#Low Library

[emaadsidiki]

Low Library 📚 Columbia University 🏫

[podddcasttt]

Friendly reminder that if you talk about how representation is important and how there's not enough diverse media, I implore you to seek out the media that already exists. And if you live in an area with a public library, go to see if they're available at your public library. And then go check them out.

As a librarian, it is demoralizing to see how low the circulation statistics are on lgbt+ books and books by BIPOC authors. I include them in displays and readers advisory, but people still don't check them out as much. Libraries only have a finite amount of resources, including space. We don't get a book then keep it forever. If not enough people check it out, we have to get rid of it to make room for more books. And when James Patterson Book #69 gets checked out 30 times in one year and cool, subversive Sci fi novel with a Black trans woman main character has never been checked out once, the librarian (me) has to make a hard decision.

If you're looking for something tangible and easy to do this pride month, look for lgbt+ books (there are millions of lists online that you can find. It's easier than it's ever been to find diverse books) and check them out from your library.

No time to read? Look for a short story or poetry anthology and just read as much as you have time for. Or just check out a book cus it looks interesting and read as much as you can. We have movies too.

As cool as it would be for me to just keep the books I want and get rid of the ones I don't, I have to listen to the community on matters of collection development. And the community tells me what books they want by checking them out and leaving the ones they don't want on the shelf.

If you think this doesn't apply to you because you live in a progressive area and obviously the books are being checked out, you're wrong. I once worked in a community with a large lgbt population. Those books were not getting checked out. If you want to tell me you live in a conservative area and your library doesn't have any diverse books, you are legally obligated to check the catalog before replying to this post. I currently work in a conservative community and we have lgbt+ and bipoc books. And if you still cannot find any, you are legally obligated to see if your library has a collection request form that patrons can fill out before replying to this post.

[bbb-bbbbbbb]

reveal of my gordon hlvrai costume project, now that about half of it is done! this is cardstock and glue and tape and more glue and paint and velcro. and 2 gloves (one hand-sewn)

i got started sometime in early-mid fall, but i committed to making it work with cardstock in january- it was originally meant to be a sizing test before construction with eva foam over the summer. then i realized how expensive thatd be, too much pressure for a form of craft ive never practiced. im pretty amazed with how its come together, even with the large seams! during that whole time when it was unpainted (started painting two weeks ago) there was no way to tell

[a-compass-without-a-needle]

This is what happened after 3.1 isn't it?

[gwydionmisha]

ACTION ITEM Missouri!

"If you use Libby app to read your library books, like many people do, Sec of State Danny Hoskins of Missouri is canceling funding for overdrive/ libby- the ebook services for public libraries, Allegedly to protect children from pornography

Seniors, disabled, and others without transportation, and many others depend on this service.  "

Call to complain: 573-751-4936.

The friend who alerted me to this adds:

Also, to some at least there may be a work around: 

"This is a link to the Bard App which is through the library of Congress.  It is a free service for the disabled to listen to audiobooks through the free bard app on their phone or tablet.  Not sure if it works on a full blown computer but it's worth looking into.  Let's get around their utter bollocks as well as forcing them to retract it!"

[canisalbus]

is machete an albino dog? if so.. does he have poor vision like some albino animals do?

Yes, actually! His vision isn't quite as bad as it could potentially be considering his condition, but he's definitely at least nearsighted enough that he'd benefit from wearing glasses. He has trouble seeing distant objects clearly and reading in particular gets challenging if the text is small enough and/or farther than, say, an arm's length away. He tends to hold items very close to his face when he's inspecting them, especially if he's not actively paying attention to how he looks at that moment.

On top of that his eyes are highly sensitive to bright lights. Direct midday sun gives him the worst headaches very swiftly. If he has any say in it, he prefers to go out on overcast days, early mornings and evenings.

He probably has a pair of custom spectacles ready for those occasions when he absolutely can't manage without them, but he's reluctant to keep them on his person consistently (let alone be seen with them). His body keeps finding new ways to let him down and to him, surrendering to wearing glasses would be like admitting another defeat. So he squints and fumbles and does his best to hide the fact he can't see that well. He has a lot of health anxieties and he's worried about the possibility of his vision weakening further and potentially preventing him from doing his job, after all most of it is centered around reading and writing. It's the one thing he enjoys, is very good at, and that makes him feel useful and needed.

