsky.social

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.

I got paid $250/month plus free rent to be the live-in caretaker of an Odd Fellows Hall in Seattle (no, not that one) in the 90s. I got to manage hall rentals for groups like the Loyal Order of the Golden North, Girth and Mirth, and the Modern Woodmen of America.

Today is my birthday; I am 58. Some privacy goes out the window when Wikipedia tells everyone how old you are. I did this last year and enjoyed it: suggest a book for me, or just send me a fun GIF? If you want to know if I've already read a book, list back to '97 is here jessamyn.info/booklist

Do you wish there were a printable pamphlet that quickly explains the Harry Potter boycott to people who are out of the loop? Well now there is! Free to print for non-commercial uses. (TLDR Rowling proudly funds anti rights lawsuits with your purchase.) www.friendlyexplanation.com/storage/329/...

An AI scambot of some kind, confusing me with an author who died in 1984, discussing her book which was published in 1953. Literally any living librarian would not make this mistake 📚 "I want to start by saying, Cress Delahanty is one of those rare books that arrives at exactly the right moment..."

I am chilling at a public library in MA. The library's lore is that a rich guy from Harvard left a bequest and some books for a library. The truth is, he died without a will and his sister inherited automatically and said "You know, this town could really use a library." I've fixed Wikipedia. 📚

Nirvana was playing in my college's dining commons in 1990 and it was $3 and I'd never heard of them and I thought their drunken smiley face logo looked goofy so I skipped it.

Are you in #Vermont and anywhere near Middletown Springs? If so, consider signing up to be in their Great Book Brigade on September 12 where they will be using a chain of human volunteers to move their 6500 books from their old library to the new one. Sign up here. 📚 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Quote skeet with a game released in the year you were born

A cool project that was possible thanks to the Flickr Commons presence of the British Library. 🥰

If you have not read Ben Passmore's graphic novel Black Arms to Hold You Up A History of Black Resistance, it just won an Eisner and I highly recommend it. As Passmore says "Black liberation is your fight too." Thanks for this @benpassmore.bsky.social

My dad brought a CD player back from a trip to Japan and along with it brought Wish You Were Here (Japanese release, ~1982) which we played on repeat frequently marveling at how crisp it was. The first CD I ever owned was the Misfits, maybe didn't require high fidelity, but sure was loud.