Save the dates! August 11, 12, and 13, 2026. A virtual conference for librarians, creating space for their well-being.
https://www.thrivelib.com/2026-cfp
journalist / founder @ thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
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venmo: venmo.com/u/Marisa-Kabas
ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/marisakabas
I am a librarian, freelance writer, and artist. I co-authored the book Desegregation in Northern Virginia Libraries (History Press 2023) and am a columnist for Computers in Libraries magazine. I geek old manual typewriters and Alaskan brown bears.
Professorin Public Management an der Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart. Interessiert an #Bibliotheksmanagement | #Qualitätsmanagement | #agilesArbeiten | #Prozessmanagement | #Organisation
Helping libraries expand access to ebooks 📚.
For more info: thepalaceproject.org
News + research from the iSchool @UTAustin.bsky.social | We are changing the future by engaging the present and preserving the past. | ischool.utexas.edu
university press publishing. books. motorcycles - Italian. kitties. horses. ardent lover of infrastructure. mobility. migration. borderlands. STS. landscape. animals. nature. environment. technology. participant researcher in publisher as boundary object.
Libraries. Music. Detroit
Librarian at large, bibliophile, and wannabe archivist. Former bookseller, teacher, grant writer, and museum docent.
Library & Info Sci Prof @ U of Illinois | #Comics #Libraries #Education #Kids #History | '16 Eisner '20 Ringo '22 Lynd Ward ’25 Ignatz Juries | PhD | Queer | Hard of hearing | I debunked Fredric Wertham & lost on Jeopardy | https://ko-fi.com/caroltilley
I am a public librarian who tweets about books, libraries, and Mark Twain.
Wherever public libraries are working, possibility lives. The Public Library Association helps shape that possibility for public libraries nationwide. #PLA2026
Learn more about PLA at ala.org/pla.
Librarian, husband, Dad. Views are my own.
libraries & policy & public schools & pigeons
A very worried Texas School Librarian.
I’m with the banned📚
“Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!” - Arthur Read
•Library’s Number One Fan
•Mental Health Matters ALWAYS
Spooky librarian, horror lover, coffee drinker, and old soul...like literally...I think there's an old woman living inside of me.
Nerd. Thinker. Maybe a writer. Philosopher? I don't know. Teacher, sometimes. Student always. Nerd suffices. Yep, Nerd. Professor of Literacy (Connecticut Writing Project~Fairfield)
She/Her | CisHet | Hard of Hearing | Library Assistant & Grad Student | Volunteer (any where, any shape, any how I’m needed in service) | Turner Syndrome (45XO) | Bay Area Sports Fan | Mexican, Native Hawaiian, and Portuguese
Media Assistant/Librarian at the best elementary school in Naples. Voracious reader! Proud UD alumni. Mom of 2 amazing young women. One of the Crazy Book Ladies. https://bsky.app/profile/crazybookladies.bsky.social
LIS PhD Candidate (studying radical/critical/experimental classification theory, and temporality in LIS) and Interlibrary loan library worker.
Immigrant (it's not a dirty word).
Me and my cat are The Jim Morrison Biscuit Cooperative
University Librarian Emeritus at Columbia University. All things: libraries, technology, copyright, intellectual freedom, leadership, music, theater, museums, nature. Citizen of the world.
Academic librarian @ QUT
All about libraries, higher education, reading, information literacy, research training & support, open access, and… coffee.
Acting Director of Library Services, University of Leeds | RLUK Digital Shift | IIIF Executive Committee | Open Research | Research Culture | Digital Creativity | Knowledge Equity | Coffee and Cake | Personal views | ORCID 0000-0002-6969-7382
The Healing Library creates kits for families who have experienced trauma featuring high quality picture books, holistic therapy activities, as well as trauma and wellness informed discussion guides.
www.thehealinglibraryus.com
Library World resident, liaison to Comics Librarians and Gaming Librarians , idea-generator, connection maker, sparkler ✨
Militante bibliothecaris, verder best rustig. Architectuurhistoricus.
Blijft nieuwsgierig.
'Niet alles wat geen nut heeft
heeft geen zin' (Stijn De Paepe)
For our purposes here: info lit librarian, poet of disgust, resist psychic death
∞ hart&ziel ∞ innovatie ∞ creatief ∞ verbinding ∞ contact ∞
I am larger than I appear.
Libraries are the center of my universe.
Open Science enthusiast & head of Knowledge Commons at University of Göttingen (UGOE) / State and University Library | Also at @bschmid1@mastodon.social
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8036-5859
Engagement Librarian at the University of Southampton, lover of cats, cake, coffee, knitting & Board Meeting Bingo, embarrassing parent. Please block me if you are a transphobe. Views: my own. She/her
A HE librarian based in a University in the NE of England. Interested in AI, digital upskilling and understanding student needs. All views are my own. Transitioning from X.
