My year in reading

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…

Existential Angst, part two

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…

Existential Angst, part one

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…