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Cool Board Games for Your Library

Night Witches – $31.95 CAD

Type: RPG Players: 3-5 Playtime: 120 mins for one game, or can be a campaign Age: Older Teen or Adult Skills You Practice: Strategy, Storytelling, Cooperation

Night Witches is a tabletop role-playing game about women at war. As a member of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, you’ll answer the call of your Motherland in her darkest hour. Can you do your duty and strike blow after blow against the Fascists? Can you overcome discrimination and outright sabotage and rise above your sexist comrades? Are there limits to patriotism—or endurance? Play Night Witches and find out!

Why it’d be good for a library collection:

Small Storage Space

Minority Representation (Female)

Popular Topic (World War II)

Group Game

#rpg game #roleplaying games #tabletop games #game recommendations #game night #tabletop roleplaying #libraries #librarylife #libraryland #canada #public libraries

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Cool Board Games for Your Library

Wingspan – $70 CAD

Type: Board Game  Players: 1-4 (3 ideal) Mechanics: Contracts, Dice Rolling, End Game Bonuses, Hand Management, Once-Per-Game Abilities Playtime: 40-70 min Age: 10+ Skills You Practice: Strategy, Pattern Matching

You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions).

Why it’d be good for a library collection:

Popular topics

Family-friendly

Medium difficulty level

Award-winner

#librarylife #libraryland #libraries #public libraries #wingspan #board games #tabletop games #game recommendations #librarianship #game night

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This is why representation of people who look different from you and think different from you is as important as seeing yourself in characters -- it teaches empathy and love and is one of the best ways to combat bigotry and Othering.

#representation matters #representation

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So Fox News ran a story about how they think libraries are turning into drug-infested sex dens and I am shocked, shocked that I was never offered any drugs during my 15+ years working in libraries.

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you can recognize yourself through the fictional character. but watch out

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Adventures in Librarian-ing

You would not believe how many times I have to tell the Grade 2s that "we're not crawling on the floor, we're supposed to be eating" during lunch supervision.

#libraryland #librarylife #school librarian #libraries #school libraries #the real life of me #canada #elementary school #adventures in librarian ing #grade 2 #little kids #lunch supervision

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Adventures in Librarian-ing

Kindergartener, holding a Spidey & Friends book: ♫ Spider-Man, Spider-Man! ♫

Me: ♫ Does whatever a spider can! ♫

Kindergartener: Yeah! 'Cause he's a spider too! Not a real one, though, a pretend one. I love Spider-Man!

Me: Me too, he's my favourite superhero!

Kindergartener: Mine too! :D

#spider man #libraryland #librarylife #school librarian #libraries #school libraries #the real life of me #canada #elementary school #adventures in librarian ing #kindergarten #little kids #spidey and his amazing friends

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#librarylife #libraryland #school librarian #libraries #school libraries #public libraries #the real life of me #relatable #library #conspiracy meme

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#libraries #librarylife #libraryland #kidlit #children's literature #children's books #cs lewis #c.s. lewis #quotable quotes #famous quotes #elementary school

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Libraries Around the World: Laval, Canada

Laval Public Library, Multiculturelle Branch

#public libraries #libraryland #canadian libraries #canada #laval #quebec #libraries around the world

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How To Tell If You Are In A Jane Austen Book

found on the-toast.net

• Someone disagreeable is trying to persuade you to take a trip to Bath.

• Your father is absolutely terrible with money. No one has ever told him this.

• All of your dresses look like nightgowns.

• Someone disagreeable tries to persuade you to join a game of cards.

• A woman who hates you is playing the pianoforte.

• A picnic has gone horribly wrong.

• A member of the armed forces has revealed himself to be morally deficient.

• You once took a walk with a cad.

• Everyone in the neighborhood, including your mother, has ranked you and your sisters in order of hotness. You know exactly where you fall on the list.

• You say something arch yet generous about another woman both younger and richer than you.

• You have one friend; he is thirty years old and does business with your father and you are going to marry him someday.

• You attempt to befriend someone slightly above or slightly below your social station and are soundly punished for it.

• A girl you have only just met tells you a secret, and you despise her for it.

• You have five hundred a year. From who? Five hundred what? No one knows. No one cares. You have it. It’s yours. Every year. All five hundred of it.

