For a while I’ve been teasing something called Punk Rock Book Jockeys. Now the teasing is over; I have released it for better or worse (I’m hoping for better).
Follow this link to learn what a Punk Rock Book Jockey is and does.
TLDR: It’s past time to usher in a golden age of public libraries by transforming library workers. For reals.
Rock on, y’all!
Colleen from Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, OR reached out to me with a Kiksht/Wasq’u translation. One of the women who helped with the translation shared this with Colleen: This language has no longer any elder fluent speakers surviving, but we have recording hard copies on hand. Thank you for inviting our language! –…
I’m actually really rather nervous to write this post, though I knew that someday I would want to do so. In order to help keep me relaxed (and even happy), I’m peppering my thoughts with pictures of cute baby animals. After all, cute baby animals make everything better. Last week I received an incredible email…
The idea for Joyful January happened back in November, when I flipped out over some tissue paper art that Natasia did. I had a vision of seeing whispy images through the tissue paper, and then I realized that we could sandwich a photo between tissue paper and it would look like the memory spheres from…
I had a librarian write and request a set of Spanish signs using the more inclusive “todes.” Without further ado: a new sign set!
Last year we featured <a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/2013/10/03/getting-caught-up/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>reading spiders</a> during the month of October. This year? <strong><em>Ghosts!</em></strong> <img class=”alignnone size-large wp-image-2267″ src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hg01.jpg?w=584″ alt=”” width=”584″ height=”431″> <strong><em>Ghosts!</em></strong> <img class=”alignnone size-large wp-image-2268″ src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ghost-windows.jpg?w=584″ alt=”” width=”584″ height=”389″> <em><strong>And MORE GHOSTS!</strong></em> <img class=”alignnone size-large wp-image-2269″ src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/pun-wall.jpg?w=584″ alt=”” width=”584″ height=”409″> Passive Program? <em><strong>Ghosts!</strong></em> <img class=”alignnone size-large wp-image-2270″ src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/passive.jpg?w=584″ alt=””…
It’s another Indigenous language from South Africa: Xhosa! Thank you, again, to Cheryl and her colleagues!!!
