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Tag: Professional Development

November 2, 2020 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Have Some Teen Slang, By Teen Contributor Riley Jensen

Every generation of teens develops their own slang. Teen contributor Riley Jensen shares some of today's teen slang with us.

July 25, 2019 by Karen Jensen, MLS

A Brief History of YA Literature, an Infographic

Take a look at the brief history of YA literature in infographic form

May 13, 2019 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Teen Services 101: Foundations – Understanding Teens Today

Part of our ongoing series on Teen Services 101, today we're talking about the basics of teen development and Generation Z.

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Take 5: Things I Learned at the Library Journal Directors’ Summit

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What are library directors thinking about as we enter into 2019? I got a first hand look at the 2018 Library Journal Directors' Summit.

What’s In Your Teen MakerSpace Manual? : Forms Edition

January 4, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS

This week, I have been desperately ill. It’s only a head cold and strep throat, but I will swear to you I have the plague. So yesterday I texted my boss and told her, “When I die, please bring the Teen MakerSpace manual to my funeral and tell everyone it was my greatest professional achievement.” […]

Serving Full T.I.L.T. (Teens in Libraries Today): By the numbers, making the case for teen services with demographics

January 14, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

The idea for Serving Full T.I.L.T. began with a seemingly simple question: How do you convince library administrators, staff and your local community that we need to be serving teens? One of the answers seems obvious to me and amounts to basically why would you want to invest in children and then start ignoring them […]

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