What I Read Last Week

How FANGIRL restored my faith in humanity | Book Riot Library as infrastructure | Places Preventing librarian burnout | Letters to a Young Librarian Inside the world’s biggest Magic:The Gathering tournament | Rolling Stone Molecular mechanisms within fetal lungs initiate labor | ScienceDaily Mindfulness doesn’t have to be all about us | Christianity Today CanContinue reading “What I Read Last Week”

What I Read Last Week:

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/21/408452759/one-family-revitalizes-a-small-town-with-yes-quilts?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=us What I Read Last Week (And This Week): When DC and Marvel were extreme | Newsarama A world with no meetings?! | ACRLog Latest U.S. Census data: fastest growing cities are in the West and the South | NPR Looking at Appalachia anew | New York Times The GOP is dying off. Literally |Continue reading “What I Read Last Week:”

What I Read Last Week:

Fun Home The moral bucket list | New York Times Till death do us part | Post and Courier How to seem smart in meetings without really trying | Washington Post Is that an FM radio in your pocket | National Journal In the wilderness | The Morning News Punch into happiness | Library LostContinue reading “What I Read Last Week:”

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http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=1227 flapping around in a haunted mansion Ellen Pao and the sexism you can’t quite prove | New York Homeless millennials are transforming hobo culture | Newsweek Review: ‘Fun Home’ at the Circle in the Square Theater | New York Times King of the Dipshits [Jessmyn West] | The Medium A field guide to theContinue reading “What I Read Last Week:”

What I Read Last Week:

DC Public Library pitches in to create first-ever library for inmates at DC jail | WAMU Cooking with emoji: We’re taking eggplant back from the bros | NPR No “Cool Girls” allowed: Female friendships at Marvel | Panels How journalist Ann Friedman built a newsletter empire | NewsCred The somewhat weird history of publishing weddingContinue reading “What I Read Last Week:”

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Improve your life with microadventures | Outside Why digital natives prefer reading in print | Washington Post Berkley or Berkeley? Library scores misspelled buttons | Detroit Free Press High court case threatens independent electoral map drawers | AP ‘Library Larry’ receives special dedication | Denton Record Chronicle Administration tells students not to look fraternity grizzlyContinue reading “What I Read Last Week:”

Shelf Wizard

My library recently purchased a number of these Shelf Wiz labels for throughout the adult reading stacks. They are findability tool and one part reader advisory resource. So far we have received a lot of positive feedback from patrons. Much thanks for my friend, Kaytlyn, who is an avid library user and pointed out thatContinue reading “Shelf Wizard”

What I Read Last Week:

via Shelf Check What I Read Last Week: When it comes to jogging, less is more, study | New York Times Why we drink hot chocolate in the winter | The Guardian Maternity leave policies in America hurt working moms | New Republic Guilty, then proven innocent | The Atlantic Diary of the left sharkContinue reading “What I Read Last Week:”

What I Read Last Week:

Inside a coal ash community that can’t use its tap water Coffee horror: parody pokes at environmental absurdity of k-cups | NPR Abortion isn’t about the right to privacy. It’s about women’s right to equality | Guardian ‘Parks and Recreation’ takes on online privacy. And it hits close to home | Washington Post Sign-language interpreterContinue reading “What I Read Last Week:”