Partners in Crime: How Indie Authors and Libraries Can Work Together to Gain New Readers I’ve been working on a project with Library Journal and the SELF-e program and my baby, Bones & Scones, got a mention. I love doing this program because of the community voices and unique genre that is highlighted. Plus, scones!Continue reading “Bones & Scones Gets Props”
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“Stop trying to make Jubliee happen, show.”
listening :: to the podcasts On Being (so many back episodes) and I’ll Have Another; watching :: the above video. So funny. So true; reading :: just finished Paper Girls v.1, #FirstEditionFriday, and starting Lumberjanes v.3 and The Last Boy and Girl in the World; wanting :: 6:00PM, disco fries, and to reinvent Teen ServicesContinue reading ““Stop trying to make Jubliee happen, show.””
Blind Date with a Book 2016
We celebrated Valentine’s Day with our annual Blind Date with a Book display. I started the tradition last year and so far library users have adored it. I select some well-known and some off-the-beaten trail fiction, nonfiction, mystery, and biography books, warp them in brown paper + decorate, and write tags for them that withContinue reading “Blind Date with a Book 2016”
What I Read Last Week:
Alaskans check bat detectors out at the library | Mental Floss Teens try hard to be rational, but emotions overrule | NPR Want to write a bestselling cookery book? Don’t worry about making it any good | The Guardian Reading the right book at the right (or wrong) time | Book Riot The semiotics ofContinue reading “What I Read Last Week:”
What I Read Last Week:
Saving the scream queens | The Atlantic Planning an academic conference | CRLN (note: Zara is awesome) The public library in the internet age | Michigan Radio Left for dead: How America fails the missing and unidentified | Reveal
What I Read Last Week:
Mormon leader Joseph Smith’s 34 wives inspire Utah artist | New York Times It’s unconstitutional to an the homeless from sleeping outside, the federal government says | Washington Post How libraries became the front line of America’s homelessness crisis | Washington Post Fishing, cooking and a Yup’ik upbringing made Alaska’s health commissioner | NPR PennDOTContinue reading “What I Read Last Week:”
Patience
My library has been closed for the last 8 days for an asbestos abatement project. I spent 6 of the last 8 days being a counselor coordinator for 40 teen-aged counselors. While my co-workers prepped for 7-10 days of working-from-home projects, I grabbed a few files and then packed my bags for a week away.Continue reading “Patience”
What I Read Last Week:
Making mountains out of trail markers | NPR (re: Things that I didn’t know had names) Librarian-hosted radio show earns recognition | Nanaimo News Bulletin Beat mental roadblocks on the run | Runner’s World Bridging the experience gap | Cecily Walker The hall of fame speech Junior Seau’s daughter couldn’t give | New York Times
What I Read Last Week:
Catching up with time | College & Research Libraries News Taking a second look at emergency procedure plans | College & Research Libraries News How the turtle got its shell | NPR ‘I hate heavy metal,’ says Mastodon frontman | The Guardian Coming this fall | The New Yorker The summer day | Library ofContinue reading “What I Read Last Week:”
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”
Cassidy B. Charles 