CynthiaParkhill

As someone currently working as a library paraprofessional, I don’t know what’s “in the cards” for me as my library career unfolds. Will I s...

Scholastic Book Fair took place this past week at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts, bringing with it a fresh infusion of new books fo...

Amid ever-increasing incidents of book challenges, I’m worried by inflammatory rhetoric that portrays librarians and authors as “groomers...

With a couple of photos that came across my timeline, I want to honor three librarians I admire: Cindy Hohl, Mychal Threets, and Sam Helmi...

After an absence of several years, I recently became reinvolved with Toastmasters International. This time I thought I’d try out a club in...

As part of my studies toward “Culturally Competent Librarianship” (LIS 5350 in Fall 2024), I composed a systematic bibliography concerning a...

In thinking about librarian stereotypes, and factors that can influence patrons’ user-success and confidence: Pagowsky and Rigby (2014) sugg...

My studies in librarianship this week led me to the Tumblr thread Microaggressions in Librarianship . One microaggression that stood out for...

Something that stood out from my reading in Hoffman was the subjectivity of cataloging. “Just like no two catalogers will necessarily choose...

Last week I composed an “Aboutness Statement” for Solitaire by Alice Oseman, which concerns a series of increasingly malicious and destruct...

LIS professionals perform “subject analysis” in order to provide “subject access” to items in their collections (Holley & Joudrey, 2021,...

Library workers faced multiple challenges in early 2022, and it remains tough for us now. In the interest of boosting our collective moral...

I am taking graduate courses in Library and Information Science through the online program at University of Central Missouri. For Fall 202...

I’m looking forward to a new school year – in the library and out on the yard for recesses – at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts. On...

April 25, 2023 is National Library Workers Day, a time to recognize library staff for their contributions in changing lives and supporting t...

In my studies this week for LIS 5804, I took a look at library programming: including core competencies for a librarian involved with progra...

As I create my “ideal” collection development policy for LIS 5250, one of the things that resonates with me is, what kind of support can be ...

For “collective support” during COVID-19 and in the face of book challenges, Library Journal selected “All library staff” as the 2022 recip...

As a paralibrarian working in a K-8 school library, I have been confronted from time to time with requests: that the library purchase “mento...

As part of getting ready for a new year in SRCSA library, I’m collecting responses for the “library contract.” Parents and guardians ...