• There are three men in your life: one true love, one tempting but rakish acquaintance, and a third distant possibility — he is courteous and attentive but only slightly interested in you. He is almost certainly the cousin or good friend of your true love, and nothing will ever happen between you two.

• A woman who is not your mother treats you like her own daughter. Your actual mother is dead or ridiculous.

• You develop a resentment at a public dance.

• Someone you know has fallen ill. Not melodramatically ill, just interestingly so.

• A man proposes to you, then to another, lesser woman when you politely spurn him. This delights you to no end.

• A charming man attempts to flirt with you. This is terrible.

• You have become exceedingly ashamed of what your conduct has been.

• A shocking marriage of convenience takes place within your social circle two-thirds of the way in.

• A woman in an absurd hat is being an absolute bitch to you; there is nothing you can do about it.

• You are in a garden, and you are astonished.

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When I was a kid I wasn't allowed to read at bedtime because I'd want to keep reading instead of getting sleepy. My mom would say "No, it wakes you up instead of making you go to sleep!" every time I begged, lol

there’s absolutely nothing better than reading a 100k word fanfic, that is until you remember you have a body that is starving, thirsty and incredibly sleep deprived and hasn’t used the bathroom since the sun set 8 hours ago

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My favourite is the second one, but they're all gorgeous!

Check out the celestial wind chimes that our teens made during today’s TEENS GET CRAFTY program!

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there’s absolutely nothing better than reading a 100k word fanfic, that is until you remember you have a body that is starving, thirsty and incredibly sleep deprived and hasn’t used the bathroom since the sun set 8 hours ago

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@generallemarc That's not what I said at all. Not even close.

1. Every library needs a policy to guide what they're allowed to/supposed to buy because there's limited space and funds. We can't just buy whatever we feel like. It has to follow guidelines based on the needs of the community being served.

This is how every library in the history of libraries has worked.

2. Librarians aren't typically the ones who decide on library policies.

The library board, and in some cases, people in city council and higher-up lawmakers like MPs and senators do.

Librarians just follow their work policies like any other underling employee.

But they can't follow their work's policies if private corporations are the ones deciding what libraries buy.

While we're on the topic, how else would you like libraries to work?

Give me a better model of how libraries should function if you think this one sucks.

As a children's librarian, people who harass fans of Harry Potter indiscriminately really worry me.

Here's why.

1. The majority of Harry Potter fans are children.

I've had people call me disgusting and scum and an embarrassment to my disabled community. I've been suicide baited and have received death threats. All of this can be heavy enough stuff for an adult to deal with.

And then I think of how most of my 700+ elementary-aged students are huge Harry Potter fans. Because, you know, Harry Potter is a children's series. And they also have access to the internet and social media like TikTok and YouTube.

Now imagine the stuff that's been said to me being said to a kid. Because Harry Potter's main audience are KIDS.

2. This black-and-white mentality isn't healthy.

Very few things in life are cut-and-dry good vs bad. And if you employ this kind of thinking in one area of your life, odds are you'll apply it to other areas too(more on that in a moment).

And people who go out of their way to harass people who like Harry Potter don't seem to particularly care about any context beyond "If you like Harry Potter in any way whatsoever you're scum".

It hasn't mattered when I've pointed out that I absolutely and unequivocally think Rowling's TERF views are awful and scummy and wrong. It hasn't mattered that I try my best to consume the content only in ways that won't monetarily support her, (which kids typically can't do, btw). It hasn't mattered that it's literally in my job description to keep up with children's media to procure content for my patrons as well as to be able to hold conversations with them.

3. Saying "You're not allowed to read this without being harassed" is no different from saying a book should be banned.

This is ironic, seeing as the people doing the harassing are also often up in arms about queerphobic and racist book bans (as they should be) while demanding book bans of their own.

Because in their all-or-nothing way of thinking, book bans are only bad when the "bad" people do it.

No. Book bans are always bad, no exceptions.

Book bans aren't bad because they're banning the "good" books, they're bad because banning access to different ideas is always bad. Because every book has a lesson to teach us (perhaps not the lesson intended by the author, but a lesson nonetheless).

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I sort my personal library by series