Venn Librarian
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School librarian, book lover, computer user since 1977's Commodore Pet. Reflections about the intersection of schools, libraries, and technology.
Venn Librarian
2w ago
If you read the shout out in today’s Shallot (thanks Ben!), I hope you enjoy my musings about schools, books and technology ..read more
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1M ago
The other day I was working in my Meeting’s library, helping catalog new books and reshelve borrowed books. It took me back to my youth, working as a library volunteer at Emma Willard: matching the date due cards to the books, searching the shelves without a computer catalog’s help. Back then the date due cards ..read more
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1M ago
For a number of reasons, our Research Season has shifted. We used to have Part I during February/March, then Part II in March-May. This year we’re starting once Spring Break ends and going through May. An even bigger change is that because we’ve moved, we will no longer have the classes moving from their classrooms ..read more
Venn Librarian
2M ago
Recently on one of my professional elists, someone wrote about creating a sig file that included a bitmoji avatar. Without getting into some of the problems with that (including some elists don’t allow attachments/images or that some schools or districts have a template for your sig file), I was curious that this poster wrote as though ..read more
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2M ago
I have a bit of a reputation as a reader, and am whitelisted by several publishers on Edelweiss and Netgalley. At work we get Library Journal, Booklist and Publisher’s Weekly so we can keep up with what’s being published and consider those books for our collection. There are a few things I look for in a ..read more
Venn Librarian
3M ago
Over on the AASL elist, someone posted that for a state exam, they had to memorize the Dewey Decimal Categories and were trying to think of a way to memorize them using musicals. I won’t shame the state requiring this but… honestly??? Why, in 2024CE are we requiring this? I stopped giving DDC lessons around 20 years ..read more
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3M ago
Serving on a book award committee is always fun: reading books outside my comfort zone and talking about books with thoughtful, intelligent readers? Yes, more, please. And at the end, you get to call the winner. You’re emotional… they’re emotional. So many emotions. This time it was a Zoom, so in addition to the words ..read more
Venn Librarian
4M ago
This year was better than last in terms of reading: in addition to the book award books, more books were above “meh” and there were several that I love recommending. Herewith, the round-up for the year: Thanks to m.e.g. lewis’ Instagram, I was inspired to share my five-star reads as bookshelves (sorry, I couldn’t find all ..read more
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4M ago
I’ve posted before about serving on a book award committee, and how it can force you to read books you might not have picked up otherwise. I had a great time catching up with the rest of the committee (having joined late) and yes, reading some books I wouldn’t have thought to read. Our monthly ..read more