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Downtime Reads

May 28, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Confessions of a Teen Librarian: Downtime Reads

It is always about this time of year that I am *burned out*. We have summer reading starting off soon, I’m buried in projects for committees and work, and we won’t talk about the dust dragons roaming my house. So what do I do? I turn to reading! But it’s not the books that I […]

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