tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62497202011-04-21T14:02:42.913-07:00Views from a librarian.....lindanoreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249720.post-1107952915533789782005-02-09T04:32:00.000-08:002005-02-09T04:41:55.533-08:00

So if we have no YA books about rape, gays, bulemia, anorexia, kissing, and anything else that a thirteen year old might want to read - it won't happen then.....right? Or let's put it another way... There is no sex in my community! There ...I said it. So we don't have to buy any books about it. My librarian technican censors the books and gives them to my boss. Oh not too much pressure

lindanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249720.post-1107144882659569672005-01-30T20:04:00.000-08:002005-01-30T20:14:42.660-08:00

YA fiction and children's books really don't mix well together. It's taken me five months to look at the situation. The previous librarian must have loved children's literature. There was so much of it shelved within the YA fiction. I also love children's literature. The rich artistry and and wonderful messages make children's literature today a wealth of information and warm feelings. But

lindanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249720.post-1105673445690317952005-01-13T19:18:00.000-08:002005-01-13T19:33:44.056-08:00

For the first time in a long time it was work. I can't move forward fast enough. I move along and make changes and there is that person again... You can't do it! Don't do it! I hate change! Why do they do that? In a YA library you can't change enough. Change IS a YA library. Consistency........ but frequent updates. A YA is just that...changing. Their world is spinning. Those that

lindanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249720.post-1105417256622353662005-01-10T20:14:00.000-08:002005-01-10T20:20:56.623-08:00

You open up a brand new dictionary and smell the pages and touch them delicately. You find the answer to a patron's question - although the answer is disappointing to the patron - it feels great to have simply found it. You open up a new box of books and you touch them all. Oh it's the little things. Today was particularly good because my technician was out. I truly missed her because she does

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I still can't figure out how to change the font. I'm wondering if it's because I'm on a MAC. Lynda.Com's copy looked different than my screen. I knew she was on a PC. Ummmm...I'll keep mucking around until I figure it out. I'm learning a lot, but those nagging questions bother me.

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Time to touch a tree I'm at Sequoia National Park. The weather here is really wonderful and awful at the same time. As long as I don't have to drive I'm fine. I think there is two feet of snow here and the snow is pelting down. It is a wet and hard snow, so it's not pleasant as it comes down. I hope things slow down and we can cross country ski and basically touch a tree. The air smells so

lindanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249720.post-1104369281897453632004-12-29T17:07:00.000-08:002005-01-07T20:41:54.130-08:00

Packing to leave We packed and got ready to go skiing tomorrow. We've been there before, but the kids are happy to go again. We're cross country skiing again in the Sequoia's. It's time to touch a tree again. I need to smell some fresh air.

lindanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249720.post-1104209639995479272004-12-27T20:39:00.000-08:002004-12-27T20:53:59.996-08:00

How do I add a picture to blogs? I've been playing with the Blog preferences for three days now and I am stuck. I signed up for flicker. I think I'm going to pay $25 to have Lynda.com teach me the ins and outs of Blogging. I just muck around and I can't figure it out. Enough is enough. I've wasted too much time and I want to learn this stuff. We're going skiing on Thursday through Sunday

lindanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249720.post-1104001961429875812004-12-25T11:04:00.000-08:002004-12-25T11:19:38.300-08:00

Christmas It's a nice day - slow. Made an apple pie for supper tonight. Tomorrow I'm making a turkey dinner for everyone. Should be a nice Sunday. I've gone through our ski stuff and I think I'm all set for the trip. The library looms. I think I'll go in on Monday and clean my office. I also want to buy a lamp so that I can quiet down the overhead lighting. It's way too bright in there

lindanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249720.post-1103859448294062042004-12-23T19:24:00.000-08:002004-12-23T19:37:28.293-08:00

Weeding I went into the library today and yesterday. I finished a big project. I weeded the biography section and then I moved a stack out. There were way too many little stacks that just didn't fit. I got rid of a lot of old biographies. Then when I had to reorganize the fiction section due to the fact that I wanted to get rid of an old book stack - I ended up moving about thirty rows.

lindanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249720.post-1103482670148508982004-12-19T10:52:00.000-08:002004-12-19T11:18:02.670-08:00

Sunday - Two for two Exercised again. Yes - this is a good thing. I give to everyone else all day long - I give to myself for one hour a day. Sunday and I need to get my house in order so that I can begin to relax. The end of the school term is filled with so much that my house takes a beating. Lots of laundry, piles of stuff around, and way too much sweet stuff hanging around. Someone

lindanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249720.post-1103397368003736442004-12-18T11:10:00.000-08:002004-12-19T10:50:41.796-08:00

Day one of vacation I exercised first thing. It's the start to the two weeks. My husband and I are going to walk the lake tomorrow. I have lofty goals for this two weeks. First off I have to read about twenty YA novels and prepare a few book talks. That will get me ready for January. Then I absolutely want to do a three hour tutorial from Lynda.Com on Bloggs. I think once I take that

lindanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249720.post-1103254524138961132004-12-16T19:31:00.000-08:002004-12-19T10:59:25.273-08:00

December 16th - one day before winter vacation. The library has been quiet. I've been ordering. This is a nice change. Time to think and order books and Reading Counts Quizzes. All the orders have gone through. This new ordering system has had everyone working on overdrive to figure it out. Lots of questions have been flying around. I think we have gone over the mountain and we're making

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