MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2012
NEWS FLASH! For those of you who are looking for a comprehensive list of the ‘Best Books of 2012’ lists, look no further! Nora Rawlinson, at EarlyWord, has just put out her Children’s and Teens Spreadsheet, featuring over 150 titles and giving those of us in collection development or those of us just looking for […]
What’s the (Short) Story?
Bullying, Collection Development, Fantasy, GLBTQ, GLBTQ Fiction, Paranormal, Reader's Advisory, Short Stories, Steampunk
|In my review of The Curiosities, I mention that short stories seem to be a hard sell to teens. Most often, they are also a mixed bag; I have yet to come across a short story collection where I thought every story was a divine work of inspiration (although The Curiosities comes close). But here […]
Book Review: The Curiositites: a collection of stories by Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton and Brenna Yovanoff
Book Reviews, Brenna Yovanoff, Collection Development, Curiosities, Maggie Stiefvater, Magic, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Short Stories, Tessa Gratton, Zombies
|A vampire locked in a cage in the basement, for good luck. Bad guys, clever girls, and the various reasons why the guys have to stop breathing. A world where fires never go out (with references to ice cream.) Are you curious? The Curiosities began as a writing experiment between three friends, popular YA Lit […]
It all began because Kearsten, the teen services librarian at Glendale Public Library in Arizona, Tweeted us a picture of a display she put together. More accurately, she came up with the idea and her teen volunteers helped her put the display together. It was simple really, but genius. Her teens held up a fake […]
What They Didn’t Teach Me in Library School: How to Find My Balance
Professional Development, Things I Never Learned in Library School, Work Life Balance, YA Librarianship
|Librarianship is one of those professions is more of a calling than a job. Requiring at least a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, countless continuing education credits, thousands of hours of reading on personal time to familiarize yourself not only with your collection but also with new materials, and keeping up with latest trends in […]
Thanksgiving is a tricky time of year. Most librarians will be off Thursday and Friday, yet your library will be open Wednesday and Saturday, so if your family is further away than a traditional Thanksgiving song there is no way you’re seeing family for the holiday unless they’re coming to you. As a holiday, it means […]
Book Review: Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (reviewed by Christie G)
Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Redemption, Book Reviews, Fantasy, Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
|“I had an open mind, at least by Gatlin’s standards. I mean, I’d heard all the theories. I had sat through more than my share of Sunday school classes. And after my mom’s accident, Marian told me about a Buddhism class she took at Duke taught by a guy named Buddha Bob, who said paradise was a teardrop inside a teardrop […]
Today is a day of thanks, and I have plenty to give. I am thankful for . . . 1) The opportunity to get up every day and do what I love both as a teen services librarian and as a blogger. I know that I am inordinately blessed to have found myself doing exactly […]
Take 5: True Confessions of a Sci Fi Reader with Maria Selke
Across the Universe, Beth Revis, Black Hole Sun, Collection Development, David Macinnis Gill, Eye of the Storm, Human.4, Insignia, Kate Messner, Maria Selke, Mike Lancaster, S. J. Kincaid, Science Fiction
|I’ve always been a science fiction reader. Well, “always” if you count the fact that there wasn’t much science fiction available for younger readers when I was a kid. I got my start in fantasy with Narnia. I ventured into science fiction with A Wrinkle in Time, and never looked back. I continued to read […]
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