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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS

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engagement + crowdsourcing products, ProPublica; librarian, journalist, hyperlocal information ecosystems, public(s) and participation, digital archives, dogs, civic joy, mom, mummer, board games, philly, carrboro north carolina 🌈 melodykramer.github.io

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLISĀ·Nov 9

Intro: Hello! I’m a librarian and journalist who has also spent time with demographers, Wikipedia, and 18F. I care about hyperlocal information ecosystems, new models of information sharing, the South, digital archiving practices, hound dogs, and walking in the woods without headphones.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLISĀ·Aug 13

note passed to me during workday

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLISĀ·Aug 13

6th grade career ambitions turned out to be spot on

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLISĀ·Aug 25

first day of school was ā€œgreat, awesome, marvelousā€ according to a new first grader.

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here’s a mystery. how did what appears to be an actual photograph of george hw bush end up in our home office closet

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLISĀ·6h

This is a must-read piece for folks in North Carolina today.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLISĀ·20h

If you had one night in Manhattan, one in Queens, and one in Brooklyn and your only goal was to visit a library branch to get your library card and have a decent dinner nearby, which branch and restaurant would you pair for each one?

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLISĀ·20h

Had a great chat with a former colleague this morning at Epilogue, which is such a wonderful bookstore / coffee shop / meeting space in Chapel Hill.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLISĀ·20h

This makes me really sad. Robert was a great radio guy and a great Philadelphian.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLISĀ·22h

working on really hard messy technical problems at work followed by coming downstairs and carving a pumpkin

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLISĀ·1d

One of my children rapidly changed his Halloween costume this morning from the New York Times spelling bee to a banana to a blueberry and back to the spelling bee, but with a different pangram (vampire).

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLISĀ·1d

My favorite part of this is that it’s in The Daily Tar Heel.

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The best part of being married to someone who lives their life entirely offline: ā€œSo there’s this guy named Isaac who does interviews for the New Yorkerā€¦ā€

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Working on tips continues to be hard and also a creative delight. (My colleague made this pumpkin.)

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