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This Book Is Overdue!
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All | Marilyn Johnson
21 posts | 27 read | 44 to read
In This Book is Overdue!, acclaimed author Marilyn Johnson celebrates libraries and librarians, and, as she did in her popular first book, The Dead Beat, discovers offbeat and eloquent characters in the quietest corners. In defiance of doomsayers, Johnson finds librarians more vital and necessary than ever, as they fuse the tools of the digital age with love for the written word and the enduring values of truth, service to all, and free speech. This Book Is Overdue! is a romp through the ranks of information professionals who organize our messy world and offer old-fashioned human help through the maze.
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faelinwolf
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I'm super proud of myself for March's #BookSpinBingo! This is the best I've EVER done. Book 1 was something that I decided didn't fit the challenge prompt & Book 13 was an ebook I didn't get a chance to borrow from the library. The tagged book is my #BookSpin book for March. 😃 Maybe I did so good because it was my birthday month? Or maybe because I stacked the list with audiobooks!

@TheAromaofBooks

bthegood 🎉 🎉 2w
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Fabulous month!!! 2w
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MatchlessMarie
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Ok but why am I like this though 😂

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SleepyDragon
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Between my oldest being on Spring Break, my husband taking a couple days off, Saturday being super busy and Sunday being Easter ... I lost track of the days and forgot my oldest had library books due Saturday. Woke up early Monday morning with the dreaded realization of what I had forgotten all weekend. Oops. Luckily I think we can afford the fine. I guess it happens to the best of us every now and then, right?😳🤨😟🙃

JoyBlue At least it goes to a good cause! Hope your weekend with family was lovely. 5y
rretzler I think my family used to single-handedly support our library with our fines - we seemed to always be a few days late. Fortunately our library system did away with fines several years ago and now they will automatically renew books, as long as there‘s not a waiting list, three weeks at a time for up to something like 6 months! (edited) 5y
SleepyDragon @rretzler The library in the past has waved the fines if I returned/renewed the books within a day, but I renewed online this time and the fines were automatically applied. We usually only checkout/renew on Saturdays so that it's easy to keep track of when stuff is due. My son wants to renew these three this Saturday just so all his books are due on the same date. Lol 5y
SleepyDragon @rretzler Books in our system are checked out for two week periods, and we get 9 renewals. 5y
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EmilyChristine
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So moved across the state today. I drove a trailer for the first time. I left behind a lot of amazing friends who I will miss so much. But this was the first step of a new journey.

I chose this book to listen to because I needed something that reminded me of the positives of being a librarian. I‘m almost done but I‘m enjoying it a lot.

FlowerFairy Good luck on your new adventure!!! 6y
SandyW Yes b best of luck! 6y
Bostonmomx2 Moving is hard but can be so awesome! Best of luck! 6y
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ReadingSusan Good luck on your new job!! 6y
Tamra 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I‘m excited for you! 6y
Eggs Best wishes! 🥂Cheers for your journey 6y
tpixie Great trailer driving!!! 6y
RebelReader Enjoy your new adventure! 6y
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LibrarianJen
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My evening tonight is sorting overdue library notices to be attached to report cards for parent teacher conferences next week. Hopefully my kids go away and I can put an audiobook on.

MarriedtoMrT 😳 6y
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Emily92Bibliophile
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🎊🚨Librarian Job Alert!!! 🚨🎉 Hey guys! So one of my friends ( a school librarian) notified me about 4 job openings in my town, 1 is a Librarian Aide in a public school, 2 are a Tech Aide in another school district, and the last is a university librarian job. PLEASE be in prayer or send good vibes my way this week- currently updating my resume and cover letter to send out tonight. I REALLY need a full time job so I can have the funds to pursue..

Emily92Bibliophile My Masters of Library Certification!! Thanks y'all! PS this picture is just a pic from Pinterest I found and I wish I could use Apparition to go to now!! 7y
Jess_Read_This You'll be in my thoughts this week! Sending positive wishes and thoughts your way!!!❤️ 7y
Graciouswarriorprincess Sending you hugs and prayers for a job!!❤️🤗📚 7y
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saresmoore You have my prayers! 7y
JacqMac Good luck! 7y
LeahBergen Best of luck! 7y
megt Good luck!!! 7y
LauraBrook Prayers sent, crossables crossed, and good thoughts being thunk. 🤞🏼❤️🙏🏼⭐️🤘🏼 7y
Emily92Bibliophile @LauraBrook @megt @LeahBergen @JacqMac @saresmoore @Graciouswarriorprincess @Jess_Read_This Thanks so much for the prayers everyone! Currently working on second application and becoming certified in Google Educator 1 🙏🏻🙌🏻No interviews yet but I'll keep y'all posted this week 7y
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alanacristin
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A #savetheworld #tbr from my nonfiction shelf that I've been meaning to read for a few years now. #anditsaugust

