Book haul : Friends of the Library sale, Fall 2024

There’s still time to visit Friends of the Santa Rosa Libraries’ Fall 2024 book sale: 2 to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7 at the Veterans Building in Santa Rosa. I uncovered a lot of treasures at the latest sale, plus I know that proceeds benefit local branches of Sonoma County Library.
https://youtu.be/XIezNLkLlQ4

LRS8 : Presentor’s recap

One of my professors, Dr. Amanda Harrison, and I gave a co-presentation at Library Research Seminar 8, which took place in mid-September at the University of Kentucky. Our presentation focused on portrayals of autistic people in “readers’ choice” state book award nominees from 2014 to 2024. Here is a brief recap of my experience.
https://youtu.be/5Xlm5xlmEF4

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture is an open-access journal that has been published twice a year since 2019. Ought’s editorial board positions it as “a small part of the larger neurodiversity movement — the campaign to recognize neurological differences as normal and necessary to human development” (Loftis, cited by Rozema & Bass, 2019, p. 4).

Person-first or Identity-first language?

Should you use “person-first” language to describe a person who is on the autism spectrum? Or use “identity-first” language and refer to them as an autistic person? The style guides I examined, suggest that both are permissible — but when you know which language is preferred by a person or by their community, that is the language you should use.
https://youtu.be/ynVXESFdoJ4

Beautiful Something Else, by Ash Van Otterloo

Each Friday that school is in session, I share the link to a read-aloud preview of a book from SRCSA library. The “First-chapter Friday” selection for Sept. 6, 2024 is The Beautiful Something Else, by Ash Van Otterloo.