The Case for Using AI as a Co-Librarian
The start of the school year brings a unique kind of overwhelm and exhaustion, doesn’t it?...
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Category: Design & Create
T’s Quick Tech Tip: Slides Timer – Add a Clock to Your Slides!
One Display to Inform Them All I am lucky enough to have two large digital display screens in my...
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Making Space for Creative Expression
As a school librarian, I try to make literature relevant to my students. I’ve found that...
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FormMule: Turn Form Responses & Spreadsheet Information into Personalized Emails
What It Is FormMule is a Google Sheets add on created by New Visions for Public Schools CloudLab....
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March Book Madness 2026
Cover Up Book Covers! I get excited when I see them displayed. Creating my yearly March Book...
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QR Code Etiquette: or, Improving Information Access
They’re Ugly! They’re Ugly! Their Mama Says They’re Ugly! We need to talk about QR codes. I...
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Throwing a Wrench in the Works (Literally): Some More Hand Tools for Your Library
Previously… A couple posts back, I discussed some great hand tools to have in the library. In the...
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Finding the Joy and the Gratitude as We Close One Chapter and Open Another
I’m not sure how it got to be December of 2025. It’s been a whirlwind of a year. It was my second...
Read MoreBringing Joy to the Library
Joy to the Book World Books bring me joy. Give me a wall of bookshelves filled with colorful spines and I feel the stress melt away. Can teenagers relate? From my years in the library, I’d say only a handful. I...
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Literary Library Contests
It’s How You Play the Game Winning is fun. Those who research the human mind find that “there is...
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Building Your Literal Tool Kit: Hand Tools To Improve Your School Library Experience
Building Your Tool Kit We often speak metaphorically about the need for building our professional...
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Unplugged, But Engaged: No-Tech Activities for the Library
Unplugged, But Engaged: No-Tech Activities for the Library As school librarians, we often feel...
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