Category: libraries now!
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and in the end
Oh, summer, I hardly knew ye. When you weren’t hot as [redacted] you were raining cats and dogs/men/to beat the band. Only recently has the weather been nice, here at the middle of August, and the kids start school next week and the dollar store already has Halloween items out and prominently displayed. Summer reading…
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the ethical librarian
I started writing this post in October of 2010, and it’s an issue that still bothers me today. On a listserve recently there was a pretty brutal backlash against a teen librarian who essentially said he was burning out and that (I paraphrase) “So many teens suck these days and I don’t want to serve…
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staff in-services
The beginning of any good staff in-service should include a way of breaking up departmental cliques, much like the way the “Dance at the Gym” from West Side Story begins with the MC trying to integrate the Sharks and the Jets, with about just as much success. These vain attempts at integration also remind me…
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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…
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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…
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marketing.
I had a storytime last spring that I called Family Storytime, for all ages, but mostly 3 years-2nd grade. It was at 6:30 p.m. on a week night, unregistered. On average, five or six kids came. I will admit, I was bothered. I thought people would like being able to bring siblings of multiple ages…
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Old Spice, Libraries, and Marketing.
Have you read Andy’s summation of the Great Old Spice Library Twitter Adventure of Aught Ten? Read it, and then come back here; as soon as I read his post script, my mind immediately made a couple of substitutions that I think are interesting: As for the product itself, I have used [libraries] before these…
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we don’t need you.
This post breaks my heart. It also makes me want to yell at the librarians that Brent mentioned. Not only are they bad people, they are bad librarians, unethical, piece of sh*t librarians who need to find a different profession immediately, preferably nowhere near books or children. A brief summary: Brent is a gay teen…
Hi, Miss Julie 