Taken to Task
I want to steal Janet Trumble’s description of herself from her blog: YA writer, activist, librarian, and straight human with gay tendencies. Although, I think I really need to work on the activist...
View ArticleHow those books get on my library shelves
I am officially in my summer vacation! Hooray! The end of the school year means prepping for the next school year, which, for me, means getting my book order in, well, order. I thought authors and...
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Banned Books Week: They don’t ban books anymore do they?
Graphics from ALA So, this week is Banned Books Week, which, according to the ALA’s website: Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First...
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Banned Books Week: Before Books Get on the Shelf
Graphics from ALA In February of 2009, Debra Lua Whelan published an article in SLJ about self censorship by librarians: “A Dirty Little Secret.” It’s a must read for librarians for sure, but also for...
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Banned Books Week: Intellectual Freedom
Graphics from ALA Banned Books Week at ALA is supported by theirOffice for Intellectual Freedom. What is intellectual freedom? Well, according to the ALA it’s, “the freedom to access information and...
View ArticleThe Truth is Out There . . . But We’re Not Looking For It
I’m back in class, which means I get to read all sorts of interesting articles and reports. This fall I am taking “Digital Writing in the Classroom” and we’re starting out with a hard look at how...
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The Note in the Book
One of the last things I did at work this year was an inventory of the Upper School fiction collection. I was starting the S’s and got to perhaps my favorite Salinger work: Raise High the Roof Beam,...
View ArticleResearch in Action Part 3: Encouragement
In Part 1: Mucking About and Part 2: Drilling Down, I spoke about my own research process, and how that impacted my thinking on student research. Now I want to talk directly to the students to give...
View ArticleMirror Gazing
Imagine if men were treated like women in the workplace. Imagine if their appearance was commented on rather than their achievements or contributions. Just imagine! It seems outlandish, like the...
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On Circ Stats and Collection Development
I am taking an amazing course this summer at Simmons SLIS called Library Test Kitchen. It’s a version of a course that has been offered at the Harvard Design School. I am working on a project that I’ll...
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Learning About Teaching Design Thinking by Doing Design Thinking
This summer I took an experimental course at Simmons SLIS: LTK: Library Test Kitchen. This class has been offered at the Harvard School of Design, but in this iteration, instead of getting design...
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Fishing Boat Designers
As the year is winding down, one of my fourth grade teachers and I decided to do a final maker activity. “What are you reading right now?” I asked. When he told me the class read aloud was The Young...
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Banishing “Boy Books” and “Girl Books” from the Library Lexicon
KidLitWomen kicked off with a post from Shannon Hale about how children are steered toward books and authors based on gender. Since then we’ve had several posts on the boy book / girl book phenomenon,...
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