As a member of the Social Media Committee for my library, I had the opportunity to attend an author event this week. Margot Lee Shetterly visited the Linthicum Community branch and packed the room (and the parking lot outside). It was difficult to tweet and snap the event because I just wanted to listen … Continue reading
Last Saturday I attended the National Book Festival. An idea hit me while I was listening to Jacqueline Woodson’s panel discussion with Jay McInerney. The exact words fail me, but she was talking about Another Brooklyn and how the main character, August, went from having a close knit group of girl friends, to having none … Continue reading
Okay, so that emoji is probably an orange, but in my case it’s a tangerine. I participated in an online writing workshop with Winter Tangerine in August and haven’t written about the experience on my blog. Partially because it’s not library related, but really I just haven’t made time for it. It was a three … Continue reading
Rose L. Chou and Annie Pho are editing a book called Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS. They are looking for proposals from anyone involved in libraries, archives, and information science. Contributions from people of color, those who belong to communities underrepresented in LIS, and those who work in school and public libraries … Continue reading
Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku by Lee Wardlaw & Eugene Yelchin (Picture book). The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle (Novella). I Haiku You by Betsy Snyder (Picture book). All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely (YA novel/audiobook). Just four. I did read some online articles about police brutality and … Continue reading
I was asked last week for picture book recommendations that deal with skin color. Not one book popped into my head, except for The Skin I’m In by Sharon Flake, but that is more of a middle grade book. When I searched the catalog, I could only find a handful of books, and the one … Continue reading
Imagine a strip of medical tape with the adhesive gum on one side. Then a tiny ball of cloth is dropped onto the center of that tape. My library is that ball of cloth in what we call normal time and space. It is affixed to one place, one plane. But then imagine crumpling the … Continue reading
