Tag: adult reference

• Making Common Core Commonplace: On the Front Lines 2013

  Hi OTFL friends! Thank you so much for attending my presentation, and for the great conversation. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me if you want to talk more– I’d love to help. Just a note–this post will be living organism over the next few weeks, so don’t fret– more information will be…

  Miss Julie

  August 6, 2013

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, books, folk & fairy tales, kidlit, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries-everywhere, libraries…of the FUTURE, OPINIONS!, outreach, professional development

  adult reference, advocacy, community, education, librarian, libraries, library, outreach

• 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 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,…

  Miss Julie

  February 25, 2012

  be the best you can be, ethics, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, libraries…of the FUTURE, libraries…of the PAST!, library school vs. real libraries, library spaces, library workers, OPINIONS!, participation, personal experience, professional development, reference, weeding

  adult reference, child approach, librarian