🔖📚 Read Tadao Ando Designed & Donated a Floating Library that Delivers Books to Children (Spoon & Tamago).
You’ve heard of a bookmobile? Tadao Ando leveled it up.
Hi there! I'm Kimberly Hirsh. My pronouns are she/ her/hers. I'm somebody's mom. I work as a school librarian. I have a PhD in information and library science. I love to read, play tabletop and video games, and make things. I used to perform in theater and improv comedy and I may one day again. I have been extremely online since 1993 and still enjoy tinkering on the web. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I'm married to my kid's dad. We have a cat.
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Recent posts
🔖🍿 Read The 2.5-hour AI-generated Odyssey movie is 2.5 hours too long by Andrew Webster (The Verge).
Fascinating look at someone using AI to make absolute nonsense. Surprising, no. Interesting, yes.
🎮 Played Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
I first played it years after it came out. Holds up beautifully on replay, at least if it’s been 15+ years since the first time you played it.
Finished reading: Asking for Trouble by Tessa Bailey 📚 🔥🔥🔥🔥
📕 Read “Kiito, Finland: Notes on what opting in taught me about libraries, learning & myself” by Samantha Hull (KnowledgeQuest vol. 54 no. 5, May/June 2026, p. 15 - 17). Three highlights from Hull’s Fulbright research on how public libraries in Finland support grade schools:
Librarians are not waiting to be invited. They are designing grade-specific offerings, proactively contacting schools, and embedding library visits into the rhythm of the school year. (p. 16)
A school librarian is not just the person who helps learners find sources. We are the people who show learners that knowledge is accessible, that questions are welcome, that there is a trusted adult whose entire job is to help them navigate information and the world it describes. (p. 16)
Adaptability is not a special talent. It is what happens when children are given structure, trust, and encouragement to try.
🗨️📚 “When I die, I guess I’ll go with a library card in one hand and an OVERDUE stamp in the other.” Stephen King, It
🔖 Read A Self-Care Guide For Teachers (From A Teacher).
This is an excellent article that names systemic issues contributing to educator burnout and points to resources for teachers to build their resilience and refill their wells.
📓Read The New Federal Funding Problem by Matt Hartman (The Assembly).
We don’t see the research that’s never done. We don’t see the researcher who doesn’t have the breakthrough that leads to the big change. They just disappear.
Finished reading: The True Ugly Duckling by Sandra Nickel 📚
A beautiful story of Hans Christian Andersen with stunning cut paper illustrations by Calvin Nicholls.