Megan Skipworth

@DrTLovesBooks Do you still have any invites?

As of this moment, 83 school librarians have made the jump over to the app where the sky stays 🔵. I have 10 more invites burning a hole in my pocket. I'd LOVE to get 100 SLs over to the new place - tell your teacher-librarian friends to hit me up so I can hook 'em up!

I love this SO MUCH!! You can’t ban mom!

We condemn—in the strongest terms possible—the violence, threats of violence and other acts of intimidation that are increasingly taking place in America’s libraries, including these recent threats directed at suburban Chicago/Lake County libraries. 1/2 news.yahoo.com/bomb-threats-m…

I can’t believe this even has to be said.

@teachbk Has this person never had to tell a child to drink water or eat or sleep or any other natural and necessary function? They often don’t recognize when they are hungry/thirsty/tired. If you are trained to only drink water at certain times, of course you will think that’s normal.

some people are just determined to find something to complain about

@HelpATeacher Kids probably don’t enjoy it either.

Do you agree?

❤️

We won’t get into what you might find if your child’s Little Mermaid jewelry box is smelling weird. But good tip!

“I’m very concerned that our society is much more concerned with information than wonder, in noise rather than silence. How do we encourage reflection? … Oh my, this is a noisy world.”

Starting out this beautiful morning @ALALibrary meeting the amazing @duncantonatiuh and @moxvi_ ! @EPISDLibraries #ALAAC23

Totally geeking out over the @ALALibrary new LibGuides for the @librarycongress digital primary sources databases! I know how I’m spending my Saturday night! #ALAAC2023 #librarians @EPISDLibraries libguides.ala.org/primarysources

First session of #ALA2023 is the hilarious comic @maysoonzayid! I can’t wait to read her new comic #ShinyMisfits because “being a misfit is cool” and disability representation is important. @EPISDLibraries #libraries

@KamrynKoble @laurenspieller That’s what I was thinking, 😂

@laurenspieller Seems like some nanowrimo projects 😳

Speaking of word counts, a lot of too-short adult books in my inbox. 50k-65k is rarely long enough.

@lieberrian I went on a rampage in the hopes I would get some money for new books! Almost 5,000. No new money, though. My shelves are sad. Most of the books I weeded had NEVER been checked out or hadn’t been checked out in more than 10 years.

#librarytwitter #tlchat #schoollibraries #libraries

@clairebearian Ooh, where did you get a strawberry shortcake shirt?

Gonna wear my new bright pink tie dyed Strawberry Shortcake T-shirt to work tomorrow just to spite this insufferable curmudgeon.

@AmeDyckman You must eat the same thing every day, 😂

Just got our sewer bill. It’s TO THE PENNY the same amount as our last sewer bill from six months ago. THAT, my friends, is PRECISION! 😂😂😂!

@tuguerafavorita See, this is why I should be able to see all the comments before it prompts me to comment. I’m just like the kids, 😂

@tuguerafavorita That’s amazing! Where?

@SaadiaFaruqi @shadiaminart @01FirstSecond Scary stories are like . . . something kids can’t get enough of, I don’t know I’m not a writer. But you are an amazing writer, and I’m sure the kiddos in the library will eat these up!

Guess what? My next graphic novel is all about deliciously spooky South Asian ghost stories! Illustrated by the fabulous @shadiaminart and published by @01FirstSecond 🥳💃 👻

@averageguylook @krassenstein Bingo

@krassenstein “Parental Choice” applies only to parents that are “conservatives”

BREAKING: Utah Republicans are "Very Sad" that a parent has contested the Bible's presence in schools due to a state law that prohibits "pornographic or indecent" content. The unnamed parent said that the Bible is “one of the most sex-ridden books around.” Up until this point this law has been used to eliminate books by primarily Black and LGBTQ+ writers from school libraries. The Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory (R), who sponsored the bill called this parent's actions "very sad" and a "political stunt". What's sad is that the GOP is literally doing far worse about books that aren't even close to as bad as the Bible in terms of sexualization.