
Good Comics for Kids
September 12, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor
I’m so grateful for my memories of library, and I’m certain that growing up in that book-filled environment is a big part of how I became an author.
April 26, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor
As the mindfulness director at a small middle school in Maine, I tend to float between classrooms to teach. When I’m not teaching, my desk sits in my favorite place in the school: the library.
August 3, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor
A library offers its own kind of freedom - to roam and discover and try on.
March 10, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor
Teaching remotely, both in an asynchronous and synchronous environment, pushed me to reevaluate how I was teaching information literacy skills with my students.
January 19, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor
Debut author B. B. Alston talks about the revolutionary and life-saving power of seeing yourself in stories.
February 27, 2020 by Amanda MacGregor
More 6 million American children, ages 2–17, have an ADHD diagnosis. Here are some books and other resources to help better serve these kids in our schools and libraries.
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February 26, 2019 by Amanda MacGregor
Tehlor Kay Meija talks about the power and importance of discovery and of finding yourself in the pages of a book.
February 12, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor
If you know me at all, you know I am quite fond of my library minions. And when I say “my library minions,” I mean the teens and young adults I have gotten to know over the past many years working in high school and public libraries in central Minnesota. I’ve since moved and am […]
January 31, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Sometimes inspiration comes in the strangest moments. Yesterday on Twitter I was thinking about what it means to me now to be a librarian. So I started tweeting and ended up with a long string of tweets highlighting the things that I think we – and that we includes me – can do now in […]
May 22, 2016 by Amanda MacGregor
I’m down to the last few days at the library. In a few weeks, we move 90 miles away to just outside of St. Paul. I’ve been ready to move for a long time. A looooong time. But as ready as I am to go, I’m not ready—not even a little bit—to leave behind my […]
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