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Cassandras Turn

April 9, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

The Cassandra Project, or youth involvement from the ground floor (a guest post by Patrick Jones)

Today, I am very honored to present a guest post by YA Librarian GURU Patrick Jones, the author of many teen books and what has long been the ya librarian bible, Connecting Young Adults and Libraries.  As a librarian in Ohio, I once attended library training presented by Patrick Jones as a result of an […]

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