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Summer Reading Chaos: How do we balance the needs of our community with those of our staff?
As my teens are counting down the days left in the school year, I find myself counting down the days until summer reading begin, but with very mixed emotions. This is my 25th year as a YA librarian, which means that it is the 25th summer reading program that I have planned. I have worked […]
Sunday Reflections: This is what happened when the The Teen asked me if .gov websites were trustworthy
I’m sitting in the Teen MakerSpace when my phone beeps and I see I have a text from The Teen: “Are .gov websites trustworthy,” she asks. And before responding, I pause. In the past, I would have said yes without that pause. That’s one of the things I have always taught my teens, one of […]
Proposal: Serving New Adults in Public Libraries
When I began working in a public library to serve young adults, I was truly myself a young adult – the tender age of 20 – so it didn’t seem weird to me at the time that the library called teenagers young adults. As I grew older, however, I began to realize that what libraries […]
YA A to Z: Gaslighting, a guest post by author Anna Hecker
Today as part of the YA A to Z series, TLT is honored to have author Anna Hecker here discussing with us the topic of gaslighting. TRIGGER WARNING: This article discusses emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, including rape. In the 1944 classic film Gaslight, a handsome pianist convinces his young wife to move back to […]
YA A to Z: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things, Historical Novels That Is . . . a guest post by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Zombies – I love them. I have never seen a single episode of Downton Abbey, though I remember how popular it was. And adding zombies to the mix is just the push I need to get me to explore 1920s England. This is not the first book this year to add zombies to a historical […]
MakerSpace: Screen Printing with the Silhouette Cameo – a comparison of processes and cost
Making t-shirts have traditionally been some of my most popular programs throughout the years as a YA/Teen Librarian. T-shirts can be immensely cool and we choose them, often, as a form of self expression. Last year we did an entire series on altering t-shirts and it was popular and fun. One of our programs taught […]
#SVYALit: The Importance of Language in Building a Culture of Consent, or no actually, don’t suggest getting people black out drunk
It is a warm, bright, sunny day just before The Teen is about to start her journey as a high school student. We are taking our dog, Charm, for a walk around the block. It is in this moment that a door of opportunity opens and I begin to talk with her about the rules […]
Sunday Reflections: Helping Our Teens Plan for an Uncertain Future, or, what about jobs?
Yesterday I was driving when they announced on NPR that the unemployment rate had hit a new low of 3.9% and then they followed up that bit of news with the rejoinder that this was in part because many people had simply given up looking for jobs. The trouble is, many people will look at […]
TPiB MakerSpace: Love Your Pets
In our Teen MakerSpace, we have kind of drifted into a model where we have themes to unite our making, which teens can choose to participate in or not. Some teens, we have found, need some type of guidance while others do not. So for the month of February, we wanted to do something that […]
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