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6 Tips to Get Books Into Readers’ Hands

6 Tips to Get Books Into Readers’ Hands

Karen Jensen,  Dec 02, 2022

Libraries are in the business of books, and every step of the process of getting books onto shelves and into readers’ hands can be challenging. Here are some tips and tricks for that primary goal of librarianship.

Truth Teller: A Conversation with Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner A.S. King

Truth Teller: A Conversation with Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner A.S. King

Karen Jensen & Riley Jensen,  Jun 01, 2022

A.S. King, winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award, speaks to SLJ about reckoning with trauma, censors, and the need to stop bullying teens.

Empowering Youth Services Staff to Address Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Literature

Empowering Youth Services Staff to Address Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Literature

Karen Jensen and Kathryn King,  Sep 01, 2020

How Karen Jensen and Kathryn King designed a DEI course for staff at the Fort Worth (TX) Public Library.

Planning Ahead: 9 Ways To Drive Teen Turnout at Your Library—and 4 Ways To Lose their Attention

Planning Ahead: 9 Ways To Drive Teen Turnout at Your Library—and 4 Ways To Lose their Attention

Karen Jensen,  Apr 09, 2020

Things to bear in mind when your library re-opens for programming: Opportunities for self-expression, games, and makerspaces are a draw. Anything school-like is not. 

Diversity Auditing 101: How to Evaluate Your Collection

Diversity Auditing 101: How to Evaluate Your Collection

Karen Jensen,  Oct 22, 2018

The need for diverse and inclusive collections is clear. Karen Jensen, YA librarian and "Teen Librarian Toolbox" blogger, explains everything you need to know to get started on conducting your own diversity audit.

Collecting Comics: July 2018 edition by Ally Watkins

Collecting Comics: July 2018 edition by Ally Watkins

Karen Jensen, TLT | Blogs,  Jul 11, 2018

Check out these comics, out in July, that your teens and tweens will want! Cottons: The Secret of the Wind by Jim Pascoe, illustrated by Heidi Arnhold (First Second, July 3). The first in an epic trilogy, volume 1 of Cottons follows the story of Bellebridge, a rabbit who seems ordinary, but who actually has […]
YA A to Z: O is for Outsider, a guest post by author Kirstin Cronn-Mills

YA A to Z: O is for Outsider, a guest post by author Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Karen Jensen, TLT | Blogs,  Jul 09, 2018

Today for #YAAtoZ we are honored to have author Kirstin Cronn-Mills talking about being an Outsider. My mom swears I knew how to read at three. I know my dad was teaching me about Roman numerals and the Valley of the Kings at four. I had no idea these things were even slightly unusual. Nobody […]
Sunday Reflections: These is no one right way to be an American

Sunday Reflections: These is no one right way to be an American

Karen Jensen, TLT | Blogs,  Jul 08, 2018

I am what they used to call a military brat (do they still call it that?). I’ve moved around. A lot. I’ve lived on the West Coast, about 45 minutes away from Los Angeles. I lived in the South. I lived in the Midwest. I’ve visited the East Coast and Chicago and Florida. I have […]
Sunday Reflections: Reproductive Rights ARE Teen Issues

Sunday Reflections: Reproductive Rights ARE Teen Issues

Karen Jensen, TLT | Blogs,  Jul 01, 2018

When I brought my teenage daughter into this world, I suffered from a horrific pregnancy ailment known as Hyperemesis Gravidarum. I would not, however, unfortunately know this fact until late into my second pregnancy, when I almost died. It was during this pregnancy that I stood at the edge of the abyss and looked death […]
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