LibraryLass
@bedeslibrary.bsky.social
School librarian, keeper of all things bookish, thoughts and opinions my own
Blog 'Books & Beyond' - https://www.bedes.org/senior/academic/library/library-blog
Blog 'Books & Beyond' - https://www.bedes.org/senior/academic/library/library-blog
New blog post - how the library can help during exam season. Link in bio. #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #exams
April 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
New blog post - how the library can help during exam season. Link in bio. #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #exams
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Not to pile on, but every 'c' in 'Pacific Ocean' is pronounced differently.
March 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Not to pile on, but every 'c' in 'Pacific Ocean' is pronounced differently.
Bede's Loves...
Read Miss Evan's latest review of The Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald...
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March 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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We'll be reading three of these titles in next term's Brilliant Books and Biscuits. But not The Things We Leave Behind or Glasgow Boys because we already read those - look at us, fingers all over the literary pulse! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries
📣 Announcing the shortlist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing! With a focus on marginalised perspectives, these books highlight diversity and empathy ✨✍️
Congratulations to the exceptional authors shortlisted for the #Carnegies2025! 🏅
Delve into the books here: 🔗 carnegies.co.uk/writing-shor...
Congratulations to the exceptional authors shortlisted for the #Carnegies2025! 🏅
Delve into the books here: 🔗 carnegies.co.uk/writing-shor...
March 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We'll be reading three of these titles in next term's Brilliant Books and Biscuits. But not The Things We Leave Behind or Glasgow Boys because we already read those - look at us, fingers all over the literary pulse! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries
Brilliant Books and Biscuits Nostalgia Special: Dash of Wind in the Willows, a dollop of James and the Giant Peach, a drizzle of Frog and Toad, and a sprinkling of Pippi Longstocking - a really lovely World Book Day event! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #librarylife
March 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Brilliant Books and Biscuits Nostalgia Special: Dash of Wind in the Willows, a dollop of James and the Giant Peach, a drizzle of Frog and Toad, and a sprinkling of Pippi Longstocking - a really lovely World Book Day event! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #librarylife
Almost ready for our World Book Day Brilliant Books and Biscuits Nostalgia Special! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #librarylife
March 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Almost ready for our World Book Day Brilliant Books and Biscuits Nostalgia Special! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #librarylife
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These amazing #schoollibrarians are building a #library in Kenya this summer! Learn how you can help this Fri March 7 #episode 311. #tlsky @captainlibrary.bsky.social @librarianjones.com @andrea-trudeau.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
These amazing #schoollibrarians are building a #library in Kenya this summer! Learn how you can help this Fri March 7 #episode 311. #tlsky @captainlibrary.bsky.social @librarianjones.com @andrea-trudeau.bsky.social
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#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of #ParableOfTheSower by Octavia E. Butler. #BookSky
What did you think of Butler's use of diary entries to tell the story? Did it add to the impact? How?
What did you think of Butler's use of diary entries to tell the story? Did it add to the impact? How?
March 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of #ParableOfTheSower by Octavia E. Butler. #BookSky
What did you think of Butler's use of diary entries to tell the story? Did it add to the impact? How?
What did you think of Butler's use of diary entries to tell the story? Did it add to the impact? How?
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George Eliot and George Sand were both authors, and women.
Happy Women's History Month.
Happy Women's History Month.
March 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
George Eliot and George Sand were both authors, and women.
Happy Women's History Month.
Happy Women's History Month.
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There's a new Colm Tóibín story in this week's New Yorker, some gentle, mournful fiction about what America was and is for an ordinary man today www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Five Bridges,” by Colm Tóibín
Being undocumented at a time when no one bothered much about illegal Irish people had almost suited him.
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March 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
There's a new Colm Tóibín story in this week's New Yorker, some gentle, mournful fiction about what America was and is for an ordinary man today www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️
February 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️
Whatever career you want to pursue, reading books will get you there. #bedesreads #booksky
Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
February 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Whatever career you want to pursue, reading books will get you there. #bedesreads #booksky
A productive afternoon spent with our Reading Ambassadors, putting together a jolly new noticeboard outside the Sports Hall! #bedesreads #libraries #booksky
February 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A productive afternoon spent with our Reading Ambassadors, putting together a jolly new noticeboard outside the Sports Hall! #bedesreads #libraries #booksky
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There are times when only Wodehouse will do…
February 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
There are times when only Wodehouse will do…
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They go on a lot today about responsible drinking, but neighbourhood pubs used to enforce that. There’d be a pal of your dad’s in there saying, “You’ve had a few too many, kid, steady on – it’s still three hours till closing time.” ~ John Cooper Clarke
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘I write all my poems with a quill by candlelight’: John Cooper Clarke on the joy of life without tech
The punk poet has no smartphone, no email, not even a computer. Everyone should try it, he says
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
They go on a lot today about responsible drinking, but neighbourhood pubs used to enforce that. There’d be a pal of your dad’s in there saying, “You’ve had a few too many, kid, steady on – it’s still three hours till closing time.” ~ John Cooper Clarke
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid. Don’t let anyone ever disrespect you by telling you otherwise.
