MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2012
There’s been a lot of talk lately in the blogsphere (or maybe I just have been seeing the wrong blogs) about the perceptions and expectations about librarians. To my mind, there have always been expectations that go with certain aspects of the profession, but that those that work with youth tend to get pigeonholed more […]
When you can’t trust yourself, who can you believe?The door shut behind him and his footsteps pounded down the steps. I whirled on Nick. “Why did you do that?” He cracked a knuckle. “You think you have any right to my memories? To my life before this? You don’t.” Trev rose behind me. “Anna.” “why […]
On the 12th day of Christmas, my TLT brought to me . . .
12 Blogs of Christmas, Amianne Bailey, Blogs, Red Reading Chair
|The Red Reading Chair The Red Reading Chair is a blog by school librarian Amianne Bailey. Amianne has actually written one of my favorite blog posts ever here at TLT: Atticus Was Right, a story about a bully, an Autistic boy and Sharon Draper’s Out of My Mind. I’ll never forget the day she told […]
On the 11th Day of Christmas, my TLT gave to me . . .
12 Blogs of Christmas, Blogs, Brian Herzog, Professional Development, Swiss Army Librarian
|The great Patrick Jones wrote that good librarianship is “a combination of skills, knowledge, and attitude. The contention here is that YA work is perhaps different from other library work in that without the “right” attitude as a base, the other two traits [skills and knowledge] do not matter as much.” Brian Herzog’s Swiss Army […]
Life can be kind of chaotic sometimes – I often say that I went into librarianship so that at least one part of my life would be organized. As a part time librarian and working mom with plenty of side projects, a lot of my favorite things are ways to make my time more efficient […]
The Murder of a Shopping Bag Lady: mental illness in three acts
Brian Kates, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Professional Development, Robison Wells, Sandy Hook Connecticut, Teen Issues, The Murder of a Shopping Bag Lady
|Like many of you, the events of Friday, December 12th has me thinking and reflecting on the world that we live in. It also has me thinking about my kids, not just the kids that I have given birth to – but to every kid I have loved along the way as a librarian, because […]
TPIB: Turn your Instagram pics into Photobooth bookmarks
Bookmarks, Crafts, Instagram, Photobooth, Teen Programming, TPIB
|You can take any 4 Instagram pictures (or Hipstamatic pictures) and turn them into a bookmark craft with your teens. Technically, you can do it with any photos as long as you get the measurements right – but Instagram/Hipstamatic are kind enough to have frames built in. Think of the things you can do here! […]
Your TAB needs to make Mockingjay pins? You’re wondering what to do with six dozen marshmallows, rubber bands, and sharpies because the program budget is spent but you need to squeeze one more event in? You keep hearing about some new creative… thing but don’t know what it is or how it’s used? I like […]
Last night my 4-year-old slept in bed with me. Some of the children that died yesterday in Newtown were only a year older than her. I can’t even imagine. The tween had a friend spend the night and the two of them slept on the floor in the living room. The fell asleep to the […]
I turn the page because I need a momentHowever brief and fleetingTo believe that this world can bedifferentBetterThat we can join handsand riseabove the barren landscapeits lips puckering for a single dropof kindnessto quench its weary soulHeroes of oldfought valiantlyBut where is the valor now?It can still be found in storySo I turn the pageand […]
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