#librarian sciences

[brunhielda]

Gonna throw out something crazy. See what sticks. Maybe nothing, hopefully something:

In about 3 months, the US is getting a total solar eclipse. I am a Librarian at a Public Library hosting an event.

Now, I KNOW every corner of the globe has mythology on this very cool astrological event. Many with neat monsters/creatures to go with. It is difficult to find images of said creatures. Sometimes even difficult to find the mythology from various parts of the world. Almost impossible to find coloring pages.

I live in a tiny town, and I am doing everything I can to expand the horizons of the kiddos who live here, and they go bananas for a good story out loud, especially if they have something to do with their hands while listening, like pictures to color in.

I call on the artists of the internet. If you know of a myth about Solar Eclipse, please add on to this post. Tell me the basic myth, tell me the country/culture of origin, and please please please, add a cool picture I can turn into a coloring page. Artist names will be left on pictures for admirers to go look them up, and I hope artists see this as a fun challenge.

I don’t even know if Tumbler in English language has that much of an international presence but… 🤷🏻‍♀️ Here’s hoping.

[anglerflsh]

everytime I mention the type of job I'd like to have (archivist) people tell me that literally no one on earth wants to do that which normally would be annoying but. you don't want to sort documents? to preserve things from the past? do you not like excel sheets and burocracies? my best friend burocracy?? sad

[nitewrighter]

Librarian Poll 2: Info Science Boogaloo

Decided to update this poll because it got pretty good circulation, but looking at people's answers I feel like I could get more data! So let's do this again!

Be sure to reblog for more data!!!

[beauty-funny-trippy]

[housecow]

Giving off fat librarian vibes and I’m all here for it. Could see myself ogling at you from afar while you’re behind your desk munching on snacks or struggling to reach your fat ass to the top shelf to get a book down for someone, all while fantasizing about taking you into the back and stuffing you. Gotta keep that mouth crammed full so you’re staying nice and quiet 🤭

holy shit jsyk this is everything i am. i have the fat librarian look so down at this point, add in my obsession w cardigans and that’s it !! esp because i also have big glasses (and i used to volunteer at my public library)

but anyways.. i wanna be so heavy n wide my hips brush the bookshelves on each side as i walk through an aisle 🥺

[transsexualjoanofarc]

john cazale as agamemnon in agamemnon (1977 broadway production & rehearsals) photographed by friedman-abeles

[kinasin]

Warhammer 40,000 New Edition Cinematic Trailer

[thespookylibrarian]

I have a really sweet coworker who just immigrated here from another country about a year ago. She came into work all excited the other day, saying “I heard some news on the radio that I think is good for you!” 

She proceeded to tell me about the Florida law (HB 1467) requiring a certified media specialist to review books before they can enter school libraries and classrooms.

“More jobs for future librarians like you!” she said.

Sad to think this is how a lot of people probably see this law, and that many won’t bother to investigate further into how vague and harmful it really is for students (not to mention the teachers who could face a third-degree felony for violating the law). 

I don’t know if this is an area of librarianship I really want to go into, but literacy has always been at the forefront of my academic/professional interests. That includes cultural literacy, which tends to fall under HB 1467′s broad language (re: theories that could lead to "student indoctrination”). 

I’ve found myself thinking about the ways I could shape my librarian studies/career into something that involves combatting these and similar laws affecting our education system, but I’m still not 100% sure what that would look like--hoping to take Intro to Info Policy in the fall for some insight. 

In the meantime, if anyone has any knowledge or experience regarding this topic, I would love to discuss it! I have a few friends in the K-12 teaching space but none on the librarian side, and they are dealing with enough already, unfortunately. 

[californiastatelibrary]

California State Library School, class of 1919. These 10 women are studying on the fourth floor of the State Capitol building, which also housed the State Library until the Stanley Mosk Library and Courts building was finished in 1928.

[geekynightowl1997]

Wait.

The Librarians are just teachers.

Jenkins- Principle

Flynn- English/ Drama

Eve- P.E.

Cassie- Math/ Science

Jacob- History/ Art

Ezekiel- Computer

[phopollo]

GUYS THIS IS DRIVING ME SO GENUINELY INSANE

I CANT TALK TO ANYONE IN THIS FANDOM BECAUSE EVERYONE THINKS SHES IN A DIDFERENT AGE RANGE AND IVE SEEN IT ALL AT THIS POINT, ITS TIME TO DECIDE (/lh, ily everyone's wildly different headcanons for her, just curious what the average thoughts are because I've seen so many varying headcanons now)

(Reblogs for a bigger sample size would be banger btw)

[showmethecrowfacts]

Attention Librarians!

Can the Library Board Require Us to Make Patron Requests Public?

My local county library system is facing a huge problem with people on the county commission and in the library board demanding we remove queer books from the libraries.

We have fought under people yelling at us, threatening us with jail time, stalking staff members, and recordings PFLAG meetings.

Recently we have been working with policy that would require stricter written consent on our library card applications, so parents would know that their kids might check out “adult” materials. (Queer books and books on Sex Ed.)

What’s more, as of yesterday’s meeting, they want us to make the book requests public, so the board could see who exactly is requesting these “explicit” materials. Is this legal?

It goes against the Library Bill of Rights, and against part of my state’s codes. Have any of you dealt with this before? Advice would be appreciated.