February 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid. Don’t let anyone ever disrespect you by telling you otherwise.
Loved 'Isaac and the Egg' (available in your friendly school library), and looking forward to this one! #bedesreads #booksky
I honestly can't find the words to articulate how beautiful this book is & how moved I was by it. A stunning exploration of love, loss & man's relationship with nature, I'm genuinely lost for how to explain its impact on me. Highly, highly recommend #BookSky
February 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Loved 'Isaac and the Egg' (available in your friendly school library), and looking forward to this one! #bedesreads #booksky
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Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro has joined calls for the UK government to “reconsider and change course” when it comes to AI, warning that “no one believes the proposed ‘opt-out’ system will work”. 👇 #BookSky
Kazuo Ishiguro urges government to 'reconsider' AI 'opt-out' plan: 'No-one believes it will work'
www.thebookseller.com
February 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro has joined calls for the UK government to “reconsider and change course” when it comes to AI, warning that “no one believes the proposed ‘opt-out’ system will work”. 👇 #BookSky
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Congratulations to our Library of the Year Finalists: South-East England✨
⭐Portsmouth Libraries and Archives
⭐West Sussex County Council Library
⭐Broadstairs Library
⭐Winchester Library
Find out more about the full list of finalists 👉 buff.ly/3EJZmns
⭐Portsmouth Libraries and Archives
⭐West Sussex County Council Library
⭐Broadstairs Library
⭐Winchester Library
Find out more about the full list of finalists 👉 buff.ly/3EJZmns
February 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Congratulations to our Library of the Year Finalists: South-East England✨
⭐Portsmouth Libraries and Archives
⭐West Sussex County Council Library
⭐Broadstairs Library
⭐Winchester Library
Find out more about the full list of finalists 👉 buff.ly/3EJZmns
⭐Portsmouth Libraries and Archives
⭐West Sussex County Council Library
⭐Broadstairs Library
⭐Winchester Library
Find out more about the full list of finalists 👉 buff.ly/3EJZmns
Most of these excellent titles available from your friendly school library... 😊 #bedesreads #booksky #libraries
February is Black History Month. Honor Black authors by reading their books. #BookSky
February 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Most of these excellent titles available from your friendly school library... 😊 #bedesreads #booksky #libraries
Some days just start earlier... first book of the day was "Ink" by Alice Broadway.
This YA novel is set in a world where no one has any secrets because everything you do, say and are is tattooed onto your skin for everyone to see. - Michael
This YA novel is set in a world where no one has any secrets because everything you do, say and are is tattooed onto your skin for everyone to see. - Michael
February 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Early years practitioners are doing incredible work to bring the benefits of reading to children - and it can have a lifelong impact.
Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social visited a school nursery in Liverpool to see this in action:
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social visited a school nursery in Liverpool to see this in action:
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
February 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Early years practitioners are doing incredible work to bring the benefits of reading to children - and it can have a lifelong impact.
Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social visited a school nursery in Liverpool to see this in action:
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social visited a school nursery in Liverpool to see this in action:
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
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Happy #FamilyDay!
We believe every family should be supported to make sharing books a regular part of daily life, helping children to enjoy the benefits of reading.
Here's why shared reading has a vital role to play in early education and childcare 👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
We believe every family should be supported to make sharing books a regular part of daily life, helping children to enjoy the benefits of reading.
Here's why shared reading has a vital role to play in early education and childcare 👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
February 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Happy #FamilyDay!
We believe every family should be supported to make sharing books a regular part of daily life, helping children to enjoy the benefits of reading.
Here's why shared reading has a vital role to play in early education and childcare 👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
We believe every family should be supported to make sharing books a regular part of daily life, helping children to enjoy the benefits of reading.
Here's why shared reading has a vital role to play in early education and childcare 👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...