Category: librarians…for TEENS!

• 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

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, early childhood, early literacy, ethics, 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, OPINIONS!, personal experience, professional development

• 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

• we don’t need you, either.

  The Summer Reading program. It is the event  that youth librarians spend almost their entire year either preparing for or recovering from. Children and parents descend, en masse, worked up into a froth of excitement from the promotional tour–books were booktalked, prizes were displayed and demonstrated, and the joy and pleasure of the program were […]

  Miss Julie

  July 3, 2010

  be the best you can be, censorship, different ways to read, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, OPINIONS!, personal experience, politics, professional development, reading, summer reading, video games, ya lit