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
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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
A scavenger hunt
After two weeks of craziness regarding my alma mater (whose letter Obama ignored and signed an nondiscrimination executive order anyway! YAY!), a trip for a funeral to Kansas*, being sick, getting in a mini-car accident** where some jerk hit my two-month-old car, and a ton of library programming, I'm back into the blog. I want … Continue reading A scavenger hunt
Teens online and grownups in the library
Just a quick note to say that I'm currently reading It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens and I'm not even done and I can already recommend it to everyone! Yes, everyone! If you work with teens, have a teens, see teens, hear tales of teens, think you might have once been a teen, … Continue reading Teens online and grownups in the library
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
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