The Middle Shelf was created as a platform for sharing ideas, reviewing new publications, and disseminating information among other elementary school library media specialists, or just those with an interest in urban elementary libraries, children’s literature, and scrapbooking/crafting. Often, in my career, I find that these worlds often collide and professionals from the educational world can greatly benefit from those in the publishing, writing, and scrapbooking/crafting realms. In addition to these areas, my professional interests tend to focus on multicultural literacies, arts-integrated education, Common Core Exemplar Texts, graphic novels, and emerging technologies that impact school libraries.
Other areas of personal interest include, but are not limited to: modern authors Libba Bray and Neil Gaiman, religious studies, Dr. Who, puppetry, and The Muppets.
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