#Luv Library

[nmoroder]

I'm gonna track you down, RRAGH!

[roychewtoy]

[idontmindifuforgetme]

It’s a sunny day during winter… I am going to study outdoors at the library for hours I am going to devour the material I am going to hit the gym in the cutest fit w all my flash cards I am going to burgeon thrive flourish

[kleyamarki]

I’d love to hear some library stories!

Okay friends here is my support your local public library manifesto:

I have worked in a public library for a little over a year now, and I worked in an academic library for a year and a half. They’re two different beasts, and I love both, but public libraries will always have a special place in my heart.

Lately, as I’m sure you know, public libraries in the US have been under attack by people who really don’t understand public libraries and all that their employees do.

So, here are some of the things that I’ve done in my year of public library work that people outside of it might not think of:

1. I’ve taught several older adults how to text on their iPhone for the first time, and how to use their smart phones generally.

2. I led teens through a library orientation to show them all we have to offer (which is pretty important when we regularly have 50-60 teens hanging out at my branch after school).

3. I’ve helped people over chat reference locate information and obituaries for their relatives. This involved looking through old newspapers and databases — it was really cool and the patrons are always extremely thankful!!

4. I helped a woman locate her many-greats grandfather’s civil war records using our local history collection.

5. I’ve printed countless tax forms for people and made appointments for them to get their taxes done at the library for free.

6. I’ve developed relationships with the local community college and a local university to get more college students to use the public library and to get them out into their community. (Let me brag here: this is in the strategic plan to be completed by fiscal year 2026, and I, a 23 year old library associate, have already been doing this, teehee)

7. I set up 4 all-ages displays and 2 adult displays this year alone, and I have 2 more I’m setting up in September.

8. I’ve helped kids locate materials for homework in books and using our online resources.

9. I’ve helped with our branch’s Lunch at the Library program, which feeds any kid up to age 18 for free every weekday during the summer.

10. I’ve helped people young and old with resumes, job applications, and helped them find career readiness and test prep materials countless times.

Libraries are SO much more than just books!!!! We have online resources, puzzles, board games, cameras, fishing poles, cake pans, and so much more!! We have programming for ALL ages! I specifically program for 20s-30s! Check us out!!!!! And don’t forget: public libraries are some of the last spaces that you can exist in without having to spend money. They need to be protected, appreciated, and most of all VISITED!!!

Go get a library card and check us out!!!!!!

[restlesscrustacean]

things from my adventure with friends today

sending my beams at everypony to make u go to ur local art museum/institute when u can and if u can afford it i luv u FIA

[permanentreverie]

@cordiallyfuturedwight has tagged me every single month this year to give my receiptify, i am so sorry this is the first time i’m doing it these have looked so fun!! @cosmicdreamgrl has also tagged me in this, as well as @raplinenthusiasts (from my sideblog, @mikrrokosmos)

get your receiptify here!

tagging @mixtapedoh @gobarbie @musicallisto @ohwarnette @delilahsbard

[nmoroder]

A batch of birthday pics for askblog colleagues; each pic was done for their birthdays, not the characters'. Check ALT for translation to English.

[legobabyofficial]

checking out books from the library is literally soooooooo feelsgoodcore. I am soooooooo borrowingpilled

[spanish-harlem-michelangelo]

Studied for 5.5 hrs yesterday n’ today (3 yesterday, 2,5 today). More than the total hrs I did all last week. Uh yeah Ik thts not a lot. Not ur biz tho is it…

[meowsod]

birdmo!!!

no moar reblogs. go like and reblog the finished thing ok

[idontmindifuforgetme]

currently deep-conditioning my curls, wet hair is twisted into a bun and i have my thermal cap on for the next 30 minutes. going to use the deep-conditioning time to quickly finish studying this one organic chemistry chapter. she’s a professional multitasker

[psyduc]

i'm in such good spirits i'm bopping along to the espn music

[shilohgreen]

im finally getting a library card btw and i have a bunch of poetry collections on hold and once i get my hands on 'em, y'all are getting PLAGUED

[meroko26us]

Shout 2 u 4 helping folks out with this and libraries 4 providing these services. 

working in a library, i encounter a lot of people who are in the process of filling out important forms, sending important faxes, and copying important documents. and the more important these things are, the more stressful, meaning i end up assisting a lot of really stressed people with a lot of really stressful paperwork, and have thus developed the ultimate line to immediately validate and empathize with their situation

“they don’t make it easy, do they?”

i nearly always use this line at some point in the conversation & it works without fail, because there is ALWAYS a they and they are ALWAYS not making it easy. you don’t have to specify who “they” are. you don’t even need to have an approximate idea of their role in this process.

job application? disability paperwork? insurance documents? financial aid paperwork? in any situation, the person visibly relaxes & enthusiastically agrees, because someone understands their plight: they are out there & they are NOT making it easy

[nmoroder]

Summary: Hokma does not celebrate his birthday. This doesn't sit well with the people surrounding him.

I've been struggling heavily with writing anythin hokland-related (namely fiction, comics don't count) and then i've noticed someone had started their platonic relationship tag on ao3. Couldn't stay inert and wrote myself a short fic for the idea that sat with me for almost a year. Consider it a birthday gift for myself :D

[fingertipsmp3]

I really place a library hold and then check it every 10 seconds even though I know from experience it can take well over a week to get filled due to all the local libraries being open part time and staffed by volunteers and some of them being super far away because I’m in the largest county in the country. I’m over here like