Happy Mother’s Day Garza 1.0!
Filed in Programs,Uncategorized, May 9, 2010, 6:34 pm by mmgarzaThis Mother’s Day, I wanted to thank my mom, Lynne, for encouraging me to enter this profession in the most public way possible. She’s a totally amazing librarian herself and has been in public and private libraries for probably more years than she’d care for me to share on the internet. She originally went into [...]
Comics for Kids, What’s Next? Being a Champion for the Comic Book
Filed in Collections,libraries, May 8, 2010, 5:15 pm by mmgarzaToday was the first day of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF) – “Hooray!” says I and hundreds of other people who crowded into the Toronto Reference Library. I went to TCAF for the first time last year and was kind overwhelmed by everything to see (and buy!) during the second day of the festival. [...]
Eating Disorders in Fiction: Looks by Madeleine George
Filed in Uncategorized, May 6, 2010, 4:09 am by mmgarzaMeghan Ball is, to put it bluntly, fat. Hugely fat. But despite this fact, she’s sometimes literally an invisible girl at her high school. People treat her either like part of the scenery or she’s the bullseye for horrific abuse. She copes with the sadness that these two unhappy poles bring her by binge eating [...]
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