Tomorrow morning I leave, not exactly bright and early, for the WYLD Annual Meeting in Sundance, Wyoming. Sadly, this is not the site of the eponymous film festival, which is actually held in Park City, Utah, but it is near Devil’s Tower, the U.S.’s first national monument, which I probably will not have time […]
Did you know that Roger Sutton (editor of The Horn Book) has a blog?
We children’s lit people are not so far behind the times after all. (And if you like children’s literature–as I hope you do–and are a reader of blogs–as I assume you are if you are reading this–I hope you’re reading Your […]
get real about your rights 3
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Here’s a photo of the display I did on teen rights at the library in honor of Teen Read Week (theme this year: “Get Real”) and The September Project (I put it up back in September and spent a month adding to it).
Andrea Mercado did a very […]
by the numbers
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update on 9/21: URLs fixed!
I’ve now started all my fall classes, which are a slightly different line-up from when I last posted on the topic. I’m now taking
LIS 721 Library Materials for Children
LIS 745 Searching Electronic Databases
LIS 763 Readers Advisory Services
All told, that makes for 9 hours a week of […]
certificate
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(Gosh, this Flickr business is fun. . . .)
I don’t normally keep track of the books I read, although I keep meaning to. I didn’t manage to this summer, either, but in case you did and feel that your summer reading efforts have gone underappreciated, may I offer you this handsome […]
Hand out felony charges for improper computer use. [via The NewStandard]
Of all the jobs I do at the library, the most thrilling and frightening by far are buying and weeding books. I am in charge of all the YA books, which live (except for the nonfiction, which, when it is no longer new, gets interfiled with adult nonfiction) in two long shelves tucked in the […]
Jessamyn had a great idea the other day–a show called Pimp Your Library:
Pimp My Library would take some ratty old library with an outdated web site, half-busted computers, no good YA room and terrible signage and trick it out to a level suitable for a modern-day information crossroads. Librarians and other staff would be forced […]
If you haven’t been following the news, here’s the latest on the gay-themed books brouhaha in Florida. And here, courtesy of Martin Sicard, is a list of those extremely dangerous “teen-friendly books that were on display at the West Gate Library that spurred the Hillsborough County Commission to bar county agencies from acknowledging, promoting, […]