brookline teen librarian
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Public welcomes Liverpool’s £50m library - Place North West
What a set of staircases!
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You know you are headed to a great comics show when the organizer of #mecaf picks you up in this car…
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Get to know this year's Artist Alley artists!
Artist Alley allows librarians to meet face-to-face with artists and illustrators who create comics,...
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So got the unsourced post taken down, and now I’m putting all of them, including WGWG, into one post as a master post. To my...
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i saw Star Trek and I wish the whole movie had been about them being a super fashionable space biker gang with their space-leather jackets.
So got the unsourced post taken down, and now I’m putting all of them, including WGWG, into one post as a master post. To my followers I swear this is the last time I’ll shove these drawings in your face, I’m just trying to make it easier for people who wanted them all in a group. Hopefully having them all together will keep people from reposting it without a source again.
Anyway, all of the John Green books, plus Will Grayson Will Grayson. c:THIS IS AMAZING FANART!
I LOVE YOU, TINY COOPER!!
Join us to celebrate Straw Hat Day (officially, time to wear straw hats opened on May 15th, but we here at the Brookline Public Library are celebrating by wearing all of our favorite hats on Wednesday, May 22nd.
Show off your own hat or just drop by to see us in our finery!
Which hat should I wear?
1. YA usually has a YA protagonist (13-19), but not always.
2. YA is usually shorter than adult fiction (60-80k, though fantasy can be longer).
3. YA is usually more quickly paced, with more dialog, less exposition, and fewer subplots.
4. YA tends to be in first person or very close third, and it…My favorite part: There is no ennui.
Couldn’t make it to TCAF 2013? Well 9 of the panel presentations have shown up online, thanks to Jamie Coville and Bleeding Cool:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/05/14/nine-panels-at-toronto-comic-art-festival-in-audio-and-the-doug-wright-awards/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Includes programs from Library & Educator Day, TCAF proper, and The 2013 Doug Wright Awards. Check’em out!
In case anyone was wondering, this is where I was this weekend. Moderating panels, finding brand new comics, and meeting creators. No other event really compares to TCAF for the sheer variety, enthusiasm, and love for comics — plus, it takes place in the Toronto Reference Library! Library love is strong with TCAF, folks.
These audio recordings include three of the panels I was a part of (moderated two, participated in two over the course of the weekend), so go have a listen!
REMEMBER! Monday May 13, 3:00pm at the Main Library, Hunneman Hall.
Come and meet author SARA ZARR touring to celebrate the release of her latest novel, The Lucy Variations.
It could be a depressing thing to believe, at sixteen, that your best years were behind you. Especially when the people closest to you seemed to agree.
Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. The right people knew her name, her performances were booked months in advance, and her future seemed certain.
That was all before she turned fourteen.
Now, at sixteen, it’s over. A death, and a betrayal, led her to walk away. That leaves her talented ten-year-old brother, Gus, to shoulder the full weight of the Beck-Moreau family expectations. Then Gus gets a newpiano teacher who is young, kind, and interested in helping Lucy rekindle her love of piano—on her own terms. But when you’re used to performing for sold-out audiences and world-famous critics, can you ever learn to play just for yourself?
Find out more about Sara Zarr at her site http://www.sarazarr.com/
(via brkteenreadnext)
“Verdant England” - a new Delilah Dirk illustration inspired by vintage travel posters. This one takes specific cues from the London Transport Museum’s poster collection from the 1920s.
I love the travel posters! I have Constantinople at home…
Maureen Johnson, “The Gender Coverup” (via schoollibraryjournal)
This bit was my favorite.
(via libraryjournal)
If you liked Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell…
Check out these titles:
- Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
- What Happened to Goodbye? by Sarah Dessen
- Paper Towns by John Green
- Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman
- The Big Crunch by Pete Hautman
- The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta
- Gone, Gone, Gone by Hannah Moskowitz
- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (coming out in September!)
- How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford
Compiled by our teen librarian in consultation with her colleagues across the country.
New If You Like… list!
How many of you have read Eleanor & Park? How many of you LOVE it?
White Plains Public Library director Brian Kenney in his essay “So You Think You Want To Be a Librarian?”
Great, snark-laced illuminations for anyone in the profession who needs a reality check or those looking to jump into it. Pair with Meredith Schwartz’s “How To Become a 21st-Century Librarian,” and one night at the bar with me, and you’re set.
(via cloudunbound)
If any of you have ever been curious about just what we librarians do, this covers a lot. :) For the record, I’m definitely an extrovert now, but I was an introvert. I’ve just…shifted.
(via libraryjournal)
