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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…
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Oak Brook Man Hates Libraries, Children, Puppies
This article is simultaneously funny and heartbreaking. The gist is this: the library lost funding, a little girl spoke about how the library would not be the same without the people that had to be fired (including the children’s librarian), and the puppy hating man in the title, Xinos, rebutted the girl and made her …
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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…
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boy with pink purse, meet the boy in the dress
I saw a little boy the other day carrying a pink purse over his shoulder. I wanted to go over and high five his mother, but I restrained myself. Having been a weird kid myself–I often wore the most hideous outfits culled from thrift stores and discount stores, including hoodies from Farm & Fleet and…
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Chicago branch libraries find budget cuts stacked against them — chicagotribune.com
Chicago branch libraries find budget cuts stacked against them — chicagotribune.com. Daley really screwed up here. At a time when library usage is higher than ever, cutting the staff that take care of the materials that patrons want is not the move you want to make. A sad story that keeps getting sadder. There’s really…
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“We Dont Have A Policy Of Censorship, but…”
Yeah, we don’t have a POLICY, but we sure will go ahead and do it when we feel like it.
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take this job and shelve it
I love shelvers/pages/whatever you call them at your particular library. I love them so much because they perform such a vital job in the library. Excellent shelvers are a rare creature, I think. My ideal shelver puts away materials briskly and efficiently, asks for help when needed, and takes pride in the appearance of the…
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The Giving Tree
The Pioneer Woman wrote a post about The Giving Tree, which inspired me to write a brief little note about how I think the boy in that book is a complete jerk. It is still a lovely story about unconditional love, but that doesn’t change the fact that that boy is awful. He takes, takes,…
Hi, Miss Julie
EDI, Leadership, & Storytime
Hi, Miss Julie 