RA Tool of the Week: Inspirational Quotes from Teen Books, inspired by an RA Tool created by Kristina Uihlein Holzweiss
During Banned Books Week, I stumbled across an amazing library display sign by Kristina Uihlein Holzweiss in the Facebook group CANVA LIBRARIANS AND TEACHERS. It’s designed to look like those call a babysitter/dog walker/whatever signs you see on community bulletin boards where you pull of a tab with a contact me number. But instead of a contact, it’s a quote! Genius!

I modified the design to be book quotes in general, in part because I found it after Banned Books Week. I think it makes such a fun, creative and engaging RA tool. You can put up the poster with the books right there on display.
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You can find a public view link of this design on Canva: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGUNliu7tM/f2QJEBfbC4Ru8qKzhAatoQ/view?utm_content=DAGUNliu7tM&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor. It should allow you to copy and create your own version.
I reached out to Kristina Uihlein Holzweiss to ask for her permission to share this information, making sure to give her credit and to link back to the group where she shared the original idea. I find lots of great ideas and highly recommend the FB group Canva Librarians and Teachers!
If you would like to adapt this with your own YA book quotes, here are some YA book quote resources:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/the-most-beautiful-sentences-in-ya-literature
https://padmoreculture.com/blogs/must-share/22-romantic-quotes-from-ya-books
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About Karen Jensen, MLS
Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 32 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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The more general version doesn’t seem to let me make a copy to edit my own, just fyi.
Okay, thank you. I will work on figuring out the correct setting for that. Sorry!
This is so cool! I want to try this in my library. My library created an Readers’ Advisory website with quiz so patrons can access RA 24/7.