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bio_chem06
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Welp, the hubs broke our library overdue free since '03 streak. Good thing we live in an area that stopped charging fees. Off to the library we go.
#sundayfunday

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Keyoung
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I paid off my library fines yesterday. My receipt was longer than I am tall.

Ms.Story 😳😳😳whoa! 7y
britt_brooke 😱 7y
Keyoung It's not really so bad -- there are around a year's worth of $0.05-$0.20 fines on there 😅 7y
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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post! I think I don't even have to summarize this book in order to get every one of you tempted to buy it 😂👏🏻. I think the cover does more than enough to do that 😉. In this digital age, we can be overwhelmed sifting through all the information out there. We librarians are here to help. Meet librarians gagged by the FBI, a hard-partying children's librarian, a blue-haired radical, voluptuous avatars. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

MicheleinPhilly I have read this and LOVED it. I even wrote a paper on it in library school. ☺ 7y
MPL Librarians to the rescue! 7y
ElizabethAndino What's a cybrarian? 7y
LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 7y
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Emily92Bibliophile
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#Bookmail is the best.... And #SassyFidel. #TheLibrariansBooksAboutBeingALibrarian 📚💙 The second book concerns getting children's books published, something I am hoping to do one day😊

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BookInMyHands
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#booknerdproblems

I'm a library delinquent. While I have nothing overdue at the moment, I am fast approaching my fine limit. Again. The most pathetic part is that I work at the library 40+ hours a week. It's still less expensive than buying all the books we read though!
#photoadaynov16

rubyslippersreads I worked at a public library years ago, and we were allowed to keep books checked out as long as we wanted, with no fines. We just had to be sure to return them to a special shelf. That was a nice "perk." 7y
RanaElizabeth Those fines are just charitable donations to the library, right? That's totally how I justify it. 7y
Marchpane You are Status: DELINQUENT. That just sounds badass 😎 7y
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BooksForYears At least you know that your badass DELINQUENT privilege never expires 😎😂 7y
MarriedtoMrT Me, too. I swear staff get more fines than anyone even though we're there all the time. 7y
BookInMyHands @rubyslippersreads That is so awesome! Our staff didn't always have to pay fines, but then it was noticed that it could be seen as "benefitting from your employment" so the rule changed. 7y
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beccaeve
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Mehso-so

There is some great info in this book, but it's scattered and a little lost in the rambling.

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beccaeve
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I love the library and my company works with libraries so I'm hoping this is a fun listen. I have been the the mood for the previous three audiobooks I attempted.

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Krisjericho
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I haven't read this one yet, but with the subtitle, it definitely fits the #longtitles criteria. "This Book is Overdue - How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All". I ironically got it at my library book sale, where I also work. #booktober

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JessReads
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This book is super cheesy, but it has high praise for librarians everywhere. Also, it gets me 😏

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GoneFishing

Librarians' values are as sound as Girl Scouts': truth, free speech, and universal literacy. And, like Scouts, they possess a quality that I think makes librarians invaluable and indispensable: they want to help. They want to help us. They want to be of service. And they're not trying to sell us anything.

forbirdsandtea This post reminds me that I have library books due today! Thank you! 8y
GoneFishing Glad I could help. 8y
rustoryhuf This librarian of 38years thanks you! 8y
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Zelma
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Library socks on and settled in for a good night of reading!

Yournewfriendsams 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 8y
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TheWickedBookworm
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...which will be me, someday. Just don't follow me home.

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TheWickedBookworm
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"So when I heart his snarky question (and I hear it everywhere): Are librarians obsolete in the Age of Google? all I can say is, are you kidding? Librarians are more important than ever."

Teenta This has been in my tbr pile forever. Good quote. :) 8y
TheWickedBookworm I'm in the baby-steps stage of beginning a BA in library sciences, and this was rec'd to me as a good place to start before actually starting...I'm loving it so far! 8y
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