Category Archives: What I Wasn’t Taught in Library School…

A Radio Show? Sure!

Among the many things on the list of “things that I did not learn in library school” is “Produce/create/or anything to do with a radio show”. I don’t know the first thing about radio, but when a streaming Internet radio … Continue reading

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Disability Awareness Training: Essential Tools For Your Toolbox

A few years ago, my library brought JJ List and their Disability Awareness Players to our library for a staff development day.  We had recently launched new programming in the Children’s Department to serve patrons with special needs and their … Continue reading

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Establishing Your Professional Learning Network (PLN)

One reason I became a librarian is that I’ve always loved learning anything and everything and I realized I really wanted to learn new things every day for the rest of my life. I figured the best way to maximize … Continue reading

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Follow Up: The Risk and Reward Conference

You might remember that I blogged about The Risk and Reward Conference back in September and I called it “one of the best conferences I have attended”. Now, four months after returning from that conference, I would say it again, … Continue reading

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Thoughts for the New Year

This post is the librarian equivalent of Vegemite.  You will either love it or hate it. Librarians need to get the [BLEEP] out of libraryland; children’s librarians especially. Libraries don’t need saving. They need to provide services their communities need. Here … Continue reading

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Happy Accidents in the Library

As I watched my daughters age 9 and 7, with their noses in their books yesterday, I couldn’t help but think back to the idea of browsing.  You remember browsing, don’t you?  It’s what can happen in a library when … Continue reading

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Register for Nov. 14 ALSC Student Session on Early Literacy!

On Wednesday, November 14 at 5pm Central, ALSC will present a new student session, Early Literacy in Action. A recent poll of new MLIS graduates found that most are interested to some degree in early literacy especially in regards to … Continue reading

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Lessons I’ve Learned Since Library School

We have our future planned out, but as they say, life has a way of happening to us while we were making other plans.  Just when we think we have it all figured out, our experiences have a way of surprising … Continue reading

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