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Hey, come work with us!! We have a fabuloso-fulltime job opening here at La Crosse Public Library on our crack Youth Services team. Here's the ad. Now brush up that resume and throw your hat - or helmet - in the ring! But don't blink, it closes fast (we are eager to be back to full staffing)
Amaze us! If you’re hungry for challenge, and welcome the opportunity to network within the community to create amazing results, love collaboration and trying out new ideas, and are fearless in your approach to great service using tech and non-tech means, you may be who we are looking for! We seek a motivated, dynamic ideas person to join our children’s services team in beautiful La Crosse, Wisconsin - someone who loves to work with kids and families; has outstanding customer service skills; is outgoing with a great sense of humor and has the ability to sell the library and literacy to everyone in our community. Strong skills in programming, outreach and services for preschool through teen, excellent collection development skills - and a finger on the pulse of innovative youth services - are key as well as ability to create reality from blue-sky visioning. Bonus consideration to those who can bend steel with bare hands! The successful candidate for this full-time position will have an MLS and two years experience working in public library youth services or the equivalent in education and experience. In return, you will have the opportunity to work with a star team of professionals, be coached by the 2010 Wisconsin Librarian of the Year, receive an excellent benefit package, be in a strong professional development environment and transform traditional library services. Salary negotiable from $46,000. For further information and necessary qualifications, please visit us at: www.lacrosselibrary.org. Electronic submissions only; interested applicants can submit a resume with references and cover letter to Youth Services Coordinator Marge Loch-Wouters.Applications accepted until May 2, 2014. La Crosse is famous for its exceptional natural beauty. The city (metropolitan population 126,838 based on the 2010 census) is located on the east bank of the Mississippi River below towering bluffs. Abundant water and woodlands provide year-round recreation sites for hiking, biking, skiing, hunting, camping, and other outdoor activities. La Crosse is also home to two universities, a technical college, a symphony orchestra, excellent theatrical and cultural events, and superb health care facilities. The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is a major flyway for migratory birds and boasts the longest river refuge in the continental United States.
Oh, what fun we shall have now that the weather is better. Here in New York spring sprang yesterday and all the New Yorkers, as one, exhaled in relief. We are perfectly aware that it can’t last (can anything?) but we’re enjoying it while we can. So sit back and glue your eyes to a computer screen instead of enjoying the respite. Unless you have outdoor wi-fi, of course. Then go wild.
I don’t think I can go any further without bringing up the dual Myers pieces in the Times this past Sunday. As Walter Dean Myers says in his article Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?, “There is work to be done”. That may be so, and certainly we’re hardly at a reasonable level, but I’ve been very impressed by what I’ve seen in 2014. As I mentioned in an earlier post this year, I’m already seeing an uptick in the number of African-American kids not just in books but on the covers as well. Then I looked at Scholastic’s fall list and saw five different middle grade novels with black kids front and center. Five is nice, but that hardly means we’re out of the woods. Note that Walter Dean Myers wrote a somewhat similar piece for the Times in 1986 called I Actually Thought We Would Revolutionize the Industry (thanks to Debbie Reese for the heads up). In it he basically says that there were only 450 books on the black industry in the mid-80s. One shudders to think what the number is at this precise moment in time. Oh wait. According to the CCBC it’s 93. Now go read The Apartheid of Children’s Literature by Chris Myers and think upon that a bit.
- I don’t like to pick favorites, but if I had to select my favorite blog post from the last few days, the vote would have to go wholeheartedly to the 100 Scope Notes piece The 33%: 2014 Books from Newbery Winners. The premise is simple. After doing the math Travis determined that a full 33% of Newbery winners go on to win again. He then goes the logical next step and collects all the middle grade novels out this year by previous winners. There was stuff I had no idea about in there (a new Christopher Paul Curtis?!?!). Required reading of the day then.
- New list time! So it would seem that the National Science Teachers Association has come up with their list called Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12: 2014 (Books published in 2013). Not a common topic but a necessary one. I was happy to see a lot of favorites on there. Well done, winners! Now go ye, my pretties, and spread this info to every science teacher struggling with Common Core that you know. Thanks to Amie Wright for the link.
