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Collection Development: Updating My GN and Manga Collection; or, that time I decided I wanted to face my arch nemesis and build a better collection for my patrons
Hello all, Collecting Comics is Ally Watkins’ column, but I’m co-opting her column for a brief moment to share with you how I’m going about re-vamping my graphic novel and manga collection. It’s okay, Ally helped me periodically on this project. I could not have done it without her and the help of several other […]
Sunday Reflections: What are the limits of free speech in the library? Reflections on the incident at Aurora Public Library
Yesterday I was sitting at the Reference Desk, scrolling through Twitter to see what was happening in the world – and the library world more specifically – when I came across an angry post by many of my peers that shared the picture of a poem on display in the Aurora Public Library. They had […]
YA A to Z: H is for Historical Fiction, a guest post by librarian Amanda Perez
Today in our YA A to Z series, new librarian Amanda Perez joins us to talk about Historical Fiction in YA Lit. Historical Fiction authors go through a great deal of research in order to present their readers with an accurate window into history. The final product presented to teen readers is often a masterful […]
YA A to Z: Friends and Troublemakers, a guest post by author Lisa Brown Roberts
Today as part of our ongoing attempt to build an index of topics in YA from A to Z, author Lisa Brown Roberts is joining us to talk about friends and troublemakers. Please share with us your favorite friendships and troublemakers in YA lit in the comments. As much as I enjoy writing YA romance, […]
MakerSpace: DIY Faux Enamel Pins
All things old are new again, and enamel pins are all the rage. In fact, I picked up some super cool Dumplin ones from Julie Murphy at TLA. And you can buy them at a lot of craft and hot trendy stores. Hot Topic, for example, sells a wide variety of enamel pins. But […]
Sunday Reflections: The Truly High Cost of Childhood Trauma
I first ran across the research regarding the long term effects of childhood trauma last year, and have commented frequently on how important I think this research is. As someone who works with teens, and even though they don’t like being called children in many ways teens are in fact children, I have felt compelled […]
Keeping History Alive Through Inspiration L.B. Schulman, author of Stolen Secrets
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. In its honor, we are proud to share this guest post by author L. B. Schulman. In 1959, the Israel parliament officially chose the date one week after Passover to be dedicated as Holocaust Remembrance Day. That’s today, April 12th. In honor of this important day, I would like to […]
The Long Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and THE FALL OF INNOCENCE BY Jenny Torres Sanchez
Earlier this week, Junot Diaz wrote one of the most compelling and heartbreaking looks at the long term effects of childhood trauma in a personal essay for the New Yorker. In it, he discusses being raped at the age of 8 and how that trauma played out over and over again into his adult life […]
Sunday Reflections: What if we are our own worst enemies? A reflection on librarianship.
“I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy was in us.” – Platoon When I was a teen, I was obsessed with the movie Platoon, in large part because Charlie Sheen was one of my James Deans. Yes, I know it turns out that he was […]
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