MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2012
”There’s a group of teens outside writing on the building wall.” That’s how I met Tony, one of my favorite teens ever. It obviously didn’t start off well. You see Tony was part of a group of teens who were vandalizing our library building one afternoon. When we officially met he was sitting in […]
The 2012 Project began because I had read yet another article bemoaning the death of libraries, sure that soon we will have no need for them whatsoever. And as a Teen Services Librarian in a public or school library, you know that we face funding challenges, staffing challenges, and sometimes – well, people just don’t […]
Today John Green’s newest title, The Fault in Our Stars, was released. If you have not read anything by John Green, I highly recommend that you do so. Now. Seriously. John Green writes realistic fiction with an authentic and gripping teen voice. His earlier work, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Printz Award. It also […]
I always blog wearing a tiara 🙂 Contests: They are simple and fun ways to keep your teens engaged. They generate repeat business. They help you appeal to a wide variety of interests. In short, they work for teen librarians. Last week we discussed why I love them and I shared one of my favorite […]
So I have a 3-year-old with some mild but chronic health issues and we have spent some time here and there in Children’s Hospital. So last night when I was awake at like 2 a.m. I started thinking (because what else is there to do at 2 a.m. except think and read): What if Children’s […]
Teen librarians are always trying to find a way to get teen involvement. The 40 developmental assets tell us that having teens involved in the planning and creation of activities geared towards them helps self-esteem and decreases their participation in risk taking activities. We also know that since teens are so peer oriented, having teens […]
Things I Never Learned in Library School: Self Directed Porgramming (formerly Contests! Everyone is winning)
40 Developmental Assets, Contests, Passive Programming, Self Directed Programming, Teen Involvement, Things I Never Learned in Library School
|Although I now live in Texas, I spent the first 18 years of my teen librarian career in a cold state where everyone hibernates during the months of January and February. Programming is hard as it is – but add in winter storms and it becomes downright unpredictable. Doing a variety of contests can be […]
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