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Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Jobs I Would Do
The real theme for today’s Top Ten Tuesday is bookish jobs I would do for free and as much as I would love to do any of these jobs, I’m not sure I want to do any specific job for free! But, I am lucky enough to be already doing…
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Slice of Life Day 2: My Favorite Reading Place
I’m going to be honest, I can read just about anywhere – and usually carry a book with me most places because you never know when you’ll have a few minutes to read a couple of pages. But, my favorite reading place is a chair and a half. But, not…
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Slice of Life Day 1: When I Decided to Become a Librarian
I thought this might be the perfect introduction for my first post of the Slice of Life Challenge. Plus, one of the kids at work literally asked me when I decided to become a librarian last night. So the story’s fresh in my mind. I was one of those rare…
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LibraryCon Live!
A VIRTUAL FESTIVAL FOR BOOK NERDS, LIBRARIANS, AND FANS OF GRAPHIC NOVELS, SCI-FI, AND FANTASY Yesterday I got a chance to participate in LibraryCon Live, an event hosted by School Library Journal and Library Journal. It was really well put together with some awesome presenters, authors, and illustrators – the keynote speaker…
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Resource: Library Services for Children Journal Club
Bear with me as I introduce this story by telling you all how I met Lindsey. Lindsey (and her awesome colleague Dana) have this little website called Jbrary. I’ll wait for you to check out their amazing-ness if you don’t know who they are already. Go ahead, I’ll wait… You’re…
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Ten Amazing Teachers from Middle Grade Fiction
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week, so take a few minutes out of your day to reach out to a teacher that had an impact on you! And if you’re looking for an amazing teacher in children’s literature, look no further than these great middle grade fiction titles! Share your favorite literary…
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Library Leadership
I saw this article on Library Lost & Found as I was scanning my Feedly checking to see what others are talking about on the (many) blogs I follow and it caught my eye! The title – 9 Ways to Become an Even Awesomer Library Leader in 2016 by Megan Hartline. I…
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I LOVE my Job!
The other day I received a piece of mail from a friend who is also a Kindergarten teacher. Her students have been learning about community helpers and a little girl in her class wanted to send a librarian a letter and this is what I received: First off, I was…
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How I Became a Librarian
I was recently reading the blog, Letters to a Young Librarian and came across a blog post about how the blogger became a librarian and realized I probably never shared my story on my blog. So without further ado, here it goes… I didn’t learn to read at an exceptionally…
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Miss Laura, Children’s Librarian (aka teacher, singer, theatre “expert”, princess)
I must be in a reflective mood this week, but here goes another post about how much I love what I do! Graduate school does not prepare you for the crazy things that you might be doing (especially as a children’s librarian). Thankfully, I started volunteering/working in libraries when I…