[bizarrelittlemew]

Our Flag Means Death 1x4 | 1x6 | 2x6 | 2x7 ⇉ if the bed nook could talk...

[binah-beloved]

busy. Binah plush be upon you.

[thejukeboxzero]

"I should practice facial posing..." [Turns the Destiel divorce scene into a poorly done layout] Side note, enjoy some of the thumbnails from this project, where Cas just gets more and more pathetic-

[cent-scratchnsniff]

cant do much else right now but sketch

[amystarrstuff]

part 5 (part 4)

[emaadsidiki]

Columbia University 🏫 NYC 🗽

[princessmacabre]

moodboard for ALCHEMICAL HEARTS 🥀

(gothic dark romantasy novel by Jael Jarmila Livas)

[jakeperalta]

I'm sorry I just cannot get over how BORING the eras tour book cover is. not only is it the same photo we've seen a million times as the tour movie poster but there's zero design elements to it?? I'd hoped that midnights + ttpd signalled taylor moving away from the recent album art trend of "just take a photo and leave it at that, who cares about incorporating the title or anything" but that's exactly what we're getting here 🥲 and it's even worse when it's a $40 coffee table book like those are meant to look good!!!!! bring back graphic designers we're in a pop culture crisis

[cynicalmusings]

a thought that came to me regarding socrates!reader: i think they’re illiterate, partially because i imagine they come from a humble background where they weren’t given the opportunity to learn in childhood, and partially as a nod to socrates’ scepticism of writing as something which would weaken memory. they also simply don’t see a point in learning: their reasoning is something like, writing only serves to put down what is already thought — so as long as you converse with somebody and learn about their thoughts, you don’t actually learn anything new from reading, anyway. so, considering the effort and time they’d have to spend learning to read as opposed to how much they could discuss and learn in that same about of time, they don’t see it as worth it. (also, hearkening back to the socrates point — they have crazy good memory for things that have been said. if you put everything they keep in their head onto paper, it would be enough to fill a hefty stack of tomes in the library of philia. people are often shocked by their ability to recall minor details from conversations which happened months ago.)

anyway, they’re not ashamed of their illiteracy, but i do think it gets them a pretty bad rap among most of the students. like, ‘lmaooo that crazy person loiters around the biggest library in amphoreus but can’t even read. what a weird loser.’ in any case, it doesn’t help their reputation.

i feel like the way anaxa found out was pretty chill, though. like, he’d heard rumours around, but didn’t pay them any mind because he never pays that kind of circulating gossip any mind anyway. one day, reader just comes into his office/ lab or whatever, and says:

“good anaxagoras, would you do me a favour? i was given this message earlier today. could you tell me what it says?”

anaxa takes the slip of paper you’re holding out to him, raising a brow as he reads the words aloud. “‘hey, philosopher — if you’re so clever, write back to me when you get this message.’ they have also signed their name at the bottom.”

“well, that’s not particularly kind,” you remark, taking the message back. your eyes scan over the page as if you are trying to solve some kind of mysterious puzzle.

“you can’t read, then?” anaxa asks.

“no. i never learned, but i hardly see the point in doing so now, when i am already so advanced in years [for the record, they’re like, 20-something].” you turn an acute stare his way. “do you think less of me for it?”

he leans back in his chair and returns your gaze. “why should i?”

“there seems to be a widely-accepted association between the ability to read and the ability to participate in complex thought among those at the grove. it is not impossible that you share it.”

a dry laugh slips past his lips. “do you truly think i would partake in such misguided conceit?”

“i did not think so, no; but one can never rule out possibilities without sufficient confirmation.”

(and now whenever anybody gives reader shit for not being able to read, anaxa gives them the stink eye.)

[bpd-roland]

I welcome shame as it beats at my conscious Hold it square in your hands, a hilt-complex I said I wouldn't give up until my last breath BUT I'VE LOST IT ALL!