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Thursday, June 7, 2012

My Short-Lived Teen Librarian Career...

So.Much.Pink.
With our youth services librarians busy with SRP and related book talking, they asked if I could help them go through donations to see if there is anything we could add to your YFIC collection.  I really feel bad for the YFIC demographic, I feel like our library system, as a whole, is neglecting them. 

This was only the first cart of many teen books to go through.  It was pretty ironic getting tasked to do this because I just read a Smithsonian article on how pink and blue came to define gender in society: 'When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?'.  Just after going through this one cart, my retinas were seared.  I liken it to being out in the snow on a sunny day for awhile and when you come back inside and everything white appears pink.

2 comments:

  1. Actually our YA section isn't a sea of pink here. It looks all dark and gloomy.

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    1. Hey MISS MISFIT,
      Yeah, the few shelves we label "YA" is pretty abysmal, just the Twilight series alone takes up a few rows.

      Which reminds me: *note to self* Weed YA Call Numbers "MEY"...

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