I recently cataloged some new YA fiction and included in the bunch was the title The Ruining by Anna Collomore. The cover of this book has a large mansion in the background and a young woman’s half-submerged profile in the foreground. Yesterday, I glimpsed a new Non-fiction title in my coworker’s office titled Shouting Won’t … Continue reading »
I am, at last, exactly what I want to be: a full time public librarian. As the Director of Innovative Family Services at the Fayetteville Free Library in NY I manage children’s and teens fiction and graphic novel collections, plan teen programs, oversee volunteers, and basically get to be very very cool all the time. … Continue reading »
This past Thursday I attended my last class at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies as a graduate student. Walking home after my last class, I didn’t feel any different. But today, I realize that I have two assignments left in my graduate career, and then graduation, and then it is out into the … Continue reading »
It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged, but don’t think my lack of updates speaks to laziness, more a testament to my busyness. This is the last week of classes in school for the Fall 2011 semester and I’m a little sad and also a little excited. As this semester ends, I am looking … Continue reading »
This is cross posted from the Fayetteville Free Library’s Library Schooled Blog. A blog for the LIS students working at the FFL to write about our experiences in school and in the library. Since beginning library school in the fall of 2010, I’ve developed a fondness for social media, Twitter in particular. This summer I … Continue reading »
For my class on Social Media, I was given the assignment to write a review of an emerging social technology and I chose Goodreads. A home for casual readers and bona-fide bookworms alike, Goodreads users recommend books, compare what they are reading, keep track of what they’ve read and would like to read, find their … Continue reading »
As the year draws to a close, holiday parties are happening all the time. I don’t know about you, but I am sure that the majority of the conversations I will be having in the next two weeks will revolve around my decision to enter library school and the future of libraries. Looking back through … Continue reading »
I’ve spent a whole week trying to think of a coherent way to express my thoughts about last week’s IST511 class, particularly my thoughts on the value of archives and the importance of the library as a place. I can’t really explain why I feel the way I do, but I will try and if … Continue reading »
Today I volunteered at FestiFFaLl, the Halloween themed fall carnival at the Fayetteville Free Library with Katie and Daniel. I had a lot of fun. All I did was write down names, phone numbers, and costume descriptions so we could identify the winners of the costume contest later in the day. I saw a very small Yoda, … Continue reading »
I had another moment. You know, that moment when you hear a librarian talk about what she does and then you want to BE that kind of librarian. In my International Librarianship class today, we had a children’s librarian from Finland (via skype) tell us about libraries in Scandinavia. She showed us pictures from two … Continue reading »
