May 2013
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Le ciel tumultueux: Get To Know Your Tumblarians... →
lecieltumultueux:
We have our fandoms. We have our favorite shows to discuss at work (Game of Thrones, anyone?). But drop that facade for a moment, you’re among friends. What is your guilty pleasure show to watch? The show you watch for 7 hours straight when you’re home sick from work?
I watch a fair amount of…
Grey’s Anatomy, for glamour, cathartic crying opportunities, and...
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Seeking Advice, 2
Going to visit a couple of fifth and sixth grade classrooms in a couple of weeks to get kids excited about our SRP. I’ll be meeting them (maybe 20 at a time) during their library time. So far, working once a week through the winter and with no school year programming (yet!), I’ve only met one or two of these guys.
I’m planning on bringing reading logs and program calendars, and...
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Holler If Ya Read Me: African-American... →
bookstacks:
But Ms. Clark actually went one step better. Or worse. She switched places with her husband. She was released from prison in 2007 after serving nine and a half years for mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. She’d been the ringleader of an illegal scheme that solicited thousands of dollars from consumers to put into a pot and then paid out to different “winners” at different...
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Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (2012)
Scenario: After disappearing as a teenager twenty years ago, Tara Martin reappears on her parents’ doorstep on Christmas Day with an incredible explanation for her absence.
Pros:
Tara’s explanation kept me reading, hoping, suspecting, fearing.
A compelling, modern update on the fairy story that draws on the English folklore tradition but doesn’t feel derivative or too...
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responses to seeking advice, 1
So, last week I asked the tumblarian community how they handle workshop enrollment, after I had a lot of no-shows. I got a lot of helpful responses, which I thought I’d share here.
mauramae:
So, I do adult programming. Most of our programs are open, but on occasion we’ve had to limit. I make that super clear- Registration required on all marketing. Our calendar system sends out an email...
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Love my library job...
because I get to order YA books and get it into the hands of teen readers
because the programs I plan involve such disparate elements as collage and laser guns
because not only does my baby son get to visit me at work, he can check out the newest picture books at the same time
because I don’t pay library late fees
because public librarianship, for me, offers just the right blend of...
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spontaneous overflow: Room of Requirement →
alethiosaur:
Today I was looking for bookends. “Have you checked the secret closet outside, past the stairs, next to the boiler room?” asked Librarian Jason.
“I have not.” I went out the loading dock, followed the ramp down, and then further down dark stairs. Just before the boiler room, a secret outdoor…
In which a self-proclaimed non-library-tumbling librarian writes, combining two of...
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seeking advice, 1
When you’re doing a workshop or something, and you have a signup sheet, how do you walk the line between holding people accountable and being, you know, nice and still attractive as an institution?
For Art Week, especially with the littlest kids, we were filled up with a wait list. And then there were a lot of no-shows, and I could have let the wait listers in if only I’d known. Do...
April 2013
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“I think the young adult books that spoke to you when you were 11 and...”
– Reading Young Adult Literature in Middle Age (via bookriot)
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“It’s National Library Week — like Shark Week but with cardigans.”
– my coworker in the University Archives. (via ex-tabulis)
Well, we do live every week like it’s Shark Week.
(via librarylinknj)
Too good not to reblog; I’m sure you’ve already seen it.
averyvspants-deactivated2013042 asked: Oh, you're completely awesome! I mean aside from writing book reviews which is fantastic you've read both the Seven Kingdoms books and the Elisa books you win everything.
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The Crown of Embers, Rae Carson (2012)
You didn’t know I read The Girl of Fire and Thorns, but I did. It was just while I was dying. I read it lying on my side curled in the fetal position about two weeks into morning sickness, and since I couldn’t write a review in that position, it goes unchronicled.
Scenario: Continuing a few months from where The Girl of Fire and Thorns left off, here Elisa’s position as queen in...
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Francis and Bernard, Carlene Bauer (2013)
Scenario: As young writers, Frances and Bernard meet at an artists’ colony and strike up a correspondence that will take them through love, faith and beyond.
Pros:
Got the rec for this from Annie Butterworth’s review on Turning Point, which I recommend for discovering good new books. Annie’s an indie bookseller and a thoughtful reader, besides being someone I knew IRL as a...
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YA TV & Film Adaptation News: Delirium, Divergent,... →
And the order in which I care about them: Divergent, Delirium, Maze Runner.
