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. 📓