Confessions of a Teen Librarian: Holiday Edition with Christie G
There’s been a lot of talk lately in the blogsphere (or maybe I just have been seeing the wrong blogs) about the perceptions and expectations about librarians. To my mind, there have always been expectations that go with certain aspects of the profession, but that those that work with youth tend to get pigeonholed more than most.
It’s like we’re all to be cut from the same dough, that teen (and youth) librarians and specialists have to like certain things (*cough* Twilight *cough*), to be uber happy and joyful and sugary sweet. Like this. And when you’re more like this, it’s BAD.
Hmmm. I don’t think so. You can’t bend your personality into something that it’s not meant to be- it’s not healthy mentally or physically, and it’s definitely not something to model to the youth that we work with on a daily basis. We all have to put on a public face when dealing with things, but not everyone has an outlet to share them. Whether it’s a journal, blog, vlog, screaming at the wall, a best friend, a significant other, a pet- sometimes you just have to let it out. And it seems like the holidays mean we have to hide most of all. So….
I’ll tell you my holiday secrets if you tell me yours in the comments….
Filed under: Confessions of a Teen Librarian, holidays
About Karen Jensen, MLS
Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 30 years. She created TLT in 2011 and is the co-editor of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services with Heather Booth (ALA Editions, 2014).
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Thanks for including Die Hard amongst your Christmas movies. When I say Die Hard as a holiday movie, people usually say Die Hard???? I also like National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and (I admit it) Home Alone 1 & 2 for the slapstick humor. I enjoyed this post.
I love National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Just love it. And I hate, loathe and detest wrapping presents. It defitely brings out the Bah Humbug in me. I can not stand The 12 Days of Christmas song, even though it was the inspriation for the 12 Blogs of Christmas, but I love Mary Did You Know? and Breath of Heaven.
I usually don't care for Christmas music either (except, like you, Carol of the Bells) HOWEVER, I have found a Pandora Indie Christmas station, with bands like Weezer, The Civil Wars and Barenaked Ladies.I tolerate that pretty well…while it's still Christmas music, it just has a different sound to it and a better variety. (Plus no Bing Crosby or Nat King Cole…not that there's anything wrong with that…just not my cup of tea.)
ALSO…Die Hard=Best. Christmas movie. ever.
I don't care for very much Christmas music either (except, like you, Carol of the Bells–there's just something about it) I have found however a Pandora station that plays all Indie Rock Christmas music, with bands like Weezer, The Civil Wars and Barenaked Ladies. I tolerate that station pretty well (plus there's no Bing Crosby or Nat King Cole…not that there's anything wrong with that…just not my cup of tea.)