The Show Me Librarian

As a librarian, I find it is insufficient to simply espouse equality and equity. I must do more with the knowledge and resources I help to s...

It's early July, which means we're in the trenches of summer reading. The people! The reading recommendations! The sign-up questions...

Over the past year or so, we've been putting a fair amount of intention behind the partitioning of our youth department into spaces desi...

Back in January during my library's annual staff day, my department spent our meeting time giving spark talks--high-energy, three-minu...

We've just wrapped up the strategic planning process at my library. It was a robust multi-month process, and we absolutely wanted lots o...

Earlier this month, I chatted on the phone with Kathleen Hughes from PLA about the programming strategy developed by Marge Loch-Wouters an...

Every winter/early spring at my library is marked by our participation in a community-wide initiative, Coming Together in Skokie and Niles T...