Category: Librarians

• a crony, ms.

  I have award fatigue right now. Trying to keep track of the Caudills, the Monarchs, the Cybills, the Lincolns, the Caldecotts, the Newberys, et al, has broken my brain. I realized today that I have no handle on the 2010 Monarch nominees. This is shameful. I begin reading in earnest tomorrow. Speaking of reading (how’s […]

  Miss Julie

  January 13, 2010

  awards, kids, Librarians, libraries now!, OPINIONS!, reading, summer reading

• 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

• gotta love a venn diagram, replete with shushing

  from LIS news.

  Miss Julie

  September 19, 2009

  diagrams & charts = science!, Librarians, queer