I SWEAR by TeenReads.com for part of my collection development. I am SO excited they finally started a blog over there! I mean, I'm so excited that I have to tell you about the site as well as the fact THEY HAVE A BLOG! Yet another site I look forward to seeing in my Bloglines. ^_^
So What is TeenReads.com?
As a Teen Librarian, this is one of those review things that I always use when making my purchases. I tend to not purchase everything they suggest for the month, but I do take a look at what is up and coming.
Why?
They've done some of the work for me. The staff behind TeenReads.com are reading the books, finding the best books that teens will love, and they GET IT. The concept of "Getting it" I will get into in another post, but the gist of it is: They are adults who understand teen reading habits.
They provide lovely summaries of the up and coming books, organize the new hardcovers, the new paperbacks (which I use!), and the new series books. They also offer reviews of previous works as well as author information, which is very, very detailed.
Either way, this is a great site to pass along to your collegues as well as add to your book marks. On my first day at this job, I was shown this site and I have used it ever since.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Waiting Rooms are Great for Reading.
Thursdays, at the moment, I have off. It's my day to chill, read, do whatever needs to be done.
Today, I was the driver for my dad to some medical related stuff so I found I had 2 hours or so in a waiting room. Instead of going out, like I thought I would, I wrote and I read.
I finished Mom's Cancer which almost made me cry with "Mom's Afterword" then Brian's Afterward. I then picked up The Professor's Daughter which is an intriguing little graphic novel. The basic plot is the professor's daughter is in love with a living mummy from Egypt. There is murder, mystery, and obviously romance and it is a very, very quick and light read. As I said, intriguing. Lastly, I picked up and read The Good Neighbors, book 1, Kin by Holly Black.
Holly Black is talented, very much so, but she is sadly tagged with her success on The Spiderwick Chronicles. The Godo Neighbors series is actually her first trip into the world of graphic novels and I must say, it is superb. The ending has me begging for book two so I'm happy I picked up this book.
Today, I was the driver for my dad to some medical related stuff so I found I had 2 hours or so in a waiting room. Instead of going out, like I thought I would, I wrote and I read.
I finished Mom's Cancer which almost made me cry with "Mom's Afterword" then Brian's Afterward. I then picked up The Professor's Daughter which is an intriguing little graphic novel. The basic plot is the professor's daughter is in love with a living mummy from Egypt. There is murder, mystery, and obviously romance and it is a very, very quick and light read. As I said, intriguing. Lastly, I picked up and read The Good Neighbors, book 1, Kin by Holly Black.
Holly Black is talented, very much so, but she is sadly tagged with her success on The Spiderwick Chronicles. The Godo Neighbors series is actually her first trip into the world of graphic novels and I must say, it is superb. The ending has me begging for book two so I'm happy I picked up this book.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
A Welcome and Farewell to Empty Spaces.
Welcome to my ity bity corner of Internet land. Shall I outline the purpose of this blog? No. I shall not because I have done this quite a few times and have thusly killed any and all fun involved in blogging.
Either way, here I am, with a program that I thought quite brilliant: an afters school program. It is a hangout style type program and we have a Wii. Why no teens? Even after teens said they'd show.
I think they got distracted.
That happens a lot with teens. They like open ended programs (hence I created this one). They like the idea that something happens every week, but teens are easily distracted. Case and point. The TAB group (which consist of about 3-5 teens in high school, 3 of which usually are on our TAB) like programs. The TAB group sometimes think of doing something else. They usually follow that something else if we don't call them.
An After School program is not something I will call the teens about. It is a free program. Teen show up or they don't and like the case is tonight, they don't.
It can be disheartening really. I'm trying and I set up the room wonderfully and no one shows. I like how it is set up this time. I'm also happy I got all my stuff together for once.
What's the problem then? It's week two you say? Don't gripe.
I am griping but honestly, I give a program 3 tries then it's out. Luckily, I haven't had to throw something out and if I tell my TAB that I have to throw this out, they will fight tooth and nail to keep it.
My TAB is wonderful.
So why no turnout?
Publicity. I fell flat on this one and I'm going to be honest about this. I didn't get ads out on time (3 weeks ahead). I didn't get this to the schools in print (I suspect they prefer print versus electronic, my taking paper to them saves on their paper). I didn't get this out into the community (definitely something I ask the TAB to do because I don't know the hot spots and they do). Simple things that were all thrown off because November was a fun month (CONFERENCE!!!!!!)
Oh! Speak of teens! Here they are now!
Either way, here I am, with a program that I thought quite brilliant: an afters school program. It is a hangout style type program and we have a Wii. Why no teens? Even after teens said they'd show.
I think they got distracted.
That happens a lot with teens. They like open ended programs (hence I created this one). They like the idea that something happens every week, but teens are easily distracted. Case and point. The TAB group (which consist of about 3-5 teens in high school, 3 of which usually are on our TAB) like programs. The TAB group sometimes think of doing something else. They usually follow that something else if we don't call them.
An After School program is not something I will call the teens about. It is a free program. Teen show up or they don't and like the case is tonight, they don't.
It can be disheartening really. I'm trying and I set up the room wonderfully and no one shows. I like how it is set up this time. I'm also happy I got all my stuff together for once.
What's the problem then? It's week two you say? Don't gripe.
I am griping but honestly, I give a program 3 tries then it's out. Luckily, I haven't had to throw something out and if I tell my TAB that I have to throw this out, they will fight tooth and nail to keep it.
My TAB is wonderful.
So why no turnout?
Publicity. I fell flat on this one and I'm going to be honest about this. I didn't get ads out on time (3 weeks ahead). I didn't get this to the schools in print (I suspect they prefer print versus electronic, my taking paper to them saves on their paper). I didn't get this out into the community (definitely something I ask the TAB to do because I don't know the hot spots and they do). Simple things that were all thrown off because November was a fun month (CONFERENCE!!!!!!)
Oh! Speak of teens! Here they are now!
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