April staff picks are mine! These are some of my favorite books that we own in print. There are many more that will be rotated in when these go out. @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social @librarianjones.com @melissaludtke73.bsky.social @vermontgmg.bsky.social @karnythia.bsky.social #saturdaylibrarian

I had to #SaturdayLibrarian, so I couldn't go to the protest (AGAIN, WTH, why is my schedule like this?), but I did wear my "No Kings, No Tyrants" shirt from @cellsdividing.bsky.social and everyone who came to the desk asked for directions to the local protest.

#SaturdayLibrarian today but I saw quite the No Kings march heading towards us. I was assigned to the wrong desk to see the place it was ending.

I gotta be a #SaturdayLibrarian today so I won't be able to make any of the local #NoKings rallies, but I will be there in spirit and I *am* wearing a "NO ICE" t-shirt at work.

Have to work as #SaturdayLibrarian yet again during a #NoKings protest. Luckily, I've been building up our zine library and will have lots of know-your-rights info to pass along to folks heading to the nearby local protest. Planning at passive craft table with extra cardboard just in case too

AWE early literacy station in a public library where the screen image doesn’t fill the screen.

Does anyone out there know how to fix my AWE early literacy station screen so the images fill it again? A child pressed all kinds of buttons and I don’t know how to get it back. Manual not helpful. #PublicLibraries #SaturdayLibrarian

Unscheduled #SaturdayLibrarian after a brutal week and a late Friday night isn't ideal, but we are hosting a seed swap today and I have so many things to plant.

A reading room full of illustrated books on flowers in gray foam supports

#saturdayLibrarian: spring flowers edition 🪻

It's snowing and I haven't slept enough, so of course it's #SaturdayLibrarian day.

It is Saturday. Saturday is the day the Reader comes in to the Library, voracious and unforgiving. Agnes O., Reference Librarian, scrambles to find a suitable offering. Maybe A Wrinkle in Time? Has He read A Wrinkle in Time yet?

#saturdaylibrarian #booksky #publiclibraries

In follow up, I have 8 research consults scheduled next week, including 2 tomorrow. On positive, I managed to prep them all today during this extra shift. You can get a lot done when admin and colleagues are not around with distractions, etc.

#ItinerantLibrarian #SaturdayLibrarian

What they’re paying me for today: “little mouse, little mouse, are you in the purple house?” (Whoops, we found the cheese instead!)
#SaturdayLibrarian #Skybrarians 📚
(Mouse icon by koi from The Noun Project, cheese drawn freehand by me 😊)

Gap in #ReferenceDesk coverage; student worker absent, so I am putting in some time this afternoon.

#ItinerantLibrarian #SaturdayLibrarian

Will I survive a #SaturdayLibrarian shift on one cup of coffee?

one of our frequent flyer patrons told me that I could be replaced by Microsoft Copilot and like, babe, don't threaten me with a good time #SaturdayLibrarian

I'm depressed and I want to go back to bed now, but you gotta bounce back from the loss when you're the #saturdaylibrarian 📚

#SaturdayLibrarian Apparently BPPV (vertigo) is a thing that happens to me now, and I've been way too shaky to deal with this, although I did manage to thrust a box of coloring sheets at the one adult who waved her kids towards the (adult fiction) books and told them to find something to do.

#SaturdayLibrarian People have booked the conference room off of our adult fiction area for an event that in no way fits inside (probably because it's our biggest free room) and seem totally unprepared for the fact that it's off adult fiction and not the children's area.

Cambridge Chronicle Strike News Service Saturday May 8th 1926 Second Bulletin: 1pm Satisfactory reports from everywhere Reports from all sources this morning indicate that the state of the country generally is satisfactory. The reports of isolated hooliganism have no political significance. The service of food transport and protections of all the service essential to the life of the community are being maintained and developed, and the newspapers that appeared this morning, including the "British Worker" make strong appeals against violence. Birkenhead and Liverpool Normal At Birkenhead 600 men have been rendered idle by the dock strike. Gas, electricity and firing are all normal. At Liverpool all is quite normal and there is a 70 per cent bus service. Good news from the Home Office The position generally remains quiet, and the public are again warned not to believe alarmist rumours which are being actively circulated by a small minority. The transport services are improving. Volunteers are carrying on essential services and are coming forward well, and the great majority of the population is quiet and law-abiding. The situation in all divisions general is quiet, and the miners conduct exemplary; only transport workers are occasionally troublesome in some parts. Workers act as special constables In Manchester there is no disorder and an increased number of trains are running. Several large works are working, and workers are being sworn in as special constables. Buxton- All quiet At Buxton the gas and electricity works are going. Train service improved. No items of interferance Volunteers hard at work At Garston the LMS power station is being run by volunteers. Thirty-three vessels have been unloaded The North-Eastern Division The NE Division situtation remains generally satisfactory, though there has been some incidents Doncaster Carrying On The Doncaster power station is also working

Back to work, and it's #SaturdayLibrarian time again. I've managed to track down which shelf I put our General Strike news sheets again, so here's one for Saturday. These were being put out twice a day during the strike.

Want to learn about jackals? For some reason? All copies of “Jackals & Other Canids of Central Africa” are currently checked out.

Ask a Librarian for help finding one of the MANY, MANY OTHER books on the topic, or browse the research databases available on our website!

#booksky #SaturdayLibrarian

Yep. The commute to my #SaturdayLibrarian shift was downright blustery...

Agnes O., Reference Librarian, cannot fathom why “Jackals & Other Canids of Central Africa” (2006) is suddenly so in demand. The phones ring nonstop, & a line of patrons wrapped around the reading room & into the stacks—all begging for this slim natural history volume.
#booksky #SaturdayLibrarian

Barely two hours into my #SaturdayLibrarian shift and I am already so done with people.

A fun thing about being the #saturdaylibrarian is overhearing the varying levels of misinformation about the library from admissions reps giving tours to prospective students 📚

"Is the guy in the trespassed picture from yesterday the guy who was already trespassed for waving a knife around? Or is it just that they both look like Creepy White Dude Model 2?" #SaturdayLibrarian #LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems #Skybrarians

Just got yelled at for enforcing a policy that's clearly indicated on a sign right in front of me, so evidence suggests that I am. #SaturdayLibrarian

#SaturdayLibrarian

any other librarians clocked in today?

new #SaturdayLibrarian duties: sign waving on lunch break

It isn't my week to be #SaturdayLibrarian but I'm doing research at the heraldry table at baronial 12th Night anyway.

Waresley Church with a half demolished steeple, with the remains all over the ground near the church. The picture is a black and white photograph taken from a newspaper

The monthly #SaturdayLibrarian shift is round again, and it's newspapers again. Here's Waresley Church in 1987, the steeple having fallen down in high wind.