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    Friday Finds: Special Professional Development Edition

    Robin Willis, March 20, 2020 | Uncategorized

    Many of us are currently in a position to take advantage of online learning opportunities while we do our best to quarantine/isolate/distance ourselves in an effort to flatten the curve of Covid19. But where to start? Free Archived Webinar Sites Public Library Association Infopeople Programming Librarian Demco Ideas & Inspiration Maryland State Library Resource Center […]

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    Middle School Monday: Professional Development. Not the Optional Kind.

    Robin Willis, November 28, 2016 | Middle School Monday

    A Crucial Strand of PD. We have an early-release day coming up. Does your school have those? Where you get to squeeze the work of a whole school day with students into a shorter time frame and then stay for meetings and/or professional development? Just typing that out is making me a bit tired. This […]

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    A Great Big List of MG and YA Collection Development Resources

    Karen Jensen, MLS, July 20, 2020 | Collection Development, Professional Development

    A massive list of collection development resources

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    Staff Development: When RA training and diversity training meet

    Karen Jensen, MLS, April 17, 2019 | Uncategorized

    Recently asked to do RA training with staff, we decided to focus on diversity and inclusion. Here's an outline of what that training looks like.

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    Sunday Reflections: Stop the Massage Train, we don’t need to be asking professionals to touch one another

    Karen Jensen, MLS, September 16, 2018 | Sunday Reflections

    I often like to follow a conference tag on Twitter when I can’t attend a conference because I still tend to learn from them. I will screen shot tweets and send them to people I know who have been discussing the issue or save ideas for future consideration. This is what was happening when I […]

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    How Much YA Gets Published Each Year? Discussing YA Collection Development Challenges

    Karen Jensen, MLS, August 22, 2018 | Collection Development

    This year has been a deep dive into collection development for me. Actually, the last two years have been. Granted, collection development is always a part of the job and it is arguably my favorite part of the job, but these past 2 years I have been deeply involved in analysis and budgets and things […]

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    Putting the Science Back in Library Science: Collection Development, Diversity Audits, & Understanding Teens – Analyzing Data for Decision Making

    Karen Jensen, MLS, March 21, 2018 | Collection Development

    I began working at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County in Ohio in January of 2015, for the second time. This was actually the public library I got my start in and I, along with a peer named Holly, were the first people ever hired to do teen services at this library. […]

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    Building the Stacks: What I wish administrators, publishers and authors knew about collection development

    Karen Jensen, MLS, June 21, 2012 | Collection Development

    The other day, I was interviewed by up and coming ya author Victoria Scott regarding Collection Development.  Collection development is, of course, one of the biggest parts of our job.  Although, ironically, I once worked at a library that put together a spread sheet of how much time you should spend each week of your […]

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    Edelweiss, Or Crack Cocaine for Librarians/Collection Development People (Stephanie Wilkes)

    Karen Jensen, MLS, April 24, 2012 | Collection Development, Edelweiss, Tools

    This is one of those ‘informative training type’ posts where I want to let you guys in on a little website that has completely blown my Snuggie off.  (Don’t steal my phrase…I’m gonna trademark that.)  Basically, if you are a librarian who orders books or if you work in collection development, you are going to […]

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    National Poetry Month Week 2 with Lisa Krok

    Karen Jensen, MLS, April 13, 2020 | Uncategorized

    Spend week 2 of National Poetry Month with librarian Lisa Krok who talks about novels written in verse and shares some activities with her new professional development book.

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