The generous Karen Van Drie @worldlibraries provided both Sorani translations along with the Kurmaji. All three of these Kurdish sign sets had previously been within one blog post, but I decided to split them apart to let Sorani shine brighter.
Thank you, Karen, for all of your help over the years – it’s deeply appreciated.
Back in 2014 I had a moment in my life where I could almost literally feel the change in my life’s path. I was sitting in a Rheumatologist’s exam room, and he had informed me that I was the poster child for Fibromyalgia. He gave me some reading material and said he’d give me and…
A few days ago the kick-booty Brittany G., Youth Service Director at Waunakee Public Library, reached out to me. She had a request for me – to make black and white images of the original Libraries Are For Everyone signs. She, like many librarians out there, has grayscale restrictions on printing materials for her summer…
Over the past several days we have had several parents ask us where our Halloween books are. I think that we were all a little taken aback, but as our newest team member Julia said, “the stores have the Halloween stuff out, so it’s on parents’ and kids’ minds.” Plus, it definitely feels like autumn…
Our library’s buildings have been closed for over three weeks now (thanks, COVID-19), and the full-time staff have been coming in to empty the book drops, shelve, figure out future programming options, etc. Since the beginning, after the shock wore off, I began trying to figure out something that our community could do to feel,…
A lot has been going on in Nebraska and the US involving censorship of all sorts. Especially in the library-world. And as a white cisgender heteronormative LGBTQ+ ally – I am angry. And as a library worker – I am angry. And I’m someone who has struggled with being verbally abusive throughout my life. If…
I recently realized that I could easily modify my alternative summer programming artwork here and here and to give a wider variety and make them overall more useful in library land. The way I’d do that would be to take each image and replace what the character was holding with a globe. I must give…
