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Letters to a Young Librarian

Letters to a Young Librarian
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Tom Roper's Weblog Mr. Library Dude – Academic librarian with 15+ years of experience. Passionate about lifelong learning and student success. Interested in user experience and organizational leadership. For me, being a librarian has never been about the books–it's about th ACRLog | Blogging by and for academic and research librarians Biblioease.com Blog I decided to take my own advice and make time for fun (yes, that’s a professinal resolution. Read on to see that one) – and more time for me. My blog for this week is a repeat of the one I did for January 2, 2017. I am also going to take next week off. I deserve it. And you deserve your time off – take it. So if you weren’t following me back then or if you need a refresher on the resolutions I suggested, here is the blog once again. Build Your Relationships Start a new relationship with a teacher or other staff member. Keep Up with Trends Read one professional article every month. Step Out of Your Comfort Zone It’s so easy to get locked into doing what you have always done, but you don’t grow unless you try new things. Volunteer for Leadership Technically this comes under the heading of stepping out of your comfort zone, but it needs special mention. Go for a Grant or an Award You get a lot of positive attention when you receive a grant or award. Get Healthier need/want to lose weight?

The Adventures of Library Girl ellie <3 libraries Library of Congress Blog Addie Card, whose photo inspired Joe Manning to launch a project to tell the stories of the people whose lives early 20th-century photographer Lewis Hine documented. In fall 2005, Joe Manning agreed to help his friend, author Elizabeth Winthrop, with a task that had become something of an obsession for her: discovering the story of a little girl staring intently out of a 1910 picture taken at a Vermont cotton mill. Winthrop had encountered the image in an exhibition of child-labor photographs by Lewis Hine, and she couldn’t get the girl out of her mind — Winthrop had based the character Grace in her soon-to-be-published novel “Counting on Grace” on her. Within two weeks, Manning had located and contacted Addie’s granddaughter. From 1908 to 1924, Hine took thousands of pictures for the National Child Labor Committee, exposing the often-dangerous conditions children endured working at textile mills, coal mines, vegetable farms, fish canneries and as late-night “newsies” on urban streets.

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