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“The time is now,” I keep telling myself. Let me tell you why. It’s been almost five years since I fell into being a teen librarian. I was working toward my MLS at Clarion University when I was...
View ArticleCatching Up: by TTW Contributor Justin Hoenke
Photo Credit: Zachary Cross It seems like I’ve been here forever, but as of this month I’ve been at the Chattanooga Public Library for 1 year, 4 months. In that time, we’ve accomplished a lot of great...
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10 PRINT “Hello World!” The last time I posted on Tame The Web was on August 6, 2014 in a post titled Catching Up. The title of that post sort of sums up the past year and a half in my life here at the...
View ArticleNever Going Back Again: by TTW Contributor Justin Hoenke
When people ask me why I became a librarian, I offer them a two-part story. First, it’s so I could get married to my wife Haley. Her mom (who is an amazing librarian doing great things) told me that I...
View ArticleThree Things I’ve Learned as a Library Director by TTW Contributor Justin Hoenke
One year ago I made the jump from a career full of youth services to a life as a director of a small public library. It was a jump that I knew I wanted to make for awhile and when I had the opportunity...
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