Kelly J. Baker and Book Riot continue to do critical reporting on the current administration’s impact on the Institute of Museum and Library Services in today’s piece about Freedom Trucks. 📚
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.
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📚 I kind of want to have this quote from Anne Trubek as a poster, cross-stitch, or tattoo:
conceive of reading as pure, unadulterated pleasure. A hobby, a way to shift gears, a way to get away from the damned phone, a thing you can do in bed, an outlet for curiosity. A way to counter loneliness, a way to soothe, free therapy. Conceive of it in any way you can that strips it of whatever pressures, should’s, competitions you may have placed on it.
Me, looking at book festival stuff: I gotta read more. There are so many good books! Ack! How can I read more?
Me: Self, reading begets reading. Don’t worry, you’re doing it right.
Finished reading: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 📚
🔖📚 Read Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with.
This is one example of many where the people with whom library staff collaborate didn’t have the opportunity to advocate for them.
Finished reading: Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman by Lorraine Heath 📚
Today is a great day to tell your representative to support library funding in next year’s budget (FY26). Let’s be sure Congress comes back from recess to find a flood of messages supporting library funding. 📚
💬📚 “How many times could a mother’s heart break? An infinite number. Each time her children were hurt.” Lorraine Heath, Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman