http://disqus.com/by/kathryngreenhill/enSat, 09 Jan 2010 20:38:41 -0000http://www.theanalogdivide.com/2010/01/just-call-me-tenzing-norboo/#comment-29215997<p>If the sole audience for Seth's blog was librarians who are working hard to reposition ourselves to serve our communities better and maintain our funding, then I'd be really pissed off at his singing an incomplete and simplistic song to the choir.<br><br>Because Seth's audience is people who will never, ever read a librarian's blog, but are more likely to be either our funders or to be those who influence our funders, I'm delighted.<br><br>This repositioning is definitely not a new idea to us, but it is -sadly - probably new to many of Seth's readers. And I'm glad he has highlighted it to them.<br><br> I don't think his post said anywhere that we don't already help people, that we don't have these skills, that we don't advocate for funding to do this. He didn't say that this is the entire way that libraries should transform ourselves so we continue to be useful. He wasn't talking only to us.</p>kathryngreenhillSat, 09 Jan 2010 20:38:41 -0000http://librarianidol.blogspot.com/2009/09/taking-young-out-of-ya-fiction.html#comment-16406483<p>Was musing on that this morning. Last week when we were trying to define what my YA responsibilities would be, we decided on the very unconventional - "From Reading Age 11 to end of Year 12 or Equivalent".</p><p>I was looking at our current YA collection and decided that most of the items there would probably appeal to 15 years or younger....and that people beyond that would probably go staight for the Adult Fiction instead. I decided that I will buy some items that go into the Adult Fiction for these readers, as well as things that I put into the physical YA collection.</p>kathryngreenhillFri, 11 Sep 2009 01:27:24 -0000