True love is finding out your husband gift linked the same article….. 🤣🤣🤣

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

Gift link to the Atlantic article that FBI Director Kash Patel doesn’t want you to read. Although I do hope he sues. Discovery will be illuminating!

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

There are many things I miss about twitter, but today I miss the Saturday librarian crowd. #SaturdayLibrarian checking in!

That is what my critical parsing of internet search results had told me 🤷🏻‍♀️

Super proud to be the publishing editor of this article!

I really feel/hope that AI will go the way of Second Life. At its height, there were 1 million active users. Today, there’s 30,000ish and I would be surprised if any of my students know about it. That’s what I want for AI.

So thankful I’m able to get health insurance through my husband. The plan I was on @unlv.edu (before I lost my insurance on unpaid medical leave) just raised the premium by 2k a year.

I can’t remember the last time anyone got a COLA raise, so everyone @unlv.edu just got a pay cut.

My baby’s daycare made a google doc to put pics of him throughout the year & I keep it in my inbox so that every time I get to the bottom of my inbox I can reward myself with a little timeline of photos. I am down to 22 emails 🥵

‘America Doesn’t Want My Children or Grandchildren’ The Cruz family spent years building a life in New York. Then the risks of staying became too great.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Feel free to share my gift link to the Atlantic article America Doesn’t Want My Children or Grandchildren

INCREDIBLE!

hi #DouglassDay we need an edit button. 🤣

Photos from all the beautiful angles! @douglassday.bsky.social @unlv.edu

Ho @douglassday.bsky.social this is @unlv.edu here at UNLV Libraries with a cake from Cake Designs Las Vegas featuring the cover page of the first Colored Convention in the West & a timeline of Black American History of the West…ending with our award winning cake from 2024!

Drawing has two halves, the first shows a boxer and the second shows a surgeon.

Today’s featured artwork is from Star M-O, a second grader who won first place in an art contest about what they want to be when they grow up. Located at the Windmill Library Gallery @lvccld.bsky.social

@douglassday.bsky.social we did not get the zoom link for the preview meeting 👀 can you resend it so the UNLV folks can hop on?

Hand holding a relief-style 3D print of a photo of a church

Shoutout to Alysha Press in the @unlv.edu Libraries’ Makerspace who created this 3D rendition of Saint Andrews AME Church, location of the first Colored Convention in the West. This is a key component of Frederick Douglass’ birthday cake - we are ready to win this year! @douglassday.bsky.social

Selfie of me, brunette with glasses, in front of a floor to ceiling timeline of the Historic Westside highlighted with historic photos and purple neon because it’s vegas baby

Forgot to mention the ribbon cutting and grand opening at the new West Las Vegas Library!!! I’m always proud of @lvccld.bsky.social staff but getting this amazing timeline up is truly an accomplishment!

Two paintings. Top one is abstract purples with gold throughout. Bottom one is pink.

Close up of purple painting shows tiny human figurines glued on

My favorite piece from the gallery at Whitney Library is The Waves of Life’s Challenges by Lani Suarez. I love having an excuse to visit every @lvccld.bsky.social branch

The very nice person at the hospital cut off my philosophical questioning about the use of AI during my colonoscopy to remind me that I could just sign no & not give permission. I’m telling you so you can have more than 2 seconds to think about whether you want AI used during your next procedure

I would like to thank the parade for teaching my kid the time honored tradition of running to use the bathroom during commercials and yelling “it’s starting!!!” to the person in the bathroom

No word from President Sam so @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social - what’s up? My membership is due soon but I’m not re-upping until I hear that Spectrum and ODLOS will continue their work

Truly one of the hardest things about being an editor for @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social is blocking off my calendar for work to make sure I never ever ever ever miss a deadline 🫣

Childcare is our single biggest monthly expense ($3,000) so I need to get everything else paused since that is one thing we cannot defer or delay or live without.

My husband is a fed so we have now lost a month of earnings & I have been working less than full time after being unpaid for 4 months of my should-be-normal-length parental leave. So I just got off the phone with everyone who would/could defer our bills.

This is exactly what I needed! Thank youuuuuuuu!

@samhelmick.bsky.social With the sunsetting of all these American Library Association programs, where does that leave ALA Spectrum, ODLOS, RRT, etc?

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I have a trustee goal of visiting every branch of @lvccld.bsky.social so today the kid and I are at Falloween at Enterprise Library! Going to eat some cotton candy and get some books

I know I’m on the cusp of 40 because I look forward to listening to the hyperlocal @citycastvegas.bsky.social podcast & I became a member…for a tote bag. I don’t even know what the tote bag looks like but 🤷🏻‍♀️

Two librarians (one a Latina woman, one a Black woman) taking a selfie in front of an earth-toned rainbow

Thank you to one of my fav librarians Brittani who joined me on touring the West Las Vegas Library! It’s still under construction, and I cannot wait for the community to enjoy this beautiful space! I am super proud to be a trustee for the amazing @lvccld.bsky.social

The only place to get a kid under 5 a COVID vaccine here is through the Southern Nevada Health District. I called to see if they have them so I can get my 8m and 4y vaccinated before the rules change at the end of the week. They don’t have any. None.