Laura Crossett
@newrambler
"She seems like an interesting character." librarian | writer | Iowa native, Wyoming expatriate, NYC aspirant | comms @libraryfutures.bsky.social
TIL that the John Birch Society still exists. And has some wild taxonomy. shopjbs.org/product/crim...
Yesterday was Orwell's birthday, so I read his review of Mein Kampf from March 1940, which is--well, I'll let you read below:
My favorite comment on another FILTHY BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY video suggests that someone hasn't read Chaucer recently. www.facebook.com/reel/9111130...
The CROSSETT in the left hand corner is a reference to my dad, who was overly fond of writing letters to the editor of the Grinnell student paper.
Happy May Day to one and all! May you have bread and roses, too. Poster by Ricardo Levins Morales. www.rlmartstudio.com
Got my December 2001 subway map and I'm ready to go to NYC. [Yes I do know it is out of date.]
On January 7, 2025, this link led to a truly excellent inclusive language guide from the NLRB. Today it looks like this. /1 www.nlrb.gov/news-outreac...
The chaotic punctuation continues apace. Why the period there? What full sentence does “while” introduce in this passage? Why? Why?
United keeps telling me I don’t have a Mileage Plus account but also that my email address is already tied to one. So I just found these because apparently I never get rid of anything.
My father died 43 years ago today, but before he died he took my friend and me to story time at the Iowa City Public Library every single Saturday morning (and then to Baskin Robbins for rainbow sherbet afterwards). Hazel Westgate, longtime children's librarian, sent us this note when he died. 📚
Gotta hand it to my younger self for keeping this baby propped up all through year-long Shakespeare.
It's cool, even the WSJ sometimes forgets and leaves some lorem ipsum in a newsletter.
TFW you're on the front page! "David Burleigh, director of corporate outreach and development marketing for OverDrive, said in an email that, 'We certainly stand with libraries in their efforts' but 'we are not providing much support for Books Unbanned.'" truthout.org/articles/e-b...
Don’t we look cute voting? Or having voted. (I have taken kid to vote in every single election.)
Oh FFS Michael Connelly read a new book. www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...