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PLA Blog: volunteering and vendors: the exhibit hall
Portions of this post were originally written for the PLA Blog. ALA holds the copyright to this text; it is reproduced here with permission. Yesterday I volunteered at the PLA Membership Booth between...
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Links: girls on book covers, a Twilight novella, and the Lambda Literary Awards
I wrote a little earlier on the depiction of larger female characters on book covers and touched on the “disembodied parts” look that seems popular on books intended for girls. Karl of Txt-based...
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Rigor in reviews, in writing, and in librarianship generally
In February author Zetta Elliott wrote a guest post for Justine Larbalestier’s blog in which she discusses the challenges writers of color face in a field that is largely white. She discusses problems...
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Women in American librarianship and valuing women’s work
I recently finished reading the updated edition of THE STORY OF LIBRARIES: FROM THE INVENTION OF WRITING TO THE COMPUTER AGE (Continuum, 2009) by Fred Lerner. It exists in this weird intersection...
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Recent YA blog posts I almost missed
I somehow fell behind on Internet stuff and have been working over the last couple weeks to catch up. I still have email to take care of and my Instapaper queue is a complete disaster, but I’ve finally...
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Public libraries, not publicly-funded-but-run-by-private-companies libraries
The New York Times recently ran an article about a private company being contracted to run public libraries. The company is LSSI (Library Systems and Services), and they’re now running 14 library...
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Body Positivity and Fat Acceptance in Contemporary YA Fiction @ YALSA’s 2010...
I attended the 2010 YA Lit Symposium in Albuquerque. This post is a summary of one of the preconferences that I attended. Check out other posts tagged yalsalit2010 for more session recaps. My second...
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Beyond Good Intentions and Chicken Soup: YA Lit and Disability Diversity: How...
I attended the 2010 YA Lit Symposium in Albuquerque. This post is a summary of one of the sessions that I attended. Check out other posts tagged yalsalit2010 for more session recaps. The second session...
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The New Gay Teen, Disability in Graphic Novels, and Diversity in Historical...
I attended the 2010 YA Lit Symposium in Albuquerque. This post is a summary of three of the sessions that I attended. Check out other posts tagged yalsalit2010 for more session recaps. My notes for the...
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Miscellany: more library history, women ruining everything (again), and...
Library history A few months ago, the Library History Buff Blog did a piece on early children’s rooms in public libraries. While the piece was short, I thought it was especially interesting to see the...
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