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Month: December 2016

Books

My year in reading

31 December 2016 lpearle

As you've read in previous posts, I'm on the 2017 Alex Award committee.  Any adult book published in 2016 is eligible, and YALSA's policy is that we (the committee) can't publicly talk about what we're reading .  But because I work in a MS/US school library I have to keep up with what's going on… Continue reading My year in reading

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Life Related

Existential Angst, part two

14 December 201621 October 2017 lpearle

Sometimes, life isn't fair. Things this year have been going so well: the new library staff has become an amazingly tight team, teachers from math and science(!!) are coming to us for help teaching citations and working on projects, the changes to our physical plant and collection have been well-received. And we made two great… Continue reading Existential Angst, part two

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Ethics, Musings

Existential Angst, part one

12 December 201611 December 2016 lpearle

For years librarians have planned lessons around digital literacy, hoping to teach students how to evaluate resources they find online.  We share sites like Facts About Dioxygen Monoxide, All About Explorers and the Tree Octopus (and my personal fave, The Pomegranate Phone). We caution them that just because it's online, or in a database, they… Continue reading Existential Angst, part one

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