@LibrariesROrsum

Library book buyer. Less plastic more 📚🌲 🐦 🐖🐴🐮🏞️ kindness. A work in progress. My dog loves me.

 Te Awakairangi, Aotearoa
Joined March 2013
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️
@SketchesbyBoze29 Jul 2023
Regular reminder that libraries are much more than just books—although that would be valuable in itself. Libraries provide research databases, games, classes, clubs, movie screenings and a hundred other services.
[screenshot of tweet from July 28 that reads, “Is anyone actually using the libraries now? In this digital age, are paper book libraries even necessary in school? I don’t know the answer, and I don’t know if they do either.”]

ALT [screenshot of tweet from July 28 that reads, “Is anyone actually using the libraries now? In this digital age, are paper book libraries even necessary in school? I don’t know the answer, and I don’t know if they do either.”]

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The world is better because you’re in it. ❤️ ~ Nanea
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Thinking is productive. One toxic thing about our productivity culture is that it encourages us to *look* busy by constantly typing, clicking, and scrolling yet regards pure contemplation as a waste of time, when it is in fact the foundation for everything else.
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I would like to do an acknowledgement for all the council workers around the country who are working alongside our emergency responders to get things working again. These poor buggers get endless vitriol and scorn but here they are busting themselves to fix our broken country.
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🤰🏽🚔OUT NOW!🚔🤰🏽 Queen of New Zealand Crime 👑 @vandasymon's breathtaking tense, emotive #thriller #Expectant! A killer targeting pregnant women. A detective expecting her first baby… ✴️✴️Sam Shephard is BACK✴️✴️ 📲 geni.us/UAQ76 📚 geni.us/NZAX
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"We may have wellness talks and team drinks and free cappuccinos, managers who tell us we’re doing brilliantly, but that doesn’t make the constant microagressions hurt less." A publishing assistant shares why they are leaving the industry: buff.ly/3YEz1M7
Someone sat at a desk in front of a computer, with theirs hands over their face. Photo credit: Shutterstock

ALT Someone sat at a desk in front of a computer, with theirs hands over their face. Photo credit: Shutterstock

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📚📖 Fight book bans. Sign our petition! 📚 action.everylibrary.org/bann… #bookbans #bannedbooks
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You know what you should read? Whatever makes you happy.
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We’re thrilled to announce our intention to launch a new annual prize, the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction!    We're seeking sponsorship for the Non-Fiction Prize, to amplify female voices & books that inform, entertain and disrupt Share to spread the word: bit.ly/_WPNF
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Maungaraki School’s new library to open to the public - Hutt City Council | Voxy.co.nz Great move, common sense voxy.co.nz/national/5/412703…
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We ❤️ this at our local swimming pools @huttcitylibs because access is key & reading is totally awesome 📚🙏🏾✨ @nzbookcouncil @Schoollibsnz @TheCoconetTV
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Calling New Zealand authors! Register for the Public Lending Right scheme & see if you are entitled to receive a payment to recognise the use of your books in NZ libraries. Registrations close on 1 March 2023. Add it to your to-do list for Feb. natlib.govt.nz/publishers-an…

Public Lending Right for New Zealand Authors

Do authors make money from libraries? The Public Lending Right scheme recognises New Zealand authors for the use of their books in New Zealand libr...

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7. If you have any spare time in your day, I implore you to volunteer at a low-decile school. There simply isn’t enough $ for Teacher Aides to help with the myriad of needs. Even just an hour of your time to read with some kids and give them a smile. Please.
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I had no money growing up. My dad was a labourer and my mum did everything to make ends meet. Men worked hard. Women worked miracles. But education was free. As was the local library. I knew books were my passport to a better life. #SupportLibraries
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IMPORTANT: As #Davos is back in the news, you should DEFINITELY watch & share this! “It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference & no one is allowed to speak about water.” “You’re counting the wrong things!” With @rutgerbregman @Winnie_byanyima. #wef23

Davos Panelist Calls Out Davos For Not Addressing the Obvious

‘It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water.’ — This historian wasn’t afraid to confront the billionaires at Davos about their greed

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Calling New Zealand authors! It's time to register for the Public Lending Right scheme & see if you are entitled to receive a payment to recognise the use of your books in NZ libraries. Registrations close on 1 March 2023. Put it on your to-do list. natlib.govt.nz/publishers-an…

Public Lending Right for New Zealand Authors

Do authors make money from libraries? The Public Lending Right scheme recognises New Zealand authors for the use of their books in New Zealand libr...

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“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged!” ― Fay Weldon theguardian.com/books/2023/j…

Writer Fay Weldon dies aged 91

Author of novels including The Life and Loves of a She-Devil wrote more than 30 books as well as TV drama

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Hey Wellington peeps somehow Omen got out tonight about 30 mins ago and we can’t find him. Last seen at our house in strathmore, he gets separation anxiety etc and obviously we are beside ourselves. Can you spread the word and if anyone sees him can you please message?
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Public Libraries aren’t there to fill gaps caused by cuts to other services they’re there to promote the joy of books/reading, literacy, information & education. Let libraries be libraries 🤷‍♀️ #libraries
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