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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)@justbeyondthepages.bsky.social |
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Current MLIS student and prison librarian. I write about all things libraries, books, information access + my career journey!📚 (Sam Ward, She/They) beyondthepages.wixsite.com/read
Opinions are strictly my own and do not represent my employer.
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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I have a work trip coming up to pick up state book donations that involves nearly 8 hours (total) of driving *plus* the time it takes to pick out and gather the books. Wish me strength and for some good audiobooks to show up on Libby! 📚
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Assistant to the Professor
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This is journalistic malpractice. The Biden admin was working on Parkinson's policy.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)
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My fellow librarians, if for whatever reason you have not already canceled your NYT subscription, now is the time.
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John Wiswell
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Urgent help is needed here. Tobias has vetted that the money will go straight to the islands.
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Paris Marx
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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This is the hat I wear when I’m on Bluesky
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Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️⚧
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ICMYI I wrote about the importance of being a citizen archivist. We've seen so much incredible art and writing from marginalized people, and we need to preserve it in the face of a huge, well-funded backlash.
This is something concrete you personally can do!
buttondown.email/charliejane/...
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Alice Bennett
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It’s disability pride month, so a great time to start using alt text! Adding a brief descriptions to your images is an easy thing you can do across different software and digital platforms to make your digital output more accessible.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)
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Love this 🧵
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Bree Lundberg ✨
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For Disability Pride Month I’m once again begging for more artists to start considering accessibility and add alt text to your images. It helps low/no vision folks, neurodivergent folks, and more. Plus alt text shows up in searches! There’s a toggle in settings so you won’t forget. 👇
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Kashana
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Pouring one out for all the Idaho kids who won’t get to go to the library because their parents will get nervous about singing an affidavit.
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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First assignment of the new class included picking a song to analyze from a poetic perspective, so I asked students to pick their favorite for me to print out. Turns out this was also a mini-experiment in how well people can remember the actual title of their favorite song without Googling! 📚
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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Exactly! Lmao
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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You know you're a librarian when you need a tool to help you open a soda can (avoiding nail polish chipping) and the first thing you think to use is your library card 😂
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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As a YouTube nerd, it was inevitable I would make a resource roundup post with all my favorite channels for librarians! Can you think of someone you think should be added to the list? Please let me know! 📜📚
beyondthepages.wixsite.com/read/post/to...
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nanette
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something that has plagued me about librarianship for decades is our need to chase the latest trend in order to feel relevant we ARE relevant, we’ve seen that proven repeatedly. libraries do not need to chase trends that detract from serving our communities, it’s a waste of our limited resources
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 17. Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods
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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles
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Sooo, today is a great day to support my colleagues at my “BLACK” job as
an AUTHOR!
Purchases also support a BLACK bookstore
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Christine M. Moeller
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Are you a neurodivergent librarian or supervisor at a US public or academic library? Do you identify as autistic and/or ADHD? Please consider participating in our survey! This IMLS-funded study investigates the workplace experiences of neurodivergent librarians. For details, visit our website! 📚
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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Yes! I think the amount they had the author involved really shows in those scenes!
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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Bonus: I was watching this with my straight boyfriend, so as a bisexual this was a wonderful way to teach him more about queer culture and some of the experiences we go through (good, bad, and in-between!).
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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Finally watching Heartstopper on Netflix after reading volumes 1-4 and I swear I had a stupid grin on my face the whole time getting to re-experience such a cute story. What a great way to wrap up #PrideMonth ! 🏳️🌈
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Tony Corsentino
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Meredith
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As promised, my essay with my own tips for slow productivity (as opposed to Cal Newport's unhelpful and unrelatable tips) just posted. Here's the tl:dr: 1. Rethink your views on what is and is not productive, 2. Pay attention to how you are feeling and what *you* need to be productive, (1/3)
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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One of the few required readings from high school I can say I thoroughly enjoyed, haha
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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Lol, I see the resemblance!
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 16. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 15. Veronica Roth - Divergent
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 14. George Orwell - 1984
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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With one quarter wrapped up, it's time for me to focus on the curriculum for next quarter's book club: "Big Ideas in Small Packages: A Study on Short-Form Content" We'll be focusing on poetry, short stories, and journalism. If you know of good resources / examples to teach, please let me know! 📚📜
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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No matter how much I try to foster work/life separation, I always have random thoughts about work pop up while I'm at home. Tonight's? "Oh shoot, I meant to review those last two writing entries for book club, and they need to be done before 1pm tomorrow." 😅 📚
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 13. Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
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Heather B.
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If you or anyone you know needs somewhere to cool off this week, your local public library probably has air conditioning and a water fountain, plenty of books to read, computers, movies, craft supplies, etc.
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Randi Mason
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Hey #Library Bluesky: where are referring people to when they have OTC med questions?
Used to refer to WebMD but am hearing the results have become unreliable.
Who publishes drug reference books that are reliable?
Thanks!
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kate
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anybody have any favorite recentish (ideally within the last five years or so) anthologies of new tellings of fairy or folk tales? collections by a single author are also ok but I'd prefer an anthology
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 12. Octavia Butler - Dawn
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 11. Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 10. GB Tran - Vietnamerica
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 9. Sarah Wilson - First, We Make the Beast Beautiful
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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For anyone curious, the book is called “The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison” from PEN America pen.org/prison-writi...
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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I only have two classes left of the first book club I’ve ever lead (July starts a new group) and I’m so happy with how things have turned out! Are there ways I can improve it next time? Of course! But based on the discussions we’re having, it seems like this class really made a difference 🤩📚
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yorick
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Everyone has the right to information *as a public service funded by our municipal taxes. It is free at point of use, but it is a collective good we collectively fund.
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 8. Kyle Cassidy (et al) - This is What a Librarian Looks Like
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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There are so many things I wish we could fund studies for, but modern-day alternatives to traditional religion / spirituality is towards the top of my list! I'm sure a more in-depth look at the psychology / sociology would be fascinating.
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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Haha, to be fair, my current collection is on the smaller side at 55 books. The majority of what I read is from the library! (Though I do plan on continuing this habit as I grow my personal bookshelves.)
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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Using the term "cataloged" very loosely here, but I recently made an updated shelf on my Goodreads of every book I own so that my partner doesn't accidentally buy a second copy of anything as a gift for me 😂
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 7. Ellen Forney - Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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I’d definitely recommend!
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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Yes! That does sound really cool! I haven’t been to an ALA Conference yet, but I’m so looking forward to when I can 😁
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Just Beyond the Pages (Sam Ward)
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 6. Tara Westover - Educated
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