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Evaluating Potential Technology for a Makerspace: Cubelets, Little Bits, MaKey MaKey, Raspberry Pi, Sphero
As part of my research for updating my Makerspace for The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County, I went straight to a source that I knew that had done a large amount of the work for me already: The Robot Test Kitchen. At RTK, a group of librarians have evaluated a wide variety [...]
Sunday Reflections: The Skin I’m Not Comfortable In, looking back and looking forward at a life with an eating disorder
I am a teenage anorexic in the body of a fat old woman. My struggle with an eating disorder began when I was 12. I was diagnosed with Scoliosis and fitted with a back brace, a type of fiberglass corset. The first time I ever had to wear it out in public I became so [...]
The Distance Between Lost and Found, part 2: Sex, Power, Politics and The Church
It’s interesting how two people can read the same book and have two different experiences with it. When Ally Watkins and I began talking about The Distance Between Lost and Found it became evident that different parts, different themes, stood out to each of us. So whereas Ally talked a lot about the the faith [...]
The Distance Between Lost and Found, part 1: Wilderness Survival and Youth Group Culture (by Ally Watkins)
As part of the Faith and Spirituality in YA Lit: A Discussion project, librarian Ally Watkins and I decided we would read some of the same books and write tandem posts about them. With that goal in mind, we both recently read The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes. Here are Ally’s thoughts [...]
Book Review: The Bargaining by Carly Anne West
Publisher’s Book Description: The fact that neither of her parents wants to deal with her is nothing new to Penny. She’s used to being discussed like a problem, a problem her mother has finally passed on to her father. What she hasn’t gotten used to is her stepmother…especially when she finds out that she’ll have [...]
TPiB: Programming with Straws
@TLT16 Must. Get. So cool! Will have to repeat our Everything is Strawsome program again and add these to it. — Laura Renshaw (@LauraRenshaw1) January 30, 2015 When I was Tweeting about Strawbees on Twitter, Laura Renshaw sent me the above tweet about her library’s Everything is Strawsome program, an obvious play on the popular [...]
Faith and Sprituality in YA Lit: GLBTQ YA and Issues of Faith, a guest post by Robert Bittner
Writing about spirituality is a really complex thing and includes myriad ways of looking at the world and at institutions that purport to nurture the spiritual lives of youth, since we’re getting specific. My own history within institutionalized Protestant Christianity left me feeling marginalized, especially due to my identity as a young gay man (though [...]
Sunday Reflections: The Weight and Meaning of Words
When my twin nephews were born I was young, around 24. At that time, they were just starting to talk a lot in the news about Autism, it wasn’t as prevalent as it is now. I knew nothing about it, and while I still know next to nothing about it from a medical or scientific [...]
TPiB: Strawbees, a great tool for Makerspaces
My first weeks as the YA Services Coordinator at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County in Ohio, the children’s librarian came to me with an ad for these things called STRAWBEES and asked what I thought of them. And what I thought of them was that they looked pretty cool. So she [...]
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