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Karen Jensen, MLS, August 17, 2012 | Book Reviews, Collection Development, Criticism
Setting Up the Case: Are book reviews overly positive and is that a problem? As a librarian, collection development is one of the hardest, most time consuming parts of my job. My goal is to build a collection that will circulate. To meet this goal I have to understand my patrons – in this case […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, August 3, 2012 | Book Reviews, Guitar Notes, Mary Amato, Music
Teen librarian true confession: I have been in a reading funk for the past 2 weeks. Seriously, I couldn’t find anything I wanted to start and started and stopped a lot of books. I was worried. But in doing my check out the pub catalog rounds I stumbled across a little book called Guitar Notes […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, July 2, 2012 | 40 Developmental Assets, Teen Volunteers
Since today we have a guest post from the VolunTEEN Nation, I thought I would take a moment to tell you about my teen volunteer program and why I think every library should have one. Hooray for teen volunteers! I did not create my teen volunteer program, I inherited it – but I love it. […]
The other day I walked into work and two of my co-workers told me they were reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children because they had read Cuyler’s review of it here. Sometimes it is jarring to see your work life and your, well, other work life intersect. To be honest, it is nice to […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, May 2, 2012 | Collection Development, Teen Fiction, Why YA?, YA Lit
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post defending the notion that adults not only could, but that they should read YA fiction. You can read the post here, but the basic premise is this: we work with teens, we live in a world with teens, we were once teens so, of course, we should read […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, April 3, 2012 | Fiction, Teen Fiction, YA Saves
I am an adult. Well, I at least play one on tv (or in real life). Mostly. I also read YA fiction. Joel Stein recently said in a New York Times article that I should not. Sure, I could stand at a dinner party after you asked me what I read and make a defense […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, December 12, 2011 | Teen Issues, Teen Pregnancy
A little over 1,000 teens gives birth every day. Just yesterday I held the 5-week-old baby of one of the teens that visits my library. The majority of teen fiction that deals with teen pregnancy focuses on only one part of the discussion: will the teen mother keep the baby or will she either end […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, December 2, 2011 | Autism, Autism and Libraries
Today’s blog post is brought to you by Matthew Ross, he is the director of the Bucyrus Public Library in Ohio and the father of 3 children, one of whom is Autistic. Alex’s mom, Angie, is also an MLS librarian. Together they write this blog post for us with a unique perspective for librarians to […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, November 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
At TLT we (I) recognize that libraries everywhere are facing staff and budget cuts. We want to help you provide quality service to your tween and teen patrons while recognizing that today’s teen librarians are short on time, short on staff, and short on money – but not short on passion. At the blog site you will […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, November 10, 2011 | Customer Service, Staff Development, Teen Issues, Teens, Tools
I was recently asked an interesting question: what should customer service to teens look like in the library? The truth is that customer service to teens should look the same as customer service to any other library patron looks. Every library patron who walks through the library door should get the same high quality and […]
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