Category: largely unsubstantiated

• egotism vs self worth

  In January 2013 I wrote a post that touched a raw, exposed nerve for many in the library world. One year later, I’m still amazed at the outpouring of reactions to that piece, and the variety of reactions it provoked. I’m also very proud of some of the projects that it inspired, including the very…

  Miss Julie

  January 15, 2014

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  advocacy, community, librarians, self-worth, youth librarians, youth services

• ego, thy name is librarianship

  Anyone who knows me will tell you that I have a bit of an attention problem. No, not attention deficit– I have a need to be, if not the center of attention, at least left of center. Even though I am an introvert at heart who needs significant alone time to recharge and prepare, I…

  Miss Julie

  January 13, 2013

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  advocacy, books, community, librarian, libraries, literature, outreach, research, technology

• 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

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• The Cockroach Approach: Doughnuts, an interlude

  I posted this quote by John Green on my facebook timeline the other day: “Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: ‘You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller,…

  Miss Julie

  June 21, 2012

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  adult reference, advocacy, authors, controversey, food, librarian, libraries, literature, outreach

• 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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• Sharing A Wrinkle In Time

  Click through to see the facebook page for A Wrinkle in Time. My love of A Wrinkle In Time has been documented before on this blog, and because I love it so much, it is one of those books that I can’t share lightly, and I have to be careful not to put it in…

  Miss Julie

  January 24, 2012

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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

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• you might not be doing it wrong, but you could certainly do it better.

  Part One: Education I’ve been reading Steve’s posts over at Go Librarians about the changing role of reference librarians and degree relevance and I actually started leaving a comment on one of them when I realized it was going to be a huge chunk of text, and decided it deserved to be it’s own blog…

  Miss Julie

  July 18, 2011

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• hark! an arc!

  I’ve come into possession of several ARCs recently, and normally I don’t give a frak about that kind of thing, and book-bragging fills me with an inexplicable rage, but I really have liked these books so Imma gonna tell you about ’em. However, I don’t do synopses because they bore me, that’s what we have…

  Miss Julie

  July 12, 2011

  awesomeness, covers, fantasy, largely unsubstantiated, Librarians, middle grade, OPINIONS!, publishing, reviews, weirdnesss for the sake of weirdness, ya lit

• Summer Reading, pain in my…*

  Summer Reading. We spend all year working on it. We can’t escape it. I hate it. I hate summer reading. But…but…it helps kids retain their reading skills over summer vacation! You know why we even have a summer vacation? So kids could spend the summer months helping out on the farm. Wait…your kids don’t live…

  Miss Julie

  June 8, 2011

  babies, be the best you can be, different ways to read, early childhood, early literacy, largely unsubstantiated, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, libraries…of the PAST!, library school vs. real libraries, literacy, OPINIONS!, participation, personal experience, politics, programming, reading, reading programs, schools, summer reading