• I was having a great conversation about RuPaul’s Drag Race and Paris is Burning with one of the teens (seriously, this was maybe this best [...]

  How to Dress Like a 30-Something Urban Librarian: The Outfit That Made a Patron Laugh Right Into My Face

  April 24, 2013
• I always feel better after a trip to Leenie’s.  I have been coveting a detachable collar and sweater-clips for a while. I got a detachable [...]

  Another Trip to Leenie’s Vintage Emporium

  December 11, 2012
• Do you dream your apartment has secret rooms just waiting for you to find? ~Love and Libraries, Ingrid

  Apartamental: For Every Season There are Some Sequins

  July 16, 2012
• Where sequins meet fake gangs. Like gangs that do lots of snapping.

  How to Dress Like a 30-Something Urban Librarian: Liza with a Z not Lisa with an S is in a Gang Now

  April 10, 2012

• Welcome to “I AM READING THIS SO HARD RIGHT NOW” In this segment, I will be sharing spoiler-free notable quotables on books I am [...]

  I AM READING THIS SO HARD RIGHT NOW: Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie Bat

  March 19, 2012
• Flavorwire has this totally lovely feature that they call the Literary Mixtape. It’s basically a list of songs inspired by a literary [...]

  WWWBLT?: What Would Weetzie Bat Listen To?

  March 12, 2012
• I love being a librarian, but I would be lying if I said that my job always filled me with sunshine and roses and visions of kitty cats and vegan [...]

  I’m Crafty, And I May or May Not Be Your Type: Beliebers in Inspiration

  February 6, 2012
• I’ve Emerged! I’m honored and excited and delighted to be an ALA Emerging Leader of 2012. My project group is Librarians Build [...]

  ALA Mid-Winter 2012: Emerging Leaders!

  January 22, 2012

• Oh, hai. I’m Ingrid Abrams and I’m a Children’s Librarian working in Brooklyn, NY. I once had an “ALL LIBRARIES, ALL THE TIME” [...]

  Goodbye Tumblr, Greetings to Better Blogging

  November 7, 2011