Category: libraries now!

• say hi to Miss Sarah

  the teen librarian you wish you had (or were) I met Sarah Jones (Teen Librarian) via twitter, and I’m happy to say that via the gloriousness of the internet we’ve become real life friends. I’ve been continually amazed by  her efforts whenever she talks about her job on twitter or facebook, and I finally decided…

  Miss Julie

  January 17, 2013

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, events, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, libraries now!, libraries-everywhere, marketing, money money money, OPINIONS!, outreach, participation, personal experience, professional development, programming, reading, reading programs, summer reading, teens

  books, gaming, literature

• 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

  awards, awesomeness, be the best you can be, books, conferences, early literacy, ethics, kidlit, 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, library workers, marketing, OPINIONS!, participation, personal experience, professional development, reading, reading programs, stories, storytime, technology

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

• let’s stop worrying and love the common core

  You’ll live to be read another day, sweet Catcher in the Rye. Beautiful illustration by naomi yamada. Dear sweet baby Jane. So if you want a rage stroke, read the articles I’ve listed below. If you want to just read an accurate description of how the fiction/nonfiction actually breaks down in the Common Core, just…

  Miss Julie

  December 12, 2012

  authors, awesomeness, be the best you can be, books, different ways to read, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, literacy, personal experience, professional development, schools

  books, community, librarian, libraries, literature, sweet baby jane

• Do I contradict myself?

  In my dreams of big tent librarianship, I envision a field where librarians of all types are exchanging ideas on common themes and issues facing their libraries. I see an active interest in seeking out sessions at conferences and workshops that glimpse the lives of other professional specialties. I imagine a profession where organizations, divisions,…

  Miss Julie

  June 30, 2012

  be the best you can be, conferences, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, library school vs. real libraries, marketing, OPINIONS!, outreach, participation, personal experience, professional development, publishing

  advocacy, community, librarian, libraries, outreach

• 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

• 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

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, largely unsubstantiated, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, libraries…of the PAST!, library workers, marketing, OPINIONS!, participation, personal experience, professional development, programming

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

• The Cockroach Approach: Outreach

  Part One of a four part series. Read the introduction here. Children’s librarians have cornered the market on outreach. We go out to schools, preschools, daycares and present book talks, storytimes and other programs that promote our services, materials and meet a developmental need for our users. Some librarians go even further and perform at…

  Miss Julie

  June 8, 2012

  awesomeness, babies, be the best you can be, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, libraries…of the PAST!, library workers, marketing, OPINIONS!, outreach, participation, personal experience, professional development, schools

  advocacy, books, community, librarian, libraries, literacy, literature, oak park public library, outreach, outreach librarian

• Want to Save Libraries?

  I think every library, be it public, school, academic, or special, can learn a lot about survival from the children’s departments of public libraries–because we’re not going anywhere. Even if the rest of the library as we know it collapses and crumbles, children’s librarians will still be around, in some form or another, doing what…

  Miss Julie

  June 5, 2012

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, library spaces, literacy, marketing, OPINIONS!, personal experience, politics, professional development, programming, Uncategorized

  books, literature, outreach programming

• May the Fourth Be With You: 2013

  May 4th is on a Saturday next year and so help me, I’ll be planning and implementing a large scale, fun for the whole family “May the Fourth Be With You” Star Wars nerdamondium party that will be so awesome I may just explode. Other libraries have done it with much success. You can get…

  Miss Julie

  May 24, 2012

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, events, fathers, kids, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, library spaces, mothers, OPINIONS!, participation, programming, scifi, technology, teens, toddlers, video games, weirdnesss for the sake of weirdness

  community, star wars, technology, yoda

• Stifled: or, the exact wrong way to think about storytime

  Oh, dear sweet baby Picard Jebus, there’s a rage making thread on pub-yac about a children’s department being forced to do all of their storytimes the same. Here’s a quote: […A]ll the storytimes for one age group should be the same because: Patrons get disappointed when they can’t get into a certain storytime because its…

  Miss Julie

  May 17, 2012

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, early childhood, ethics, kids, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, library school vs. real libraries, OPINIONS!, participation, professional development, programming, stories, storytime

  community, creativity, culture, education, literature, politics