Tag Archives: librarianship
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 [...]
Tags: boss, leadership, librarian, librarianship, libraries, public libraries
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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 9, 2010 Happy Mother’s Day Garza 1.0!
This 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 [...]
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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 Winter Baby Goose 1: A tentative new beginning
Ah, another season, another round of Story Times. I’m still fighting the good fight with Baby Goose, our story time for 0-2 years. Although now with our new out in the open story time design that usually means I’ll get kids from newborn on up. This bother some people – with my 0-5 story time, [...]
Tags: babies, children, children's books, librarianship, rhymes and songs, story time, winter rhymes
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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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November 28, 2008 A Library is a Data-base, too! Sort of.
Just got done with Parents as Partners: Homework Help on the Net – my bibliographic instruction course for kids grade 4-6 and their parents. It’s free (yippee!) but for some reason that means that I usually get a far lower enrolment than on paper. So, 5 kids enrolled, 2 showed up. One of the little [...]
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