@madcavestudios.com signings in @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social’s ALA Annual 2025 📚
See you next year librarians!
#alaac25 #alaac #books #comics #writingcommunity #writer #thelastwardens #edenfrost #comicbooks #graphicnovels
Trading books with Maia Kobabe!
FIBDA reunion with Eric Battle and Dr. Shamika Mitchell!
Comics journalist about town Brigid Alverson with one of my mugs
The very tall New Yorker cartoonist and Colbert show writer Asher Perlman
More awesome folks at #ALAAC
Victor Manibo (Filipino man with short dark hair, beard) wearing a brown knit shirt, sitting behind a signing table, holding a Sharpie and an open copy of the ARC for The Villa, Once Beloved
A display stack of ARCs for The Villa, Once Beloved on top of a table. Cover is mostly yellow with green top and bottom borders, author name and title in red, serif font. In the background are a display of Kensington Publishing books and two of their staff
A four-picture collage of Victor Manibo with author friends with different backgrounds/locations
Two stacks of 19 ARCs on a brown table
Super sweet and smart librarians, new and old friends, free books (plus seeing and signing my ARCs for the first time!) at #ALAAC #ALAAC25
#alaac #ALACouncilor
Treasurer’s Report CD 13.1
Liquidity trends down
FY26 BARC review.
Deficit 8.7 million expenses
Strategies ALA Forward
3 streams revenue-
Come up with short term fixes & long term strategies
Some rec will be unpalatable
Must adapt & streamline
Larry Neal next Treasurer
Seems like a missed opportunity not to have a 3D printer vendor here? @bambulabglobal.bsky.social You'd have a lot of interest if you ever exhibited at #ALAAC
Fire alarm at the hotel at #ALAAC 3:47 am 😆
This talk is being offered again I believe in the same location tomorrow, Sunday, at 9:00 AM. #ALAAC I’m thinking of going again.
Messy Sketchnote of presentation by George Takei
Thank you @georgetakei.bsky.social for so, so many things! We need more George Takei’s in our world. Thank you @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social for giving George the stage! #ALAAC “We the people will prevail.”
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Librarians, booksellers, et al!! Booth 715!!! Have a peek at A Fix of Light 🫶🏻🦊🏳️⚧️☘️ #ALAAC #ALAAC25
Wishing i could be at #ALAAC but bad things seem to happen to me in June.
Last year it was Covid
This year it’s my godmother’s death and a car accident.
June hates me
20 minutes until opening session. #alaac
If your hotel at #alaac has an LG tv that doesn’t let you change inputs to watch on a streaming device like a Roku or play video games, try making sure it is plugged into HDMI 1 and change the channel to 133. That may be the HDMI 1 input on your tv.
Happy to be in Philly for the #alaac ALA Annual Conference this year!
Zine rack showing many journaling and literary games
I'll be at #ALAAC tomorrow night to talk with librarians about offering journaling games to their community.
Come find me at
🎲 ALA Play
🕖 Friday, 7:30-10:00pm
🏨 Philadelphia Marriot, Liberty Ballroom
▶️ Ct'd...
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social + @unpub.bsky.social
Good morning from Midway where I am on the early flight to Philly for #ALAAC. Usually it’s a librarian reunion at the gate but they are all going to be on the later flight. I am going early to meet the newest member of my family- a 1 month old baby!
This will be the largest audience I’ve presented before in person. I did a poster at #alaac a couple years ago but that’s a more 1-on-1 in a crowded room experience.
Graphic with two photographs, one is the Philadelphia skyline and the other is the liberty bell, with the captions "Babs is at ALA 2025" and general information about the ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition happening June 26-30
Graphic with a photograph of Barbara with the caption"Babs at ALA 2025" and the following events: SATURDAY, JUNE 28TH 9:30AM-10:30AM - ANIMAL RESCUE FRIENDS: LEARNING NEW TRICKS (Signing) at the Andrews McMeel Booth SUNDAY, JUNE 29TH 9:00AM-10:00AM - GAYSSS IN COMICSSSSS: A Spotlight on LGBTQ+ Empowerment in Comics (Panelist) 12:00PM-1:00PM - THE CARDBOARD KINGDOM TRILOGY (Signing) at Latinx Kidlit Book Festival Booth 2:00PM-3:00PM - PAULINA AND THE DISASTER AT POMPEII (Signing) at the Capstone Booth MONDAY, JUNE 30TH 9:30-10:20AM - Humor and Graphic Novels: The Perfect Pairing for Reluctant Readers (Panelist) At the bottom there is general information about the ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition happening June 26-30
Soon enough it'll be #ALAAC25 time and I'm excited to be there this year with a few signings and panels, plus I'll have some early goodies from The Library of Memories to share with everyone!✨
Looking forward to it!📚
#ALAAC #ALA #ALA2025 #ALAAC2025
Slide reading: "Moving Forward. Continuing the Conversation. Discovery: existing discovery platforms can be used as a starting point, There's still mileage in the record-based approach; Enhanced Metadata Editor: existing tools not necessarily well-suited to public libraries; Opportunities for Evergreen: work identification (and improvements to metarecord grouping, take opportunity to make metarecords directly manageable.
And the conversation is ongoing - it's coming to #ALAAC 2025 (mark your calendars for Sunday, June 29, 2025). #evgils25 #evgils
Help me attend my first #ALAAC as a REAL librarian! Due to budgeting in my school district, my school can’t fund my conference expenses, so I’ve made a GoFundMe so I can hopefully attend this year’s conference! Read my story and share as much as you can please!! #booksky #librarysky #librariansky 💙📚
#kidlit friends - My signing strategy is asking a question. What's yours? scbwi.blogspot.com/2024/07/my-s... #alaac #authorlife
announces statistics from @oif #alaac -- 531 AFFECTED items in 2018 -- more than just challenges -- @oif collects info on books films, board games, video games, magazines this is truly "beyond banned books"
