Today is National Library Workers Day.

[jessamyn@glammr.us]

Today is National Library Workers Day. The library where I work has a knitters group that meets on Monday. I've never been interested in learning to knit, until now.

https://ravel.me/library-card-vest

[jessamyn@glammr.us]

Because of rules about non-profit status in the US and ALA's nervousness about it, advocating for *workers* is done by a separate, linked, organization called ALA-APA.

This organization has been around for over two decades but ebbs and flows in its impact. It's been ebbing lately which is too bad, library work can be challenging and poorly paid, even as people are generally very supportive of libraries and their workers.

National Library Workers Day: Libraries work because we do!

(ala-apa.org)

[joshmillard@mastodon.social]

@jessamyn you could make a button up variant and it'd be a cardigan catalog

[rejinl@masto.nyc]

@jessamyn Sending this to my librarian sister who runs the knitting group at her branch.

[chronodm@glammr.us]

@jessamyn I feel like I got all the way through library school without ALA-APA being mentioned once, but IDK if that’s a cause or just a symptom

[xvf17@sfba.social]

@jessamyn @rmd1023 Check out that sweater!

[sarahscully@glammr.us]

@jessamyn I saw the preview & thought this was a onesie… y’know for a baby.

[gknauss@mastodon.social]

@joshmillard @jessamyn You could make a maternity version and fill in the due date.

[taq@thicc.horse]

@jessamyn @hannah I bet you'd like this!