Category: Education

• Banned Books Week: Part 2

  Though I’m only in my first semester of my MSLS program at UNC, I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to intern at a local public library in teen services. This week I created my first book display! Check it out below: What do you think?

  alexandrap529

  October 3, 2012

  Education, Librarianship

  ala, american library association, banned, banned book, banned books week, grad schoo, insl, librarianship, library science, SILS, UNC

• Banned Books Week Is Here!

  As a MSLS student, I am very rightfully enamored with the tradition of Banned Books Week. If you’re not familiar with the project, here’s a little blurb from the official website: Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw…

  alexandrap529

  October 1, 2012

  Education, Librarianship

  banned book week, banned books, bbw, grad school, librarian, librarianship, library science, msls, read banned books, SILS, UNC

• Multi-Cultural YA Literature

    This week in my young adult literature class (INLS 530: YA Literature and Resources), we talked about literature of diversity. Growing up where I did it was easy to think that only one race (white), one sexual orientation (straight), one religion (Christianity), and one dominant gender (male) existed. Most of the literature I read…

  alexandrap529

  September 21, 2012

  Education, Librarianship

  anne of green gables, down to the bone, library, multi cultural, peter pan, the absolutely true diary of a part time indian, tuck everlasting, tyrell, we beat the street, ya, ya librarianship, ya literature

• Celebrating H.D.

  Today is H.D.‘s birthday so I thought I would share my favorite of her poems. I was lucky enough to study HD while abroad at the University of Exeter as part of my “Beyond Plath: Modern American Women Poets.”     Helen by H. D. All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face, the…

  alexandrap529

  September 10, 2012

  Education, Quote Post

  full text of H.D.’s Helen, h.d., HD Helen, Helen full text, poetry

• Get Fired Up About Librarianship

  This week in my INLS 513 (Collection Management) class we watched a really inspiring video about the mission of librarians. So much of what librarians do goes on behind the scenes so it’s easy for people to think that books are the only thing we do. The video proves that it is so much more!…

  alexandrap529

  September 3, 2012

  Education, Librarianship

  ala, david lankes, grand challenges of librarianship, inls 513, ischool, librarianship, library, library conference, library science, msls, syracus, unc chapel hill