Sensitive Issues

June 2, 2016 by Heather Booth

On Keeping Secrets and the Power of Stories: a guest post by Michele Bacon

At 17, I was madly in love with a clever, playful, adorable boy. I loved him fiercely. And—to my utter surprise—he loved me. Together, Michael and I did theater, marching band, and speech team. Over three (mostly) blissful years, we shared everything: our most cherished dreams, our ugliest failures, our triumphs, and our personal insecurities. […]

August 28, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Things I Never Learned In Library School: Let’s Talk About SEX, Baby….

I blame it on Parker Posey. I LOVE her as an actress and adore her films, but I swear I think everyone has secretly seen her in Party Girl and now thinks that the library is THE ultimate place to have sex. There is no other explanation. In Party Girl, Mary (played by Parker Posey), gets arrested and has to call her […]

April 7, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Sunday Reflections: In our mailbox – How do you talk to teens about issues of consent in light of the Steubenville case?

A reader of TLT e-mailed an and asked: I am a newly started YA librarian in Houston TX. Issues of consent have always been important to me, but in the wake of Steubenville it seems like consent is a vital thing I should be talking about with the teens I work with. So I have […]