It's Banned Books Week! Wooooooooo! I love Banned Books Week. I love getting all ragey about people trying to ban or challenge books. I love making sweet displays and honestly, I love and need the reminder to be careful about selection and collection development. Just because there is a book that I don't really want … Continue reading Awww yiss, it’s Banned Books Week!
Category: Books
The last week of summer reading
Summer reading is almost over! It's the final countdown! Don't get me wrong - I like summer reading programs. Well, at least I like the library programming aspect of it, I'm not always too keen on required reading lists. I think students should be allowed and encouraged to read whatever they want instead of choosing … Continue reading The last week of summer reading
Saga, Internet-ing teens, bingo, and more
You know those blogs posts or articles where it's the end of the week and they give you a bunch of links to fun and interesting things and then you spend your afternoon working your way through them? Those are fun, right? This is going to be a bit like that, except it's Tuesday and … Continue reading Saga, Internet-ing teens, bingo, and more
I’m not going to finish the Hub Challenge
Unless, that is, I can read 10 books before Sunday. Unlikely. What is the Hub Challenge, you say? It's put on by YALSA and their blog the Hub (I write for them, even as we speak I'm writing a post for Friday!). The goal is to read 25 of the books from YALSA's award lists … Continue reading I’m not going to finish the Hub Challenge
Poetry and eBooks
An interesting title, no? They arrived at my doorstep almost simultaneously this weekend so I thought that I would write about them. Firstly, the Massachusetts Poetry Festival was in Salem this weekend and like the last year, I volunteered. Volunteering is a great way to help out the Festival and to get into events for … Continue reading Poetry and eBooks
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