Very Good Music

Having nothing to do with anything, may I say that my 8 year old and I are enormously enjoying The Parselmouths cd, Illegal Love Potion. You can listen to some of their stuff here.

Encourage some kids!

My middle schoolers are working on a blog! Some of the content is standard library fare, and some of it is purely student-driven. It would be awesome if people would read some of their posts and make encouraging comments. Thanks!

Well, guess what?

I am now a middle school librarian! In August, I made the switch to Greenfield Middle School. Now I get to read all that great YA stuff and call it 'work!'

Excitingly, I am working with a terrific group of kids who want to design the library website. We just started noodling around--in the next few days and weeks, they'll be deciding upon the look and content of the site. It's interesting (and a nice stretch for me) to relinquish control and allow the kids to do the thinking and planning. We'll see how it goes! We'll tackle blogs and wikis later in the school year.