Confessions of a Teen Librarian: How To Survive Summer by Christie G

Here are some of my tricks to get through the months and keep what sanity I have….
LAUGH OFTEN
Always make sure that you laugh at least once a day. It can be something funny you find on the internet, a joke book, a funny story, or something else entirely, but laughing will release stress better than anything legal that you can do at work. Don’t believe me? The Mayo Clinic says so.

Filed under: Confessions of a Teen Librarian, stress relief, summer 2013

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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Thank you for this post! I am a teen librarian and in addition to creating and running the teen and tween Summer Reading Programs, I manage over 30 teen volunteers. It is a lot of work!
Like you, we are in the midst of our SRC (Christie and I work for the same library system). I am also managing somewhere around 70 teen volunteers. It is amazing how stressful (and awesome) the summer is. It is important to remind each other to hang in there!!! We are all doing important, amazing things. You are doing great things Isabelle!