Valerie
@claypopcreative.bsky.social
Pottery, books, random creations, free range librarian, keeper of birds. She/her/hers
Happy Winter Solstice
December 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Happy Winter Solstice
Library shelving cart of the day
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Library shelving cart of the day
I was recently on a Sunday shift at the library & it was cold, rainy, & very slow. We can read on desk so I finished “The Hollow Places” by @tkingfisher.com Fabulous, horribly unsettling. I now deeply distrust willows & my co-librarians were enjoying my concerned expressions. 😂
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I was recently on a Sunday shift at the library & it was cold, rainy, & very slow. We can read on desk so I finished “The Hollow Places” by @tkingfisher.com Fabulous, horribly unsettling. I now deeply distrust willows & my co-librarians were enjoying my concerned expressions. 😂
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Take at least ONE action to help defend books from censorship and speak up for those who make them available. Find resources/tools + actions you can take in just 5 mins: uniteagainstbookbans.org/let-freedom-read-day #BannedBooksWeek #UniteAgainstBookBans @la-cac.org @aaslala.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Take at least ONE action to help defend books from censorship and speak up for those who make them available. Find resources/tools + actions you can take in just 5 mins: uniteagainstbookbans.org/let-freedom-read-day #BannedBooksWeek #UniteAgainstBookBans @la-cac.org @aaslala.bsky.social
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ALA and partners have submitted a joint letter urging the FCC to reconsider overturning the E-Rate rule and to protect these vital programs that expand internet access for students and library patrons across America.
September 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
ALA and partners have submitted a joint letter urging the FCC to reconsider overturning the E-Rate rule and to protect these vital programs that expand internet access for students and library patrons across America.
I love that the library district I work at names all their book-carts. It’s so fun ❤️
August 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I love that the library district I work at names all their book-carts. It’s so fun ❤️
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Andrea Gibson, Colorado’s poet laureate and a national voice on LGBTQ issues, has died
Andrea Gibson, Colorado’s poet laureate and a national voice on LGBTQ issues, has died
“Come See Me in the Good Light,” a documentary film made by the poet and their wife dealing with Gibson’s cancer diagnosis in 2021, won festival favorite at Sundance this year. Gibson was 50.
coloradosun.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Andrea Gibson, Colorado’s poet laureate and a national voice on LGBTQ issues, has died
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Dr. Carla Hayden may have been fired, but she’s not backing down. In her first local interview since being removed as Librarian of Congress, Hayden reflects on her career, community, and the growing threats facing libraries.
bit.ly/45soIBH
bit.ly/45soIBH
Getting fired won’t stop Carla Hayden
In her first local interview since she was fired by President Trump as Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden speaks about the importance of expanding access, not cutting it off.
bit.ly
June 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Dr. Carla Hayden may have been fired, but she’s not backing down. In her first local interview since being removed as Librarian of Congress, Hayden reflects on her career, community, and the growing threats facing libraries.
bit.ly/45soIBH
bit.ly/45soIBH
Having to make some complicated decisions about my future. I’m equal parts excited and also incredibly sad. I am hopeful that things will work out for the best eventually and I will look back on this as the start of something amazing.
June 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Having to make some complicated decisions about my future. I’m equal parts excited and also incredibly sad. I am hopeful that things will work out for the best eventually and I will look back on this as the start of something amazing.
Rico is finally ok with stepping up. He’s a rescue and I’m his 3rd home.
May 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Rico is finally ok with stepping up. He’s a rescue and I’m his 3rd home.
Outside at the art museum
May 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Outside at the art museum
My little olive green bookcase gargoyle 💚 He’s a delightful little creature.
May 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
My little olive green bookcase gargoyle 💚 He’s a delightful little creature.
Today’s mixed media painting
April 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Today’s mixed media painting
The Humanities are for all people #SaveCOHumanities #saveNEH
April 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The Humanities are for all people #SaveCOHumanities #saveNEH
Please visit the Colorado Humanities website and socials for more information. Thank you for your support and kindness during this time. #SaveCOHumanities #ProtectNEH
Colorado organizations were awarded more than $9 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Biden administration. On Wednesday night, awardees received notice that all uncollected funds are now terminated.
“We are cut off”: Trump administration terminates outstanding grants to Colorado cultural groups
Colorado organizations were awarded more than $9 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Biden administration. On Wednesday night, awardees received notice that all…
coloradosun.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Please visit the Colorado Humanities website and socials for more information. Thank you for your support and kindness during this time. #SaveCOHumanities #ProtectNEH
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MORE: Libraries in several states have received letters which claim to cancel federal IMLS grants.
Congress MUST act to restore this funding. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
Use your voice - call Congress to protect & restore library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
Congress MUST act to restore this funding. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
Use your voice - call Congress to protect & restore library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
April 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
MORE: Libraries in several states have received letters which claim to cancel federal IMLS grants.
Congress MUST act to restore this funding. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
Use your voice - call Congress to protect & restore library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
Congress MUST act to restore this funding. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
Use your voice - call Congress to protect & restore library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
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“What we are consistently hearing is that there is no data or evidence suggesting that federal funds allocated through the IMLS are being misused. In fact, these funds are essential for delivering vital services, often to the most underserved & vulnerable populations.”
www.wired.com/story/instit...
www.wired.com/story/instit...
The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.
www.wired.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“What we are consistently hearing is that there is no data or evidence suggesting that federal funds allocated through the IMLS are being misused. In fact, these funds are essential for delivering vital services, often to the most underserved & vulnerable populations.”
www.wired.com/story/instit...
www.wired.com/story/instit...
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Advocacy alert: @humanitiesall.bsky.social has learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH "with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded." Tell your officials you support the NEH: p2a.co/DdtlGIT
URGENT: Save the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
p2a.co
April 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Advocacy alert: @humanitiesall.bsky.social has learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH "with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded." Tell your officials you support the NEH: p2a.co/DdtlGIT
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JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
www.npr.org
March 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
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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...