MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2016
At home and in my Teen MakerSpace, I find myself on an endless quest to figure out how to print from a mobile device like a tablet or smart phone. This is particularly true when it comes to Instagram pics. For a while I was quite happy using an app called Print Your Insta, but […]
During the 3rd and final debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump called Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman”. Many women have remarked that this is the sexism that powerful women face on a daily basis. If being a strong, confident and powerful woman makes you a “nasty woman”, what YA lit books would a “nasty […]
This Week at TLT Win 5 from Merit Press Middle School Monday: A Review. Of a Book. That is Fire. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Spring 2017 Showcase and Giveaway Things I Never Learned in Library School: Dealing with Minors and Pornography NerdCon: Stories 2016 Video Games 101: What you need to know about Lego Dimensions Privacy […]
What if you kept a diary and suddenly everyone could read what you had said in private? That’s the question posed in IN CASE YOU MISSED IT by author Sarah Darer Littman. Today she is here to talk about her latest book and the idea of privacy in an increasingly open and online world. Did […]
Lego Dimensions is the first toys-to-life video game of its genre. It is also one of the coolest video games that combines popular fandoms all into one video game. I mean, just look at this list! Sounds cool right? Before your library jumps on this bandwagon, you need to know a few things. Trailer: […]
I had the good fortune to attend NerdCon: Stories 2016 October 14th and 15th in Minneapolis, just a handful of miles from my house. This year, they opened programming up to attendee-led sessions. I presented on Friday morning on Mental Health in Young Adult Literature. More on that later. The convention was an absolute […]
Does your library have a plan for what to do in case a patron is caught viewing child pornography on your public computers? What about if you suspect that a child or teen in your library is being subjected to pornography, such as receiving nude pics? In my library career, I have had a couple […]
Beyond the people I work with and the people this blog has led me to get to know, by far the best aspect of blogging for TLT is the constant influx of books. All of the books I get end up going back out the door in some fashion—to teen readers I know, to classroom […]
Like most of us, I’m in love with books. Love. Books. As school librarians, though, it’s important for us to also focus on other aspects of our practice—youth identity development, information literacy, responsive pedagogy. So, I’ve tried to focus here on MSM on programming I’ve already done with specific novels and the work we do […]
Want to win some books? I feel like giving some away today. I have 2 ARC and 3 Hardback copies of titles new or coming soon from Merit Press. Just leave a comment below by Friday (10/21/2016) to be entered to win. Be sure an leave a Twitter or email contact so I can contact […]
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