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Posts by Karen Jensen, MLS

June 29, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Wild Mustangs Made Me a Writer, a guest post by author Jennifer Adam

Jennifer Adam, author of the upcoming Lark and the Wild Hunt, shares how mustangs helped make her a writer

June 26, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Sunday Reflections: On being a Librarian and a Christian parent to an LGBTQ kid with a uterus in 2022

Teen librarian Karen Jensen talks about parenting an LGBTQ teen in this time of book bans

June 22, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

What to Read if You Like Stranger Things . . . A Book Gallery

Teen librarian Karen Jensen shares a ton of book and reading recommendations for fans of the hit Netflix show Stranger Things

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Link Round Up for June 2022: Creative Displays, Important Info on Book Banning, and More

June 15, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Teen Librarian Karen Jensen shares some links of interest, including some creative book display ideas seen on Twitter

Things I Never Learned in Library School: You Won’t Get Paid to Read and You Will Never Read Everything in Your Library Collection (See Also: Why we can’t pre-read the books that we purchase, even while facing massive book bans)

June 12, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Teen Librarian Karen Jensen discusses why the idea that librarians should pre-read every book before purchasing is an unsustainable answer to address the concerns of book banners

Let’s Go to an Amusement Park, But Make it Murdery

June 6, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Teen librarian Karen Jensen shares some creepy summer thrills that also contain thrill rides because they involve creepy or haunted amusement parks. Take a ride this summer!

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Talking with a Truth Teller: Our Interview with Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner A. S. King for School Library Journal

June 2, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Teen Riley Jensen and Teen Librarian Karen Jensen talk a bit about the behind the scenes for their SLJ interview with author A. S. King celebrating her 2022 Margaret A. Edwards Award.

Using QR Codes for RA: Helping patrons find new book recs in the stacks

May 11, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Have you used a QR code recently? Once thought a dying trend, QR codes saved us in the pandemic. What if we could use QR codes to do RA with our patrons?

Take 5: Link Roundup for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and the Month of May (2022)

May 3, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Teen Librarian Karen Jensen shares some of the online resources she's reading and talking about for the month of May

Tackling Your Children’s Collection Diversity Audit, a TLA presentation recap

April 28, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Karen Jensen and Kathryn King from Fort Worth Public Library present about doing a children's collection diversity audit

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