Top Ten (plus!) Tweets – Sunday (Day 3)

LeVar Burton and winter weather dominate the Sunday #alamw15 Twitterverse

February 2, 2015

Sunday put the winter in Midwinter, showing #alamw15 attendees just how strong a punch Chicago winters can pack.

Thousands of dedicated librarians are braving a foot of snow today in order to better serve our patrons. #frozebrarians #libcicles #alamw15

— Mary Gen Davies (@marygendavies) February 1, 2015

ARCs can serve multiple purposes it seems…

Blizzard warnings all over Chicago. At least everyone at #alamw15 will have good books to read in their hotel rooms.

— Mark Letcher (@m_letcher) February 1, 2015

FUN FACT: ARCs are high in fiber and can be eaten in case of emergency… say, if a blizzard traps us at McCormick Place #alamw15

— Skee-Ball Librarian (@oodja) February 1, 2015

Rain or shine, blizzard or heat wave, ALA events must go on!

https://twitter.com/DogearedCarrie/status/562010725342650369

https://twitter.com/erinaleach/status/562033032224571393

If the shuttlebusses quit running we have options. #alamw15 pic.twitter.com/MYhfe2xSea

— Bookends Blog (@bookendsblog) February 1, 2015

https://twitter.com/RabbleBabbles/status/562032111704481792/photo/1

LeVar Burton captivated the audience…

Chicago Turns Into Hoth While Geordi La Forge Speaks, Nerds Confused #alamw15

— makingithappen.us (@MIHLibrarian) February 1, 2015

@levarburton: you are worth braving a blizzard for. Thank you for sharing your time with us. #alamw15

— ⚾️ ⚽️Kate From Mint City ⚽️⚾️ (@librarian_kate) February 1, 2015

I would listen to @levarburton read the phone book #alamw15

— Sherry Gick ; (@sngick) February 1, 2015

https://twitter.com/sdewaay/status/561930440454721536

And to add to the blizzard, those who attended Burton’s talk also faced a storm of emotions…

Seriously tearing up over here listening to people talk about Reading Rainbow and the impact it's had on their lives. #alamw15

— Annie Pho (she/her) (@catladylib) February 1, 2015

https://twitter.com/aswatki1/status/561933008178249728

Even just reading the tweets were emotional!

No YOU'RE getting teary reading the live tweeting of Levar Burton's speech at #alamw15

— Katherine Fergason (@KatherineBook) February 1, 2015

We’re having fun at Midwinter, but missing some of our fluffy friends! The #alaleftbehind shared their friends to cheer us up!

https://twitter.com/megoc/status/562006388709552129

https://twitter.com/JennieLiterati/status/562010646649536512

Bonus tweet: A lovely poem from Meg Cabot!

Trendy trav'lers tend to talk of
London, Paris, Rome, NewYork
But out in the Midwest
Is the city I love the best@alamw

— Official Meg Cabot (@megcabot) February 1, 2015

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4h

Rowana Miller writes: “In my experience, many young library-goers identify as storytellers but not writers. These are the kids who draw Captain-Underpants-style cartoons, who craft meticulous Minecraft universes, and who plot elaborate Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, but who believe that ‘writing’ is limited to 5-paragraph essays. But when children draw the connections between their natural storytelling proclivities and the written word, they can become self-motivated to develop the communication skills that will help them for the rest of their lives. Libraries, I believe, are uniquely positioned to help children make this connection.”

ALSC Blog, Nov. 15
21h

ALA has reopened its search for an executive director in partnership with executive search firm Isaacson, Miller. The search will be led by a steering committee comprising ALA member leaders. The selected candidate will succeed Interim Executive Director Leslie Burger, who was appointed in November 2023. “We are excited to embark on our search for a new executive director,” said ALA President Cindy Hohl. “This leadership position is critical as we navigate the years ahead. We seek candidates who have knowledge of the library community and the urgent issues we face.”

ALA Communications, Marketing, and Media Relations Office, Nov. 14
1d

Emily Weak writes: “Something I always hear from hiring managers is that they want to build a resilient, diverse workforce. Sometimes we say we want a resilient workforce, but what we mean is that we want staffers who are willing to go above and beyond, or to do more with less. These concepts are deeply entrenched in librarianship, but I think we’re beginning to see how they can cause problems. Instead of trying to hire people who will do more with less and who will thrive amid adversity, let’s think about resilience as an organizational feature.”

American Libraries column, Nov./Dec.
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Elisabeth B. White writes: “How can librarians ensure their instruction materials are as accessible as possible? One way is through Universal Design for Learning Guidelines, a set of best practices to improve teaching and learning and create inclusive and equitable educational experiences for all students. The guidelines include three principles that instructors must provide via multiple means: engagement (the ‘why’ of learning), representation (the ‘what’ of learning), and action and expression (the ‘how’ of learning). However, to create a truly equitable educational experience, school library workers need to consider accessibility principles as well.”

American Libraries feature, Nov./Dec.
4d

Elisa Shoenberger writes: “The comics I grew up reading were those in the newspapers, and they were called the funny pages for a reason. In time, I began exploring the wider world of comic books, covering a wide variety of genres from superhero comics to horror. But I do have a fondness for the seeming simplicity of one to four-panel comics in the newspapers and webcomics for humor. For this list, I’ve put together my tribute to the funny pages. Most of the comics are short form comics, but a few are longer narratives.”

Book Riot, Nov. 11
4d

Jay Peters writes: “Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge. The ‘majority’ of the new users on the decentralized social network are from the US, Wang says. The app is currently the number two free social networking app in the US App Store, only trailing Meta’s Threads. Instagram-bootstrapped Threads, which recently crossed 275 million monthly users, is still significantly larger than Bluesky. But the independent platform has seen a lot of growth in recent weeks.”

The Verge, Nov. 11
4d

André Salkin writes: “A militant but peaceful protest movement is underway at Carlos Gilbert Elementary School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It started with a student petition and escalated to administration hearings, picket lines, and sit-in demonstrations. The movement’s aim? More library time. At the head of the protests is sixth grader Rainier Long, 12, an avid reader who was outraged to learn Carlos Gilbert Elementary would be cutting library time in half—to 30 minutes a week—this year to make more time for technology education.”

Santa Fe New Mexican, Nov. 9