- Speaking of lists, the site List Challenges came up with their 50 Best Books for Kids. I was all set to pooh-pooh it when I saw they’d included Anna Hibiscus AND The Arrival. Shoot. They did their homework really well. I’ve read all but two (and it won’t be the two you think). How did you do?
- Meanwhile, it’s an interesting list and well worth looking at. They’ve released the contenders for the 2014 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award. Lots of good books there, but you probably know who I’ll be supporting. It’s a tough call but I’m Team Unicorn. Go team!
This has absolutely nothing to do with anything else, aside from the fact that everyone’s clamoring for children’s books on WWI this year thanks to the 100 year anniversary. With that in mind, here’s a sense of what it would have looked like If WWI Was a Bar Fight. Or you can just do what I’m doing and wait for the latest Nathan Hale book Treaties, Trenches, Mud and Blood. Can’t wait to see that one!
Utterly fascinating piece in Arcade this week equating the changes happening at the main branch of NYPL with the movie Ghostbusters. It’s not as nutty as it sounds. Check out Para-Library Science at the NYPL if you don’t believe me.
- Then, to wash the academe from your gray cells, you can read eharmony’s 15 Reasons to Date a Librarian. It’s a rather optimistic view of our profession (while I would love to believe that we ALL have predictable hours . . .) but still cute. Thanks to Amie for the link.
- Man, that Marjorie Ingall’s one smart cookie. She watches that new Neil DeGrasse Tyson show Cosmos and what does she do? She comes up with a complimentary reading list for kids. That is how you DO IT, people!
If you haven’t seen this already then I’d like you to guess as to the identity of this children’s book author dressed up as his favorite children’s book character.
A hint: The character is Badger from The Wind in the Willows. And no. This isn’t Alice Cooper. *pictures what an Alice Cooper children’s book might consist of* The answer is here.
Hey, come work with us!! Due to an upcoming retirement, we have a fabuloso-fulltime job opening coming up here at La Crosse Public Library on our crack Youth Services team. Here's the ad. Now brush up that resume and throw your hat in the ring!
Amaze us! If you’re hungry for challenge, and welcome the opportunity to network within the community to create amazing results, love collaboration and trying out new ideas, and are fearless in your approach to great service using tech and non-tech means, you may be who we are looking for! Due to a retirement, we seek a motivated, dynamic ideas person to join our children’s services team in beautiful La Crosse, Wisconsin - someone who loves to work with kids and families; has outstanding customer service skills; is outgoing with a great sense of humor and has the ability to sell the library and literacy to everyone in our community. Strong skills in early literacy/preschool programming and services are key as well as ability to create reality from blue-sky visioning. Bonus consideration to those who can leap tall buildings in a single bound! The successful candidate for this full-time position will have an MLS and experience working in public library youth services or the equivalent in education and experience. In return, you will have the opportunity to work with a seasoned team of professionals, be coached by the 2010 Wisconsin Librarian of the Year, receive an excellent benefit package, be in a strong professional development environment and transform traditional library services. Salary negotiable from $44,000. For further information and necessary qualifications, please visit us at: www.lacrosselibrary.org. Electronic submissions only; interested applicants can electronically submit a resume with references and cover letter to Youth Services Coordinator Marge Loch-Wouters at [email protected]. Applications accepted until November 16, 2012. La Crosse is famous for its exceptional natural beauty. The city (metropolitan population 126,838 based on the 2010 census) is located on the east bank of the Mississippi River below towering bluffs. Abundant water and woodlands provide year-round recreation sites for hiking, biking, skiing, hunting, camping, and other outdoor activities. La Crosse is also home to two universities, a technical college, a symphony orchestra, excellent theatrical and cultural events, and superb health care facilities. The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is a major flyway for migratory birds and boasts the longest river refuge in the continental United States.
P.S. We know the webpage is ugly right now. Please forgive us. The new one is coming along nicely and will replace the current beast shortly!
