Month: May 2010
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nonfiction monday!
Today is the day! Head on over to 100 Scope Notes and see what review formats were inspired by Travis’ challenge.
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nontraditional: a list.
During one of my twitter frolics recently I found the effing librarian, whose blog I am completely and utterly smitten with. He talks about many of the hot issues in the library world, as well as advocacy and news, but in a completely bitchy and steely way. Love, love, love. Here is an expansive booklist…
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summer reading.
I have a complex relationship with the institution of summer reading. I never participated in summer reading as a child, which may explain my lack of zealous enthusiasm for it. I do see its value, and I do love that it gets kids into the library, but there is something about the entire exercise that…
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inevitable?
I often ask whomever is around me–usually fellow librarians–whether or not, as I age, becoming a bitter, stick-in-the-mud, clueless librarian is inevitable. I worry about this. I worry about this every time I turn in a lackluster story-time performance, every time I get another idea shot down, every time I sit through another boring, same…
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who’re you calling an oxymoron?
I love this post by Ryan Deschamps because it expresses so many things that I have thought or felt but haven’t been able to express about librarianship. Let us look at point number eight: 8. Accredited Library Schools Do Not Adequately Prepare Students for Library Work The process for creating ‘professional’ librarians has long…
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the sound of things to come.
I wrote a song for my library’s winter reading program promotional video (actually, wrote new lyrics to an existing song). Expect to see more of this in the not-too-distant future:
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vacation hodge podge post.
I went on vacation and visited two libraries, which is, you know, mandatory for vacationing librarians. I visited a branch of the JoCo library system and picked out some lovely board books and an Ella Jenkins CD for my nephew. I also walked up a steeeeeeep hill to visit the Seattle Public Central Library, which…
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