Rita Meade
Rita Meade is a public library manager (and children's librarian at heart) who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Here at Book Riot, she hosts the Dear Book Nerd podcast, a bi-weekly bookish advice show. She reads as much as she possibly can (and it's still never enough), reviews children's books for "School Library Journal," and is the author of a forthcoming picture book called Edward Gets Messy (Simon & Schuster Young Readers, 2016). She also occasionally writes about funny library stuff over on her blog, and even less occasionally sings in a librarian band. Blog: Screwy Decimal Twitter: @screwydecimal
We Need Diverse Books: Real Teens Have Their Say
July 7, 2015While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...
Baltimore Libraries Stay Open For Their Communities
April 29, 2015This is a brief reminder that libraries are there for communities when communities need their libraries. In the spirit of ...
We Need Diverse Books: Real Teens Have Their Say
January 23, 2015If you haven’t heard about #WeNeedDiverseBooks yet, then now is the time to learn, my friends. The campaign, which strives ...
How To Support the Ferguson Library
December 26, 2014While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...
How To Support the Ferguson Library
November 25, 2014Many other orgs closing. But we will stay open to serve people of #Ferguson as long as safe for patrons ...
Literary Moments of “The Golden Girls”: A Complete List
September 29, 2014When I started putting together this post (a mere four months ago), I was going to do a “Top 10 ...
A Round-Up of NYPL’s #IReadEverywhere
August 12, 2014The NYPL recently started a hashtag campaign to promote literacy (as well as their services): #IReadEveryWhere. It’s worth checking out ...
A Defense of the NYPL’s Summer Reading List For Kids
July 17, 2014Librarian soapbox alert! Librarian soapbox alert! And here I was thinking I’d make it through a whole summer without getting ...
Enough With the “Sexy Librarian” Thing, Already
June 30, 2014While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...
Literary Yearbook Quote Round-Up!
June 23, 2014For those of us who went to public school, this particular time of year meant only one thing: (But without ...