Colleagues are all “I forgot how exhausting teaching in person is!” & I’m all “I forgot how exhausting getting your kid ready to go to preschool in person is!”

Want to read: Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life by Heather Cass White 📚

Me, prepping for my kid’s very masked return to preschool:

IMAGE: Liz Lemon (from the TV show 30 Rock), a white woman with brown hair wearing glasses, says, “I’m going to become wonderful.”

Want to read: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly 📚

📺 It’s been interesting seeing other (current or former) academians’ responses to THE CHAIR. I made it 8 minutes but once the notion of just getting through the tenure process and THEN shaking things up was mentioned, I had to stop. My heart was hurting.

Setting aside my TIME 100 list plan to play in the land of YA rom-coms. Just started NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST. 📚

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Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling – Scalawag scalawagmagazine.org

Read: scalawagmagazine.org

Read this because it’s on Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Human-Information Interaction syllabus for this semester. (I like to look at updated syllabi for classes I’ve already taken to see what I might have missed recently.) Going to pull out a couple of quotes that stuck with me. I hope in time I’ll write a more robust response to this article.

The public rarely sees the many processes that happen behind the scenes at libraries—which cultural priorities inform decisions of what to include in a collection, or to digitize; which books to display; which films or speakers wind up on the calendar—all of these choices are determined by the priorities designated by the library leadership. And, of course, their biases play a part.

The ALA isn’t a worker’s union. It’s an association that includes everyone from paraprofessionals to directors of large systems. Several people told me that as library workers, they didn’t feel represented by the organization—far from it.

I clocked a solid chunk of time on my current consulting contract today and I really enjoyed the work. That’s such a good feeling.

“Being a mom is my calling, and being a writer is also my calling, so they have to both exist simultaneously.” Well said, A’Ziah King.

Today, in Sesame Street Is the Best Comedy School, Grover and Campers Learn About Trees. Excellent use of the rule of three and a beautiful button.