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5 Places to Find Bookish Gifts (that aren't books)
If you’re looking for a gift idea this holiday season for your favorite bookworm, look no further than these five retailers offering some awesome bookish gifts, that aren’t another gift card to the bookstore!
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Random Acts of Poetry Day
Today is Random Acts of Poetry Day! I think poetry often gets a bad rap as people remember poetry for being inaccessible and difficult to understand. People remember having to memorize poetry in school or trying to study poetry to understand what the poet what truly trying to say. Many…
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Multi-Cultural Night
This is one of my favorite programs we put together at our library – we’ve done this a few times. What makes it absolutely amazing is that we ask our patrons to share their culture which means we get an authentic look into a variety of cultures in just one…
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Community Connections – Interfaith Education
I spent a few hours last night at a Sharing Ramadan event hosted by our local Islamic Society. It was a wonderful event with a speaker who took the time to talk about the beliefs of the Islam faith as well as how Muslims are being viewed by the media.…
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Wonder Trailer – Get Ready to Ugly Cry
As a book lover and past children’s librarian, I adore LOVE children’s books and so I don’t say this lightly – Wonder by R.J. Palacio is one of my favorite books of all time. And so I was ecstatic to see the official trailer for the new movie was released. Let…
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Holocaust Survivor Program
We had a HUGE crowd for this program on a Wednesday evening. At a time when there are fewer and fewer Holocaust survivors living, I felt strongly that we needed to give our community the opportunity to hear about this horrific historical event from a first-perspective. It also worked out…
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Girl Scout Visit – Yoga
I had a visit from a Girl Scout troop this week and was requested to provide a short yoga/book program for the girls. I was well-prepared and created an entire lesson plan the week before, but about an hour before the girls came, I switched everything up and I’m so…
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Preschool Expo
This is one of those program ideas that doesn’t work for all communities, but is really beneficial for ours. Our library is situated in a suburban community of about 30,000 residents. We have 20+ childcare and preschool options for families and for the past few years, we partner with our…
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Programming for Millennials
I’ve been thinking about how to entice millennials to use our library more for over a year now. And now, I feel like I’m finally in a place to start planning some programs to attract this generation into the library. Being a millennial myself, I know how much millennials hate…
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Toddler Storytime: Peace & Quiet
I used these same books for a parachute storytime this week as well and I have to share an adorable story. The group ranges from early 2s to 5 year olds so it can be a challenge to engage everyone, but lately I’ve only had 6-8 kids which makes for…