collaborations

May 21, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Help Me Help You Help Them by Heather Booth

I recently had an awesome conversation with a 6th grade language arts teacher from the local Catholic school. It was so great, I wish I could’ve had that conversation with every teacher in my community. The teacher didn’t come to the library to talk about her students and research, but as we chatted at the […]

January 11, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

A Sherlock Holmes Themed Community Reading Event, a guest post by Anna Behm

My library is abuzz with all things Sherlock Holmes, but it has nothing (well, almost nothing) to do with the premiere of the third season of Sherlock. We just launched our first independent community reading event, Westmont Reads, and The Hound of the Baskervilles is our chosen book. And while it might be too soon […]

April 5, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Friday Finds News Roundup, 4/5/2013

A few things of note this week… Tweens are having (were having?) beauty contests on Instagram. Not too surprising, but the grassroots counter movement is certainly worth noting. A mom ruminates on the issue, and coincidentally I spotted this piece this week too, “Stop Instagramming Your Perfect Life“. One of my favorite recent professional development […]