Welcome to Season Two of Library Land Loves!

September is here, which means it's back to school season. Diana Maliszewski, teacher librarian extraordinaire gives us five tips on energizing your school library and keeping that energy through the whole school year. 

You can find Diana online at @MsMollyTL!

We sit down with Gillian Byrne, Manager of Toronto Reference Library at Toronto Public Library and Twitter resident for 11 years. 

Gillian and Michelle chat about The Top 5 Ways to Use Twitter - what's good, what's bad, and what's a garbage fire. They do not talk about female wrestlers or cats (much).

Libraries traditionally are known as a silent space, but should they be? Anyone working in a public library or close to a group study area know that libraries can be quite noisy. Should we encourage the sounds with our own music, or should we revert to our 'Shhh' techniques? Michelle chats with Steven Kraus from OLS-North on the role of music in a library setting.

With summer comes summer reading! And with summer reading comes conversations about those books. We've all had conversations like this before: Someone boasts about how great a book is and after we read it, we just can't see it. Or we can't understand the hype of a book. Well, in this episode, the staff at the Ontario Library Association talk about those books, and then recommend a book that they would read instead.

We're so used to being disappointed with a movie adaptation of a book. It never lives up to the world we create in our head. But there are those rare moments when we're surprised and the movie is better! We sat down with Kristen Caschera of the OPLA RA Committee to discuss her top 5 movies that show us that the movie can be better than the book.

It's summer! Which means hot weather, cold drinks, and patios. But it also means those quirky and odd summer jobs. We surveyed the office here at The Ontario Library Association and asked staff what their most memorable summer job was. Names and locations have been omitted when needed ;)

Michelle sits down with Maureen Barry during her last week as CEO of the Burlington Public Library. Maureen reflects on the Top 5 most memorable moments of her career and also touches on advice for future CEOs.

From Harry Potter to Doctor Who, you can use your job as an excuse to show your inner geek. Liz from the Barrie Public Library shows us five different programs she implements that allows her to geek out hard.

Take a walk through the Toronto International Film Festival Library and resources with Michelle Lovegrove Thompson, Senior Manager at the TIFF Library and Archives. She talks about her top five resources and materials within the collection.

Ever dream of escaping your life and trying your hand at a literary one? We exercise that thought by discussing the top 5 men found in literature we'd leave our current relationship for.