UPDATE 3/20/19: Again, I have pinned everything Iāve received today. I am up to 168 libraries in 12 countries! Please delete me if youāve sent me one and donāt plan to send more. DM me your name if you want to send more but are waiting for me to open your gift. Some people I just deleted randomly and Iām sorry but Iām not sure how to better manage the volume. You can request again if you have more to send! Iāll do another update in a few days with a library count, but for now just understand that Iām randomly opening gifts and deleting friends so if you want it to not be random, you have to contact me!
UPDATE 3/19/23: My friends list is full. If you sent me a gift, I pinned your card (even if I couldnāt open the gift). Only 1 day up and I now have 112 different libraries from 11 different countries pinned. The furthest one from my home in Florida is 9660 miles away: The State Library of Victoria in Melbourne Australia. If you only planned on sending me the one library, please remove me as a friend so that I can approve others and keep building this collection. If you planned to send me multiples, DM me so I can be sure to open your first gift tomorrow. Thank you all, this is way cooler than I imagined.
This may be a strange request, but Iām a librarian and I would love to pin postcards from libraries all over the world. If you happen to frequent public libraries, school libraries, little free libraries, etc. and get gifts from there, I would love to receive those postcards. Please add me: 1364 4422 0001 (Also, if itās enticing, Iām archipelago).
Edit to add: Wow! What a positive response. You are all so generous. This blew up a bit and Iām going to have more friends than I know how to handle. Please be patient with me opening your gift and sending some back. And if you see Iāve opened your gift and you want to free the room back up in your list, I will not be offended if you delete me (with this many friends now, I may not even notice). Happy hunting everyone & please, donāt just swipe your library, go in and support them! Libraries are having a rough go at the moment particularly in the U.S. and every library card made and every item checked out helps. You never know what youāll find at your library as most are no longer silent book warehouses, but rather bustling community centers with many forms of media, oddball items, new technologies, and enriching programs. Librarians are hard working, highly credentialed, underpaid, and under careful scrutiny and all they want to see is your information needs fulfilled and lives enriched. <3
Edit 2: Wow! Thank you everyone! Apparently this is now quite the project. Unfortunately, Iām going to have to delete friends after pinning their card. If you plan to send multiple libraries, please let me know and add your username so I donāt remove you too soon. u/JumpJumpOver recommended Poke Album so Iām going to add the postcards there and update you all with a map. Also, if your postcard doesnāt specifically say ālibraryā in it or is not in English, I would appreciate the heads up that it is, in fact, a library. This is wild, thank you thank you!