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I started to notice my teens’ interest in furries when one of my teens showed up to a downtown event wearing a panda suit she had bought online. She had scrimped and saved and was the very proud owner of this new suit that allowed her to walk around town looking like a panda character […]
Teens, as a culture, are pretty maligned and misunderstood. They’re loud, they’re lazy, they’re disrespectful, they’re dangerous – pick your stereotype. They like to travel in rabid packs, that’s my favorite. I believe lots of adults sit around and visualize teens as actual packs of wolves in their minds. Teens get a bad rap. In […]
On Monday night I sat at a table with other moms and one single dad while our 9 and 10 -year-old daughters attended a Girl Scout meeting in another room. “When do you start telling your child about her period?”, one mother asked. “25% of girls now start their period when they are nine,” I […]
These are charged political times. A little over a week ago, a group of white supremacists walked down the streets of an American town carrying Nazi flags. As a counter-protestor, Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist who drove his car into the crowd. The events of Charlottesville are being discussed everywhere, as they […]
Things I Never Learned in Library School: The Best Made Plans . . . Still Sometimes Fail
Professional Development, Things I Never Learned in Library School
|On paper, it’s the perfect program. An afternoon spent making as we help teens learn various tasks they may need to participate in cosplay? Sounds like a great idea. It was an idea sparked by a comment made by a presenter at ALA in 2016. And we ran with it because 1) we have an […]
So You’re a Librarian (or Library), What Do You Do Now? Librarianing in the Time of Political Turmoil
Professional Development, Things I Never Learned in Library School
|Sometimes inspiration comes in the strangest moments. Yesterday on Twitter I was thinking about what it means to me now to be a librarian. So I started tweeting and ended up with a long string of tweets highlighting the things that I think we – and that we includes me – can do now in […]
What do Abrams Books, Carve the Mark, The Continent, When We Was Fierce and more have in common? This year they were all challenged for having offensive and harmful representation of marginalized people. Things exploded this weekend for Abrams Books. It’s being discussed all over Twitter and in the news, so I’m not going to […]
Things I Never Learned in Library School: On Being a Teen Librarian 2 Weeks After the Election of Donald Trump
Things I Didn't Learn in Library School, Things I Never Learned in Library School
|I knew eventually something like this would happen, I just didn’t think it would be so soon. The call came on Friday. A co-worker, her nephew took his own life. He was both black and gay and he saw the writing on the wall and he was scared. He read the news, he heard the […]
Does your library have a plan for what to do in case a patron is caught viewing child pornography on your public computers? What about if you suspect that a child or teen in your library is being subjected to pornography, such as receiving nude pics? In my library career, I have had a couple […]
Where are the parents? TeenLibrarianToolbox@TLT16 Before you start complaining, “where are the parents?”, I would like to remind you of a few things 1/? Tue, Sep 27 2016 18:32:47 ReplyRetweetFavorite TeenLibrarianToolbox@TLT16 Some parents work swing or night shift. This requires that they sleep during the day. They have no choice. 2/? Tue, Sep 27 2016 […]
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