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Sunday Reflections: Boyfriends, Breakups and Blocking – Oh My! Talking with teens about a different type of access
As a librarian, I spend a lot of time talking about teens and access. Access to books. Access to information. I’m all about access. And then a new discussion of access came up and I had a decidedly different message for my teens. The Scene: Three of my teens are sitting in the Teen MakerSpace […]
5 Tips for Makers on a Budget from a Teen Librarian
"Teen Librarian Toolbox" blogger and SLJTeen Live! panelist Karen Jensen shares some ideas and resources for low-budget maker spaces.
The Day The Teen Discovered Hoopla and Everything Changed
My library subscribes to Hoopla, a service that I can honestly admit I haven’t used very much – until recently. This summer we traveled in the car a lot and after we got sick of listening to the same songs over and over again, I remembered Hoopla! So I introduced The Teen – and the […]
MakerSpace: Legos! The one tool every makerspace needs?
I maintain that a genuine staple of a good MakerSpace can be found in Legos. Make no mistake, Legos are not cheap, but they have a versatility about them. And you can get around the cost of Legos by buying random bulk packages off of Amazon. You have no idea what kinds of pieces you […]
Sunday Reflections: Who are we marketing YA lit to?
This past week I sat down with The Teen to binge watch Veronica Mars, and I was excited to share what is arguably one of the best teen shows ever created with her. But after a couple of episodes The Teen got up and went to her room. It’s not that she hated it, it […]
July #ARCParty: A look at some late summer and early fall 2017 YA lit titles
July #ARCParty: A Look at Some Late Summer/Fall 2017 YA Lit titles// Today The Teen and The Bestie are taking a look at a few more upcoming titles. They added a lot to their TBR list. July #ARCParty: A Look at Some Late Summer/Fall 2017 YA Lit titles Best friendship tested by long distance relationships […]
Video Games Weekly: Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
The first video game that I played and loved back in the mid-90s was Crash Bandicoot. I wrote all about how awesome it was in my very first VGW post for TLT, so you can imagine my surprise when I learned the creators of Crash Bandicoot came out with a remastered version (which includes […]
MakerSpace: How to turn a photo into a silhouette – and make it into a book page button of course!
Arguably one of the most complicated buttons I have ever made involved learning how to use GIMP to turn a portrait into a silhouette PNG which I could then use for other types of art. To be fair, I set out to make this button because I wanted to learn how to cut a person […]
Sunday Reflections: The Day I Did Everything Wrong
Setting the Scene: It was a T-shirt Monday. This meant that we would be spending the next six hours in the Teen MakerSpace making t-shirts with any teen who walked into the space, working straight through the traditional dinner hour. It had become our custom on these nights that someone would take our order and […]
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