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Picture books in bins
I’m reading Libraries Designed for Kids by Nolan Lushington (Neal-Schuman, 2008). It’s mostly practical and interesting, but it repeats the same ridiculous opinion several times. I hear library directors (not my own, fortunately!) repeating it too. Here’s how it goes: 1) Children choose books by their covers 2) You can’t see picture books enough to…
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Balancing act
Everything in a Youth Services Department of a library is a balancing act these days. Perhaps I am romanticizing the past (…who am I kidding? Of course I am romanticizing the past!) but I see the library of my childhood as being quiet, peaceful, and filled with beautiful rows and rows of books in order.…
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I love Dr. Seuss, but…
It is not going to come as news to many of you that Dr. Seuss’s birthday is this week. Dr. Seuss’s birthday has become A Thing. It began with the laudable National Education Association (NEA) effort, Read Across America, which picked Dr. Seuss’s birthday as a day to celebrate reading. It’s been running for 13…