Lindsey
@lindseyjonesr
librarian, mom, DC stuff, global stuff, activist/organizer + zines! 📚
It’s a lovely Saturday night in July and the RFK Fields Campus should be full of families and folks enjoying the summer but only ones here are DC Police and their blinking lights because of a “curfew”
Then the poet in residence at @amnesty.org wrote a poem about why I care about this issue
DC ends the most wonderful public service I have ever experienced, DC School Connect, because of budget cuts. The van took kids safely to/from schools in Ward 7 and 8. I am so sad
It's time to vote for annual DC's "3 Stars Book Award" organized by the DC Librarian Association! Vote in categories for: Picture Books, Upper Elementary, Middle, and High School Any DC student and reader is eligible to vote! Vote by Friday, June 5th Details: dcla.org/Three-Stars-...
Got these used, illustrated math dictionaries from Thriftbooks and they came in handy for 4th grade homework tonight
Last ride on the streetcar. I know most people thought it was a waste, but I loved it. Smooth ride, free, spacious, big sunny windows. I used it frequently to get around. I will miss it.
The Rosedale Library Friends Monthly newsletter is out! Our next meeting is Thursday April 9 at 6:30pm (moved from April 2) Read, join, donate, and share! mailchi.mp/e3332941cfe3... @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social
Hello from this new baby leaf unfurling from my plant that almost died last year, but my friend resuscitated. Shes (the plant) is doing so well in post recovery
Sorry to say that the upper grades rarely have textbooks either (mine are in 4th and 7th). This past year I finally bought myself some reference guides, like these, to keep at home:
New restaurant bar on H street NE rec: Solud/Zane. Amazing flavors in the food and drinks, very very friendly staff, AND they explain the DC gratuity situation so clearly on their receipt!!!
Two new(ish) children's book about seeds are helping me see 'some good' in the mud & rain this week Just in Case is about a global seed vault in Norway from Charlesbridge Publishing Everything Goes in Jiddo's Garden connects seeds, gardening, and the Palestinian homeland, from Interlink Publishing
#JusticeforJulian #JulianBailey #BlackLivesMatter #FreeDC From Washington DC
DC people! Annual holiday greenery, baked goods, and poinsettia sale at Miner Elementary in partnership with Eliot-Hine Middle is today and tomorrow Details miner-elementary-greenery2021.square.site Fun fact: I started this sale at Miner 9 years ago with a 4 month old baby strapped to my chest
DC police *guarding* the national *guard* Make it make sense #FreeDC @freedcproject.bsky.social
Sharing out from DC SBOE Ward8 rep LaJoy Johnson Law: **We want to make sure our students with disabilities have every opportunity to be successful, not take them away from opportunities! Let’s come together and make solutions!** Register here: tinyurl.com/ParentsGradM...
Best article I read for my #library studies this week is about the role public libraries can (and should) play in teaching *data literacy* to the public Oh and Mon (2024): Community-based learning and data literacy: the role of the public library Link: eric.ed.gov?id=EJ1426943
The focus on Mamdani's age and "generational change" is downplaying that he won because of his progressive, anti-billionaire, anti-imperialist, and anti-elitist stances.