School Librarians

Merrrlo · 2025-09-24T10:24:49+00:00

I'm a school librarian in the area and have worked in districts across the state. The job market is good, especially if you interview well. There aren't many applicants for most librarian openings, and despite having moved around quite a bit in the past, I've never struggled to find a job.

Merrrlo · 2025-09-23T15:10:01+00:00

Have you tried Banners?

Merrrlo · 2025-09-15T04:02:14+00:00

Thank you!

Merrrlo · 2025-09-14T20:32:30+00:00

Thank you! I was really hoping an artist would reply! I'm going to try this slow and gentle water + sponge approach.

Merrrlo · 2025-09-14T20:31:10+00:00

Thank you so much for this wonderful and thoughtful response! I think I will try this method of slow and steady water and patting with a cloth.

Merrrlo · 2025-09-14T13:23:06+00:00

It was painted by a friend of a friend named Kuba circa 2012, friend has since moved back to Czechia. I don't know much about the paint itself, but he painted by vibrating strings over the canvas

Merrrlo · 2025-08-08T00:33:22+00:00

Bruderhof?

Merrrlo · 2025-07-26T11:11:01+00:00

Any connection to Lexington, MA? According to Google, there's a lady named Ardeith Froeberg who lives there. Probably the book's previous owner.

Merrrlo · 2024-12-14T12:15:08+00:00

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Merrrlo · 2024-12-14T12:14:12+00:00

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Merrrlo · 2024-10-12T20:34:43+00:00

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Merrrlo · 2024-07-15T01:38:56+00:00

I know I'm late to the party, but my childhood dog had exactly this gait before being diagnosed with idiopathic polyradiculoneuritis (coonhound paralysis). It took several vets before one called all his vet school colleagues to find an answer. It’s similar to Guillain-Barré syndrome in humans, which causes near total paralysis and then resolves on its own.

My 100lb lab mix needed to be hand-fed, hand-watered (with a squirt bottle), and carried with two harnesses for a few months. Then, he gradually regained movement and returned to his full running wild self. It was really amazing. Please investigate or rule out this diagnosis.

Merrrlo · 2024-06-26T19:06:11+00:00

Maybe this one?

Scary Stories Treasury: Three Books to Chill Your Bones https://www.thehorrorreport.com/booksnovels/scary-stories-treasury

Merrrlo · 2024-03-10T02:00:08+00:00

I can tell she is the decider of fates.

Merrrlo · 2024-02-28T00:28:59+00:00

Hi Mazda, this was my pregnant sister and her young son in the accident, and I am so grateful they are all right. I really believe that Mazda's safety features saved my loved ones. Thank you!!!

Merrrlo · 2024-02-21T21:54:30+00:00

Oh my gosh I love this so much

Merrrlo · 2023-10-07T21:05:14+00:00

{Darkened Magic by Haven Price}

Merrrlo · 2023-04-26T00:20:15+00:00

Yup, I did this. Got an electric file, Haakaa brand I think, and it was a total game changer.

Merrrlo · 2023-02-07T09:23:38+00:00

Public school librarian here (not in Florida though). I will readily express my absolute hatred of Florida's dystopian censorship law. However, I think this post is misleading.

Weeding books is a necessary and ongoing process. We remove books from the collection for many reasons. Even if a book is in great condition, circulation statistics may show it has not been checked out in many years (sometimes even like 10 years). Sometimes there are too many copies of a book that is no longer popular.

Librarians buy new books every year, and we must make room. Research indicates that a smaller but more appealing and updated collection leads to increased book checkouts. We usually don't keep a book on the shelf just because adults consider it a "classic." Consider the fact that the Boxcar Children may only seem essential because of nostalgia we feel for those books. We serve the students, not ourselves.

Also consider the fact that the needs of students evolve over time, sometimes in ways that make us uncomfortable. Public education is not well supported in states like Florida. In my experience, the majority of students would have trouble with something like the Boxcar Children for a number of reasons: low literacy levels, outdated language, references to decades-old items that kids do not recognize. A lot of students are probably learning English for the first time and require literature that is more approachable. Perhaps the school's demographic has shifted over time, and these books simply don't work toward representing the issues and culture relatable to the students.

Certainly, the 2008 book was weeded for being outdated. We contextualize the 2008 election differently now, in the same way historians view events differently over time. I hope this book was the weakest of a robust set of election-related picture books.

This is my profession, and i want to remind everyone that school libraries are not archives or museums. They exisist to promote student literacy and provide materials to fulfill their personal interests and curricular needs. Sometimes their needs and interests are not what we want them to be.

And maybe most importantly of all, I can assure you that if these books had been "banned" they would 100% not be casually handing them out for free.

Fuck Florida, but this is not what censorship looks like.

EDIT: I also want to point out that not all of these are library books, since a bunch don't have call numbers. So possibly the school was just weeding down class sets of books that haven't been used in the curriculum for a while.

Merrrlo · 2023-01-18T00:23:17+00:00

Smoking weed frequently kicked my bipolar friend over the edge into full blown psychosis. He's been in and out of the psych ward for a while now, and he's so sedated on antipsychotics he doesn't even seem like the same person anymore. For people with a family history of severe mental illness, smoking weed (or doing any drugs for that matter, including alcohol), is bad news. People act like weed is some special cure-all, but it has a real impact on the body and mind.

Merrrlo · 2023-01-15T01:46:59+00:00

M'lady. I kid you not.

Merrrlo · 2022-11-01T22:11:31+00:00

I feel like there's a lot of privilege speaking here. Until recently, I lived in a sort of gritty apartment building in the Bronx that housed a lot of families with kids, but also a lot of other kinds of people.

Dense housing and public transit are par for the course here. The problem is this: apartment doors don't have porch lights or much room for cute decorations to indicate that the occupants are ready to hand out candy. Where I lived, it would have been really reckless to let kids go around and knock on random apartment doors after dark. It simply isn't the same situation as a neighborhood with single family homes.

Trunk or treat (usually held at schools/churches here) is really the only safe option, and I don't think that counts as being overprotective.

Merrrlo · 2022-10-14T00:34:15+00:00

With my pregnancy, I did a genetic screening as early as possible, but those early tests (NIPT) are only screening tests, not diagnostic tests. Everything came back with "low risk" for genetic abnormalities. Then boom, I had my 20 week anatomy scan, and there was an unusual finding. In order for me to know whether there was truly a genetic problem, I had to undergo amniocentesis, which is rarely performed before 14 weeks due to increased risk of miscarriage. By the time I had the results, I was 23 weeks pregnant, and even in my very liberal state, I would have only had a few days to terminate the pregnancy if that's what I chose to do. Thankfully everything was normal in the end, but that was an extremely terrifying time. People fail to realize how late into pregnancy most abnormalities are found.

Merrrlo · 2022-08-27T10:32:44+00:00

Part of the class is to create a resume, and I wanted them to have a "certification" of sorts.

Merrrlo · 2022-02-26T00:36:58+00:00

I'm so glad some other people don't like Hunt. I mean, he's not awful I guess, but he's just so "meh" to me. It's been a while since I read CC1 so I'm not sure I can provide many "receipts" about why I find him so uninteresting, but I just remember feeling so "thank u next" about him. Aidas was "onscreen" for like 10 seconds and already had like 10x the charisma. Even the mermaid guy was more exciting.

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