Scholarship recipients from #PLA2024 wrote about their experiences--from the sessions that shifted their approach to the connections that stayed with them long after the plane ride home. Read their reflections: https://bit.ly/4llEUKK
And come see for yourself at #PLA2026 in April! placonference.org
The green hornet by Wagner and campbell
I picked up a copy of Wagner and @aaroncampbellarts.bsky.social’s “Green Hornet” at #pla2024 and it was great. Loved the art. My stepfather listened to the old radio serial while he puttered, and it reminded me of him. Who doesn’t like seeing 1930s Midwest gangsters getting what’s coming to them?
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Thank you to everyone who spoke with us during #PLA2024 in Columbus, Ohio! We had a blast getting to know librarians from around the country and sharing #CampaignWeathervane! For access at your library, check out America’s Voice Project: https://bit.ly/3JiM14g
I was so please to see all the posts on here from #PLA2024 last week. Am determined to do my best to get live posting here on BlueSky be an active thing from more conferences (not only the ones I get to attend myself!)
Chuffed my PLA session was featured on the ALSC blog!! (H/t @rebeccao.bsky.social ) www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2024/04...
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Tariq Trotter “The Upcycled Self.”
On the way home from #pla2024, I listened to “The Upcycled Self,” about Tariq Trotter’s growing up in Philadelphia. Big recommendation for this one, especially as an audiobook.
Harrison Scott Keys all black cover of his book
Harrison Scott Key’s “How to Stay Married” is powerful. Listened to this on the way to #pla2024. Two damaged people struggling through a crumbling marriage. Key is very funny, and you can see the limits of humor in relationships. And how hard self-realization is. Recommended!
Thank You #pla2024
It was a great conference, plus I was in the right mindset to manage the crowds at the slumber party when I arrived back home.
Mary Annaise Heglar at a podium on stage addressing the PLA conference attendees in Columbus OH.
Loved hearing the perspectives of Mary Annaise Heglar at #PLA2024 Safe travels to all the attendees heading home. I hope you had a great conference!
Thank you #PLA2024! We had a great time and hope all travel safely back to wherever (even if it's just around the corner). www.flickr.com/photos/19655...
Anybody else from #PLA2024 now at the Night Vale show?
If any #PLA2024 folks are still in Cbus tonight I’m planning to go to Hyde Park Steakhouse 5ish for happy hour. It’s near the convention center and has live jazz and decent happy hour drinks and snacks.
I don't know why the hall suddenly feels incredibly peopley (maybe because nobody can be in the exhibits?) but it does. Going to Read Romance, Fight the Patriarchy and then I think I'm done. #PLA2024
I am absolutely riveted by this #pla2024 session “Increase Religious Equity by Reclassifying Dewey 200's” and really hope to adopt this optional DDC arrangement for our library. 📚#PubLibs
Controversial opinion: sleep is a human right. People sleep in the library because they feel safe there. Check in if you must, there is a slim chance they need assistance, but let people sleep.
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Some libraries didn't even have a locking file cabinet. #PLA2024
Next, Protecting Patron Privacy #PLA2024
I have met some truly kick-ass librarians today speaking about their Taking-names stories.
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Still at #PLA2024? Come by the Book Buzz stage and see me talk about what’s new for Summer and Fall 2024 at Union Square & Co.
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Thanks to #PLA2024 and HTP Books for the opportunity to meet @bschillace.brandyschillace.com. Peculiars unite!
More Book Buzz. #PLA2024
3 people were responsible for 90% of the 212 challenges to St. Tammany Parish libraries. 161 were from one lady. All of this is a drain on staff resources and is making serving on board an ordeal.
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Virginia libraries developed book resumes to crowdsource defenses of challenged material. These are on the United Against Book Bans site.
bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org
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Be proactive! Discuss selection and reconsideration policies to elected officials, boards, friends, community groups, etc.
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Are censors waving religion around as a reason to ban books? The Interfaith Alliance have an argument against that.
interfaithalliance.org/freedom-to-r...
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At #PLA2024 Ellen's helping a reader make a surprise discovery! Both text and illustrations in The Blue Butterfly of Cochin Booth 906 “offer a glimpse of life into mid-twentieth-century India and Israel” www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/the-blu...
Need an astroturfed website to look like grassroots local outrage? That only costs $75.
www.ratedbooks.org/custom-pages
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324 challenges across 17 titles across 2 languages makes Sarah Maas the most challenged author of past year, though no single title cracks the top 10.
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Prior to 2019, your most challenged titles averaged about 8 challenges. Currently the number is in the hundreds.
Multi-title challenges have become the norm, some 90% of challenges.
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