MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2013
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. […]
Take a Second Look, books that send empowering messages to teens about body image
Body Image, Dante Walker, Gorgeous, Paul Rudnick, The Collector, Victoria Scott
|At TLT, we have an ongoing discussion about books and pop culture and how it affects the body image of our kids. We are all constantly being bombarded with subtle – and sometimes not so subtle – messages about the way we look, or should look. Sometimes, as I start to read a book, alarm […]
A&F and Disney and Teen Body Image
Abercrombie and Fitch, Benjamin O'Keefe, Body Image, Disney, Merida, Proud2bMe
|So I was on a much needed vacation last week with That Guy and came across a twitter post from a friend about a campaign against Abercrombie and Fitch. Now, I was never an A&F teen: we could never afford the clothes, and I could never fit in them in even if we could have […]
Can we all just stop saying the Internet is free now?
Advocacy, Day in the Life of a Library, Huffington Post, Michael Rosenblum, What's a Library
|Last week, Michael Rosenblum wrote a piece for the Huffington Post asking, “What’s a Library?” A library, I maintain, is the beating heart of a thriving community. In this piece, Rosenblum maintains that we no longer need libraries because everyone has access to the Internet, and the Internet is free: “Why, when I can order […]
What Will You Do to Survive the Future?
Apocalypse, Book Reviews, Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink
|There was a time when NUCLEAR WAR was the thing we feared most. People built bomb shelters outside their homes and prepared for the day when THE BIG ONE would be dropped. As a kid, I remember begging to stay up one school night and watch a TV movie called The Day After. Whatever you […]
I have spent weeks trying to figure out what I was going to post this Sunday, since it is Mother’s Day and all, but nothing was coming to me. Then I stayed up all night Friday reading the book The Reece Malcolm List and I knew that this was what I needed to talk about. […]
Texas Debut Authors Panel Recap
Heather L. Reid, Jenny Martin, John Corey Whaley, Julie Murphy, Lindsay Cummings, Mary Gray, Texas Debut Authors, Victoria Scott
|Last night I had the honor of hosting 6 up and coming debut authors from the DFW area at my library branch in Grand Prairie, Texas. 2012 Printz and Morris winning author John Corey Whaley was our host for the evening moderating the panel, and he is a very funny guy. In fact, everyone on […]
The 1st Wave. Lights Out. Your car. Your cellphone. Your toaster? Toast. The 2nd Wave. Surf’s Up. Heard of a tsunami? Meet great-grandaddy tsunami. Hope you can hold your breath, because they’re only getting started. The 3rd Wave. Pestilence. The Red Tsunami. Not to be confused with Wave number two. This is a bit more […]
Today, we’re talking to Jenny Martin, the author of TRACKED, a YA Sci Fi novel debuting 2014 from Dial, an imprint of Penguin. Screencap of Jenny Martin’s official web page, see it here How did you become a writer? When I was little, you could find me in the basement of my hometown Carnegie library, […]
So I got home from the library last night and there was this mysterious package on my doorstep. Little did I know that it was a subversive gift from a book fairy with a twisted sense of humor. Imagine if you will Mephistopheles trying to deal with current pop culture trends and obsessions – that’s […]
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