Librarian and Community Builder
https://www.thomaspadilla.org/
Teen Librarian, Idaho. Looking for inspiration, community, and support. Libraries are for everyone.
Librarian at the Open University. Interested in archives, open research, library data, systems and metadata
5k-er. American Library Association President. Author. Baker. Christian. #FreePeopleReadFreely. LEGO lover. #Library Worker. Policy Wonk. #ThoughtBunny Wrangler. 🐇
School librarian, researcher, Steelers fan
Freely-circulating retired school librarian committed to supporting public libraries and the right to read.
Feed your head. Retired after 15 years as a social media librarian for my public library system. I’m trying to figure out how to move forward as fascists take over my country. Mum to Max the greyhound and auntie to some delightful humans. She/her.
The Kansas City Public Library cultivates connection through experiences that educate, empower, and celebrate our stories.
Let's support America's libraries. America's Library PAC. Donate at http://action.everylibrary.org/donate
We are Authors Against Book Bans. We stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We unequivocally support diverse voices on our library shelves, in our schools, and in our culture.
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
She/her Educator. Reader. Writer. Poet. Researcher. Vegan. Abolitionist. Radical listener. NCTE. NAACP. Illinois Reading Council. Shattering barriers. Building bridges.
Actually, it’s Dr. Hoffman.
Keeping up with politics and news. Librarian 📚 De facto defender of democracy and public spaces. Public library supporter! #FreadomToRead
Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD.
Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner
NL/USA/SFO.
#ImageForensics
@MicrobiomDigest on X.
Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com
Support me: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik
Experimental archivist and librarian. Writes about useful radio. Makes archival events for noisy audiences. No film left unscanned. Lives and works in San Francisco, on Ohlone land.
We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
School Library Journal is the premiere publication for librarians and information specialists who work with children and teens. A source of quality, award-winning journalism and reviews for 70 years, SLJ publishes 5,000+ reviews annually.
STEM Librarian - CMU Libraries | PhD Chemical Engineering | Interests: Open Science, Reproducibility, Being good scientists/academics/humans
We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
📎2023 NJLA Librarian of the Year📎Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians📎NCAC Outstanding Librarian📎AASL, NJLA & NJASL Intellectual Freedom Awards📎InsiderNJ 2025 Policy Makers Power List📎2026 MLK Spirit Hall of Fame📎Ban book banners!
Books + dogs + doodles. Introverted neurodivergence. Author, student, assistant librarian 🤓 Infodumping is encouraged 💡She/her
kids and young adult book author. The horrors never cease but neither do I. President of Authors Against Book Bans. (She/her)
blessed stressed depressed ✌🏽
Prettyokmaggie.com
librarian, queer and disabled, and covered in rainbows
www.troystory.ca
Author of 10 trad pub picture books.
(And 10 million unpubbed ones.)
👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXJSF/Jewish-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy
Husband, Dad, Diplomat, Traveler, Motorcyclist, Musician, Librarian.
University Librarian & Director of Library & Information Services at the University of Limerick. Current chair of CONUL: Consortium of National & University Libraries in Ireland
Head of Library at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen. Passionate about open science and supporting research. | thomasgerdes.de
Recently retired library director, somehow busier than ever being Co-Chair Besson Street Trust, soprano @LPChoir, #gardener, & continuing #OpenResearch #OA & #music interests
flickerfuzion elsewhere; Dean of Libraries, University of Michigan
University Librarian and Director of Library Services, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College. Loves libraries, archives, research and all things books and learning. Reads a lot of books.
University Librarian, University of Aberdeen
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/simon.bains
Open research, digital preservation, library spaces, running
Views my own, and often of nice sunrises/sunsets
Librarian, teacher & reader in north Alabama. Information science Ph.D. NBCT LMS. Doing my own thing.
Not the best mobile typist, so forgive my many misspellings
🩷@usbby.bsky.social
🩷@nctecla.bsky.social
https://wendyontheweb.blogspot.com/
Official old guy:
Likes - music, libraries, information science, pickleball
Dislikes - mean people, politics
Senior Editor at Book Riot. Editor/Author of BODY TALK, HERE WE ARE, + (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY. Former librarian. Anti-censorship advocate. Yoga teacher. Your favorite infernal witch. She/her. Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2024.
Book historian & research librarian at the Swedish National Heritage Board & UiT The Arctic University of Norway. History of reading, Provenance, Cartography & Library history. @sharpweb.org aficionado.
