Len Bryan

@lenbryan25.bsky.social

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K-12 library administrator, husband, daddy, builder of boats, curator of knowledge, & dedicated to stamping out ignorance.

Starlab portable planetarium
StarLab portable planetarium
Scholastic book fair setup
I am excited to share at the 6th annual #FutureReadyLibs AppSmash webinar on November 18 at 5 PM EST! I'll be sharing what I love about Swank K-12 Streaming, and how it helps our librarians, teachers, and students!
Mowed path over hills
Slide with emotional triggers
Backpack in an airport.
Halloween decorations
I'm Presenting! Beyond AI: Curating Digital Tools for teaching & Learning Friday, October 17 4:20 - 5:10 Room 221 AASL St. Louis
Mother and daughter enjoying a football game.
Dog sleeping on the couch
Line of people waiting for StarLab
Nugget the stuffed library sloth awaits visitors.
StarLab portable planetarium dome
Outdated library books
Library professional development breakout groups
Superintendent holding a stuffed sloth mascot
Library shelves neatly organized.
Miley Cyrus biography from 2000.
Biographies of Al Gore and Hanson from the 90s.
Author Hena Kahn shares her perspective
Stacked bar chart showing decline in print circulation and increase in eBook circulation over 5 years.
Chart showing eBook checkouts district wide for the past 4 years
AI will change what it means to to do, to think, to know on a screen behind Matt Miller.
District library table with kits
2025-2026 DEMCO school library planner cover image
Slow Down and Read District Library Services logo for Cherry creek schools
Slow Down & Read District Library Services logo for Cherry Creek Schools
Q8: Solution Time! What ideas do you have for overcoming emotional barriers to library access? Please share articles or other resources too!
Q7: Solution Time! What ideas do you have for overcoming bureaucratic barriers to library access? Please share articles or other resources too!
Q6: Solution Time! What ideas do you have for overcoming physical barriers to library access? Please share articles or other resources too!
Q5: Brain Break! What is your community’s FAVORITE part of your library? It could be a physical space, an online space, a program, an event, a display, part of your collection, or anything else!
Q4: Emotional barriers involve peoples’ feelings about their library. What practices, staff attitudes, lack of representation, etc. cause users to have negative feelings toward their library? Think about how people might feel about fines, rules, communications, past experiences, etc.
Q3: Bureaucratic barriers can include schedules, staffing, policies, practices, requirements, and other aspects of the organization that might hinder access to the library. What bureaucratic barriers might exist at your library?
Q2: Barriers to library access can take many forms - physical barriers, bureaucratic barriers, emotional barriers, or a combination of these. Let’s take on one at a time. What physical barriers exist at your library? Think ADA, too tall shelves, lighting, etc.
Q1: When we talk about our libraries, we often display a fixed mindset, focusing on the circle of concern. What are some things we CAN directly control?
Cherry Creek School District Library Services Sloth mascot with hte tagline "Slow Down & read" and link to https://www.cherrycreekschools.org/domain/1409
Screen capture of a Facebook post describing Instagram and Facebook planning to use LLMs to create even more fake accounts.
Commodore Vic 20
Holiday sweater that says ooh... this calls for a spreadsheet with a Microsoft excel logo
Nugget the sloth hanging out at one of our elementary school libraries.
Covey's circles of concern, influence, and control.
Coffee cup that's says I survived another meeting that could have been an email
Close up picture of a Christmas tree
Group of library workers at a pd event
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,714,584, Len Bryan ‪@lenbryan25.bsky.social‬, joined on Oct 25, 2023"
Picture of Houston traffic yesterday at 5 pm.
Picture of Bella the dog
Unfinished wooden canoe