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Sunday, October 9, 2011 3:11:11 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled Balancing act:
Susan Dove said, "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,..." more
Saturday, September 24, 2011 11:26:37 AM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled The Kiss o’ Death Part 2:
Susan Dove said, "Back to one of my favorite subjects, weeding. I’ve continued working on the fiction section, and discovered that the author Ellen Conford’s books have most of the kiss o’ death markers from the last post, so sadly her section of..." more
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 5:08:58 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled The Kiss o’ Death, Part I:
Susan Dove said, " Some books practically weed themselves. In weeding the fiction collection, it was not a difficult choice to let go of Freddie Freightliner despite its riveting plot about bad guys “from another country” attempting to steal the parts..." more
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 2:09:40 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled Those crazy kids of 1921:
Susan Dove said, "My grandfather, Frank J. Dove, was a very quiet man. My grandmother, Carrie Belle Hamlin Dove was a chatty lady, and my grandpa tended to sit back and let her do the talking. So it was quite a surprise to come across a scrapbook he created back in..." more
Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:44:10 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled Rahm’s Readers Race to the Top!:
Susan Dove said, "Race to the Top–that’s the federal program to give grant money to the states for early childhood education. You can read about it here, and give input, which many of you are very qualified to do: Race to the Top blog. Libraries have..." more
Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:44:10 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled The onslaught begins:
Susan Dove said, "We are bracing ourselves, because today is the first day of our annual Summer Reading Club. From this point on any time the Youth Services Department is quiet, we will all pause and listen and enjoy that silence, because it won’t happen very..." more
Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:44:10 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled The I Love You So Much books:
Susan Dove said, "Anyone who follows children’s books knows there’s been a ghastly outpouring of the I Love You So Much picture books–ghastly, because mostly they are pretty bad. And dumb. I’ve been working on an article for Horn Book (Sept..." more
Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:44:10 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled ALA wrap-up so far:
Susan Dove said, "So much for my good intentions of blogging my way through the conference. It seems that you can attend conference events or you can sit in your hotel room and blog about them. High point so far has been the Scholastic Literary Brunch, where editors..." more
Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:44:10 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled ALA update again:
Susan Dove said, "I should be at the ALSC Poetry Blast but the shuttle did not cooperate, so instead I have time to blog. It is a little disappointing but also a little nice to have some unexpected quiet time. Conferences are grueling. Last night was the..." more
Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:44:10 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled Final ALA wrap-up–the Printz Award!:
Susan Dove said, "I’ve never been to the Printz Awards before. I love YA books and truly believe we are living in a golden age for YA fiction in particular, but by Monday night I am pretty ready to head back home. So I haven’t been before, but I will go..." more
Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:44:10 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled Oh joy–jury duty!:
Susan Dove said, "Spoiler alert: I did not get picked for a jury yesterday. They were down to picking the last alternate, and I was in a pool of four. They dismissed #1 and took #2. I was #3, so whew! I actually have mixed feelings about jury duty. I find it really..." more
Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:44:10 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled Facebook Friends with Authors?:
Susan Dove said, "This past week, two authors I greatly admire popped up on Facebook–Jack Gantos and poet Betsy Franco. A dozen times I’ve gone back and forth whether or not to send a friend request. I usually don’t request myself, but I’ve..." more
Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:44:10 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled I’m rich!:
Susan Dove said, "I don’t want to brag, but I am rich! Not in money exactly, but I have so many books stacked up to take on vacation that I feel like the Warren Buffet of book-wealth right now, and let me tell you, that feels like riches to me. What I love to..." more
Saturday, May 7, 2011 5:09:56 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled If you build it, they will (or won’t) come:
Susan Dove said, "Last night, I attended the annual Zena Sutherland Lecture at the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago. It was, as always, a delightful occasion. This year, the author speaking was the brilliant and very funny Mo Willems. And that was kind of..." more
Saturday, April 16, 2011 10:27:15 AM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled Death of the Soaps:
Susan Dove said, "This is not the topic I’d planned on posting next. In fact, I tend not to let most people know my guilty secret: I love my soaps. One of my first memories of my mom is being in the cool basement with her as she was ironing, watching General..." more
Thursday, February 3, 2011 4:37:01 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled Trust the Process:
Susan Dove said, "Last week, I had the chance to use the 2011 Caldecott Winner, A Sick Day for Amos McGee, with my storytime group for ages 4-Kindergarten and with my story group for grades K-3. It proved to me once again that the process for selecting the award..." more
Monday, November 29, 2010 2:11:22 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled We will still need libraries:
Susan Dove said, "The new Bed Bath & Beyond catalog came in the mail today. Clearly, a great deal of what they sell currently falls into the “beyond” category. Did you know that not only can you buy your own soda-making machine, and your own kettle..." more
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 1:06:13 AM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled A present in a book:
Susan Dove said, "This summer, I was giving myself the big present of reading grown-up books while on vacation. Most of the time, the only way I can begin to keep up on the books in my field is to read them more or less back-to-back. But vacation time is when I..." more
Saturday, November 6, 2010 2:29:11 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled Are books dying?:
Susan Dove said, "This morning, I attended the Chicago Area Children’s Book Publisher Spring preview, and it turned out to be a very thought-provoking session. I went mostly to support our local publishers, and to support the Center for Teaching through..." more
Sunday, October 31, 2010 9:40:16 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled My Aunt Carolyn:
Susan Dove said, "My Aunt Carolyn died today, at age 80. She was the best aunt anyone could ever hope to have. My Aunt Carolyn: My Aunt Carolyn *Laughed. A LOT. *Told me that if I ate bread crusts, my hair would turn curly. She got my cousin Carrie to nod in..." more
Thursday, October 21, 2010 11:55:53 AM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled Picture books in bins:
Susan Dove said, "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!)..." more
Friday, October 8, 2010 3:40:27 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled New Year’s Resolutions:
Susan Dove said, "Most of us make New Year’s Resolutions in January, but it looks to me like parents make New Year’s Resolutions in late August/early September. Their “new year” is the beginning of school. That’s when we start noticing..." more
Thursday, September 30, 2010 4:27:56 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled Nancy Werlin’s Extraordinary:
Susan Dove said, "I don’t usually do reviews in my blog–I do enough of those elsewhere. But this brings up an interesting issue for me and I wanted to get some responses. If you haven’t read it yet, you may want to give this post a pass. Nancy..." more
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 7:40:01 AM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled Why have libraries part 2:
Susan Dove said, "I’ve posted before about how much I love weeding. It’s extremely satisfying to pull outdated books off of the shelf. You can congratulate yourself on getting old, yucky material off of the shelves, and you can go work on finding..." more
Saturday, November 5, 2011 2:40:00 PM
Susan Dove Lempke wrote a blog post titled Being a student again:
Susan Dove said, "I’m going to do something I haven’t done for a very long time. Starting on Monday, I am beginning a library management course (on library buildings). Soon I will be throwing around terms like HVAC and looking up building codes and..." more