Tag: Rookie/1st Year

49 Free Money and How to Stretch Your Budget

Tune in as Amanda Jones shares strategies for being awarded grants and locating creative funding for her library program. 

 

I would like to thank composer Nazar Rybak at Hooksounds.com for the music you’ve heard today.  

Resource page: Amanda Jones “Free Money and How to Stretch Your Budget”

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39 Advice for a 1st Year Librarian (and the rest of us!)

Welcome to Season 2!  This summer, school librarians, shared their best suggestions, tips and tricks for building relationships, managing your time, prioritizing, programming and a librarian’s mindset!    

I would like to thank composer Nazar Rybak at Hooksounds.com for the music you’ve heard today.  

New on the Job: A School Librarians Guide to Success 2nd edition

5 Tips for New School Librarians (and those who aren’t so new)

3 Strategies for a First-Time Librarian

10 Tips for New School Librarians!

15 of the Absolute Best Podcasts for Children’s Books

 

My Powtoon for my students

My Powtoon for my teachers and principal

 

Books Between Podcast with host Corrina Allen

The Children’s Book Podcast Hosted by Matthew Winner

Kidlit These Days with Karina Yan Glaser and Matthew Winner

The Yarn with Travis Jonker and Colby Sharp

Scholastic Reads with Suzanne McCabe

kidlit women* with Grace Lin and Alvina Ling

Book Club for Kids with Kitty Felde

Lifelines: Books The Bridge the Divide with Ann Braden and Saadia Faruqi

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34 EXTREME Weeding

Are some areas of your collection protected from weeding?  What about the classics, award winners and even your reference section?  Tune in to find out why your collection benefits from EXTREME weeding.

I would like to thank composer Nazar Rybak at Hooksounds.com for the music you’ve heard today.  

100% Book Return Awards

NYC School Library Guidebook: Weeding

But it was an award winner!

A Passion for Weeding

Winning at Weeding

Seven Answers to Seven Questions

Episode 354: Weeding is Fundamental/Packhorse Librarians

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3 Purchasing: Who doesn’t like to spend someone else’s money?

Join me as I tackle the issue of purchasing materials for your collection.  Avoid the pitfalls and consider how we prioritize how we spend our limited funds.  I also share where I get my ideas for which titles to purchase.  

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2 Discards: Yet Another Dirty Secret Librarians Keep

 

Join me as I tackle the challenges of discarding books from your library collection.  I’ll share lots of strategies for repurposing discards as well as the mistakes I’ve learned over the years.  Discarding is necessary but it doesn’t have to always be unpleasant!

Hot chocolate damage

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1 Weeding: The Librarian’s dirty little secret

 

Join me as I tackle the challenges of weeding a school library collection.

CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries

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