School Library Journal has a FREE virtual conference, with presentations by authors that are getting quite a bit of buzz, and sessions about serving teens. August 15, you can do it from your desk (“Ha!” they all say, “Imagine having time to sit at a desk for more than 2 minutes!”). Just in case you have a lull then and need recharging, check it out!
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...