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shhh! no running in the library!: Get To Know Your... →
lecieltumultueux:
This weekend my mom pulled out a stack of children’s books for me to flip through for fun, and indeed it was! We all have our favorite series, chapter books, picture books. Which titles really stuck with you into adulthood (even if you haven’t read it since you were…
Ooh, off the top of my head in roughly chronological order:
Blueberries for Sal
Is Your Mama a Llama?
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March 2013
11 posts
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the pinakes: Get To Know Your Tumblarians Tuesday:... →
lecieltumultueux:
Something I love about the librarianship field is the interesting mix of people who decided this was the career for them. But behind this unity is a smattering of other interests, so I’d love to know, what did you study in college?
(I’ll start off. I studied French and…
English lit, Great Books, photography. I was pretty good at #1 & #2, but not so much #3 — my...
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Library Project Two: The Dewey Decimal System
mappleton:
The newest instalment in being my mother’s graphic design “servant,” I illustrated a series of posters that organise sections of the library according to the dewey decimal system.
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The design was originally based off a Dewey set made by Susanna Ryan but needing different colour co-ordination and some illustration changes, we got permission to remake it. The original:
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Five Question Friday: Kate and the Tumblarians
Here, Kate poses with her very prestigious libbanana.
After interviewing Kate thelifeguardlibrarian awhile back, I noticed things have taken off with the librarians-on-tumblr phenomenon, with Kate at the forefront as an informal organizer and motivator. Here, I ask her about what’s changed, both in her life and in what it means to be a librarian on tumblr, since we last talked.[[MORE]]
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Hey Boo Books: Resource Thursday: Fontspace →
heyboobooks:
Frequently when I’m making book displays or fliers for my library, I find myself in need of some more interesting font choices than my Microsoft programs can give me. When this happens, I usually go to my favorite free font source on the web, Fontspace.
Fontspace has tons of free downloadable…
I’ve been browsing this resource some this morning, and it’s worth...
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Do any of you Tumblarians have book review blogs?
libraryjournal:
whidavrho:
I’m very interested in reading what y’all are reading.
I have one here, if you’re interested. May not be safe for work.
Yes, and it is called LJ Reviews. Where are you recording what you’re reading?
I post about what I’m reading if it’s new and/or popular enough here on TheCardiganLibrarian and then round them up on this page of review links. They...
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February 2013
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The Montmaray Journals, Michelle Cooper
A Brief History of Montmaray (2009)
The FitzOsbornes in Exile (2011)
The FitzOsbornes at War (2012)[[MORE]]
Scenario: HRH Sophia, Princess of Montmaray, lives on the small rocky island off the coast of Spain. It’s 1936 and the kingdom is failing, with just a few loyal subjects, an eccentric royal family, and a handful of secrets left on the island. Books 2 and 3 follow the family to London,...
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My Librarian Origin Story
My librarian origin story begins with bats…
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Actually, I don’t know if that’s true. It may have begun before, when I landed a job after college graduation at an university academic library’s interlibrary loan department (that I couldn’t take because of my plans for Uganda; more on that below). It may have begun before that, when, in late high school and early...
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“I’m living two blocks away from this library—and I don’t know why I was so...”
– Karen Russell (via thebronzemedal)
Awesomeness would happen, Karen Russell.
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“So, more than anything, libraries need to develop as learning agencies, informal...”
– Ken Haycock, on Building Community Assets. So many gems here. This is your must-read of the day! (via librarylinknj)
I liked this bit:
“One trend that I would like to see change,” says Haycock, “is that I don’t think we should be offering book clubs in libraries so much as we should be offering...
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deweyscloset-deactivated2013050 asked: My teens just got done doing duct tape sculptures. They had a lot of fun. Using a piece of cardboard as the base support, crumple up newspaper to form the body of the sculpture. Piece it together using duct tape. When it is shaped how they like it, they can paint over it with acrylic or just leave it as is. They made everything from Hello Kitty, a high heel shoe to a croquet set.
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shhh! no running in the library!: Tumblr and... →
thiscommonlibrarian:
I’d be interested to know how you all feel about personal information and Tumblr. Do you share everything (within reason, obviously)? Or do you filter what you post (and if so how/why)? Is your account linked with your real identity or have you distanced your Tumblr…
I have a personal tumblr and a professional tumblr, and while they are linked if you get to looking,...
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Finnikin of the Rock, Melina Marchetta (2011)
Scenario: Finnikin and his mentor travel across a war torn landscape, seeking to build toward a new future for his kingdom. It’s only when they meet Evanjalin, a strange girl to whom he’s powerfully drawn, that this goal becomes truly possible — but at great cost.
Pros
Finnikin follows a couple of trends I’ve noticed in new fantasy. One is white savages, which I think is great...
