{"id":679,"date":"2011-12-23T22:20:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T02:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=679"},"modified":"2011-12-23T22:30:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T02:30:19","slug":"top-ten-ways-you-know-youre-a-youth-services-librarian-at-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Ways You Know You&#8217;re a Youth Services Librarian at Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, I like to make a Top Ten list that summarizes my year.  All of these have shown up in my life this year.<\/p>\n<p>Top Ten Ways You Know You&#8217;re a Youth Services Librarian at Heart:<\/p>\n<p>10.  The only movie you&#8217;ve seen this year was the final Harry Potter film.<\/p>\n<p>9.  You can&#8217;t stop checking out picture books, even though your own kids are way past that age.<\/p>\n<p>8.  A highlight of your year was when, on vacation, your 17-year-old son read aloud to you from <em>The Chronicles of Harris Burdick<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>7.  You have taken telecourses about the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz Awards.<\/p>\n<p>6.  You are blazing fast reading <em>Fox in Socks<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>5.  You are unable to refrain from collecting Advance Reader Copies at ALA Annual Conference, even though you&#8217;ve recently suffered a major neck injury and can barely carry them all.<\/p>\n<p>4.  You have lists of Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz Medal predictions and hopes.<\/p>\n<p>3.  You&#8217;re over the moon when you get a picture with Gary Schmidt (who wrote your top pick for the 2012 Newbery Medal, see #4).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Gary-Schmidt-with-me.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Gary-Schmidt-with-me.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gary Schmidt with me\" width=\"306\" height=\"231\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Gary-Schmidt-with-me.jpg 306w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Gary-Schmidt-with-me-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.  You attend KidLitCon in Seattle, for KidLit bloggers, and instantly discover a multitude of kindred spirits.<\/p>\n<p>1.  You&#8217;re already planning to buy a table at the 2012 Newbery\/Caldecott Banquet in Anaheim and began a year in advance trying to talk your siblings into attending.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, I like to make a Top Ten list that summarizes my year. All of these have shown up in my life this year. Top Ten Ways You Know You&#8217;re a Youth Services Librarian at Heart: 10. The only movie you&#8217;ve seen this year was the final Harry Potter film. 9. You can&#8217;t stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","category-librarians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}