Heather Booth

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February 7, 2018 by Heather Booth

My favorite tools: Slack

This is the second of a series of post on productivity and organizational tools that I’m finding useful in my library work. If you’re not currently using Slack, you’ve surely heard of it. There are gobs of ways to use Slack for communicating with teams of people, and it makes a great compliment to the other […]

January 31, 2018 by Heather Booth

B is for Brothers and Sisters; a Take 5 List

Today is the last day of January, so it’s our last day with the Letter B (though we will still post something if we get it because we like this discussion). Today TLTer Heather Booth is discussing brothers (and sisters). If you are in a mixed gender sibling group, you might have noticed the relative […]

December 13, 2017 by Heather Booth

My favorite tools: Trello

This is the first of a series of post on productivity and organizational tools that I’m finding useful in my library work. I’ve been using Trello off and on, for professional and personal projects, since 2014. It’s visually appealing, simple to use, and dovetails nicely with Google apps. Trello, at its most basic, is a collection […]

TPiB: Emoji Fortune Tellers

October 26, 2017 by Heather Booth

Sometimes an amazing craft idea has to change direction to make it work. That’s what happened with this project, for a few reasons. First, the inspiration: How cool is that?! A DIY Magic 8 Ball is something my coworker and I stumbled upon while preparing for our superstition-filled Friday The 13th escape room, and it […]

TPiB: Soldering with teens: just like hot glue, but metal

May 31, 2017 by Heather Booth

Before I did it, soldering seemed like some kind of Super Advanced Tech Stuff that was way out of my league for teen programming. The only soldering I’d done was using a wide tipped soldering iron in stained glass work which, a friend observed, was more like using a bulldozer than the garden trowel required […]

The Intersection of #Ownvoices, Genre Fiction, and Empathy: Guest post by Shaila Patel

March 13, 2017 by Heather Booth

In a recent ruling by a Virginia court, five teens (described as two whites and three minorities) were sentenced to read one book a month for an entire year as punishment for defacing a historic black schoolhouse with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti. The books assigned were mostly works of literary fiction with diverse characters and/or racial […]

TPiB: 3 cheap and easy after school programs

February 15, 2017 by Heather Booth

I’m always looking for small program ideas that don’t take a lot of planning time, are inexpensive, are flexible, and appeal widely. Here are three to try. Sci-Fi Stitches – or – Embroidered notecards You can be silly or serious with this one. I did both and both were fun. For the “sci-fi stitches” I […]

“Nevertheless, She Persisted” A Take 5 List, plus 1

February 8, 2017 by Heather Booth

Last night, Senator Elizabeth Warren was warned, then given an explanation, but nevertheless, she persisted in reading the words of another woman who was warned, given an explanation, and persisted: Coretta Scott King. In honor and in recognition of these and other women who, despite warning and explanation, persist in their efforts, we offer you this […]

Sunday Reflections: Greater words than ours

January 15, 2017 by Heather Booth

This week, TLT is taking a break from its usual Sunday Reflections. Instead of reading our words, please spend a moment reading or listening to words from The Honorable John Lewis’s long career. Here is his “Speech at the March on Washington” from August 28, 1963 when he was 23 years old. You can view the speech […]

Sassy is gone forever, but lucky you, there’s Teen Vogue

December 14, 2016 by Heather Booth

Women of a certain age are still lamenting the early demise of Sassy magazine. To those of you who are nodding your heads right now, I implore you: give Teen Vogue a chance, and while you’re at it, gift a subscription to a young woman in your life. Yes, Sassy was pivotal… Helmed by Jane Pratt, Sassy provided a marked […]