jillrhudy

jillrhudy, 14 days ago to libraries

As a librarian who has had to work lots of circulation recently, I have developed what can only be described as manilaenvelopephobia. Person walks in with only a Manila envelope, this is never a good thing.
#librarian @libraries

jillrhudy, 22 days ago to librarians

The cost of library e-books gets more insane every year. S&S wants $130 for the audiobook of the new Stephen King short story collection. . .for just two years, when it expires and our library has to buy another license. Nope!
#ebooksforall #audiobooks #overdrive #libby #ebooks #pricegouging #libraries #library #librarian @librarians

jillrhudy, 23 days ago to ai

Oh just fabulous. 🙄 AI-generated personality tests in job applications have arrived. Just helped a library guest apply for a job and the test was incomprehensible from beginning to end. Of course the local outfit had outsourced the application process to a third party company, who had outsourced the personalty/morality tests to yet ANOTHER company. This ordeal was for a job as a JANITOR.
#library #librarian #AI @librarians

jillrhudy, 1 month ago to bookstodon

The actual NORTHERN LIGHTS showed up in Virginia and I was too engrossed in a book to notice. #bookstodon @bookstodon @librarians

norniel, 1 month ago to bookbubble

@bookbubble @lesekreis @bookstodon
#MattHaig Midnight library seems to be the #paolocoelho of this generation. Or just for people with a short attention span.
#nornielreads

jillrhudy, 1 month ago to fantasy

Do you know what fantasy fiction set this is from the photo? I haven’t completely unwrapped it yet!
#fantasy #classic #bookstodon @bookstodon

jillrhudy, 1 month ago to bookstodon

Ngaio Marsh
Dorothy L. Sayers
Margaret Atwood
T. C. Boyle
Miss Read
Terry Pratchett
Rhys Bowen
Patricia Wentworth
Naomi Novik
Georgette Heyer #10Authors5BooksEach
#bookstodon
@bookstodon

RobertDaleParker, 1 month ago to books

Proposed bill in Alabama to allow the arrest of librarians.

No one is perfect—not even librarians. But professional #librarians are terrific. They're dedicated public servants, and they know how to library better than politicians do.

Let's trust librarians.

https://www.alreporter.com/2024/04/26/house-advances-bill-allowing-arrest-of-librarians/

#Libraries #Books #Mastodon #Reading #Bookstodon #Censorship #BookBans #Legislation

jillrhudy, 1 month ago to bookstodon

I spoke this morning with a bookseller in England and had a very hard time getting off the phone. He was so charming. I felt like a modern-day Helene Hanff. The limited edition of the double-signed box set I wanted sold out in seven minutes! @bookstodon
#bookstodon

jillrhudy, 2 months ago to bookstodon

Two things:
The House in the Cerulean Sea will have a sequel
I have it 😛
#bookstodon @bookstodon

jillrhudy, 2 months ago to librarians

As a librarian, I never want to see a pair of eclipse glasses again. I’m exhausted. Only one hour and 27 minutes left to hand these out and answer the phone. @librarians

kimlockhartga, 2 months ago to books

@bookstodon Hey, I love me some Penguin Random House as much as the next reader, but I'm also interested in the indies, which are usually more daring than the Big Five.

Favorite indie publishers? Please add to my list:

Two Dollar Radio
Bluemoose
Unnamed Press
Coffeehouse
Small Beer
Graywolf
Catapult
Driftwood
Black Spot
Future Tense
Copper Canyon
Tin House
Dzanc
Melville House
Quirk
Blackwater
Red Hen
City Lights
Algonquin
Black Rose
Hellbound
Wakefield
Fledgling

#bookstodon #books #indie #publishers

kimlockhartga, 2 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon I have added some wee friends to my bookshelves:

A sculpture of a woman reading, seated criss cross applesauce, with one up, so that she can rest her head on her right palm.
Sculpture of a woman lounging, resting her head on her right arm. She is stretched out on her side, reading a book.

jillrhudy, 2 months ago to 13thFloor

Listening to Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by Gennarose Nethercott and reading The Honey Witch by Sidney J. Shields and Flint and Mirror by John Crowley. What about you guys?
#bookstodon #fiction @bookstodon

jillrhudy, 3 months ago to librarians

My new hobby is blocking tens of thousands of crap titles on hoopla, publisher by garbage publisher, until carpal tunnel sets in.
#hoopla #ebooks #audiobooks @librarians

jillrhudy, 3 months ago to random

I want to be like the Princess of Wales and give up work and the public for Lent.

jillrhudy, 3 months ago to bookstodon

After an online training on #ReadersAdvisory for Millennials and Generation Z, I made a mega list on Libby called “Romantasy” and ended up needing arthritis cream on my wrist today with all the mouse work. Overdrive findability is tough. Metadata is scant. Neither author nor genre searches recovered most of these. It’s almost like they want to bury your old content licences.
#Romantasy #LibbyApp #librarian #bookstodon #ebooks #curation
@bookstodon
@librarians

MissingThePt, 3 months ago to random

Talibama

jillrhudy, 3 months ago to genealogy

People are emailing me wanting "genealogy information" from the 1960s. It's like honey, I can help you with the 1760s or the 1860s. I was born in the 1960s and there are no censuses publicly available yet, even. Stop making me feel like a fossil.
@librarians #genealogy #librarian