First Sharon on the Internet. That librarian. Views are my own. She/Her.
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The Israeli military just bombed Al-Ahli hospital, where refugees in Gaza were sheltering after being displaced. Over 500 people killed in an instant.
These atrocities must stop. This is genocide.
CEASEFIRE NOW!
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(See also that I have drunk with lawyers, who mostly nursed a drink and went home, and I have been on a pub crawl with librarians, which took years off my liver’s functional life.)
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A fun display at @oaklibrary showing all the random objects people have left behind in library books. @oaklibraryfound tiktok.com/t/ZTRmTcdhg/
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Have you ever left something behind in a library book? ow.ly/nFTF50Ke4ha
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Hidden Treasures: A longtime Oakland librarian has shared postcards, love notes, pictures, and other personal items left behind in borrowed books. The collection has amassed to hundreds of items offering a snapshot of the community she serves. bit.ly/3AVrWxz
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Love letters. Cards. Photographs. Game tickets.
These are some of the items left behind in books at Oakland Public Library.
@byjacobward tells us how this collection of items, saved by librarian Sharon McKellar, paint a portrait of humanity: nbcnews.to/3zYdIKV
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Do you find yourself looking at the things we've found and imagining where they've come from?
We want to hear the stories you've created in your head about our collection! Tell us at oaklandlibrary.org/foundstor….
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A decade’s worth of love notes, photographs, scribbled lists and other ephemera left behind in the pages of books returned to the Oakland Public Library have been carefully curated for an exhibition opening this week. trib.al/aGdCHlo
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In her 20 years as a librarian, Sharon McKellar has unearthed all kinds of left-behind personal items — from doodles to recipes to old photographs — nestled between the pages of returned library books. wapo.st/3bvHHBK
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Amphetamine was one of the earliest medications prescribed as an antidepressant for mild-moderate depression.
Super effective too. It’s almost like- hear me out- we had a bunch of women diagnosed with depression in the 1950s who probably had ADHD.
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On Tuesday afternoon, my @TexasTribune colleagues were covering the primary runoff. A few were recovering from COVID. Several young parents were excited about the end of the school year. Everyone looked forward to the holiday weekend. Then came news of Uvalde.
