Category: bibliotherapy

• libraries are not neutral spaces, and neither is the human heart

  

  I’ve heard it in more than one training and workshop that part of customer service is when you’re faced with an unhappy or even irate patron, you should consider what has happened in their day, their week, their life, up until that very moment, that might be causing their distress. If there is an outburst, […]

  Miss Julie

  July 19, 2016

  be the best you can be, bibliotherapy, color, ethics, families, kidlit, kids, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, libraries…of the PAST!, OPINIONS!, random, reference, stories

• No, really, let kids choose what they read

  

  In case you need something to tide you over while you wait for your copy of Reading Unbound to arrive, here are some more quotes about why we need to let kids choose what they read. We want to help our students fall in love with books in ways that foster a life-long devotion to […]

  Miss Julie

  July 16, 2016

  authors, awesomeness, be the best you can be, bibliotherapy, books, early literacy, easy readers, fantasy, folk & fairy tales, graphic, J fiction, kidlit, kids, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, middle grade, OPINIONS!, personal experience, publishing, reader's advisory, reading, reading programs, summer reading, teens

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• you know what this is about. or you don’t.

  You know, some librarians think the ARC issue is a waste of time, and others don’t. For my part, I don’t care to know much about cataloging beyond the surface basics, but I do appreciate the cataloging nerds who are really into it and keep it going and tell the rest about the most salient […]

  Miss Julie

  June 29, 2012

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, bibliotherapy, books, largely unsubstantiated, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, library school vs. real libraries, OPINIONS!, participation, personal experience, politics, professional development, publishing, reader's advisory, reading

• Listen, I’m Telling You Stories

  Funerals are not for the dead, they are for the living. They are for those left behind, to act as a comforting play in which we know all the roles and there is no twist in the second act. My mother would have hated her own funeral. It was a maudlin, religious, church bound affair, […]

  Miss Julie

  May 3, 2012

  be the best you can be, bibliotherapy, largely unsubstantiated, mothers, OPINIONS!, personal experience, stories

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• top 11 posts of 2011

  When I first started this blog, I had no grand aspirations. I am passionate about the library field, child development, and children’s literature, and I wanted to have a place to express my thoughts, and I hoped that I would garner at least a dedicated, engaged readership. Fairly early on, I experienced the Elizabeth Bird […]

  Miss Julie

  December 31, 2011

  authors, awesomeness, babies, backlistbeauties, be the best you can be, bibliotherapy, books, early childhood, early literacy, ethics, kidlit, kids, largely unsubstantiated, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, library school vs. real libraries, literacy, marketing, OPINIONS!, participation, personal experience, picture books, politics, preschool, professional development, programming, reading, reading programs, reviews, storytime, summer reading, teens, toddlers, weeding

• It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

  In 2012, A Wrinkle in Time will be fifty years old, and I’ll be one of many people celebrating this marvelous, mind-bending, heart opening piece of children’s literature. It’s been a dark and stormy week here in a Chicago, which makes it a perfect time to reminisce about this, one of my favorite books of […]

  Miss Julie

  September 29, 2011

  backlistbeauties, be the best you can be, bibliotherapy, books, fantasy, fathers, J fiction, kidlit, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, personal experience, publishing, reading, reviews, scifi, weirdnesss for the sake of weirdness

• Book Review: Ultraviolet

  Ultraviolet, by R.J. Anderson. Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her. Sixteen-year-old Alison has been sectioned in a mental institute for teens, having murdered the most perfect and popular girl at school. But the case is a […]

  Miss Julie

  July 22, 2011

  awesomeness, bibliotherapy, books, design, reviews, scifi, ya lit

• Boundtracks: Geek Love / Born This Way

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  Miss Julie

  May 16, 2011

  awesomeness, backlistbeauties, bibliotherapy, boundtracks, crossover, music, queer, random, videos, weirdnesss for the sake of weirdness, ya lit

• an open letter to Stephen King

  aka Uncle Stevie. Dear Mr. King, One cold, dark night in my twelfth year, I had nothing left to read. I’d read through all of my own books, all of my assigned reading for school, and all of my father’s back issues of Analog and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Desperate for a […]

  Miss Julie

  March 10, 2011

  authors, bibliotherapy, fantasy, OPINIONS!, personal experience, reading

• Tales of the Madman Underground: a love letter

  I fall in love with books the same way I fall in love with people– deeply, unabashedly and without any pretense of dignity. This post is a love letter, and like the gushing of any girl newly in love, it may ramble here and there, but I hope you’ll indulge me. One book that I […]

  Miss Julie

  February 7, 2011

  authors, bibliotherapy, books, censorship, ethics, fantasy, historical fiction, OPINIONS!, personal experience, reading, reviews, stories, ya lit