I ran into a
post from my friend Ingrid, the Magpie Librarian this week that I really adore. She talks about the process she went through as she decided to accept another position in her library system. In this thoughtful post, she considers what she should share, how she should break the news to her patrons and when she should say good-bye.
Most impressive to me is her care in taking responsibility for the decision and not trashing and burning her way out of a job that seemed to have had some tough personnel aspects. She wants the transition for her patrons to be painless and wants to make sure her colleagues left behind short-staffed for the short term get the benefit of her planning and leaving updated files and info. Her tips are so thoughtful I had to share.
In the same vein,
Jen the Youth Services Librarian's in a recent blog post revealed she would be leaving her job in weeks and shared the programs she had planned for the summer she won't be there. That is so thoughtful. Today on Facebook she posted a picture of the storytime mom and kids who surprised her with a goodbye visit. You receive in karma what you give. Both of these librarians do and will!
Image: '004/365' http://www.flickr.com/photos/29559659@N03/6010519164
I was saddened to learn of the death of children’s author Georgess McHargue on Monday, July 18th. It seems that this was a death our community missed and I am sorry for it. Ms. McHargue penned many a fine children’s novel, but my favorite would have to be Stoneflight, a tale of New York City’s statuary come to life. According to her obituary, “After working at Golden Press, Georgess became an editor at Doubleday. In her long career as an author, she published 35 books, many are for young adults, some focused on archaeology, mythology and history. She was nominated for a National Book Award for The Beasts of Never, and wrote many reviews over the years for the NY Times Book Review.” Jane Yolen was a friend of hers and alerted me to her passing. Thank you, Jane, for letting us know. She was a brilliant writer.
- Diane Roback, now I doff my hat to you. The recent PW article on Colorful Characters is a boon to the industry. I dare say it’s brilliant. One does wonder how Walter Mayes, who is not old, feels about being included amongst the dead and elderly. I hope he enjoys it! Being known as a “colorful character” will keep folks talking about you (and writing about you) for decades to come.
- That’s cool. Zetta Elliott had a chance to interview and profile Jacqueline Woodson in Ms. Magazine’s blog recently. Good title too: Writing Children’s Books While Black and Feminist. The part where she’s asked to name “five other black LGBTQ authors of children’s literature” is telling. I don’t know that I could either.
- Living as we do in an essentially disposable society, Dan Blank’s piece on Preserving Your Legacy: Backing Up Your Digital Media makes for necessary reading. As someone who has lost countless photos and files through my own negligence, this piece rings true to me. Particularly the part where Dan says he makes sure that “Once a day, I backup my photo library onto an external hard drive.” Anthony Horowitz once told me the same thing. How’s THAT for name dropping, eh eh?
- Jobs! Jobs in the publishing industry! Jobs I say!
- And much along the same lines, were you aware that there’s a group out there made up entirely of youngsters who are entering the publishing industry? At 33 I reserve the right to call twenty-somethings “youngsters”. I am also allowed to shake my cane at them and use phrases like “whippersnappers” and “hooligans”. But I digress. The Children’s Book Council has an Early Career Committee
I spent a whole day with Neil once and still I only recognized him because of the alt-text attached to that image.
In our next Chu book we should use that photo along with a still from my recent Cold Cereal video where I dressed like a bunny.
Aw, thanks, Betsy!
(And man, I did not recognize that woodland creature AT ALL.)
I agree. But then, if I had my way with the world you would be dressed like a bunny on every book jacket.
It seems like you’re coming on to me.
Dear God — I totally thought that was Nicolas Cage.
Understandable. But that would be before I explain my personal worldview where every author and illustrator should ideally wear a bunny suit on a book jacket. Until now I’ve only you and Mac Barnett to check off my list (and his wasn’t so much a “suit” as a . . . well . . . a different kind of bunny outfit, let’s say).
Hey Betsy, I clicked on the If “WWI was a Bar Fight link” and it took me to a site called Galley Cat with an article about not selling books according to gender. Is that the wrong link or did I not look at the right place on the page?
Durn. My bad. Lemme fix that thing.