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Literacy

October 14, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

The Walking Dead: Of Course There is Storytime in the Midst of the Zombie Apocalypse

NOTE : THERE WILL BE SPOILERS FOR LAST NIGHT’S SEASON PREMIERE OF THE WALKING DEAD.  READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. Before there were books and their were libraries, there have always been stories.  The ancients sat around a fire and told the stories of the past to help people remember who they were, where they […]

June 3, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Building a Bridge to Literacy for African-American Male Youth

By the time this posts, I will be in a plane leaving hot and humid North Louisiana behind and make my way to North Carolina for the Building a Bridge to Literacy for African-American Male Youth: A Call to Action for the Library Community Summit held at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. […]

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