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IriDas

Reference and Information Services: An Introduction | Kay Ann Cassell, Uma Hiremath

Such a nice summer of reading fun books. Now I‘m back to textbooks, and in the wee hours, too. 😊

#backtoschool

kspenmoll Best of luck! Can you enjoy your text books?! 3w

AmyG Have a great school year! 3w

TheBookHippie Have a wonderful year! 3w

IriDas @kspenmoll thanks. For the most part, but they do keep me in reality, which is unfortunate. 😆 3w

IriDas @AmyG @TheBookHippie Thanks. 3w

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IriDas

National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries | American Association of School Librarians

Took me all day but I finally came up with three things.

1) The library.
2) Marching band.
3) Swings.

#tlt #threelistthursday

dabbe

dabbe L😍VE these, especially the swings. Thanks for sharing. 💛🤎🧡 3w

Reggie I was a big band nerd. President of the band my senior year. Allstate. AllDistrict. I miss being part of something like a group of 50-70 people who work together to make something beautiful. 3w

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boozybookworm

Buying Books: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians | Audrey Eaglen

AMEN...

dabbe 🎯🩵🎯 2mo

Read-n-Bloom They‘re new to me 😁😂🤗 1mo

boozybookworm @dabbe ❤️ 3w

boozybookworm @Read-n-Bloom right 😉 3w

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IriDas

LGBTQAI+ Books for Children and Teens: Providing a Window for All | Christina Dorr, Liz Deskins

Crafts my kids did tonight at their queer hangout.

#queer
#family

TheBookHippie I love it! 3mo

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3mo

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩👍🏼💝💝. 3mo

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shortsarahrose

Records and Information Management, Second Edition | Patricia C. Franks

so-so

Information was fine if a bit boring. Focus was a bit too much on corporate and government records, which is less applicable to me. A new edition just came out that is likely to be more updated, but I was already almost finished with this.

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IriDas

Colon Classification: Basic Classification | S. R. Ranganathan

Not much going on except finals this weekend. I finished my exam this morning. I‘m slogging through my project the next two days. This is one of those classes where I‘ll be glad with an A- (which in my program is 96%).

#chatterday
#mlis
#gradschool
#academia
#finalsweek

AllDebooks

TheBookHippie ♥️ 4mo

kspenmoll Best of luck! 4mo

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ManyWordsLater

The Five Laws of Library Science | Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan

I‘m having difficulty articulating to friends the difference because library curation and banning books.

How do you guys explain the difference?

Thanks @Riveted_Reader_Melissa for the inspo.

#unbanbooks #readbannedbooks

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @shortsarahrose Thank you for answering on my post too. 4mo

shortsarahrose Copy/paste what I put on @Riveted_Reader_Melissa post: I‘ll add, as a library worker/person with a masters in library science, collection development has more to do with building a collection that reflects a wide range of viewpoints on any given topic - even those that we may not personally agree with or that the majority of our community may not agree with. Censorship is removing or refusing to purchase items that don‘t align with a certain view. 4mo

shortsarahrose Of course, there is more that goes into collection development than that (I took a whole semester long course on it!), but I think the above gets to the heart of what librarians try to do versus what censors do. Your local library should have a collection development policy that covers why they add/remove some things and not others. 4mo

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shortsarahrose And your local librarians would probably be happy to answer questions about this, too, as long as it was coming from a place of curiosity/good faith rather than hostility. 4mo

ManyWordsLater @shortsarahrose thank you for you explanation. It certainly is coming from a place of curiosity and good faith. (edited) 4mo

shortsarahrose I figured as much from how the question was put 🥰 glad I could help. 4mo

mcctrish I would think in a nutshell they‘d have to encompass a variety of views/voices on subject matters and meet a readership demand - books might be missing but not because they were banned but because of funding or popularity (edited) 4mo

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IriDas

Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People | Sanford Berman

Moved to the library.

#Saturday
#gradstudent
#mlis
#libraries
#puzzles

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Purpleness

Weeding Library Collections: Library Weeding Methods | Stanley J. Slote

What a shame we‘re weeding this one😜
#creepycovers
#weeding

Chelsea.Poole Oh. My. Word. 😵‍💫 7mo

TheKidUpstairs Terrifying 😨😨😨 7mo

dabbe Holy guacamole, Batman! 😱😱😱 7mo

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Christine 😳 [shiver] 7mo

Susanita Lots of judgement in those eyes 😬 7mo

Susanita Judgment* 🤦🏻‍♀️ 7mo

BookBr 😳😭 7mo

DogMomIrene Could save that cover for Halloween decor 😂 7mo

Pogue The doll in the middle front looks like a disapproving mother of 12 boys. 😹 7mo

Jess861 What nightmares are made of 😐 6mo

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julieclair

Dewey Decimal Classification, DDC 23 (Ed) | Melvil Dewey

Hello #MonthlyNonfiction2025 friends! Both @willaful and @TheAromaofBooks suggested that since there are 11 Dewey classifications, it might be fun to read one classification per month.

If anyone would like to do that, I have updated the StoryGraph challenge to include the Dewey classifications as Bonus prompts.

So you can track your monthly reading in the regular monthly prompts (#1-12) and your Dewey reading in Bonus prompts #13-23. ⬇️

Sarahreadstoomuch, rockpools, Gissy, Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick, Lauredhel, TEArificbooks, TheBookgeekFrau

julieclair Prompts #24-25 are labeled “Extra” for folks to use as suits their needs. It is possible to add a book to more than one prompt within the StoryGraph challenge. For example, I have added the book I‘m reading this month (Wintering, by Katherine May) to Prompt #1 -January AND Prompt #21 - Dewey 800-899. (edited) 8mo

julieclair The link to the SG challenge is the same: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/05fd860d-5e9b-45d6-bdf4-28410ac... 8mo

julieclair The use of the bonus Dewey prompts is totally optional. 😃 (For that matter, the use of the whole SG challenge is totally optional! 😉) Questions? Please ask. And as always, all are welcome to join! 8mo

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julieclair @LitsyEvents 8mo

TheAromaofBooks Oh nice!!! I actually missed the SG link the first time so I'm glad you reposted it 😂 8mo

kspenmoll I will look for this & join in.😀 8mo

julieclair @kspenmoll Yay! I‘ll add you to the tag list! 😃 Also… I tried to send you a friend request on SG, but couldn‘t… maybe your privacy settings don‘t allow random friend requests? 🤔 If you‘d like, please send me a request. I‘m julieclair on SG, just like on Litsy. 😉 8mo

julieclair @TheAromaofBooks Oh good! I will try to remember to repost it periodically. 🩵 8mo

MonicaLoves2Read Oh, I have a lot of nonfiction I need to read. Count me in! 8mo

julieclair @MonicaLoves2Read Yay! So glad you're joining us! 😃 8mo

ferskner Please add me to the tag list! 8mo

julieclair @ferskner Yay! So glad you‘re joining us! 😃 8mo

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