MORE POSTS FROM JUNE 2013
Basically Read: YA Books for the Doctor Who Fan
Collection Development, Doctor Who, Readalikes, Reader's Advisory
|I am new to Doctor Who, I just began watching about 2 weeks ago. I have fallen in love and have now watched all of Doctor 9 (my fave), Doctor 10 (he grew on me) and Doctor 11 (up until the current season). There may have been some bad parenting involved, thankfully it is summer […]
Sweet Home Chicago: Christie G’s Highlights for Annual 2013
ALA Annual 2013, Cory Doctorow, Free Comic Book Day, Octavia Spenser, Rainbow Project, SRRT, Tween programming
|Can I say that I am SO excited for Annual? Chicago is a fun city to visit, but doubly so for me because I have family close by, and some are going to be able to make the drive and see me while I’m there! BONUS! But there are so many fun things to do […]
Every day in one way or another, my life involves thinking about children. Yes, teens hate it when you call them children, but that’s what they are – they are my kids. And then, when I go home, I have another 2 kids that I am thinking about. I look into their eyes everyday and […]
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 […]
Christie, Heather and I will all be at ALA in Chicago this year, and we are busy trying to figure out where we need to be, who we need to see, etc. Got any suggestions, leave us a note in the comments. But Christie used her super powers and we (Christie and I) are now […]
Text complexity in the Language Arts classroom, a school librarian’s perspective
Accelerated Reader, Lexile, NPR, Renaissance Learning, Text Complexity
|Last week, NPR published a piece online to accompany an on air piece from All Things Considered regarding text complexity in assigned student reading and the reading students do in their free time. That piece is available here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/06/11/190669029/what-kids-are-reading-in-school-and-out. I would encourage you (against conventional wisdom) to read the comments. While I realize the piece […]
How does your garden grow?
Collection Development, Dirty Little Library Secrets, stewardship, Urbana Free Library, Weeding
|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 […]
That Guy and I went out to the movies on Sunday, and being the huge comic geek that I am, I have been crazy to see Man of Steel. I have been excited and nervous about the possibilities with this movie: I am one of the few who actually adored Watchmen (maybe because I […]
Technology is a HUGE part of what we do everyday. Whether we are helping our teens use technology, using technology to connect with our teens, or trying to put together teen programs – there is no escaping it, and no escaping how often it changes. Since we write about it, I thought we would make […]
“How do you make your graphics?” I get asked that question a lot. The truth is, I use a variety of tools, including PowerPoint (for a quick image), Publisher (for posters) and sometimes GIMP (I am still not very good with this program and don’t know how to do text in it). But you would […]
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