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@librarian.bsky.social

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Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · Apr 2

Hello I'm Jessamyn #librarian owner of librarian.net and a few other websites you might know. New pinned post for Spring.

I'm on Mastodon at glammr.us/@jessamyn
My reading list jessamyn.info/booklist

I work for the Flickr Foundation and do a lot of #Vermont and library civics stuff. Hello!

black and white photo of a woman in slacks and a white shirt oiling a windmill against a cloudy sky

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 15h

CEOs tend to have CEO disease and think they can do all the jobs. 🙄

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 15h

Hey that's my Senator!

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 16h

New Blog Post.
Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images
thisismattmiller.com/post/lc-flic...
- Organizing 95K photo comments.
- Viewer to explore user georectified images
- Folksonomy tagging vs LCSH Vocabulary
- Placing into the Wiki* knowledge graph

LC & Flickr Commons

Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images.

thisismattmiller.com

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 16h

As the Community Lead for Flickr Commons (via the Flickr Foundation) I am really really excited to read this.

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 16h

Love everything about this.

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 20h

Explain your username:

Jessamyn was taken. I am a librarian for a job and I use Bluesky slightly more for work stuff. I'm also on Mastodon at @[email protected]

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 20h

Explain your username:

My last name is Noe. My first name is Matthew.

People have made weird jokes about "Noe" (some haha cringe, some rude and bullying) my entire life.

I thought it was an amusing way to reclaim some of that back in 2008. And despite me not loving "Matt" it is pithier 🤷‍♂️

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 20h

Explain your username:

It's a line from Parks & Rec one of my fave shows. In that show, Leslie has an ongoing cold war with librarians. She calls them punk-ass book jockeys as she overturned a book cart and flees. I'm a librarian who is punk in spirit if not attire, so, yeah.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

Love the moon.

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

Sandy was a mentor to me when I was just starting out in libraryland with the Social Responsibilities Round Table. He saw libraries as potentially revolutionary institutions. He is one big part of why I am the kind of librarian I am. He is 92 today. I am forever grateful to him. Happy Birthday Sandy

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

He helped get ALA to approve a policy on services to people experiencing poverty. He felt that poverty could be ended. He felt that it was time for libraries to listen to the experiences of poor people, and to say "hello."

www.libraryjournal.com/story/the-pr...

www.ala.org/aboutala/off...

The Problem Is Poverty | Blatant Berry

www.libraryjournal.com

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

He was done dirty by his employer (last century!). He's kept track of all the subject heading changes he's suggested and how long it took LOC to implement them. An unnamed person at LOC once said "Sandy Berman is a major pain in the ass."
sanfordberman.org/cityp/ber1t....

City Pages: Sandy Berman's Last Stand

When the head cataloger checked out this past spring, the Hennepin County Library was anything but quiet

sanfordberman.org

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

He's not on social media. Any librarian who has been the recipient of his cc'ed letters (letters!) continually and exasperatedly petitioning the Library of Congress for better, more just, subject headings knows he is one of the OG progressive librarians.

turtleroad.org/2022/03/08/s...

Sandy Berman

The Making of a Radical Librarian

turtleroad.org

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

On this day where librarians consider the closing of Baker & Taylor, I would like to remind you that Sandy Berman still walks this earth and today is his birthday.

www.sanfordberman.org

Welcome to the Sanford Berman website devoted to the work of librarian Sanford Berman who created an innovative, radical and inclusive catalog which used terms we use when looking for information instead of the 19th century language of the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Berman worked for the Hennepin County library from 1973 until 1999. Sandy continues to create subject headings and works for political and social justice.

www.sanfordberman.org

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

I love this project, what a great way to get kids involved. If you add alt text to your images next time it will make your post a bit more accessible. If you don't know much about alt text you can read this helpful tutorial from Perkins School for the Blind

www.perkins.org/resource/how...

How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions for the visually impaired

Making your website and social media accessible to people with blindness and low vision.

www.perkins.org

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

It always seems like a fun and transparent thing, having key high profile staff members interacting on the platform they build and work on, right up until you get your first really tricky moderation issue, community-splitting event, or values compromise. Then everyone's like "You're here, ANSWER ME"

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Jessica Horton @jessicahorton.bsky.social · 1d

Last week I was scheduled to give a presentation on grassroots activism at a university conference on censorship. That conference was censored to the point of being cancelled. So in honor of banned books week, here is some of the info I would have shared on fighting book bans at a local level:

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

I've worked in moderation spaces before, a lot. Being frustrated by users, even sometimes nearly all the users, is a normal part of the job. It's hard to balance competing interests sometimes (esp when one of them is $). Speaking about this publicly? On the platform? Terrible idea, always has been.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

I really enjoyed your thoughtful reviews of these today.

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Cyberpunk Librarian @cyberpunklibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Baker & Taylor appears to be shutting down. A post on the r/libraries subreddit from an employee of B&T breaks the news and there appear to be other employees in the comments confirming the situation.

From the Libraries community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Libraries community

www.reddit.com

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

He definitely mentions it in the book and gives it a good review.

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

a poster that says do n't panic in red letters

Alt: a poster that says don't panic in red letters with a yellow hitchhiking thumb that flies over it.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

"PEN America identified 2,520 book ban cases... out of those, only 3% of the bans were triggered by a law requiring the removal of a book—the rest, 97%—came from bans caused by the fear that districts had of being out of compliance" #DontComplyInAdvance
www.wordsandmoney.com/pen-america-...

PEN America Report Finds the Battle Over Book Bans Has Entered an Alarming New Phase

“For many students, families, educators, librarians, and school districts, book banning is a new normal,” the report, 'Banned in the USA 2024-2025: The Normalization of Book Banning,' concludes.

www.wordsandmoney.com

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 6d

Big [YES] [MAYBE LATER] energy.

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry friend. 🫂

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 6d

Tilt this on its side and you have my leaf-blowing neighbor.

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone makes a big deal about autumn in Vermont and I'll be the first to admit that it's lovely. But there's a darker side to this annual seasonal occurrence, marked when I send this now sixteen year old video around to all my local complaining friends 🌬️🍂 #HolyHoly

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh3o...

Bob & Tom Show: Asylum Street Spankers 'Leafblower'

YouTube video by wttv

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