Last year, Jonathan, the Scholarly Communications and Digital Librarian at The University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center, sent a very kind email asking about vector versions of my #LAFE designs. We had a nice email exchange – though I was unable to help since I was still a novice at vector…
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…
There are times that an idea tickles me enough that I have to follow it through and make it reality. When our Children’s Librarian Jennifer told me that the new book in Aaron Reynolds’ and Peter Brown’s Creepy Tales! series was Creepy Crayon! and then showed me the cover? I knew what must be done….
John Lee used the Submit a Translation form on the #LAFE Library page to send me the Ho-Chunk translation. Yay! They even broke down the meaning: waagax hakiruxara – bookhociira – the houseshanąąc – everyonewagi’ųire – they made it for them Thank you very much, John Lee!!!
I felt moved to make these.
Please download, use, and share any or all of these designs.
Pavol Batalik, the Director of Faculty Library on Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovak Republic generously provided the Slovak translation of LAFE. Thank you so very much, Pavol!!!
This LAFE Translation come from Westerville South (Ohio) student Mani. Thank you so very much, Mani!!!
An anonymous elementary school librarian in Texas worked with local families to get this Kituba translation. Thank y’all so much for making these signs possible!!!
This post features the final work from our lovely Natasia who has moved on to a full-time library job where she doesn’t get to show off her art skills, but she does get things like healthcare and better pay. Ahem. Natasia brought limitless creativity and beauty to our community. Those things will still be a…
An Ohio school librarian, a student, and the student’s grandparent all worked to get me this translation. They all wanted to remain anonymous. Thank you so much for working together to help spread the LAFE message! In case you were wondering: Akan and Twi are essentially the same. The grandparent compared their differences to that…
It’s a new translation from an awesome Peruvian musician Tayta Bird via Sarah Prokop, founder of Librarians Unite For Equal Rights. I hope to someday book both of them for an epic library dance party program. Seriously. Thank you, Tayta Bird and Sarah!!!
Please Note: I failed to take before photos, so you’ll need to imagine those. Yes, this post is the first of my Home Time blog, and I’m aware that this was for my office. That’s okay – this idea works well at home, too. One day, while rearranging my desk, I realized that the mugs I use…
Awesome librarian Jessica spoke with Dakota tribal elder Glenn Wasicuna, and he provided us with the Dakota translation of Libraries Are For Everyone. Thank you to Jessica and especially Glenn Wasicuna!!!
While going through thousands of files in my quest to rebuild my blog, I came across one of the very first images that I created when I began overseeing our Children’s Library in 2013. This was either one of my earliest Photoshopped images, or it was built with either Word or Publisher. Yes, you can…
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…
