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Don’t let my students read this.
One this last day of January, I’m thinking about what note to end upon. I’m far too much of a baby in the profession to leave with any sweeping insights about The State Of Things Today, and my...
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What is the role of the librarian in the city?
Hey Library School Students, want to make some easy book money and get your opinion out there? Well write right now and get in the game! This is the last call for Urban Librarians Unite’s essay contest...
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Rare Bookin’ It, French Polychrome Binding Style
For my second installment, I thought it might be fun to continue down the road of weird and wonderful books that have come through the doors of Ursus. For Bibliography Week, back in January, the...
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24 Hour Read In 2013
Once again June is upon us and once again we are in the midst of the library budget fights. Each year the cuts get bigger, the threat looms larger. This year libraries in New York City face over $106...
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‘Beneath the Surface’ of Teen Summer Reading
Hi everyone! My name is Jessica Schneider and I’ll be blogging for you this month! I am a Teen Librarian working at a public library in northern New Jersey and currently trying to guide along my first...
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Essential Personality Traits for Teen Librarians #1: Quick on your feet
This week was so busy and I did so many things that it wasn’t until I sat down to write this post that I actually realized how much I had been doing. Summer Reading really kicked off for the teens this...
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A Passion for Programming
So programming. Programming is probably the number one reason I wanted to work with teens. (Except for maybe also the YA books. Ok, mostly it was the books.) Aside from the fact that I pretty much have...
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Volunteer with the North Brooklyn Bookmobile
For the past year and a half I have been working with an organization in North Brooklyn called St Nick’s Alliance to create a book bus. With the area having the highest child poverty rate in the city,...
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Vote March 30 – April 6
What kind of change do you want to see in your neighborhood? You can decide how to spend $1 million dollars in our community. Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community...
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Design Research and Visual Literacy
At the FIT Library we collect facsimile editions of designers and artist’s notebooks, to provide examples of the creative research process. One of my favorites would have to be the reprint of Cecil...
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