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Junior Friends of the Library
I was lucky enough to come to a library that has had a strong middle school program for at least the past 15 years. In the township where I live and work the middle school includes children from 5th – 8th grades, this can pose problems because of the developmental…
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Storytime Theme: Jungle
We haven’t planned many weekend programs for our library, I work so much during the week, I’m hesitant to work some more on the weekend! But, I do work a couple of Saturdays throughout the year. We’re beginning to think about offering more on the weekends so we did a…
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Fun Friday Program – Secret Codes
The school year has begun and our Fun Friday program is back and in high demand! We had 25 kids register with 14 more on a waiting list. If you’ve missed some of my previous posts, our school district gives the kids a half day on the second Friday of…
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Book Cart Drill Team
I had an amazing (and busy) weekend! Our community is celebrating our 300th year anniversary this year with events happening throughout the year. On Saturday, there was a parade, carnival, and our community day fair, making it a very busy day for almost everyone in town. Our library entered a…
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Good-Bye Summer Reading, Hello Fall Programming
Summer reading is officially over! YAY!!!! And we are now in the midst of cleaning, organizing, and trying to wrap our heads around everything that’s coming up in the next few months. Overall, our summer was very busy, programming went really well and even though we had fewer registrants than…
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Digger Day
I’ve seen a couple similar posts in the past few weeks and I think most of my fellow public librarians understand – I’ve hit my summer reading wall! I’m thoroughly exhausted and am tired of trying to keep everything in the same theme! Thankfully, last night was our last “big”…
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Wacky Wednesday Book Discussion #2 (3rd & 4th graders)
Our second book discussion for 3rd and 4th graders happened this afternoon. If you missed out on the first one I did, check out the link here. I had 15 kids participate with all of them actually reading the book. For this book discussion, I chose Frankie Pickle and the Closet…
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Story Time Theme: Library Love
In retrospect, this would have made a great story time at the very beginning of the story time session, with a book on library manners and all the fun things to do at the library! But the kids still had a lot of fun with the theme (and hopefully they…
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Story Time Theme: Stars
STORY TIME – Stars ASL Sign: Stars (using “g” fingers point to the sky and shift hands back and forth) Opening Traditional: Put Your Hands Up In the Air & Open Shut Them Parachute: Parachute Bop (Shakin’ the Chute) Book 1: Stars by, Mary Lyn Ray *** I loved this story! …
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Enchanted Library 5.0
And so it begins (really it has already begun) but today we began set and costume design for our 5th Annual Enchanted Library program. I’ve posted about Enchanted Library last year, so check it out if you are unfamiliar with the idea. This year’s theme is Mother Goose rhymes which…
