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Cream or Cookie?
Well, I watch the Super Bowl mainly for the commercials and the half-time show. I’m not a huge football fan, although someone has posted on Twitter yesterday that the Super Bowl is like the Newbery and Caldecott Awards for sports (which I though was hysterical). Oreo Whisper Fight commercial Anyway, if…
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Librarian… one of the least stressful jobs in 2013?!?!?
As per usual, people outside the library field really have no idea what a librarian actually does. CNBC posted the 10 least stressful jobs of 2013 and you guessed it – librarians made the list. Now the acutal list seems to have come from a company called CareerCast. Clcik here…
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Family Place Library Training = Exhausted
So I spent a number of hours today in training to re-create our library into a Family Place Library and as of right now, I am so tired I can barely see straight. But, I got some amazing ideas, brainstormed with some amazing librarians, and met a lot of cool…
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Things I Love about Conferences:
Before I begin my conference favorites, let me take care of a few housekeeping things…. I have found that working full-time, finishing up my graduate degree with two classes this fall, trying to have a semblance of a social life, and keeping up with this blog is not always easy,…
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Hey Authors, Wanna Hear a Secret?
I just recently read an article from American Libraries Direct written by Christopher Harris, entitled “Hey Authors, Wanna Hear a Secret?” about the love librarians have for authors. “Librarians love you [authors]; authors are our rock stars. And it isn’t just us. We have shared our love with so many people…
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E-books in Libraries!?!?!?!?!
Did you know that you can (most likely) borrow e-books from your public library? Sadly, in a report done by the Pew Research Center found that only 12% of e-book readers borrowed an e-book from their libraries in the past year. This then begs the question…. Why not? The report goes into the…