Friday Finds – May 8, 2015

This Week at TLT

Sunday Reflections: The narrative of competition

Tech Talk: Making an “Ad” for My TSRC

Take 5: Australian YA

Tech Talk: App Review – BeFunky

#FSYALit: Muslim Representation in YA Lit, a guest post by Kaye M

Priorities, or An Embarrassment of Riches

Book Review: Heat of the Moment by Lauren Barnholdt

Around the Web

Big Bird did an AMA on Reddit.

I might be a little bit in love with this man.

Can we learn something from the mess in Kansas?

In which I come to love Sarah Dessen even more.

Want to know why it’s important to have certified professional librarians in every school?

“Public libraries are arguably more important today than ever before,” Marx says…Or as Andrew Carnegie said many years ago: “A library outranks any other thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”

Podcast – Serving Incarcerated Youth (from YALSA)

Watch YA author Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ TEDX talk on fandom and parasocial relationships.

John Oliver (and his team) hits it out of the park with this segment on standardized testing.

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