My Little Women

I've found maybe the most fascinating, and definitely the most confusing, Little Women retelling to exist in the literary market today. Take the magic, rainbows, and friendship of My Little Pony and add Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, and you get Little Fillies. Little Fillies is the first book in the My Little Pony: Classic … Continue reading My Little Women

How Summer Camp Can Prepare You for Librarianship

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As the days start to get shorter and cooler, without fail I look back at the summer. This year, with the strangeness of COVID-19, I’m missing summers past. In 2018 and 2019, I worked at an all-boys summer camp in rural Maine. From days on a lakeshore to nights around a campfire, I loved everything about working at camp. I would have been back this past summer if camp weren’t cancelled because of the pandemic.

It’s not the typical internship experience, but I found that working at a summer camp directly suited my future career in librarianship. Sure, I want to be a youth services librarian, so being able to work directly with young people was a big part of the experience for me; but that’s not the only way a summer camp can help prepare you to be a librarian.

In 2016, the Library Journal released a list of…

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