Category Archives: libraries
January 14, 2012 Learn from Tina…Like a BOSS.
This week I’m in the midst of both being Branch Librarian (taking care of the branch and all of the people therein except for circ staff and librarians) and a huuuuuuge event in Children’s Services that I hadn’t yet prepared for. Also programs started this week so we have a handful of new instructors running [...]
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January 9, 2012 Like a Boss Installment 1: The Preamble
My fourth year of legit librarianship, and I’m kind of a boss. I mean, I was always kind of a boss – my library system only has one librarian per department per branch. After working at BTPL during my internship, I sort of assumed that I’d be taken under the wizened, awesome tutelage of more experienced [...]
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March 1, 2011 A, B, C, D, E-readers
Of course everyone and their mother is talking about e-content nowadays, especially in the wake of the Harper Collins/OverDrive upset. After squawking about e-books enough in my “trends” portion of month-end reports, I was asked by my administration to develop and lead a series of sessions to train staff on the fundamentals of using different [...]
Tags: children, e-readers, education, libraries, reluctant readers, students, teaching, technology
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July 16, 2010 The Library Your Library Could Smell Like.
I’m sure we all know about the Old Spice Guy “Man your man could smell like” commercial. After all – it’s one of the best ad campaigns ever, resulting in hundreds of kazillions of internet dollars and serious lulz. (Did I just say that? Yes, I did.) Recently, the campaign (look – I’m referring to [...]
Tags: harold b. lee library, libraries, old spice guy, promotions
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June 20, 2010 TMI.
Question: When is information too much information? Answer: When information is in the form of my Twitter feed that I established in the interest of being professionally responsible and then… became kind of involved (read: addicted) on a personal level. At first I tweeted sparingly about library related topics only but then it kind of [...]
May 8, 2010 Comics for Kids, What’s Next? Being a Champion for the Comic Book
Today 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. [...]
Tags: children's librarianship, collection development, comics, literacy, visual literacy
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March 23, 2009 Hindsight is … the year in retrospect
I’m belatedly celebrating one whole year as a professional librarian – whoo! <does a jig> My biblio-birthday was officially January 2… So I’m going to take a little time to think about what exactly this last year in accidental (completely on purpose) children’s librarianship has yielded in personal and professional development. Programming: I’m still trying [...]
Tags: children's books, children's librarianship, librarianship
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January 13, 2009 Lvl Up: User-Friendly Easy Readers
So Easy Readers (not to be confused with Easy Riders)… they’re thin, often used, usually beat-up books that circulate a lot. Bad for shelf reading, hold pulling, and kind of a pain the bibliographic backside of everyone who has to deal with them on an administrative level, shall we say. So, what are people looking [...]
Tags: children's books, collection development, easy readers, librarianship, reading
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