Monisha Blair
(She/Her) Librarian @KeyMiddle. SLJ 2020-2025 Best Books Committee. Reviewer for School Library Journal. #ReadingIsSelfCare
- Reposted by Monisha BlairThe CIA’s World Factbook, a repository of facts on nations that for six decades provided detailed figures on birth and death rates and major exports, relied upon first by government agents and eventually researchers, educators, journalists and more, was shuttered without warning on Wednesday.
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- For National News Literacy week I have all of our 8th graders in the library this week learning about credibility for health research. Media literacy is a life skill not confined to a single subject.
- So it’s National Library Lovers month, how are you celebrating?
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- Reposted by Monisha Blairbeating my drum again: It bears repeating, at a moment when we are all too aware of the powerlessness of young people, that the mission of public libraries to treat *everyone* as a patron, regardless of age—to grant children civic standing through the library card—exemplifies *real* democracy. 📚
- Reposted by Monisha BlairThe public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.
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- Folx are generally surprised and confused when I talk about patrons’ right to privacy and I wonder if it’s bc they don’t expect to have a right to privacy anymore or if it’s bc I primarily serve children
- The teen is finally awake so it’s time to binge the new season of #QueerEye I’m ready for all the feels 🥹🥹🥹
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- Woohoo! This is such a fabulous book
- Congrats Aubrey!
- What a year for Candace Fleming! #ALAYMA
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- Congrats Marie! So glad we got to chat about how wonderful Split the Sky is over the summer
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- Reposted by Monisha BlairHappy #ALAYMA DAY! At a dark time this is a moment of joy that we can all share in! Watch live: ala.unikron.com #TLSKYChat #TLSky #EduSky
- For anyone who hasn’t watched the documentary “Paywall”, this is your reminder to do so…
- Emory libraries cancel Elsevier journals due to rising journal costs 📚 www.emorywheel.com/article/2026...
- My snow day plans
- The annual announcement of the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards is the biggest event of the year in the world of children’s publishing. Join us Monday, January 26, at 10:00 AM CT for the livestream. 📺at ala.unikron.com or on the ALA Facebook page. ilovelibraries.org/article/join...
- Thank you City Neighbors and @gholdym.bsky.social for a wonderful day of learning at the Progressive Education Summit! @mspettytweets.bsky.social
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- Join me (and some fabulous authors) for the Growing Up & Finding You panel on March 5 during @slj.com ‘s #MiddleGradeMagic free virtual event Register now! www.slj.com/event/middle... @kaholt.bsky.social @aishasaeed.bsky.social
- Reposted by Monisha BlairAnd one more thing. Students. If you have a professor who is, for some reason, outsourcing their own job to ChatGPT....drop the class. If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class. Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.
- Reposted by Monisha BlairRICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - On her first day as Governor, Abigail Spanberger made a decisive move: she vetoed Executive Order 47, ending Virginia’s participation in the federal 287(g) program that allowed local law enforcement to act as ICE agents
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- I put up with a lot of things to not “be the news” in my brief time as a reporter. This is infuriating
- I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
- Happy National Rubber Duck day!
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- So amazingly proud of this traveling museum exhibit created by my current and former Ss honoring America’s 250 year legacy of service as it relates to our community. What does service mean to you? #LewisLeadershipProgram #NMCS @drewsgotthoughts.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Monisha BlairI am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
- Reposted by Monisha BlairExpect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
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- Still haven’t made a dent in my TBR pile www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...
- Parenting tip: If your t(w)eens also leave only a handful of various snack foods behind, clean out your pantry by putting those handfuls of snacks on a charcuterie board and watch them disappear
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- Reposted by Monisha BlairSo, LLMs are a form of information laundering. They insulate you from the sources, which makes it impossible to judge the reliability of the source.
- Reposted by Monisha BlairAmerica, there's something you should know. The top three kinds of books that young people (under 25) offer to sell me on Dec. 26 are: - "Chicken Soup for the _____" - "Oh, the Places You'll Go" - Books of New Yorker cartoons I'm just saying. Keep it in mind for graduations and birthdays, too.
- Cheese would also save me
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- It’s all fun and games until the glitter gets everywhere
- This + a book > everything #SmallJoys
- So snow day tomorrow? ❄️
- Working with 7th graders on substance abuse research today. Some of my fave interactions… T: Who is doing heroin? And S: Ms. Blair, what’s a rave?
- “Skilled librarians nurture a culture of reading, curate high-quality texts, collaborate w teachers and provide individualized support that is especially vital for struggling readers. Their presence is part of the ecosystem that helped MS move from near the bottom to the top of national rankings.”
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- Shout out to @juliaerin80.bsky.social for her idea of a Try It book club! I had a couple of students and a teacher join me yesterday and it was absolutely lovely. All of them said they were excited to come back for next week!
