Okay, folks, if you haven’t ever had the opportunity to hear the remarkable author Jason Reynolds speak before (and also if you have had the opportunity!), watch him mesmerize Trevor Noah on The Daily Show in a clip from last night. Wow! So much to love about his passion and his compelling voice. And how cool is it for an author for young people to be featured on The Daily Show?! More of this, please!
I had a great chat with Valerie Spooner, the youth services librarian in Ladysmith, this afternoon. I LOVED hearing this story about the ways putting in the time for partnerships and relationships can pay off! In 2020 I was able to fulfill one of my library dreams -...
I recently got a question from a librarian who had weeded a lot of Thanksgiving books that perpetuate myths about Thanksgiving that are both historically inaccurate and promote harmful ideas about the Indigenous people already here when the colonists celebrated their...
Thanks to Reb for passing along this sound advice from Angela Hursch about marketing to what can be a very tricky audience: teens. Take a look at this short video, Boost Teen Library Attendance, and see how many of these things you are already doing, and if there...