Conferences are a brilliant time to explore things outside of your area- you can sit in on a session that catches your fancy or that you need a bit of brushing up on, and get that bit of training in without having to track down a webinar or other class and figure out how to […]
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TLA: Graphic Novels
The Texas Library Association Annual Conference is next week in Austin, and I am so excited. There is always so much to do at the state conference, I never have enough time to do everything! This year is especially exciting as we’re headed back to Austin, the first city I ever lived in when That […]
My Must-Dos of ALA Midwinter
The American Library Association Midwinter Meetings are considered the business meetings of the year- this is when the award and bibliography committees meet to discuss (sometimes extremely heatedly), crown their winners and create their lists. Executive committees are always in session, and planning for the Annual Convention, where most of the training sessions occur, […]
GenreQueer: Consider This
Along with the wonderful and brilliant Katelyn Browne, Malinda Lo (Ash, Adaption), Robin Talley (Lies We Tell Ourselves), Kristen Elizabeth Clark (Freakboy), I am speaking on Sunday at the YALSA Young Adult Literature Symposium. How I got to be up there with all these awesome people I’m not sure, but I get to bask […]