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Weeding

September 20, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS

#BacklistYA – What are the books you just hate weeding?

Earlier this week I wrote a post specifically about NEWER YA titles that dealt with sexual violence and rape culture. If I was writing a comprehensive list, I would undoubtedly include the title Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. This got me thinking about those older backlist titles – classics if you will – that we […]

January 14, 2016 by Heather Booth

Weeding Blind

I love weeding. I love diving into stats sheets, pulling the cruddy books out of circulation, finding those battered favorites that need to be replaced, and winding up with beautifully shiny shelves with plenty of space for displays. But my method is all in disarray now! I used to start by running a report on anything […]

January 11, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Sunday Reflections: You can’t go home again?

When I began my freshman year of college in Mount Vernon, Ohio, I went to the student office and asked about job placement. I had to work while in college in order to maybe be able to afford college. They asked me what my major was – youth ministry – and they said the local […]

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Killing Your Darlings (A reflection on weeding)

October 31, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Weeding. Sometimes, it seems such a violent act. Sometimes we have to kill our darlings. And for me, that time came in 2011. And it involved my beloved Buffy the Vampire Slayer. You see, as a Buffy fan I had been on standing order for the book series since forever. But time marches on, shows […]

Friday Finds – June 21, 2013

June 21, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

This week at TLT: We have a list of your favorite Dads in YA. Geek is the New Black! Find a list of links to our articles on using technology with teens here and a review of apps Karen uses to make memes here. Heather shares her thoughts and her personal connection to the latest […]

How does your garden grow?

June 19, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

I’ve been following the weeding debacle* at the Urbana [Illinois] Free Library and feel fairly invested for some reason.  I have loads of thoughts about all of this – about the management angle, the focus of the strategic plan, and the weeding itself.  I hope a lot of people in the library community are paying […]

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Things I Never Learned In Library School: Weeping over Weeding

March 20, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

In the US, people are always using the term “Spring Cleaning.” We get it from being locked away for months at a time by the awful, nasty winter weather, and having needed to clean and dust when we could open the windows and let clean, fresh air in the house- usually around March.  (Obviously these […]

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