MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2015
“Don’t get your ass kicked … Don’t get your ass kicked … Don’t get your ass kicked…” Walking into my first day of high school, that was the one thought playing over and over again through my head, like a skipping record. I was 13 years old, about to turn 14 in a few weeks, […]
When I began my freshman year of college in Mount Vernon, Ohio, I went to the student office and asked about job placement. I had to work while in college in order to maybe be able to afford college. They asked me what my major was – youth ministry – and they said the local […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Becoming a Statistic Snapshot: Portrait of a Library Today Middle Grade Monday – Targeting Non-Readers The Spiritual Lives of Teens in YA Lit, a discussion Book review: The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson with illustrations by Christine Larsen The Measure of Program Success? Probably not […]
So what started out as one post became a series where I discussed my thoughts about measuring program success. It began with my assertion that trying to determine book circulation was not a good measure. Then yesterday I discussed how program attendance wasn’t even necessarily the best measure. But library administrators want to know that […]
Every once in a while you just want to read a simple, realistic, and moving story. THIS is that story. Let me gush about it in a moment. First, the basic description. Publisher’s Description: “Just when seventeen-year-old Matt thinks he can’t handle one more piece of terrible news, he meets a girl who’s dealt with […]
You look around your program and there are only a handful of teens here, which makes you feel like your program is a failure. But that’s not necessarily the truth. There may be nothing wrong with your program, but everything wrong with things like when your programming is available or whether or not your teens […]
Publisher’s Description: “A modern-day twist on the classic thriller, Rebecca, with a dash of the supernatural, a powerful romance, and a deadly family mystery. “There’s something hidden in the maze.” Seventeen-year-old Imogen Rockford has never forgotten the last words her father said to her, before the blazing fire that consumed him, her mother, and the gardens […]
I sat in a meeting the other day where we went through a stack of program proposals. Lots of great ideas were shared, good conversation was had. And then this thing happened. How will we know if this program is successful, they asked. And someone replied that we would measure the program success by running […]
17-year-old Andrew Brawley lives in a forgotten part of the Roanoke General Hospital. By “forgotten,” I don’t mean that it’s an area that doesn’t get many visitors or feels lonely—it’s literally a forgotten wing of the enormous building, abandoned in the middle of renovations. And let’s unpack that sentence even further: “lives” is accurate, because […]
As often happens, I got into the best conversation on Twitter with fellow librarian Ally Watkins. This one began while we were both reading No Parking at the End Times by Bryan Bliss, which is the story of a family that sells all of their possessions in anticipation of the return of Jesus. So we […]
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