[oneluckylibrarian]

Research Project

Hi everybody! I’m a librarian working on a research project aimed at understanding fanfiction and the wider fanfiction community so that it can be better included, represented, and supported within the library sphere. I’m currently running a pilot study to validate my research tools as part of a Higher Degree through Research course (Graduate Certificate in Arts and Social Science Research) via the School of Information and Communication Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia. If you’re over 18, a part of the fanfiction community, and interested in participating in my research project, please go and do a survey here.

All data collected through the survey is anonymous and will not be gifted or sold to anyone. If you choose to participate in the interview process, your personal information will be anonymised, protected, and destroyed according to CSU policy. If you’re interested in supporting my research project, you can provide feedback about it after completing the initial survey. If you want to see how this research project turns out, please follow my research Tumblr. Thanks!!

[theficpusher]

My Little Poet by Thingssicant | G | 1861 Louis is a librarian and someone keeps ruining his books

don't be shy, i'm your guy by winterPearls | nr | 4658 "...Harry wondered if this pixie of a boy with crinkles by his long lashed eyes had a personality as addictive and loud as his laugh that reverberated around the otherwise silent library..." or AU where Harry is a cute librarian that really likes one of the boys that is a regular and he just wants to talk to him but he's shy and it's cute honestly i just suck at summarizing

Just Jump by jaerie | E | 9748 Finally, after years of suffering alone, the insurance plan at Harry's new job covered omega heat services. As a grown omega adult, it finally felt like the right time to try it out. And, since taking an entire week of heat leave would really put him behind at work, using a service to shorten it seemed like a responsible decision. At least that’s how he rationalized it. He was nervous about his decision but it was too late. The doorbell rang. “Hi!” The alpha said again and Harry took the hand he offered and shook it firmly. “I’m Louis from Omega Services. It’s nice to meet you.”

Record Your Fate (and Write Me In) by LadyLondonderry | T | 13012 Harry is the Archivist, it's his job to record what happens in the universe. He's only a few days into the job when things take an odd turn. Suddenly, the small blue eyed boy seems more important than writing about crowning dignitaries.

If the Surface Begs You Home by QuickedWeen | T | 17752 Harry is a mermaid from the underwater kingdom of Mercadia who is a little too fascinated by life above the surface. He's kicked out of his home after he winds up pregnant, and has to figure out how to make his way in the world. Louis is the darling of the small neighbouring seaside village who came home after university to take over their local library, and can't seem to stay away from the mysterious pregnant mermaid his friends introduce him to.

Checking Them Out?: How To Use Your Library Science Degree To Get an Alpha by InsightfulInsomniac | E | 19965 When a flirty, attractive alpha patron checks out an entire shelf of literature on omega behavior and omega rights, Harry can’t help but wonder why the man is so interested — is he a really attentive partner, or is he just a creep? It doesn’t help that this alpha visits weekly to exchange his books… and that he smells absolutely divine. Whether he likes it or not, Harry has a crush.

The Library Universe [Series] by allwaswell16 | E | 33825 Harry Styles has a great life. He’s a children’s librarian at the New York Public Library, he’s got wonderful friends, and he loves cooking, green tea, yoga, and his collection of bow ties. He doesn’t mind that his life seems a little structured, maybe even a little boring. But when Louis Tomlinson joins the library staff as the new Installation Coordinator, things become a lot less predictable. Louis gets under his skin right from the start, bossing Harry around, making noise during story time, and eating the last cupcake in the staff lounge. Louis may be almost offensively attractive, but Harry will not be succumbing to Louis Tomlinson’s charms, even if the rest of the library staff have.

i was yours (i wish you were mine) by staybeautiful | E | 56283 “Harry Styles!” His name rang out clear through the city streets. He turned quickly back to the bar, startled by his own name and startled by the voice that called him. Standing in the doorway to the bar, back lit and glowing slightly was Louis. Not an eighteen year old apparition dressed in the same low slung blue jeans and t-shirt with swooping bangs that was always the image in his mind. No, he was Louis now. or Ten years ago Harry dropped his best friend and high school boyfriend off at the train station and never saw him again. Now, he's twenty seven, living in NYC, and dreadfully unlucky in love. He can't stop wistfully thinking of Louis promising that they'd see each other again in ten years time. A chance meeting outside a bar has them tumbling head first into a summer of music, milkshakes, and maybe each other.

Through Eerie Chaos by MediaWhore | G | 102104 For as long as anyone can remember, Old Hillsbridge Manor has always been believed to be haunted. Everyone in the village agrees and keeps a respectful, fearful, distance. New in town after a bad breakup and an internship that led to disappointment rather than a permanent job, Harry Styles figures taking pictures of the decrepit building could be a great new creative project. Or at least a much-needed distraction while he searches for a job and crashes at his parents’ new house. No one warned him about the apparitions though; about the music, the laughter, the people who flicker and vanish when you call after them, the echoes of a past that should be long gone… Harry has never believed in spirits but even he can admit that there’s something weird going on. What starts as mere curiosity evolves into a full-blown investigation and soon enough, Harry finds himself making friends with an aristocrat from the 1920s and struggling with finding the best way to tell him that he’s dead. The Ghost Hunter AU where Niall lives to prove ghosts are real, Zayn is a skeptical librarian and Harry gets caught up in a century-old mystery and catches feeling in the process.

[my-beloved-lakes]

[musicalanthrop]

Been working on my senior capstone project for music history! I'm working with one of my university's special collections archives about Jewish American music in the 40s and 50s!