Lisa Bishop she/her
@lisabishopsf.bsky.social
Newly retired bilingual Teacher Librarian, love learning journeys, redwood forests, perritos, familia y mucho más.
Please sign this! Urgent!
Authors: Do you value your #intellectualFreedom / property? Trump wants to fire the head of the U.S. Copyright Office because tech companies might have to pay to use some copyrighted material. #kidlit #mglit #yalit Sign the @everylibrary.bsky.social petition action.everylibrary.org/locpetition?...
PETITION: Stop Trump's Attack on the Library of Congress
We need to show that Americans will not stand for yet another attack on our institutions. Sign the petition today!
action.everylibrary.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Please sign this! Urgent!
Reposted by Lisa Bishop she/her
The world needs less hate and fear-mongering and more LeVar ❤️🌈
August 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The world needs less hate and fear-mongering and more LeVar ❤️🌈
Hoping this happens in NJ. We need the same in CA, the worst state in the U.S. in terms of school librarians in schools 50/50.
Research repeatedly shows: schools w/ robust library programs have students with higher outcomes across all measures - academic, social, & personal!
If we want to provide NJ students with strong educational foundations, school librarians are essential.
www.saveschoollibrarians.org/njasl_ratiob...
If we want to provide NJ students with strong educational foundations, school librarians are essential.
www.saveschoollibrarians.org/njasl_ratiob...
SEND AN EMAIL: Every Student in New Jersey Needs a School Librarian
A1712 / S2316 (2024) requires a “ratio of school library media specialists to students” allowing every student to have access to the support of a certified school librarian.
www.saveschoollibrarians.org
July 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Hoping this happens in NJ. We need the same in CA, the worst state in the U.S. in terms of school librarians in schools 50/50.
What is wrong with Tennessee?
"The Tennessee Association of School Libraries found in a survey of its members that in 20% of school districts, books were removed from the shelves at the command of district leaders without any sort of review process."
How profoundly sad. The kids deprived of reading Calvin and Hobbes are the kids who need them the most. My brother put it best: "We know we’re fucked when they come for your cartoon stuffed tigers."
Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
pen.org/magic-tree-h...
Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
pen.org/magic-tree-h...
June 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
What is wrong with Tennessee?
Another win for our youth!
Alberta youth have the right to school library books that reflect their lives, including sexuality
Alberta youth have the right to school library books that reflect their lives, including sexuality
Recent policy directions introduced by Alberta Education raise alarm bells, with PEN Canada saying the actions of the government pave “the way to a new era of government-sponsored book banning.”
theconversation.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Another win for our youth!
This is great news!
“[Oregon’s] new law prohibits removing and banning books from school libraries for reasons exclusively based on the fact that their content includes a protected class.”
Bill prohibiting book bans in Oregon school libraries becomes law • Oregon ArtsWatch
Senate Bill 1098, signed this week by Gov. Tina Kotek, is based in Oregon’s discrimination law related to protected classes.
www.orartswatch.org
June 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is great news!
It was such an honor to host the great Grace Lin at the Aptos MS library. Her new book is fabulous.
May 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
It was such an honor to host the great Grace Lin at the Aptos MS library. Her new book is fabulous.
Of course! We are part of the very best this country offers! We don’t want to lose it.
May 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Of course! We are part of the very best this country offers! We don’t want to lose it.
Help! Act now!
Please call your members of Congress right away, and ask them to sign their colleagues' "Dear Appropriator” letters. These letters close in just a few days, so now is the time to act #ForOurLibraries.
bit.ly/Call2FundLibraries
#FundLibraries
bit.ly/Call2FundLibraries
#FundLibraries
May 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Help! Act now!
I knew they would come for Carla who is our first librarian(not business person) in this important role. Congress- stop this firing!
“Carla,” read the email. “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as the Librarian of Congress is terminated effective immediately.”
Carla Hayden is first woman and first African American to hold the position.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Carla Hayden is first woman and first African American to hold the position.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
Hayden, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, was the first woman and the first African American to hold the position.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I knew they would come for Carla who is our first librarian(not business person) in this important role. Congress- stop this firing!
Tea, cookies, author visit @ lunch with Gary Whitta, sci-fi, screenplays, movies, graphic novels”kick out your inner critic and get writing what you want!” Love School Library Month!
April 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Tea, cookies, author visit @ lunch with Gary Whitta, sci-fi, screenplays, movies, graphic novels”kick out your inner critic and get writing what you want!” Love School Library Month!
Reposted by Lisa Bishop she/her
"Trump Administration Sued Over Gutting of Institute of Museum and Library Services
Twenty Attorneys General have brought the suit, which pointed out, 'The Administration cannot dismantle federal agencies in this way.'"
#TLSky #EduSky
news.artnet.com/art-world/ag...
Twenty Attorneys General have brought the suit, which pointed out, 'The Administration cannot dismantle federal agencies in this way.'"
#TLSky #EduSky
news.artnet.com/art-world/ag...
Trump Administration Sued Over Gutting of IMLS
Twenty state Attorneys General have sued Donald Trump and his officials over the gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
news.artnet.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"Trump Administration Sued Over Gutting of Institute of Museum and Library Services
Twenty Attorneys General have brought the suit, which pointed out, 'The Administration cannot dismantle federal agencies in this way.'"
