Teen, new adult, and undergrad librarians, let me introduce you to your new best friend: the Aesthetics Wiki. This thing is a goldmine for programming ideas that will feel relevant to many of the people you serve.

📚 17/31 THE ONE WHERE I RUIN YOUR CHILDHOOD by Daniel Crocker. Excerpt from “C is for Cookie”: “You don’t have to talk when you’ve got/a fig newton in your mouth. There’s no/room to think with a mind full of sugar” #TheSealeyChallenge

Hi. I don’t feel like it today, and it’s okay if you don’t feel like it either. Whatever it is.

We share our hot takes in order that we may refine them: Makerspaces should consider sewing equipment equally valid when compared with digital fabrication equipment. (Thanks Heather Moorefield-Lang @actinginthelib & Bethany Smith @bethanyvsmith for helping me refine my thoughts.) 🧵

I did more #motherscholar-ing this morning, saying things like “I would do a visual analysis of photos of the makerspaces” and also “No honey, Maggie can’t see the TV, she doesn’t know what George is doing. Yes, he IS using a microphone with a fishing rod! So funny!” 📓

A refinement of my earlier hot take: a sewing machine with a zigzag stitch should be considered basic equipment for a makerspace; if you have the money, it’d be great to get a serger, too. 🧵

Hot take: A serger should be assumed basic equipment in every makerspace. 🧵

Switching all my wallpapers to this “Keep going. You’re doing great.” wallpaper by Esmé Weijun Wang. Thought other people might need it, too.

In case you need some very trivial but good news today: After a LOT of work, it seems like maybe finally I’ve got my ARC of Tracy Deonn’s (@tracydeonn on Twitter) Legendborn loaded on my almost-10-year-old 1st generation Nook . 💓 📚

Anybody know of somebody doing research on makerspaces specifically located in schools of education? NCSU, UNCG & UNCP each have one and I’m curious about them. 📓

Hear me out: A first-year experience librarian [PDF], but for grad students.

Help me #TeamLowBar, I set my low bar too high!

Want to read: Craftfulness by Rosemary Davidson and Arzu Tahsin 📚🧵🧶

📚 16/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL, THERE WERE MOUNTAINS by Blake Hackler. Excerpt from “On The Other Side”: “Can you carry danger/in a backpack? Smoke/the last of summer/on the long hike to the summit?” #TheSealeyChallenge

I’ve got all the pieces of my sewing machine, my sewing basket, 2 sewing books, and 2 sewing classes on Blueprint/Once-and-Future-Craftsy, so GET READY FOR SEWING-RELATED CONTENT. 🧵

I think my aesthetic is that I’m the librarian at the boarding school all the dark academia kids wish they went to. Replace the blazers with cardigans and the wire-rims with cat’s eye, boom, me.

📚 15/31 PORTAGE by Sarah Ann Winn. Excerpt from “Alma”: “Gorge of girl, shaped by erosion, gorgeous, engorged by trees..” ♥️ Another beautiful collection. #TheSealeyChallenge

Here’s the truth about life, kids: not one of us has it figured out. Every person who looks like they have it together actually is a mess in at least one area of their life. Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something. The only way we can get through it is together.

📚 14/31 SEED, STAR, SONG by May Chong. Excerpt from “Tembeling”: “The new rubies/of wild cinnamon leaves, and/the jewelbox of jungle flowers/are this earth’s exclamation:/we are still alive.” ♥️♥️♥️ Every poem in this collection is gorgeous. #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 13/31 MOTHER IS THE NAME FOR GOD by Judith Kingston. Excerpt from “III. Pentheus, My Son: “I never knew love until I became a mother./I was gentle and meek as a maid,but now I am a fierce lioness.” Bacchae is sadder than I remembered. #TheSealeyChallenge

My glasses broke. No advice needed: there’s no easy fix. I ordered 2 pair so that when this happens again, I don’t have to wait for a backup.

Did some very strong #motherscholar-ing this morning, simultaneously joining a meeting on branding for the Equity in the Making project & helping my kid strap on his guitar, go to the bathroom, & get his Captain America on. 📓

I used to keep this circlet in my office for days when I needed a boost. It might become my dissertating circlet. (Also: #yesfilter, so many filters.)

I have all my best ideas around 3 AM.

📚 12/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL by Jennifer Jackson Berry. Excerpt: “the boy will be stiff if & only stiff/if the girl is light as a feather & not bored.” #TheSealeyChallenge