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Libraries Are For Everyone: Wôpanâak
About a month ago, I had the honor of speaking at the Massachusetts’ School Library Association‘s conference on unceded Wampanoag land. So I was especially excited when one of the conference organizers, Laura, wrote to me with the Wôpanâak translation for Libraries Are For Everyone. A million thanks go to the Wampanoag tribe members who…

Libraries Are For Everyone: Nepalese
This translation ended up being a lot of fun mainly because of how it came to me. Melissa, a librarian in New York, sent me a Nepalese translation, and then less than five minutes later Greg, a librarian from Washington, sent me a different Nepalese translation. After several back-and-forths, we went with a LWTech Library…

Build a Better Artwork pt. 3
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Libraries Are For Everyone: Georgian
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Getting Caught Up
I have really been looking forward to my first Halloween as Creative Director at my library – mainly because I’d have the Children’s Library as a canvas for cleverness. Long-story-short, due to quite a few unexpected circumstances, I had to scrap some of my more ambitious ideas and get it done as quickly as possible….