How Do You Shelve Books?

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#datlibrarylife, haiku, interpolations, LIBRARY DIARIES, straight outta zoo passes, the circ department, the stacks

How do you shelve books?
Do you push them to the back
Or even the front?

Edge the books! Or else…
You may not know how to shelve,
If you’re not edging. 🤓

–@StevieStreets #librarydiares #haiku | How Do You Shelve Books? & Edge The Books! Or Else…

・・・
#datlibrarylife:
Books misshelved everywhere
Pages in the stacks reading books, placing books anywhere
I can’t walk through the stacks ’cause the books are pushed to the back
I don’t need Google, my Librarian knows everything
And I’m STRAIGHT OUTTA ZOO PASSES, Neon King Kong standing on my back
Can’t even read Unshelved or LibraryComic, mid-range migraine is back

Don’t push me
‘Cause I’m close to the edge
I’m trying not to lose my head
Uh-huh-huh, huh, huh
When the books don’t align
It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
When the books don’t align
It makes me wonder how I keep from going under

–@StevieStreets | Close To The Edge (An Interpolation of The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five)

The Library Moment

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#datlibrarylife, #ilovelibraries, #librariesmatter, geek the library, LIBRARY DIARIES, library love, think beyond the books

Hashtag libraries matter…
we all need a little love, life, and library;
however, sometimes you have to think beyond the books to experience that library moment.

Nothing compares to that magic moment, that moment when the library takes you by surprise.
That magic moment when you fall in love with the library and three ninety eight point two becomes a beautiful surprise.

Sorta like when you discovered reading is fundamental,
kind of like the moment when you discovered paradise was a library moment.

–@StevieStreets #librarydiaries | The Library Moment

Graphic Novels

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#datlibrarylife, anime, comics, LIBRARY DIARIES, manga

The graphic novels
are a little too graphic…
no pun intended.

–@StevieStreets #librarydiaries #haiku | Graphic Novels

Fact or Fiction?

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#datlibrarylife, a credible source, CRAAP Test, information science, let me librarian that

HOLLY CRAAP! 

Is it Fiction or Facts? 
Libraries Matter;

as matter of fact,

let me librarian that…
Oh! You tend to rely on the news?!

Oh-kay… good luck with that.

Truth be told; you should be careful with that.

You should rely on a much more credible source,

the news has been known to report alternative facts;

the fiction section is filled with stories like that.
Oh! You tend to rely on search engines?!

Oh-kay… good luck with that.

Truth be told; you should be careful with that.

Sure the search engines will bring you back a million answers back;

however, it is thee librarian that will bring you the correct answer back.
–@StevieStreets #librarydiaries #poem | FACT or FICTION? 

The Card Catalog

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#datlibrarylife, card catalogs, dewey decimal classification system, LIBRARY DIARIES, public libraries

Do you remember the time….
when libraries were filled with card catalogs, cardigans, and spectacles?

Do you remember the time…
when the library ladies wore their hair in a bun,

back when hearing the words “reading opens your mind to worlds of wonders” was so much fun,

when thumbing through a card catalog was quite the spectacle?

Do you remember…
when Saturday mornings at the library were filled with family fun,

back when you were taught to use your inside voice and SHHH was the rule of thumb,

back when your search engines were The Card Catalog or a Superhero Library Lady caped with a cardigan and masked with a pair of spectacles?

Do you remember the time…
when you first discovered the book was better than the movie,

back when the childrens librarian first taught you how to Dewey,

when thumbing through a card catalog was quite the spectacle?

–@StevieStreets #vintage #datlibrarylife #poem | The Card Catalog

The Book Exchange

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#datlibrarylife, #librariesofinstagram, bih better have my books, hostage negotiations, library circulation, read it return it, return your books, the circ department

Read It! Return It!
’cause the circ team be like… BIH
BETTER HAVE MY BOOKS! 😂

Yeah, you have our books.
It’s cool, we have your boy. Then
came the book exchange.

The #circdepartment
#librariesofinstagram
#datlibrarylife

The circulation
department is the heartbeat
of the library.

–@StevieStreets #librarycirculation #haiku | from THE LIBRARY DIARIES COLLECTION: The Book Exchange

postscript:

We don’t want your boy…
pay your fines, return your books;
you have 14 days.

$200 Poetry Month Slam

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#datlibrarylife, library love, national poetry month, poetry is not dead, poetry slam, poets, writers

Nearly 3 minutes,
15 poets reciting…
The #POETRYSLAM!

Join us – April 9th
at Stonecrest Library with
Kodac Harrison.

These haiku are for…
National Poetry Month
Two Thousand Sixteen!

$200…
well; that would be for you, the
poets and writers.

-Stevie #poetrymonth | $200 Poetry Month Slam

Postscript:
@scribesandvibes is held
on 2nd Saturdays at
Stonecrest Library

Intelligent Living

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#datlibrarylife, #librariesmatter, intelligence, intelligent living, sapience

Sometimes I envision intelligent living,

 

a place where weirdness is wonderful,

 

and books are beautiful;

 

a place where men lust for the sapience of women.

 

 

A place where education is free,

 

where protégés become mentors and tutors,

 

a place where everyone from children to seniors

may enjoy computer programming,

coding, makerspace,

and free access to computers;

 

a place where the nerd in you can be set free…

to be all that you want to be.

 

 

Sometimes I take refuge in the library to escape the noise and the chatter.

 

Sometimes I sit in the library and observe particles of intelligent matter.

 

I see people teaching,

I see people learning,

I see books,

I see makerspaces,

I see computers;

sometimes I see intelligence spatter.

 

 

Sometimes I go to the library to meditate

and to appreciate symphonious orchestrations

of intelligent pitter-patter.

 

I hear pages being turned,

I hear keys being stroked,

I hear ideas being shared,

I hear knowledge being whispered;

sometimes I hear intellectual abracadabra.

 

Sometimes I envision #datlibrarylife;

sometimes –  I’m reminded why libraries matter.

 

–@StevieStreets | Intelligent Living

 

 

Bookface Beauty

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#bookface, #bookfacefriday, #datlibrarylife, #shelfie, #turnupabook

Oh, how I adore a beautiful #bookface…

Oh my, “how superficial am I?”

 

I know you can’t judge a book by its cover;

she’s far more than an adorable spine label and a pretty bookface…

 

but she was turnt at the book place,

Voguin’ with that pretty bookface.

 

She told me she was ’bout #datlibrarylife…

as we took a #shelfie neath the #BookfaceFriday sign on the bookcase.

 

Oh, how I adore a beautiful bookface…

Oh my, “how shallow am I?”

 

Reading is the New Sexy…

you other book lovers can’t deny.

 

There’s nothing like a bookface beauty…

I like BIG BOOKS and I cannot lie 😉

 

–@StevieStreets | Bookface Beauty