Tales from a Librarian Hopeful

On the road to becoming a librarian.
This came in the mail a couple months ago. It’s official: life has taken me eastward across the country. I started in Vancouver, BC, where I have lived most of my life, moved to Ontario 3 years ago to work with students through InterVarsity, and am now headed to the Halifax, NS for my MLIS.

This came in the mail a couple months ago. It’s official: life has taken me eastward across the country. I started in Vancouver, BC, where I have lived most of my life, moved to Ontario 3 years ago to work with students through InterVarsity, and am now headed to the Halifax, NS for my MLIS.

firstbook:

First Book wants to give away 1 MILLION BOOKS TO KIDS IN NEED OVER THE NEXT 10 DAYS. Here’s the catch: We want the world to know about the issue of illiteracy and how they can help us fight it. In support of our effort, we will give away a book for every “re-blog”, “retweet”, and “share” we get of  this message on twitter, tumblr and facebook. Get to sharing. 

firstbook:

First Book wants to give away 1 MILLION BOOKS TO KIDS IN NEED OVER THE NEXT 10 DAYS. Here’s the catch: We want the world to know about the issue of illiteracy and how they can help us fight it. In support of our effort, we will give away a book for every “re-blog”, “retweet”, and “share” we get of  this message on twitter, tumblr and facebook. Get to sharing. 

Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.

Joan Lingard (via teachingliteracy)

(via stefaniebohde)

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God.

The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

C.S. Lewis (via lindasinklings)

lolz/oh dear.

lolz/oh dear.

(via gemmacorrell)

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Cicero

(from librarianheygirl)
YA lit is my (frequent) guilty pleasure.

(from librarianheygirl)

YA lit is my (frequent) guilty pleasure.