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The Guts
Yesterday I took 15 minutes to put new shelf labels (made by Janice Keene, thank you!) onto our Tween book shelves. I found myself really enjoying what I refer to as “the guts” of library work…the...
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(UPDATE 4/10/14) TXLA Making Stuff with Teens
Quick post to share my slides! I’ll update later with more context. UPDATE: I wanted to add a bit more to this post since all that it is are a bunch of photos that really make no sense unless you were...
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Catch Up
I haven’t had the chance to give a lot of the great events/happenings/moments going on in the world around me a proper post so I’m gonna play catch up with one great giant post full of beautiful,...
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Gender
Over the past year I’ve had the opportunity to move on up in the library. With that means greater responsibility (gotta get the payroll in on time and make the schedules!) and a bigger say in how...
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Library Futures Seminar at the Louisville Public Library
Hello all! I am in Louisville, KY today as part of a Libraries Futures Seminar at the Louisville Public Library organized by the very awesome June Garcia and Susan Kent. I’ll be talking about...
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Here’s What a Kids/Tween/Teen Library Looks Like in 2014
The 2nd Floor of the Chattanooga Public Library at 2pm on June 24, 2014. What’s going on here in this photo taken at 2pm on Tuesday June 24, 2014 on The 2nd Floor at the Chattanooga Public Library? A...
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Awesomeness in the Children’s area of THE 2ND FLOOR
I’m gonna brag for a moment: our kids area of THE 2ND FLOOR of The Chattanooga Public Library is totally rocking all things library. We’ve been making quite a few changes over the past few...
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End of the Fiscal Year and All That Jazz
I’m going to take a moment and share something that I am very proud of: statistics for the 2013-2014 Fiscal Year for Youth Services at the Chattanooga Public Library. Now I’m most affiliated with all...
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Library Management Stuff from an Up And Coming Library Manager Type Person
About a week ago I saw this tweet from the great Cate Levinson @storytiming. We talked about management and supervision in libraries over email and it was a great conversation…so great that it got me...
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Thank you Mozilla, HiveNYC, and the MakerParty Crew!
I have been having a great time in NYC with the Mozilla Community Gigabit Fund team, HiveNYC, MakerParty, and HyperAudio teams . It has been pretty neat sharing the excitement of the HyperAudio...
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Badges
I earned all these badges, dagnabit. Up until a few months ago, I was very bored by the whole idea of issuing badges for completing certain tasks, obtaining new skills, or just doing something in...
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Lee Hope
I wanted to take a moment to talk about Lee Hope, the Children’s Services Coordinator at the Chattanooga Public Library. Since I arrived in April 2013, I’ve got a chance to work very closely with Lee...
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An Update on THE AWESOME BEAR
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Awesome Bear recently and have learned a lot! Who knew you could learn so much from a bear that tweets! THE AWESOME BEAR PART ONE I drew this picture of the Awesome...
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David Weinberger at the Chattanooga Public Library
Not the best photo, but it’s David Weinberger with an image of Sim City behind him so that’s pretty awesome. Yesterday I had the pleasure of hearing David Weinberger speak on The 4th Floor of the...
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564 Days (or, the story of THE 2ND FLOOR thus far…)
The 2nd Floor of the Downtown Chattanooga Public Library has been in its current state, a place for ages 0-18 and their caregivers, for 564 days, or 1 year, 6 months, and 16 days as of today. If...
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Management Style
Thank to Finn Hoenke, Aero Hoenke, Haley Hoenke, Elias Spruill, Janine Veazue, Barry Bonds, Bobby Bonilla, Chuck E Cheese, Marvin Gaye, The cast of Star Wars, and many others for making my office a...
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The 2nd Floor PLUS STEM School Chattanooga
The STEM school made @2ndfloorchatt this 3D printer station! This is amazing. I love partnerships. pic.twitter.com/JNcH0le2Bc — Justin Hoenke (@JustinLibrarian) December 9, 2014 Over the past few...
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Thank You Chattanooga
As you read this, my family and I are heading North through Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia on our way to the next stop in our journey…Pennsylvania. A moment in time like this…a moment of great...
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Community Engagement Projects in United States Public Libraries by Frances Tout
Everyone needs a pick me up and some inspiration from time to time, and Frances Tout report titled Travelling Librarian 2015: Community Engagement Projects in United States Public Libraries (for a pdf...
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Ditching The Hype and Focusing on The Community
This is where I live. This is the community I serve. Like a computer our brains need to be restarted every once in awhile. Events and shifts over the last few years of my life have made me realize...
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