I am on quite the rampage lately.

This just makes me boggle. Yes, I know it's old for a blog post, but I just saw it so here I am. It damn near made my head explode ( Read more... )

Admittedly, my primary reason for not becoming a school librarian seems illogical: I am not a morning person. But trust me, you wouldn't want me trying to teach your kids anything at 7:30 in the morning. I haven't been to bed before midnight in quite some time, and I usually don't function very well before 9 a.m. Ever since I was a little kid, ( Read more... )

Last week, I had dinner with four other librarians, one of whom is a school librarian. The five of us had just come from a panel discussion on which the school librarian participated. One of the subjects that the panel didn't get around to talking about (they ran out of time), was the perception of YA lit by teachers and school librarians vs. the ( Read more... )

Today, a twelve-year-old (she looked older) girl came into my teen section and picked up a copy of Meg Cabot's All-American Girl. Since it's on a required reading list for the local junior high, I asked her if she needed help finding other required books. No, she's okay, she goes to a different school with a suggested reading list. Note that ( Read more... )

Dear Patron Who Annoys Me ( Read more... )

Happy birthday,
ashfae

Tomorrow I'm swapping friendslists with affectedmangoo, so everyone be good. I think I will bore her heinously with the many LIS feeds, though.

Censorship link of the day: The Giver challenged in Kansas City. This I love:

Although he could not speak specifically about The Giver, Peter Sprigg, a senior director with the conservative Family ( Read more... )

From the "What do you think I do all day?" files, this article regarding Jenna Jameson's book at the Houston Public Library.

[City Councilwoman Pam] Holm said Houston's libraries should "absolutely" have a system of rating books and determining if they are suitable for children, like movie rating systems ( Read more... )

Stupid reference trick: Boy, 15 or so, comes into library. Needs book on Egypt. Okay. I show him where the books on Egypt are and go back to my SLJ. I also give him directions to the copy machine. Boy seems able bodied and minded ( Read more... )

There's this mother that comes into our library once a week or so and she has these two little brat children, about 2 and 4, who she lets run around the library unsupervised, and Jenny thinks that one of them broke the Legolas figurine on my desk. I came in this morning and he was gone, even though the base he stood on is still there. Brats. And ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday,
xandria!

1. I don't give a shit as to what Weather Underground says. It is going to rain here in the next three days or so. None of this "scattered clouds" crap. My head aches so bad I can barely see straight and yesterday all my upper teeth on the right side of my face hurt. It's going to rain ( Read more... )