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By Dr. Steve Albrecht.
Thank you, Bold and Brave Librarians! We asked and you shared! My hands trembled as I complied your List of Yuck.
As you review what your colleagues have “curated” here, you can either take some comfort that either your…
Thank you, Bold and Brave Librarians! We asked and you shared! My hands trembled as I complied your List of Yuck.
As you review what your colleagues have “curated” here, you can either take some comfort that either your…
By Dr. Steve Albrecht
As one of my friends, who has the unenviable job of cleaning airplane bathrooms between flights, likes to say, “People are nasty.”
The shelves in your library or your oh-so-inviting book drop seem to draw things you wouldn’t…
As one of my friends, who has the unenviable job of cleaning airplane bathrooms between flights, likes to say, “People are nasty.”
The shelves in your library or your oh-so-inviting book drop seem to draw things you wouldn’t…
[A shorter version of this essay ran as an op-ed in the February 2, 2024 online edition of The Seattle Times. Click here for the link to that version. https://shorturl.at/txFKW. See also "U.S. Department of Education Issues New Resource for School…
By Dr. Steve Albrecht
The trope we see most often in movies and TV crime shows is when a child is kidnapped, it’s done by the “creepy guy driving a van.” We tell our kids, as soon as they can know it, about “Stranger Danger,” and we spend our lives…
The trope we see most often in movies and TV crime shows is when a child is kidnapped, it’s done by the “creepy guy driving a van.” We tell our kids, as soon as they can know it, about “Stranger Danger,” and we spend our lives…
Dear Dr. Steve - Our Code of Conduct prohibits patrons from sleeping in the library. Our staff is quite lenient on this issue and they usually just “verbally nudge people awake” and remind them about the rule. There are some patrons who come here…
Here’s a fun exercise, one that will help you connect to a wider variety of your patrons:
Step 1 - Create a list of the Top Three most common languages spoken in and around your library, by the patrons you serve. (Just one language is too easy;…
Step 1 - Create a list of the Top Three most common languages spoken in and around your library, by the patrons you serve. (Just one language is too easy;…
