Category: ethics

• ain’t no cure for the summertime blues.

  OR: Love is the higher law. I’m in a summer funk, y’all. The heat, humidity, and summer reading program account for a lot of this funk. Now that the program is winding down, there is much fretting about the NUMBERS! I am paranoid that my new program for pre-readers has negatively impacted the number of…

  Miss Julie

  August 13, 2010

  be the best you can be, censorship, ethics, largely unsubstantiated, Librarians, OPINIONS!, politics, queer

• privilege.

  Before I begin, a caveat: I’ll be the first to admit that I am not the most logical thinker in the world. I go with my gut on most issues. So if any of my arguments seem incredibly simple or even stupid, they just might be. And I am okay with that. Mostly. After reading…

  Miss Julie

  June 6, 2010

  be the best you can be, ethics, kids, largely unsubstantiated, Librarians, libraries now!, libraries-everywhere, libraries…of the FUTURE, libraries…of the PAST!, library workers, politics, professional development, programming

• today in stupid.

  Nah, kids don’t need to look up words. Especially in SCHOOL of all places. Their vocabularies are perfectly cromulent as they are. So shine on, you crazy school in LA, and keep those dictionaries away from kids. They should be using a more hands-on approach to learning about oral sex, anyway. UGH. And for the…

  Miss Julie

  January 28, 2010

  be the best you can be, censorship, ethics, kids, OPINIONS!, schools

• divulging.

  Here in the ol’ intertubes, there’s been much hubub about racism and whitewashing in and on books for children and young adults. It’s probably been going on for ages, but I most keenly became aware of it when the controversy over Liar happened. That ended fairly well, with the cover ending up a bit more…

  Miss Julie

  January 19, 2010

  authors, be the best you can be, censorship, color, ethics, OPINIONS!, personal experience, politics, queer

• Space…the library frontier

  After seeing this post at ohdeedoh (which is a surprisingly good source of ideas for youth librarians), I decided that my ideal childrens’ department would have to have a wall made entire of felt, a wall painted in chalkboard paint, and a wall with magnetized paint (and a wall of lick-able wall-paper, if it weren’t…

  Miss Julie

  December 15, 2009

  be the best you can be, early literacy, ethics, largely unsubstantiated, Librarians, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, OPINIONS!, personal experience, preschool

• do you understand me now?

  “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” -Robert Browning, from “Andrea del Sarto” That is one of the most famous lines in all of literature, but what does it mean? To me, it means that  you should always strive for more than you can accomplish at a given…

  Miss Julie

  October 3, 2009

  be the best you can be, censorship, ethics, Librarians, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, library school vs. real libraries, library workers, OPINIONS!, personal experience, professional development