MORE 'THINGS-I-NEVER-LEARNED-IN-LIBRARY-SCHOOL' POSTS
Things I Never Learned In Library School: Changing Your Mindset, or how it ultimately hurts your library if you donate time, money and more
Professional Development, Things I Never Learned in Library School
|A lot of people don’t understand teen librarians and teen specialists. Like youth librarians, we are people with big hearts and big ideas, and we strive to make our libraries and communities a better place. However, we have a peculiar mindset- we like to give until way past when it hurts. We ARE a vocation […]
Things I Never Learned In Library School: Let’s Talk About SEX, Baby….
Sensitive Issues, Sex and Sexuality, Things I Never Learned in Library School
|I blame it on Parker Posey. I LOVE her as an actress and adore her films, but I swear I think everyone has secretly seen her in Party Girl and now thinks that the library is THE ultimate place to have sex. There is no other explanation. In Party Girl, Mary (played by Parker Posey), gets arrested and has to call her […]
Things I Didn’t Learn in Library School: Thoughts from a second year school librarian (guest post by Rachel Kammerer)
New Librarians, Professional Development, Things I Never Learned in Library School
|I sent an email to Karen Jensen thanking her for this site. I get so many great ideas and book reviews that I just wanted to let her know that I was reading (and thankful). She responded to me and asked if I’d write a post explaining what I didn’t learn in library school or […]
Things I Didn’t Learn in Library School: Maintaining your sanity when you are in charge of ALL the things
Professional Development, Things I Never Learned in Library School
|Something they don’t teach you in library school is that, if you take a job in a small library, you may be in charge of everything. And I mean everything – you may be the only person who works there. Increasingly, this will be true for you if you decide to go into school libraries. […]
Sunday Reflections: Why I don’t read teen fic on vacation
Summer Reading, Sunday Reflections, Things I Never Learned in Library School
|I’m going on a real vacation this summer, for the first time in a while. We’re not tacking a few extra days at the end of a conference or family event. This is the real deal: sand, sun, lighthouses, and wild ponies (really) with no other obligations. And like any good reader’s adviser, choosing my […]
Program FAILS: Another thing I didn’t learn about in library school.
Program Fails, Programming, Things I Never Learned in Library School
|It was a Friday afternoon – my day off – and I was in a panic. I had to set up for my big summer program, an open mic night, and things were falling apart, starting with the fact that I had no key with which to let myself in to the library for this […]
I don’t want to talk about the statistics – they’re depressing. The truth is, unless you work in an extremely posh community, as a youth librarian you come into regular contact with patrons who are living in poverty. If you’re anything like me, you have never been, nor will you likely ever be, in danger of […]
Things I Never Learned in Library School: The Backside of Being Involved
ALSC, committee work, GLBTRT, SRRT, Things I Never Learned in Library School, YALSA
|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 […]
If you are not in youth services, you may be shocked – shocked I tell ya! – to learn that summer is the busiest part of a youth or teen services librarian’s life. Summer is not when we take vacation and hang out with our kids. No, we spend the first part of the year […]
What they didn’t teach you in library school: burnout edition
Librarianship, Teen Librarians, Things I Never Learned in Library School, What They Didn't Teach Me in Library School, YA Librarianship, Young Adult Librarianship
|Let me preface this by saying I love my job. Really. When I imagine a world in which I needed to choose a different job, even the same job in a different library, I end up just sitting there with a puzzled look on my face as if I didn’t understand the question. I. Love. […]
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