Help! The Teen Librarian Has Left the Building

YA Librarians Abby Reidy from the Morse Institute Library in Natick, MA and Christi Showman Farrar from Woburn Mass. Public Library. All handouts will be available online.
YA Reader Advisory by Christi Showman Farrar: Talk to the teen-not their parent. Direct questions and eye contact. Be honest. If you have not read a book-say so. If [...]

LibraryThing and Social Cataloging

LibraryThing is a free website that helps people catalog their personal libraries and connect with thousands of other readers with similar interests. Started on 2005, it now has more than 173,000 users who have cataloged more than 11 million books. It’s also a social space, making book recommendations based on your cataloged collection. [...]