While cooking a tasty batch of Red Greek Lentils from the Rebar cookbook, I heard Jian Ghomeshi interview Judy Blume on CBC’s Q (16:08-:30:08). I can’t believe that she’s 70 years old now.
The introduction was lovely:
Name a book that was important to you as a kid. A novel that helped you negotiate the [...]
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Fear and collection development
Posted in collection development, tagged fear, selection, teen, YA on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Linda Braun wrote a fantastic post on the YALSA blog about being afraid of what the community might think when choosing items for a teen collection. She writes:
As I kept hearing this comment I thought about how some librarians use “I know my community” as an excuse for not purchasing controversial materials for the [...]
