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Let’s talk about sex, babyLet’s talk about you and meLet’s talk about all the good thingsAnd the bad things that may beLet’s talk about sex – Let’s Talk about Sex, Salt ‘n’ Pepa I confess. I am not a parent. I have no kids. Never had, never attempted, never will. I have nieces and nephews […]
Do you remember a librarian from your teen years? I do. One had kind of mousy brown hair and wore patchwork vests, and led a group of us in a radio play in which I did the sound effects. It was the first group of kids my age I spent time with after moving to […]
As I sit here and watch my Tween read it occurs to me, she sometimes says she wants to be a librarian when she grows up. It also occurs to me that I am not sure I can encourage her to follow that path because we are destroying the very things we love. As librarians […]
Every once in a while, an article pops up: “Libraries are dying.” Or you hear a comment, “Nobody uses the library anymore.” But many of us that actually work in libraries know that’s not true, for many libraries usage is actually up. Here’s one of the things that I think that are happening. Those people […]
When book people and librarians think of library services in relation to Doctor Who, the first comparison is that the TARDIS is like a library and the librarian and library staff are like the Doctor. I’ve said it, Karen’s said it, everyone else has either said it or thought about it. But what if, instead […]
NOTE : THERE WILL BE SPOILERS FOR LAST NIGHT’S SEASON PREMIERE OF THE WALKING DEAD. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. Before there were books and their were libraries, there have always been stories. The ancients sat around a fire and told the stories of the past to help people remember who they were, where they […]
Extra! Extra! 6 tips for talking with local press
Advocacy, Social Media, Things I Never Learned in Library School, YA Librarianship
|Don’t wait for the press to come to you – go to the press! As hyperlocal news gains a foothold in more and more communities and grows in popularity, you will undoubtedly be called upon to offer a few quotes to local — or not so local — media in your position as a teen […]
Can we all just stop saying the Internet is free now?
Advocacy, Day in the Life of a Library, Huffington Post, Michael Rosenblum, What's a Library
|Last week, Michael Rosenblum wrote a piece for the Huffington Post asking, “What’s a Library?” A library, I maintain, is the beating heart of a thriving community. In this piece, Rosenblum maintains that we no longer need libraries because everyone has access to the Internet, and the Internet is free: “Why, when I can order […]
The Year in the Life of a Library: 2013 advocacy project
Advocacy, Day in the Life of a Library, The Life of a Library
|The Life of the Library in 2013 Inspired by this post earlier this week, Teen Librarian Toolbox has come up with a plan for our 2013 advocacy project. Last year, with #the2012project, we collected pictures to show everyone that teens still use and love their libraries. Our goal was to show teens using the library. […]
The Prediction Heard Round the World The other day author DC McGannon shared with me a link regarding his 13 predictions for 2013. Check out number 4: 4. Libraries are going to get hit hard.I really, really, really hope I’m wrong on this one, and I’m going to do everything possible on my part to […]
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