Category: Librarianship
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Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray Survival. Of the fittest. The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another idea, crashing on a…
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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?
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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…
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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…
The Library of Alexandra 