Now What? On Being a Librarian and a Book Lover After the 2016 Election
It's been a week since the election. Emotions are high. Many people are legitimately fearful for their safety and well being given both the rhetoric of the campaign and the increase of hate crimes since the election. My teens are scared. So here's a look at what I am going to be doing as both a librarian and as a private citizen to help educate myself and other about civil rights and many of the issues being discussed. For more information, check out the hashtags #booksfighthate and #ownvoices.
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2) Find online lists to compare.
3) order and fill holes
4) focus on #ownvoices
5) make reading lists
6) schedule displays
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This what I’m going to do as a private citizen that loves books pic.twitter.com/sQrNpfkEIU
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Here are some resourcesSocial Justice Books for Kids to Teach about Global Issues http://www.whatdowedoallday.com/2016/01/social-justice-books-for-kids.html …
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Here is another resourceCCBC Booklists https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=77 …
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Here's a big list of #ownvoices #yalit on Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/91987.MG_YA_NA_ownvoices …
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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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These are all great ideas. Thank you for the post!
Thank you for sharing! I’ve already got my LGBTQ display up and ready to go. Working on others.
23-01-2012 I know how that feels, Angela. Being more efficient is tough. All those blogs we subscribe to are mostly other writers. I have to wonder if subscribing to so many wre&rist#8217; blogs is helping us. If all we cull as readers are writers, how will we get non-writers to buy our books? Writers help promote us, but are they promoting to non-writers? It’s a confusing mess. We don’t want to stop visiting and supporting our writer friends, but somehow we also need non-writer friends.Thanks for coming by.