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November 11, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Badges? Do we need your stinking badges? Karen and Christie discuss the YALSA initiative to enter into the realm of digital badges

YALSA Discussion Last week, School Library Journal reported that YALSA was soft launching a project to offer badges to Young Adult Librarians.  If you don’t know about badges, they are a tech trend where you receive a digital display – a badge – that alerts users to the facts that you have demonstrated a skill […]

July 8, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

How I Survived Conferencing with Teens and You Can Too

The other day I talked about how ALA 2013 was going to be a commuter conference for me, and mentioned that I would be bringing teens along for the first time.  All of this contributed to an e..x..h..a..u..s..t..i..n..g weekend, but honestly, I am so fortunate to have had the opportunity and would do it again […]

June 26, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Happy Hour? When what we do is different than what we say we do

In case you missed it, Heather, Karen, Robin and I were on Twitter on Thursday night (and on email too but you can’t see the emails, poor you because they had way more sarcasm and snark) discussing the YALSA Happy Hour that will be going on in Chicago.  Disclaimer: Heather and I are members of […]

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Librarians are unique in that they get to their degrees in a variety of different ways. Not everyone steps to their master’s right after undergrad- I know I didn’t, and I wasn’t the only one in my courses who took a roundabout path, either. That Guy and I married right after our undergrad graduation, and […]

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