🎮🎲 I tried the Tiny Bookshop demo a while back. The part where I didn’t have the books people wanted felt too much like being at work, and I found myself frustrated by the limited genres. Likewise, I looked at the demo copy of A Place for All My Books at Atomic Empire and determined that book organization sims, whether physical or digital, are Not for Kimberly.
Planet Word Museum in Washington, DC
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.
Want to get in touch? You can reach me by email.
Recent posts
📝 Tiny Weeknotes (idea by @brie@social.lol, introduced to me by @cygnoir@social.lol)
📖 Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas
🎧 Fated Mates, Tarot for the Wild Soul
📺 DS9, Shrinking
🎮 Disney Dreamlight Valley, Pokemon Pokopia
♟️King of Tokyo, MLEM
🧩 Book of nonograms, Puzzmo crossword archive
💪 One Just Dance song a day
💤 Sleep: Not great, Bob
👩🏻🏫 Kimberstatus: Stressed by work and family health on both sides of our household
Where Did I Put That One Video Game Peripheral? The Kimberly Hirsh Story
(It’s my Ring Fit to go with the Nintendo Switch, it’s stored somewhere but not an obvious place so this probably buried in the attic or basement storage space.)
“… for the purposes of personal action research, the standards used by professional researchers might not be required.” Jennifer Robins, “Action Research Empowers School Librarians,” School Library Research, Volume 18 (2015) 💬📓
No formal proposal needed for a work project.
🔖 Read My Undiagnosed Chronic Illness Taught Me to Love Sci-Fi by Carli Cutchin (Electric Literature).
I love this essay.
Finished reading: When a Villain Calls by TJ Sky 📚
In the US, you can use Civic Mail to send postcards to your legislators urging them to oppose legislation revising the Elementary and Secondary Education Act so that school librarians can’t exercise their professional judgment to determine what materials belong in their collections.
Use this ALA tool to encourage your senators to sign the “Dear Appropriator” letters in support of the Library and Services Technology Act, which provides grants to states to support a wide variety of library programs and services.
When I read prose generated by AI unprompted, I feel like all the training data was techbros saying things irrelevant to my interests. Not everyone’s interests, but definitely mine.
Finished reading: Wild Pitch by Cat Giraldo 📚