#TLSky #EduSky
news.artnet.com/art-world/ag...
Twenty Attorneys General have brought the suit, which pointed out, 'The Administration cannot dismantle federal agencies in this way.'"
#TLSky #EduSky
news.artnet.com/art-world/ag...
Not yet in California let’s go @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Let’s go!
In Michigan and Virginia, the Governor has proclaimed April as #SchoolLibraryMonth. In Minnesota, today is School Library Media Specialist Day. Has your state made a proclamation? Share with us here! #AASLslm www.ala.org/aasl/slm
April 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Not yet in California let’s go @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Let’s go!
This is what fascism is folks- get active- hurry.
IMLS staff were placed on administrative leave following the Trump Administration’s Executive Order, which eliminated federal funding for libraries. Take action today! www.everylibrary.org/statement_im... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Statement on IMLS Staff Administrative Leave
IMLS is responsible for distributing Federal Funding for libraries.
This action will interrupt IMLS's vital, congressionally funded work. We cannot allow IMLS to be dismantled by executive action.
www.everylibrary.org
April 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is what fascism is folks- get active- hurry.
Reposted by Lisa Bishop she/her
ELIE MYSTAL: “This is what fascism looks like. I don’t know what y’all expected it to look like… People are being abducted and disappeared from our streets. These people haven’t even been charged in court.” 🇺🇸
April 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
ELIE MYSTAL: “This is what fascism looks like. I don’t know what y’all expected it to look like… People are being abducted and disappeared from our streets. These people haven’t even been charged in court.” 🇺🇸
Reposted by Lisa Bishop she/her
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
t.co/LeABrGqDei
t.co/LeABrGqDei
April 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
Reposted by Lisa Bishop she/her
Good news from Colorado: A U.S. District Judge ordered a school district to restore library books they banned by next week, prohibiting the district from further restrictions on access to books that the school board objects to politically.
#UniteAgainstBookBans
www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...
#UniteAgainstBookBans
www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...
Federal judge orders Colorado district to return banned books to school libraries
The order prohibits the school board from removing books “because the district disagrees with the views expressed therein or merely to further their preferred political or religious orthodoxy.”
www.denverpost.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Good news from Colorado: A U.S. District Judge ordered a school district to restore library books they banned by next week, prohibiting the district from further restrictions on access to books that the school board objects to politically.
#UniteAgainstBookBans
www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...
#UniteAgainstBookBans
www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...
Reposted by Lisa Bishop she/her
“The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians —because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”
—Madeleine L’Engle
—Madeleine L’Engle
March 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians —because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”
—Madeleine L’Engle
—Madeleine L’Engle
Get up and out April 5th Bring your wheelchairs, walkers, skateboards, rollerblades, ALL of us!
Call to action: nationwide protests and sit-ins. Saturday April 5th.
“REMOVE REVERSE RECLAIM”
#3E #USprotests
“REMOVE REVERSE RECLAIM”
#3E #USprotests
March 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Get up and out April 5th Bring your wheelchairs, walkers, skateboards, rollerblades, ALL of us!
Reposted by Lisa Bishop she/her
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
If the Serbians, Romanians,Hungarians,Italians can get into the streets to object to authoritarian regimes, it is our duty to join them
For those folks who have been waiting to climb the pole and ring the “constitutional crisis” bell, it would appear we have arrived. Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.
We’ve Officially Entered the Next Phase of Trump’s Dictatorship Era
Taken together, these actions and declarations amount to a significant escalation in Trump’s transformation of his own presidency into an autocracy.
slate.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
If the Serbians, Romanians,Hungarians,Italians can get into the streets to object to authoritarian regimes, it is our duty to join them
Fascism is here and doesn’t play! Well, start activating defense of our libraries. Go!
In my state IMLS funds are used to purchase statewide access to subscription library databases. These resources are vital for research and learning. Public and school libraries cannot afford them on their own. This will hurt students and public library users across the state.
March 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Fascism is here and doesn’t play! Well, start activating defense of our libraries. Go!
Reposted by Lisa Bishop she/her
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Reposted by Lisa Bishop she/her
🚨NEW🚨Last night the President signed an order to gut IMLS. Call your members of Congress. Call your state and local officials. Tell them exactly what's at stake if the President's order stands: the future of America's libraries. It's time to Show Up #ForOurLibraries: bit.ly/ALA-LibraryStoryIMLS
Show Up For Our Libraries - Tell Your Story
Please share a story about how libraries have a positive impact in YOUR community. This might be a story about you or your family, or about other library users who have benefitted from the library&...
bit.ly
March 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚨NEW🚨Last night the President signed an order to gut IMLS. Call your members of Congress. Call your state and local officials. Tell them exactly what's at stake if the President's order stands: the future of America's libraries. It's time to Show Up #ForOurLibraries: bit.ly/ALA-LibraryStoryIMLS
Reposted by Lisa Bishop she/her
Collaborators with the fascists.
March 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Collaborators with the fascists.