MORE POSTS FROM MARCH 2013
If you have ever read my bio here at TLT, you know that I hate to cook. Loathe and detest it. But – I have kids. They insist on eating. Several times a day actually. They will in fact ask if they can have a snack WHILE they are eating dinner. So, I got my […]
This just in: Today TLT surpassed Half a Million Page Views. As a thank you to our readers, I’m going to give away a box of 5 books. Just leave a comment between now and Friday, March 29th to be entered to win. Leave an email or Twitter contact so we can get in touch […]
Author David James will be hosting our #TLTDiversity Twitter chat on Wednesday. Today, he is telling us “Why YA?” I can be fearful of things in the way we all can be when the words “what” and “if” are squeezed together to create uncertainty. When separate, those two little words are harmless; together, they may […]
Book Review: Prophecy by Ellen Oh
Book Reviews, Dragons, Ellen Oh, Feminism, historical fantasy, korean, Prophecy, Uncategorized
|Fire shot up from the ground like geysers, and all around them fiendish figures danced about in wild abandon. Kira screamed again, over and over, but her screams excited the demons further, sending them into a rampage as they clawed her clothes and raked sharp talons against her flesh. Ahead, a figure grew to immense proportions in the midst […]
Things They Don’t Teach You in Library School: Sexual Harassment? Yes, it can happen in the library
Professional Development, Sexual Harassment, Things I Never Learned in Library School, Uncategorized
|In my now almost 20 years as a librarian, I have either directly or indirectly been involved in numerous incidents of people viewing porn on the computer and, more disturbingly, 5 men being caught masturbating in the library. One of those times occurred in my YA area and the person in question left behind “physical […]
The TLT Staff: We love working with teens! 10. You find yourself trying out program names to make sure they can’t be turned into some type of sexual joke. In your day to day life, you realize that you can turn ANYTHING into a sexual reference. Sometimes at a dinner party an adult will say […]
TPiB: Instagram crafts
Crafts, Instagram, Programming, Social Media, Teen Tech Week, TPIB, Uncategorized
|Every Friday in March we’re sharing crafts with our favorite website, The Library as Incubator Project. Check their site out for awesome ways to incorporate art into your library and programming. This week, I am sharing with you some of my favorite things to do with Instagram pictures. Instagram is perhaps one of the hottest […]
Tweens in the Library: Getting Them Involved in Summer Reading Programming
Collaborative Summer Reading Program, involvement, Summer Reading, Tweens, Uncategorized
|I am a huge believer of keeping my patrons involved in our library. If they’re invested in the library and the community, they have a reason to come back, and feel like they belong. I’ve always felt that way, no matter what library I’ve worked in- large branch or small. Libraries are such a huge […]
Take 5: Pinterest Boards for Crafting with Teens
Crafts, Pinterest, Programming Resources, Teen Programming, Uncategorized
|Love it or hate it, Pinterest collects a wealth of ideas in a graphically pleasing way, and is an especially popular way to access craft ideas. For National Craft Month, we’re highlighting five great Pinterest boards that focus on teen crafts that can be done, have been done, or we dream of getting done in […]
Things I Never Learned In Library School: Weeping over Weeding
Spring, Spring Cleaning, Things I Never Learned in Library School, Uncategorized, Weeding
|In the US, people are always using the term “Spring Cleaning.” We get it from being locked away for months at a time by the awful, nasty winter weather, and having needed to clean and dust when we could open the windows and let clean, fresh air in the house- usually around March. (Obviously these […]
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