The weekly newsletter about library programs and events including announcements about Walpurgisnacht, the spring staff party, and a Heard around the Library section!
The library is offering free tax help and a new installment of Library & Order.
An update on the library stapler and glowing tome as well as an oral history about an encounter with a drunken bear.
This week’s newsletter contains information about Fool’s Day and Eostre celebrations as well as an itinerary for the Spring Survival Reading Program.
The library has updates on St. Patrick’s Day, the equinox, various programs, and a sample of a library interview.
This week the library talks about Astronomy Now!, a St Patrick’s Day program, voting rights, and much more!
The drive-in will never die
The library reserves the right of trial by combat for damaged books.
The bookmobile has Children's Department programs that may involve glitter. We do not have a "girl that runs shine."
Thoughts and happenings from around the library from February 2026
Missives from the library
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.
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.
The librarian stops Penny Man from doing coke in the library and talks about the movie I Come in Peace
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.
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.
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?"
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?
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.
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.
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.