Working with National Writing Project teachers and students to create Writing Partners writingpartners.net a social annotation platform that supports AI-guided writing, reading, and discussion. I'll be posting here about what we are learning together.
#Microsoftedu Tech Strategist | educator | podcaster | School improvement |
| Luthier | Dad | Gamer | PhD student | Minecraft Edu | GBL #edusky #aiinedu #ai
Mom, wife, High School Librarian @e-leydenlibrary.bsky.social, writer of op-eds & wanna-be YA novel, former D1 vb & bb player, M.Ed, NBCT, occasional guest speaker, former CPS teacher-librarian, posts are my own & reflect my own opinions, not my workplaces
TRR Database Cloud Infra full time. 41. Atheist, skeptic. Married, no kids. 2 cats and a dog. Trans masc 1 yr HRT. PhD physics: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1054811
Games: https://blog-2qu.pages.dev
LkdIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mamday
AASL President 2025-2026
Our Vision: Every school librarian is a leader; every learner has a school librarian.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
Learner. Dreamer. Doer.
Director of Ed Tech
#curriculum #libraries
#ISTECommunityLeader
#ISTECertified #MIEE
#AppleDistinguishedEducator
#BookCreatorAmbassador
#EDUsky #EdTech
Literacy Ambassador in NY. Goals include inspiring students’ reading lives, making libraries the heartbeats of schools, and engaging students in curriculum that will make the world a better place for all. Oh, and to get my son to the ice rink on time.
TX Librarian|co-creator of @wakelet Student Ambassador Program|NetGalley/Edelweiss Reviewer|Wakelet CT|#freadom|Chair of SPOT/BGNA RC Vice Chair/TallTexans2024/ https://bit.ly/DZLinkTree
We are an independent charity that supports, promotes and represents public libraries. Our work is driven and led by our membership, which includes almost every library service in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Crown Dependencies.
Autist, ADHD
Barne- og ungdomsbibliotekar
Children's/YA librarian
Nerd
Forfatter av Felthåndbok for autister www.felthandbok.no
Author of Field handbook for autists
(Norwegian only, sorry)
Library Industry Speaker, Librarian, Innovator, Digital Disruption, Democracy, views are my own, reposts are not endorsements.
Updates from the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Public Policy & Advocacy team in D.C. #LibrariesStrong #BuildLibraries #FundLibraries #eBooksForAll #ForOurLibraries
Become a library advocate: ala.org/takeaction
University Librarian, University College Cork. Visiting Professor, University of Strathclyde. Hon. Professor, Teesside University. CILIP Trustee. PFHEA. FRSA. Views personal. She/.
Head of Academic Affairs, North America
Springer Nature
views my own
Reading and posting as a librarian, editor, and author.
Digital Libraries, open research, digital innovation
Running, hiking, music and comedy
Cheshire/Liverpool
Executive Director of Research Llibraries UK, supporting research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Chair of the Board for the Directory of Open Access Journal. He/him
Democracy's Library @ the Internet Archive | Library and archives leader | People at the center of all I do; DEI advocate and practitioner
scholarly communication specialist at Utrecht University library
Advancing an equitable, enduring, research information environment. On the web at ARL.org. Code of Conduct: http://bit.ly/ARLconduct
Director, Impact & Engagement at Coherent Digital. Product management and strategy for scholarly communication, publishing, and library markets. Formerly Clarivate and Elsevier. My opinions.
"Find out what makes you kinder...what opens you up and brings out the most generous, and unafraid version of you." -- George Saunders
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. Organizational strategy for ITHAKA. Board member for the Center for Research Libraries. Contributor at the Scholarly Kitchen. Former Ithaka S+R.
School librarian, keeper of all things bookish, thoughts and opinions my own
Blog 'Books & Beyond' - https://www.bedes.org/senior/academic/library/library-blog
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? 🇨🇦
Digital Initiatives Librarian, Copyright Agent, Archivist, Instructional Designer, Pianist, AI Consultant. #mormonsky #musicsky #aisky #edusky #frasier #infolit #skybrarian #tolkien
reedhepler.substack.com heplerconsulting.com
Educator, librarian, and author with 33 years of experience, 2016 SLJ Librarian of the Year, and global speaker. Passionate about reading, tech in education, ethical AI, and finding joy in creativity through photography, design, and storytelling.
Cis WW, happily married panro demi; into books, libraries, geology, cats, Wikipedia, Unitarian Universalism, TTRPGs... 🔵
she/her/hers
Do NOT want to be chatted up in DMs.
