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Apr 6, 2025

Dark Side of the Moon, Looking for Luna 3

Letter to Mom

Russian postage stamp showing the orbit of this satellite around the earth and heading towards the moon. The stamp is purple with Cyrillic writing which I can not read.

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Mar 24, 2025

Managing a New Machine

A commencement speech given in 1987 to MIS grads at Boston University by Tom West, “that guy from Soul of a New Machine”

Data General brochure which is maroon and says “A generation ahead of the rest” and has a picture of my dad, a thin white man in his 30s standing on the side with his name underneath

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Mar 20, 2023

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…

TILT #101 — You will begin again and again

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Dec 31, 2022

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?

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

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Oct 23, 2022

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

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.

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Jun 1, 2022

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.

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

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Mar 28, 2022

TILT #97 — my library is also my antilibrary

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

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

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Jan 25, 2022

Jessamyn’s 2022

in Bullet Points and Hyperlinks

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

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Jan 6, 2022

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

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

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

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Oct 20, 2021

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.

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

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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