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The library wants to remind everyone that playing pranks in the building Wednesday, April 1st, will end in pain and screaming and a permanent ban.

March 30, 2026 by Banned Library in Weekly

This week’s newsletter contains information about Fool’s Day and Eostre celebrations as well as an itinerary for the Spring Survival Reading Program.

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March 30, 2026 /Banned Library
Fools Day, bookmobile, stapler, Eoster, Spring Survival Reading
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Story time this week will be a story of a girl who cried a river and drowned the whole world. It's a banger.

March 23, 2026 by Banned Library in Weekly

The library has updates on St. Patrick’s Day, the equinox, various programs, and a sample of a library interview.

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March 23, 2026 /Banned Library
St Patrick's Day, Scream
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The library group chat is mostly memes about things burning.

March 16, 2026 by Banned Library in Weekly

This week the library talks about Astronomy Now!, a St Patrick’s Day program, voting rights, and much more!

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March 16, 2026 /Banned Library
Astronomy Now, St Patrick's Day
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The library reserves the right of trial by combat for damaged books.

March 09, 2026 by Banned Library in Weekly

The library reserves the right of trial by combat for damaged books.

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March 09, 2026 /Banned Library
Last Drive-in, Joe Bob Briggs, fountain, Eoster, Wuthering Heights, colonoscopy
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The bookmobile has Children's Department programs that may involve glitter. We do not have a "girl that runs shine."

March 02, 2026 by Banned Library in Weekly

The bookmobile has Children's Department programs that may involve glitter. We do not have a "girl that runs shine."

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March 02, 2026 /Banned Library
oral history, bookmobile, Spring Survival Reading
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The library will no longer allow service alligators.

February 23, 2026 by Banned Library in Weekly

Thoughts and happenings from around the library from February 2026

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February 23, 2026 /Banned Library
Good Luck, Have Fun, and Don't Die, 2026, Gore Verbinski, Matthew Robinson, Sam Rockwell, Juno Temple, Haley Lu Richardson
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The library phone is for emergencies or really cool prank calls only.

February 18, 2026 by Banned Library in Weekly

Missives from the library

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February 18, 2026 /Banned Library
phone
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Luke in the Library

February 16, 2026 by Banned Library in Weekly

Every library where I have worked has Luke Skywalker as a patron. Luke was set up in my first week at each institution. He's checked out display materials, put book club books on hold, and reserved spaces all over the library. Luke is my silent library partner.

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February 16, 2026 /Banned Library
Luke Skywalker
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I like watching fire

February 09, 2026 by Banned Library in Weekly

I like watching fire. There's a comfort to the leaping flames. The sound of crystalline crackles of destruction as wood combusts feels like home to me. It's been that way since I learned to make it.

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February 09, 2026 /Banned Library
fire, depression
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I Come in Peace (1990) to the Library

February 02, 2026 by Banned Library in Reviews, Weekly

The librarian stops Penny Man from doing coke in the library and talks about the movie I Come in Peace

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February 02, 2026 /Banned Library
i come in peace, Dolph Lundgren, Brian Benben, 1990
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At the library We Bury The Dead (2025)

January 19, 2026 by Banned Library in Reviews, Weekly

In this dull little anti-zombie tale, we have a woman making her way across Tasmania to find her husband while some of the dead are up and walking around. Why are some of them walking around? Who the fuck knows. All we do know is that drama follows.

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January 19, 2026 /Banned Library
We Bury the Dead, Daisy Ridley, Zak Hilditch
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Staple of a Media Diet

October 03, 2025 by Banned Library in Weekly

Media matters. It shapes our perspective on places and people. Gives us information on topics that might have been forgotten. Stories and music and culture bleed through the spurting noise that humans make everyday to try and communicate with the past, present, and future. People want to be noticed, so they create.

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October 03, 2025 /Banned Library
circulation librarian, circulation desk
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AI Issues

October 01, 2025 by Banned Library in Weekly

Helping people is difficult. Rewarding at times but often strange as you peer into the face of another human being and wonder what the hell is happening behind that stressed expression. My general rule of thumb after years in reference is to ask "What the hell are you going to do with this information?"

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October 01, 2025 /Banned Library
Reference Librarian
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Writing Longhand and the Art of Burning

September 22, 2025 by Banned Library in Weekly

Lotta bullshit going around about AI. Are kids learning to express themselves through writing? Is it helping adult performance at the workplace? Is it worth drinking up the Great Lakes and murdering polar bears to make sure people online can create images of Brad Pitt naked riding a unicorn with Ginger Spice's arms wrapped around his midsection or better they are a conjoined twin centaur bound for eternity in the Forest of Joy after making a beautiful wish at the Butterfly Fountain?

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September 22, 2025 /Banned Library
writing, longhand
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The United States Will Have an Official Library of Stupid: Thoughts About the Upcoming Presidential Library

June 18, 2025 by Banned Library in Weekly

When George W Bush graduated from president school to become an artist, a lot of us in the library community joked that his official library would be full of all the Crayola doodles of Chaney and dicks. For the current administration, there's less jokes because of all the horrifying and stupid and horrifyingly stupid things the man does on a near constant basis. Thinking about that presidential library, what it will house and where it will be and what it will be a monument to, gives me a sick feeling.

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June 18, 2025 /Banned Library
Donald Trump, Presidential Library
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Ballerina (2025) danced into my heart oh no that's a knife

June 16, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews, Weekly

Sliding down to my seat a little late for the film, I forced a mother to move away from her husband to sit by her children. She was in my seat. I was not just breaking up parental date nights at a violent action movie for the fun of it just because. This time.

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June 16, 2025 /Banned Library
Ballerina, John Wick, 2025, Len Wiseman, Shay Hatten, Derek Kolstad, Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane
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To the Class of 2025: Fuck all Y'all

June 04, 2025 by Banned Library in Weekly

The following is a transcript of a valedictorian speech given to the Banned Library School of Mad Library Science graduates of 2025 by Jessie Marlborough on May 30, 2025.

Hi everybody, including the dean, The Director, faculty, staff, and my fellow students. Thanks for coming to my graduation.

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June 04, 2025 /Banned Library
commencement, valedictorian, LAIbrary
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To the Class of 2025: Don't Forget Your Radiation Suit

June 02, 2025 by Banned Library in Weekly

A transcript of a commencement speech given to the Banned Library School of Mad Library Science graduates of 2025 given by The Director on May 30, 2025.

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June 02, 2025 /Banned Library
commencement, Banned Library School, Mad Library Science, LAIbrary
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Stacks & Swords at the Library

March 10, 2025 by Banned Library in Weekly

If you want excitement, come on down to the library's game night where we play a rousing form of copyright-friendly role playing game excitement! Our homebrew game of Stacks & Swords invites teens and adults every month to become a member of the "Bibliotheca Animarum," an ancient library that hunts down books and artifacts that can harm humanity. We go to adventure the last Saturday afternoon of the month!

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March 10, 2025 /Banned Library
Stacks & Swords
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Hello World

November 25, 2024 by Banned Library in Fiction, Weekly

Dave and Nancy found the old computers while going through storage looking for children's costumes. At least, that's what they said they were doing. The two of them often find out of the way places to be alone.

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November 25, 2024 /Banned Library
Nancy, Dave
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