MORE POSTS FROM MARCH 2012
If you are a school or public library, you can’t ignore the fact that teens are online. A lot. And honestly, you need to create a situation for yourself where you have a dynamic and continually updated web presence committed to teens. Fear not, I found a really great example at Girls in the Stacks. […]
Without a doubt angels are hot right now in YA fiction (Paranormal Romance). You have the Fallen series by Lauren Kate, Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick and now the Embrace series by Jessica Shirvington – just to name a few. So I have been wracking my brain trying to come up with some angel crafts […]
Yesterday was World Read Aloud Day and as part of my day, I got to hear Lauren Oliver read the first few pages of Pandemonium out loud. This was after Lauren announced that she had just received word that Pandemonium was a New York Times Bestseller (which it rightfully should be). This was the icing […]
So today I thought I would take a moment and answer an email question I get on a fairly regular basis: Why did I do the Teen Librarian’s Toolbox? I worked at the Marion Public Library in Marion, Ohio for almost ten years – and loved every moment of it. Every day I was very aware […]
Today is Lauren Oliver day!! 2 weeks ago, before reading Pandemonium, there would not be a Lauren Oliver day (although I did really like Delirium – a lot). But having read Pandemonium, there is now a Lauren Oliver day! Yesterday HarperTeen tweeted the news that Lauren Oliver would be visiting a book store near my […]
And we all thought the change that puberty brings is bad, that is nothing compared to what happens when a strange EMP rocks the world in Ashes by Ilsa Bick. Alex is camping in the mountains, carrying her parents ashes and hoping to finally find a place of peace, when a strange EMP goes off. […]
So, in my original post on Marketing and Library Lock-Ins I mentioned a co-worker and how she used library lock-ins to reward her teens. She has been so kind as to write a rebuttal for my original post. And here it is . . . I would be the librarian that was mentioned in the […]
A few weeks ago I posted some thoughts I had been rolling over in my head about the idea of the library lock-in. You can read them here. I fully and completely expected to get flames and was so pleasantly surprised that everyone responded to me with civil tones which I thinks highly of our […]
If I were to tell you this statistic – it affects 1 out of every 110 children – would you know what I am talking about? The answer is autism. Current research indicates that 1 out of every 110 children is being diagnosed as being somewhere on the autism spectrum. If you are a boy, that […]
Today kicks of Teen Tech Week, so get your tech on! Looking for some last minute ideas? Try the previous TLT post Teen Tech 12 or check out what Teen Librarian Stacey in Chicago (@BookSavvy on Twitter) did Friday with her teens. That’s right ladies and gentleman, this ultra cool pixalated cat is made from […]
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