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RE: IRON HEART WAYWT - 2024 EDITION
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RE: IRON HEART WAYWT - 2024 EDITION
Happy New Year! Herringbone and super black in the spirit of DGAF until there is peace in 2024.
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RE: IRON HEART WAYWT - 2024 EDITION
Xpost from the world tour thread.
IHJ-120 IND world tour Wabash chore
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RE: Wabbidashery… aka, The Heritage Heaven Tour
The tour-chore has arrived!! Thank you so much for all the goodies, @endo. There will be quality anti-fascist stickers popping up all over this town
The jacket fits me much better than I expected! It’s warming up a bit, but I should be able to get lots of good use out of it during March and the beginning of April in Asheville.
I’m at work today. For this of you who don’t know, I’m a youth services librarian at the public library. The fit pic is me standing next to our kid’s graphic novels.
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RE: IHSH-389-IND - 12oz Dobby Cloth CPO Shirt - Indigo
Quick and dirty fit pic:
I am very happy with this! I think the fabric needs to settle a bit for it to really drape well, but this shirt is fantastic. Only bummed that it’s 70 degrees outside and only likely to get hotter. AC is my friend. -
RE: Wabbidashery… aka, The Heritage Heaven Tour
Glad to have you along! Mornings in my house consist of mainlinibg coffee and remembering how to speak English. There’s also a fair amount of jockeying for lap space amongst our various animal friends. Today Manolo was the big winner, but not without having to be lifted onto the couch. He has little dog steps, but is lazy and doesn’t want to use them when he knows he can get what he wants.
Our backyard isn’t really springing out yet, maybe by the end of my leg some of the azaleas will be blooming.
Back at work again. Here’s my desk, which is buried in piles of books and toys at all times.
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RE: Wabbidashery… aka, The Heritage Heaven Tour
Thanks @tody! There certainly are a lot of places in this country that are contending with censorship coming from the right-leaning parts of our political system. At risk of getting us into a discussion we can’t have on the forum, I won’t go too deep into the weeds on what I think about this or how it makes me feel. But, we can touch on the mechanics of it.
Schools are more regulated than libraries as a government entity, because even though we are both publicly funded by taxes, children have to attend school. It’s mandatory for kids to have some sort of formal schooling, which ranges from home school, to private school, to charter schools (private that can receive public funds in some places), to public school. Since the kids have to be there, the local and state governments can feel beholden to public pressure to do things like pull books that have sexual content or feature LGBTQ+ characters. Some places are even legislating in favor of censorship. The public library isn’t immune to this—but we do get to make some of our own rules governing how we curate our collections. These rules can of course be overridden by statutes from any level of the government.
So, in NC thus far, there is a dangerously vague nebulous law called SB 49 which has changed the way teachers can talk about gender and sexuality, and is endangering trans kids by making school employees out them to their parents, and tries to govern the way they are treated in school. This law has made a lot of school systems across the state of NC very nervous, and many have decided to curtail their libraries’ collections, ban books, and police what their teachers and librarians are doing in their classrooms. This far, SB 49 does not reach specifically into public libraries, but we are watching very closely, because our conservative republican NC legislature would like nothing more than to take more control over the types of information that are available to youth in our state.
The good news is that Asheville, my city, and Buncombe County, who is my employer, are relatively liberal parts of Western North Carolina. Our library policy has a very defined process that people have to follow if they would like to “challenge” a book or other piece of media in the library’s collection. Once they submit the proper form, the challenge is reviewed by an internal committee of librarians who issue a recommendation to either keep or remove an item from the collection. This recommendation is reviewed by a library advisory board made up of area volunteers. Both decisions are then examined by the Library Director, who gets to make the final call whether we keep the challenged material or not. Some library systems around the country have gotten into hot water because they don’t have a specific or transparent process in place to deal with these issues. I feel fortunate that my library has a solid policy and process in place. We have DEFINITELY seen an increase in the number of challenges in the last couple years.
As for what goes into the collection to begin with, I get to choose!! I do all of my own ordering of books for ages 0-18 at my branch library, and it’s great fun to see what’s out there, read reviews, and pick up cool new books for kids.
Finally, in regards to Terry Pratchett and Discworld—I am ashamed to admit that I’ve never read a single one of his books, so I don’t have an informed opinion about the librarian!
Latest posts made by sabergirl
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RE: Wabbidashery… aka, The Heritage Heaven Tour
Bach Double Violin Concerto
Zhanhao/Gang Butterfly Lovers’ Concerto
Brahms Violin ConcertoThey had an artist’s residency this week with two violinists. The program was amazing. Highlight for me was definitely the middle piece. Never heard anything like it! @endo
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RE: Wabbidashery… aka, The Heritage Heaven Tour
Asheville Symphony, tonight! My parents have been season ticket holders my entire life, and every once in a while we tag along.
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RE: Wabbidashery… aka, The Heritage Heaven Tour
Such a shame @Mizmazzle. I’ve got story time this morning, in just a couple of hours! Probably one of the most fun parts of my job.
Yesterday we had Lego Hour, which is one of my regular programs. The library has a huge collection of donated Lego, and we just fee-play for an hour. There’s a very devoted few who won’t miss it for the world, and were very excited yesterday because it’s the first time we hung out in over a month because the community room was an early voting location in the primary election.
Had a whiskey on the deck when I got home. Lovely spring evening!
Jefecita won the lap competition this morning.
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RE: Artificial Intelligence
Oof. I hope y’all are finding other sources to help parse what is presented to you by Rogan and his guests.
As for AI, I don’t really have much experience with it so far, but I’d say we’re all just along for the ride at this point. The genie is out of the bottle, and doesn’t seem to have a master.
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RE: Random Announcements
Please don’t dye it, @Mizmazzle. Just sell it if you don’t love the color. Someone else will cherish it, as is.
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RE: IHSH-389-IND - 12oz Dobby Cloth CPO Shirt - Indigo
I would size up if I were you, but I know you don’t want to do that. Does it look fine? Yes. But if it bugs you already, you’re never going to be satisfied with it, and you know it.
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RE: IHSH-389-IND - 12oz Dobby Cloth CPO Shirt - Indigo
Quick and dirty fit pic:
I am very happy with this! I think the fabric needs to settle a bit for it to really drape well, but this shirt is fantastic. Only bummed that it’s 70 degrees outside and only likely to get hotter. AC is my friend. -
RE: IHSH-380-IND - 12oz Dobby Cloth Work Shirt - Indigo
Read just a few posts back in the thread and you’ll find info about the red w @zcavaricci
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RE: Wabbidashery… aka, The Heritage Heaven Tour
@Mizmazzle thats terrible dude! What happened to the librarian’s position? Was it cut for budget reasons, or something more…sinister?
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RE: Wabbidashery… aka, The Heritage Heaven Tour
I love the idea of L-space @tody. If we’re doing it right, the library should be a space that feels different (and hopefully better!) than anywhere else. The thing that I love the most about the public library is that it is one of the last truly free spaces in our extremely capitalistic society. Anyone can use it, they can do it for free, and for as long as they want (while we’re open)!