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Karen Jensen, MLS, September 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
“Don’t work from home. Don’t do any work at home,” she said to me as I filled out the new job paperwork. Providence public library CC license I laughed. I don’t mean I chuckled internally to myself. I mean I actually let out a guffaw and might have said something like, “Oh yeah, right. Like […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, June 19, 2014 | Booktalking, Education, Public Education, Teachers, Teaching, Teends
Karen as a Freshman Before I can tell you about the best teacher I ever had, I have to tell you about the worst. I started a new school in a new state in the 9th grade, my first year of high school. My English teacher that year had just returned from teaching English in […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, May 7, 2014 | Graphic Novels, Maverick Award, Tuan Nguyen, Txla
In case you weren’t aware, the Texas Library Association and the Young Adult Round Table support the Texas Maverick List (no, not the basketball team that just embarrassed themselves in front of the Spurs), but a librarian created and recommended list of GRAPHIC NOVELS for youth in grades 6-12. I had the chance to crash […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, April 13, 2014 | Income Inequality, Librarians, Professional Development
I have always thought of the library as the great equalizer. As a librarian, I work ceaselessly to try and bridge many gaps that my patrons face in terms of access to information and resources and opportunities. And although I have worked at some very different libraries, I had not really thought a lot about […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, November 11, 2013 | Badges, Professional Development, YALSA
YALSA Discussion Last week, School Library Journal reported that YALSA was soft launching a project to offer badges to Young Adult Librarians. If you don’t know about badges, they are a tech trend where you receive a digital display – a badge – that alerts users to the facts that you have demonstrated a skill […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, April 5, 2013 | collaborations, Friday Finds News Roundup, Instagram, Movies, Reader's Advisory, School Libraries, YALSA
A few things of note this week… Tweens are having (were having?) beauty contests on Instagram. Not too surprising, but the grassroots counter movement is certainly worth noting. A mom ruminates on the issue, and coincidentally I spotted this piece this week too, “Stop Instagramming Your Perfect Life“. One of my favorite recent professional development […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, March 10, 2013 | Library Advocacy, Sunday Reflections, Uncategorized, Year in the Life of a Library
It is the best of times in the midst of the worst of (financial) times . . . A few Sundays ago, I shared about how library budget cuts had personally affected libraries that I had worked at and revealed that in the past year and a half we had moved to another state and […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, February 24, 2013 | Sunday Reflections, What They Didn't Teach Me in Library School
As you may have heard, in 2008 the economy of the U.S. went boom. Or maybe it went bust. Either way, the proverbial crapola hit the fan. Having worked in libraries for a while already at this point, I was used to campaigns begging community members to contact their local congressman and tell them they […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, November 23, 2012 | Professional Development, Things I Never Learned in Library School, Work Life Balance, YA Librarianship
Librarianship is one of those professions is more of a calling than a job. Requiring at least a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, countless continuing education credits, thousands of hours of reading on personal time to familiarize yourself not only with your collection but also with new materials, and keeping up with latest trends in […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, October 19, 2012 | Teen Read Week, Top 10s, Vampires
First published in 1897, Dracula by Bram Stoker is the godfather of everything vampire in today’s culture. As history tells it, Stoker was a business manager for the Lyceum Theater in London during a time when Sherlock Holmes, The Time Machine, and The Jungle Book were all the rage. Stoker’s Dracula would not gain cult and then critical […]
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