I had a blast planning\coordinating\presenting at the NJLA Youth Services Forum on Thursday, November 14, 2013. The best part was discovering that I had actual readers; that, in fact, some people are even reading what I put on this website. Sometimes I am afraid that I am talking to myself out here in cyberspace. I hope that some new readers find this website via the YSF. If you have, welcome! I hope that who were already landing here during their trips around the world wide web continue to visit and find things of value here. If that's you, welcome back! I also hope that some of these readers will start to participate, by commenting and submitting articles and reviews for the website. See the homepage for submission information.
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AuthorThe content on this website mostly comes from my perspective as a youth services librarian with disabilities. The further I travel along life's road, the more entwined these two parts of my identity become. Librarian: I have an MLS from Rutgers University and have working in public libraries for nearly 20 years. The focus on my career has always been youth services. Disabled: I've been disabled more than twice as long as I've been a librarian. My experience started at birth when I was immediately diagnosed with cleft palate. Also present was a non-verbal learning disability (NLD) for short. This was not formally diagnosed until I was 19, leading to years of frustration. My Tourette Syndrome was not present at birth, but surely started young as I don't ever remember living without it. The Tourette was also not diagnosed until adulthood, further compounding my frustration. Coincidentally, I was also diagnosed with IBD (more commonly known as Chron's\Ulcerative Colitis) at the age of 19. That was another easy diagnosis--as with cleft palate, they look and they see it. Archives
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