In which TLT has a very important (and exciting!) announcement to make
Heather, Robin, Amanda and I are very excited and incredibly honored to announce that Teen Librarian Toolbox is becoming a part of the School Library Journal blog network. In order to make this transition, the SLJ tech people have to do a couple of technical things, which will be happening this weekend. TLT may experience a few technical hiccups or be down a couple of days while this transition is made. This will probably not happen, but it is possible.
Have no fear! TLT will resume as normal as soon as possible. The URL will not change, you will continue to find us at www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com. You will continue to hear us share our thoughts on books, libraries, pop culture, teen issues and more. And we will continue to ask you to share yours with us because we value being a part of a dialogue that helps us all better advocate for and serve our teenage population. The only thing that will change is that we now get to be a part of the SLJ family, and that’s a pretty awesome thing. As a librarian I have been reading SLJ for a little over 20 years now and it is so amazing to get to be a part of their good work for libraries and youth in this way.
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Wait – there is one other small change. We are moving from Blogger to WordPress. Heather, Robin and Amanda all have experience with WordPress. I, however, do not. So there might be a little bit of a learning curve for me. We hope to have any and all bugs ironed out as soon as possible.
Thank you all for reading TLT. We greatly value having a space to talk about the things that we love and think about it, and people to talk about them with. TLT is my baby and we will continue to work hard to do this thing that we love in the best ways that we can. When you join us again next week, look for the School Library Journal header and know that Heather, Robin, Amanda and I are squeeing with delight in the background.
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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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Hooray! This is wonderful! AND – WordPress is so much better than Blogger, Karen!
Many congratulations! I can't wait to meet you next week!
THIS IS SUPER AWESOME NEWS!
(Also, WordPress is easy peasy. You'll be fine!)
Carrie: I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT FINALLY MEETING YOU! Can't wait.
And thank you for the congratulations! That means a lot to me. Glad to hear WordPress is better. I'm a little nervous.
Thank you Kelly! And I'm glad to hear it is easy, that is re-assuring 🙂
You and SLJ are like the Power Rangers, combining your two powerful Zords into a MEGAZORD! Go go!
Hi Elizabeth!! Also, this may be my favorite comment every!
Congratulations!
Hi Mom! *waves*
Hi Robin’s Mom!!!!!!
Thank you Carol!
Congratulations!
Thank you!
Just curious will this affect the RSS feed of the blog? I generally read via a feed reader and I don’t want to miss any of your posts!
Amanda,
It might, I’m not sure. The address will stay the same but beyond that I’m not sure how it will affect things like RSS. If you don’t see us in your feed, maybe sign up again with our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.
Karen
Congratulations!
What I had to do for my feed reader (feedly) is re-enter the TLT url into the “add content” box. A new feed has been started (at least in feedly), which I then added.
The problem I am having, both on feedly and when I visit TLT at its new location, is that all of the links internal to TLT are broken. What I mean is, when I scroll through TLT and reach a post like “Friday Finds” (10/31) or “The Sunnydale Project: Celebrating Buffy The Vampire Slayer” (10/28), all of the links that had pointed to earlier TLT posts are currently linking to the main TLT page, not their original destination. Do you know whether this will get fixed? I don’t know if this kind of thing happens whenever someone moves their archives from one content management system to another, but it is a real bummer if so!
Kate,
I don’t know if it is normal when a blog imports from one platform to another, but it is definitely happening here – it is annoying and I definitely apologize. I have passed the information along to the tech people and we are working on trying to fix it. If necessary, I’ll go in an fix the all manually, though I am hoping there is some better way to fix it.
I’m glad you’re sticking in there with us and apologize for the inconvenience.
Karen