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Sunday Reflections: Today, I am Eeyore (a reflection on depression and anxiety in the life of tweens and teens)
Yesterday TLT celebrated 4 years as a blog but the truth is, I haven’t been very celebratory this week. In fact, this week has been one of the hardest of my life. Not the hardest, just one of them. And this week I had to have one of the most difficult conversations with my almost […]
Confusing Consent, what we can learn from Bill Cosby (An #SVYALit Discussion)
By now we are all very much aware that one of the icons of my childhood, Bill Cosby, has been accused by 40 plus women of drugging and raping them. This is a story that has been in the press for some a little over 9 or so months, but for others they have known […]
5 Truths about Making and Makerspaces in Our Libraries
I am in the midst of a profound “Maker awakening”. Yes, that’s what I think I will dub it. I have spent the last couple of months immersed in the research and development of incorporating the maker movement into the library I am currently working at. I have been reading, reading some more, and refining […]
Thoughts on Our First Maker Mondays at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County
We hosted our first Maker Monday yesterday at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County (OH) and it looked something like this: We had 7 stations with 6 activities: A button making station Bottle cap magnets LittleBits Strawbees Legos Ellison Shape Cutters and a Paper station for selecting and cutting papers for the […]
What I Learned from the Cincinnati MakerSpace, part 2: Maker Mondays
Last week, I mentioned that I visited the Cincinnati Public Library to see its fantastic MakerSpace. It is a large, open space located on the second floor that houses an impressive number of various maker tools, including a green screen, a recording booth, a 3D printer and more. They also have some low tech maker […]
Sunday Reflections: The Problem with “Just Write It Yourself”
I admit it, I do it. I read the comments. And one comment I see over and over again on posts about needing more diversity or female representation in literature, tv or movies is this: Just write your own. Which, when you think about it, is silencing and condescending. The idea is that we don’t […]
Things I Learned Visiting the Cincinnati MakerSpace: Fun with Buttons! Edition
In early June my colleague and I journeyed to the city of Cincinnati (OH) to tour their new MakerSpace. It was glorious in many ways. You can see pictures of that visit on the TLT Tumblr page here, here and here. I learned many things: 1. I can not consistently spell Cincinnati correctly. 2. A […]
Book Review: Survive the Night by Danielle Vega
Tagline: “We’re all going to die down here!” Publisher’s Annotation: Fresh out of rehab for oxycodone addiction, Casey and some of her friends attend an all-night rave called Survive the Night in the New York City subway, and find themselves fighting for their lives because drugs are not the only danger here–something is using the […]
Circulating Maker Kits, part two – Putting the Kits Together (with a book list)
As step three in our efforts to fully embrace the Maker movement, and in conjunction with our Maker Collection of circulating titles, we are putting together Circulating Maker Kits (CMKs) that will check out to the public and provide our community with some simple but fun hands on introductions to Making. The Public Library of […]
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