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TILT #101 — You will begin again and again

Welcome to 2023 friends. Happy Spring Equinox. If you haven’t checked out The Library Workers’ Field Guide to Designing and Discovering…

Mar 20, 2023

TILT #101 — You will begin again and again

Mar 20, 2023

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TILT #100 — I can’t complain but sometimes I still do

Welcome to TILT 100. It’s been a long strange trip since June 2016. How are YOU doing?

Dec 31, 2022

clip of a page from A Curious Herbal showing an ullustration of a daisy alongside a petal

Dec 31, 2022

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TILT #99 — No one spends time here without being changed

Library trauma, NY/NJ news, a really good poem and some talk about ALA and virtual conferences

Oct 23, 2022

illustration of a library that is at the endge of the water. All the patrons are cats. Some are reading, some are fishing, some are at desks, some are trying to sneak up on a hermit crab.

Oct 23, 2022

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TILT #98 — Guardrails and solidarity

Hello, and welcome to June. Here’s some links about inclusion, equity in libraries, some good news and some good beer.

Jun 1, 2022

Image of a black woman working in tech services caption “Mending Department. Mrs. Dora Lee Johnson”

Jun 1, 2022

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TILT #97 — my library is also my antilibrary

Hello, I hope this email finds you channeling your rage in the proper directions (source).

Mar 28, 2022

a tree that is crafted out of the pages of a book, shown in a photograph on top of an older book

Mar 28, 2022

Jessamyn’s 2022

in Bullet Points and Hyperlinks

Jan 25, 2022

Fairy lights shining through snow outdoors hanging from a white picket fance

Jan 25, 2022

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TILT #96 — I hope this chair is wide enough for my butt

Hello 2022, may you be an improvement over last year.

Jan 6, 2022

Cover of the book A Library of Misremembered Books by artist Marina Luz showing a yellow book with a pink cat on the cover.

Jan 6, 2022

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TILT #95 — our content may be mostly black and white, but we dream in color

It’s definitely past peak here in Vermont and I’ve been feeling a little past peak myself after a long few months cleaning my mom’s house.

Oct 20, 2021

Two multicolored booklist covers that say “Turned On” in groovy bright lettering and say they’re books and films about drugs for young adults

Oct 20, 2021

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TILT #94 — the library is not a TARDIS and can not hold infinite books

On the waning days of the latest dumpstergate, I’m here to tell you I’ve been cleaning out my mom’s house.

Aug 16, 2021

Cover of the zine described, available at the link offered

Aug 16, 2021

Eclipse Appreciation and Gratitude for Lonely Evenings

In 1979, my mother got an award “from” the computer my father helped build at Data General. This project would eventually be memorialized…

Aug 2, 2021

A typed out award with the title that is the same as the article which thanked my mother for the lonely evenings she spent while the Eagle computer was being developed. It is signed by the president of the company but also by the computer.

Aug 2, 2021

Jessamyn West

Jessamyn West

Rural tech geek. Librarian resistance member. Collector of mosses. Enjoyer of postcards. ✉️ box 345 05060 ✉️ jessamyn.com & librarian.net

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