Some of the comments in this thread are the cruelest things I’ve read in a very long time.
I adore the library, love being a librarian. Worked my way up from shelver to supervising librarian!
Everyone has bad days! Hope y’all know that you’ll always belong at the library 💚 https://t.co/EEkTOgVbRE
— Mychal (@mychal3ts) December 31, 2023
Dude, you’re awesome.
You’re out here filling bowls with everyone’s favorite cereal and the pseudo-intellectual dark web is mad at YOU because they’ve only got sour milk to bring to the table.
— Jay Black (@jayblackisfunny) December 31, 2023
I cannot endorse this message strongly enough — and I suspect I’m not the only one!
Per the NYTimes [gift link]:
However relevant the stereotypical, silence-enforcing librarian remains in the popular imagination, Mychal Threets wants to dispel any lingering notion of the library as a dry, humorless place, lorded over by rigid pedants.
In fact, Mr. Threets has leveraged the power of social media to show that the public library is as joy-inspiring as it is welcoming, and that librarians — in his case, a 33-year-old man who sports quirky threads, tattoos and an Afro — are “so happy you’re here.”
Mr. Threets has taken on that mission by sharing videos of what he calls “library joy” on TikTok, Instagram and other platforms, telling stories about the everyday happenings at the Fairfield Civic Center Library in Solano County in Northern California, where he is the supervising librarian.
His videos have collectively garnered millions of views and hundreds of thousands of followers across his social media accounts.
“Most of the time I’m either just retelling library interactions, library stories,” Mr. Threets said. “And then, apart from that, I just try to give people messages of hope.”…
