Library Ties

I’ve been fortunate enough over the last several years to attend all 4 of the summits sponsored by School Library Journal. Each one has had a different topics and a different theme. This year the focus was on remixing our collections for today’s digital students. My favorite parts about any conference experience is the opportunity […]

I’m sitting in the brand new Indianapolis International Airport. Today is the first day for the new terminal. It is beautiful and checking in and going through security was a breeze. I had some anxiety last night about it being a disaster today, but am relieved to know that I worried for nothing. Human nature […]

This week I had the pleasure of traveling to Denver with my principal Vince Barnes to talk about our winning team at North Elementary at the Colorado Association of Libraries conference. It was so much fun to meet with the folks from CASL and talk about our library media program. You can read some of […]

Recently I finished the 3rd book in the Inheritance series. Written by Christopher Paolini, these huge books are a great fantasy story. As I was reading, one of the quotes really stood out to me as perfect for the field of librarianship. Jeod gave Eragon a very valuable book. When questioned by Eragon if Jeod […]

Its election day! I’m up a little earlier than normal so I can try to get through the line quickly and off to school. We still have a few more things to do to prep for our school’s mock election. The kids are hyped about this election just like the rest of the country. Yesterday […]