Monthly Archives: June, 2008
Sex Education and YA
Two articles worth reading, especially if you work with teens and young adults:
“The mystery and the act: Towards a YA human sexuality collection,” by Tori Weesner, in the online journal Progressive Librarian.
“Sex education and the American public library: A study of collection development, reference services, and programming for young adults,” by Rebecca J. Cohen, [...]
Wordle: Cymbeline
Yeah, like a lot of other library people, I’ve been having way too much fun with Wordle. Here’s the text of Cymbeline, one of my favorite plays by Shakespeare.
What I find fascinating about this is that “Imogen” actually appears larger than “Cymbeline” (and larger than any tag for a male character), and it’s actually the [...]
Revolt
Graffiti on College Street in Auburn, AL.
Internet Privacy
A library system in Ohio is taking aggressive action to combat digital porn in its libraries, possibly installing software which would allow library staff to view a screenshot of what a patron is looking at on their computer, presumably to determine whether it’s objectionable or not.
Elaine doesn’t like it, and neither do I. And while [...]
LOLs
I don’t care what J says. This is so, so precious.
Thanks to Mel for sending me the ICHC pic.
This is… Facebook?
Now here’s an interesting use of social networking software. Apparently members of a particular Facebook group — numbering close to 30,000 — jotted “THIS IS SPARTA” in the essay portion of their AP Literature exam books and then crossed it out (as all test-takers are instructed when they don’t want something they’ve written to be [...]
Riot Rule #4: “Always be learning.”
Mel has a picture frame on one of the walls in her apartment, with a number of inspirational, motivational, and humorous quotations that she selected and arranged herself. One of my favorites is, “The best reason: we might learn something.”
In planning the activities for our summer reading program, I decided that it would be [...]
School’s (not) out for summer
Looking back through the posts that I’ve written so far, I’ve noticed that I haven’t said much about school. This is kinda strange, considering that I’m enrolled in two classes which (in addition to having a full time job and trying to have a life) take up a lot of my time. Just to give [...]
“Revolution in the Stacks”
Interesting piece in this month’s Governing Magazine, on how some public libraries are embracing a new role as a place where patrons can create media, among other innovations. Appropriately titled “Revolution in the Stacks,” Christopher Swope examines several innovative library strategies, including the PLCMC’s Loft for teens and young adults, the Maricopa County Library’s de-Deweyed [...]
Happiness is a warm kitten
Having grown up with two dogs (Buttons when I was a baby and a toddler, and Coco when I was a child and an adolescent), I’ve always thought of myself as a dog person. But in recent years, I’ve noticed that a lot of librarians tend to be cat people — whether this has something [...]