MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2014
Win a copy of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services
ALA, Professional Collection, Professional Development, Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services
|See it at the ALA Store Heather Booth and I put together a book about being a YA/Teen Services Librarian. The title may sound vaguely familiar because it is part of the ALA Editions Whole Library Handbook series. We invited a lot of cool people to participate. In fact, TLT’s own Christie Gibrich, formerly the […]
Win 3 from Merit Press: Jex Malone, Screaming Divas and Wanted: Dead or In Love
C. L. Gaber, Jex Malone, Kym Brunner, Merit Press, Screaming Divas, Suzanne Kamata, V. C. Stanley, Wanted Dead or In Love
|Next week, Teen Librarian Toolbox will be 3 years old. I’m not going to lie, sometimes I open up my computer and look at this blog and just kind of pet my computer screen. That’s not weird, right? TLT began out of a moment of desperation, but I am very fond of it. It has […]
Earlier this year I put together all of my SRC programming and publicity at the same time we submitted an order for new gaming equipment. One of those programs was a Minecraft day. Except, sometimes orders get held up in processes and bureaucracies, which means that my new gaming equipment never actually got ordered. Which […]
Take 5: 5 ARCs I Picked Up at ALA That I Can’t Wait to Read
ARCs, Christina Lauren, Coming Soon, Eric Devine, Nick Lake, Sarah Beth Durst, Take 5, Virginia Bergin
|This year at ALA Annual I learned lots of things, met lots of people, and came back with a ton of ideas I wanted to pitch. But in the end, it always comes back to the books for me and I saw lots of great ones. From rain that will kill you to a book […]
Absolutely loving these nails inspired by @MarieRutkoski‘s The Winner’s Curse. http://t.co/LgqCQzZwJD pic.twitter.com/4clrMG0d9r— Bloomsbury Kids UK (@KidsBloomsbury) July 7, 2014 The other day, the above Tweet from Bloomsbury came through my Twitter feed and it inspired an a-ha moment in me! At some point every day, The Tween will show me some cool new design she […]
I’m not sure what I expected to find crammed into my mailbox after a week away, other than bills and credit card offers, but it certainly wasn’t these! So excited! Of course, I should have expected Breakfast on Mars, but I’d forgotten that I won it in a Twitter contest. Twitter is an excellent resource […]
Publisher’s Description: Fate brought them together. Will life tear them apart? Devorah is a consummate good girl who has never challenged the ways of her strict Hasidic upbringing. Jaxon is a fun-loving, book-smart nerd who has never been comfortable around girls (unless you count his four younger sisters). They’ve spent their entire lives in Brooklyn, […]
Sunday Reflections: Do we still need Reference? Do we still need Librarians? (aka Why Turning Libraries into Wal-Mart is a Bad Idea)
Librarians, Professional Development, Reference, Sunday Reflections
|One recent Saturday morning I woke up and our toilet didn’t work. My first instinct was to get The Mr. to come fix it, but he works nights and had just gotten home so I wanted to let him sleep. I loaded my kids into the car and we walked into our local Lowe’s store. […]
Welcome to this patriotic edition of Friday Finds! Please use your imagination to play the Star Spangled Banner in the background while you are reading… This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: What the ukulele taught me about reluctant readers Middle Grade Monday – This Guy Take 5 TPiBs: Raid the Cabinet, Zero Cost Programs TPiB: […]
This is What Happened When I Took the Tween to ALA Annual (a Thank You to Scholastic!)
A. S. King, ALA, ALA Annual, Exhibit Hall, Natalie Lloyd, Raina Telgemeier, Scholastic
|The Tween: “I LOVE A Snicker of Magic!” As you may know, this year I decided to take The Tween (basically 12 at this point) to the exhibit halls at ALA Annual 2014. Although I hemmed and hawed and hesitated about this decision, it turned out to be one of the greatest decisions ever. On […]
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