JUST KIDDING. I won an actual award that I am happy about. Check it: YALSA honors four members with YALSA writing award! I am not happy about being awarded more snow. That is a terrible prize so I'm glad that's not what YALSA is giving away. There's almost 6 feet of snow on the ground … Continue reading So happy to be awarded . . . with another snowstorm
ALA’s Youth Media Awards 2015 (and another blizzard)
Sunday was a pretty great day. This happened: And simultaneously this happened: And yes, the Patriots won the Superbowl and there was much rejoicing in New England! Then my library closed for Monday because there was another 8-12 inches of snow headed our way. For some schools Monday was the fifth snow day in a row … Continue reading ALA’s Youth Media Awards 2015 (and another blizzard)
Trivia night success and snowmageddon 2015
Coming to you live from the Blizzard of 2015! There were least two feet of drifts outside my door this morning, so needless to say my library is closed. As you can see in the picture I had to dig myself a pathway out, and that door across the way? The one that is basically … Continue reading Trivia night success and snowmageddon 2015
Baby-brarian, or learning I’m allowed to not know what to do
Last week was weird. There were some strange things that happened in the teen room. I don't feel totally comfortable writing about them but in short we had some new, rowdier than normal kids in the teen room and some staffing difficulties. The difficulties are that our Teen Aide is moving to a Children's Aide … Continue reading Baby-brarian, or learning I’m allowed to not know what to do
Reading more widely in 2015
Last week I was looking at my friend Jenny's 2014 Reading Wrap-up and not only was I impressed with her graphs, I realized a terrible fact: I think most of the books I read last year were by white people. Like definitely most of them. Probably about half of them were ladies (I did count this … Continue reading Reading more widely in 2015
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