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December 17, 2014 by Amanda MacGregor

12 Blogs of 2014: YA Highway

Welcome to blog number 11 of our 12 Blogs of 2014! If you missed some of the series, make sure you go back and check them all out. Lots of great blogs to read and smart people to follow on Twitter. Be sure to check out the end of this post for a list of […]

December 16, 2014 by Amanda MacGregor

12 Blogs of 2014: Rich in Color

Did I mention that choosing just three blogs to share has been agonizing? There are just so many awesome blogs out there and I want to tell you about all of them! I hope you’re adding all of the blogs we’re featuring to whatever blog reader you use and following the blogs and their creators […]

December 15, 2014 by Amanda MacGregor

12 Blogs of 2014: DiversifYA

Choosing just three blogs to feature for our 12 Blogs of 2014 was hard. I may have sent Karen, Robin, and Heather about 15 emails constantly changing which blogs I was calling dibs on. I hope you’re adding all of the blogs we’re featuring to whatever blog reader you use and following the blogs and […]

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December 8, 2014 by Heather Booth

Truth be told, I’m not an avid blog reader. Since the demise of Google Reader, I’ve not devoted much time to finding a new tool to help me organize and track my blog reading. The blogs I do read belong to those people who I can count on to get me thinking and give me […]

12 Blogs of 2014: Mary Had a Little Book Blog

December 2, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Every once in a while you get the honor of meeting someone who is fabulous and shares a lot of your passions. This person is someone that you just seem to click with and forever get to consider yourself blessed. For me, that person is Mary Hinson from Mary Had a Little Book Blog. Today […]

12 Blogs of 2014: The Mary Sue

December 1, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

As I mentioned yesterday, today we kick off the 12 Blogs of 2014, where we share some of the blogs that help us be better YA Librarians. Many of the blogs will be librarian blogs, though definitely not all of them. So behold: The Mary Sue. I have always been proud to embrace my Geekdom […]

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12 Blogs of Christmas: A Beautiful Mess

December 27, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

One thing I definitely need to have on my blogroll are craft blogs.  You never know when the perfect craft idea will come along and suddenly – presto magic – you have a complete program idea ready to go.  So we are wrapping up the 12 Blogs of Christmas with one of my favorite craft […]

12 Blogs of Christmas: Book Blather

December 20, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

This is Heather’s final blog in the 12 blogs of Christmas, and it is Blog #6: BookBlather I met Drea of BookBlather briefly at ALA this summer and she brings the same energy and perceptiveness to her blog as she did when wrangling a slew of teens into the city and up onto the dais […]

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December 19, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

The Red Reading Chair The Red Reading Chair is a blog by school librarian Amianne Bailey.  Amianne has actually written one of my favorite blog posts ever here at TLT: Atticus Was Right, a story about a bully, an Autistic boy and Sharon Draper’s Out of My Mind.  I’ll never forget the day she told […]

On the 11th Day of Christmas, my TLT gave to me . . .

December 18, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

The great Patrick Jones wrote that good librarianship is “a combination of skills, knowledge, and attitude.  The contention here is that YA work is perhaps different from other library work in that without the “right” attitude as a base, the other two traits [skills and knowledge] do not matter as much.”  Brian Herzog’s Swiss Army […]

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