Category: reference
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Hi, Miss Julie’s Loves of Librarianship
Libraries are for everyone Everyone benefits from libraries, whether they use them or not Make every interaction delightful, wherever it happens A degree does not a librarian make Every library its community, and every community its library Libraries are for everyone Libraries are for everyone in your community, whether they are homeless, trans, on the spectrum,…
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libraries are not neutral spaces, and neither is the human heart
I’ve heard it in more than one training and workshop that part of customer service is when you’re faced with an unhappy or even irate patron, you should consider what has happened in their day, their week, their life, up until that very moment, that might be causing their distress. If there is an outburst,…
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The Whole Library Approach
When I was still a preschool teacher, we talked a lot about the whole child approach, which, essentially, meant you took a whole child into consideration when you are teaching him or her. When we deal with children we teach, we can’t just have Susie the student. We also have Susie the daughter, the artist,…
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things I, the librarian, cannot and can do for you
I cannot read your mind do your homework for you babysit your child allow you to drop the f-bomb repeatedly in the children’s department, around small children design/create the flyer for your small business reserve a movie for you that is still in theaters I can perform a reference interview, which means I will ask…
Hi, Miss Julie 