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)

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Book Lover’s Blues

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#bookbae, book hangover, book humor, bookish, emotionally crippled, good reads, LIBRARY DIARIES, readers advisory, readers remorse, recommended reads

I can’t come into work today,
I just finished reading a good book and now my whole world is blue.

No; it’s not the flu.
I think I have a case of the book lover’s blues. 🤓📚

Yeah, I can’t come in to work today;
that plot twist gave me anxiety…
How could the author end the book like that?

I think I need to medicate with a few good reads;
a work of fiction has left me emotionally crippled.
I need to spend the day with chocolate truffles, caramel cookie crunch gelato, and recommended reads…
Where’s book bae at?!

–@StevieStreets #librarydiaries | Book Lover’s Blues 🤣

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

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

National Read A Book Day 2016

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#turnupabook, celebrate reading, LIBRARY DIARIES, local author collection, read local

September 6 is
NATIONAL READ A BOOK DAY;
#turnupabook, please.

Download an eBook,
crack open a Hardcover,
or a paperback.

Celebrate Reading!
Today is read a book day,
read more and talk less.

Browse your library’s
local author collection,
read local today.

Read for an hour… or
read a few chapters. By all
means, make sure you read.

–@StevieStreets #readabookday #haiku | National Read A Book Day 2016

Hello September!

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cool kids, coolest library, library card sign-up month, library cards, LIBRARY DIARIES, library out loud, literacy, the arts

Hello September!
LIBRARY CARD SIGN-UP MONTH,
we welcome you back. 😉

The best school supply
is a library card; all
the cool kids have one. 😎

#LIBRARYOUTLOUD!
The coolest library is
Stonecrest Library…

#THINKBEYONDTHEBOOKS,
Literacy runs deep. Read.
Write. Recite. Repeat.

CELEBRATE THE ARTS;
join us on September 10th,
we’ll have spoken word.

–@StevieStreets #librarycardsignup #haiku | from THE LIBRARY DIARIES COLLECTION: Hello September!