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Celebrate Banned Books Week
Stop by your local library or independent book store and celebrate Banned Books Week by picking up a book that has been banned. Not sure what’s been banned recently? Check out the most challenged books in 2015 from the Banned Books Week website: Looking for Alaska, by John GreenReasons: Offensive language,…
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Director’s Thoughts #2
Meetings As I’m getting more comfortable with my new position, I have come to learn one very important thing – meetings. I have literally never been in so many meetings in my life. If my day doesn’t consist of at least three meetings, I don’t know what to do with myself!…
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Maker Monday: Squishy Circuits
Our last Maker Monday workshop this summer was all about Squishy Circuits. If you’re not familiar with Squishy Circuits, they were created at the University of St. Thomas as a basic way to teach children about circuitry through (basically) play dough. Two types of dough are created – one is…
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Librarian Musings – September 11th & I Survived Series
I had a really interesting conversation with a co-worker who the same age as me about the I Survived series by Lauren Tarshis. I’ve read one or two and can barely keep them on my library shelves as the kids are absolutely devouring them (along with the Who Was series) which goes…
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Happy Wedding Day!
My brother’s getting married today at my parents’ house, here’s the view: Happy Wedding Day! Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend!
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Director’s Thoughts #1
Yesterday, I spent a few hours trying to get my office organized… my previous director had been in the position for 37 years let me repeat that – 37 years! So needless to say, the office could use a little refreshing and some spring late summer cleaning. Thankfully our building…
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Mini-Vacation Reflections
We’re on our way to Michigan this morning, having stopped overnight at my parents’ home in western PA for a quick overnight visit. We’re heading out for a surprise birthday party and to spend some time with good friends and their new baby! I’m so ready for a long weekend…
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Reading Diversely
I am, primarily, a reference librarian in the children’s department which means that I’m sitting at a desk for most of the day answering questions about the computers, looking for books to use for school reports and endlessly answering, “(Insert child’s name here) has read all The Diary of a Wimpy…
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Interview Introspection
As many of you know, I just got a new job within my library as the, wait for it, library director! This comes as no bigger shock to me as I have a number of years of library experience, but little to no supervisor experience, budgeting experience, etc. I was…
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Exciting News!!!
I can finally, (after a few weeks of not being able to tell anyone!), announce that I’m the new director for my library starting on August 15th. I’ve been looking forward to new challenges and opportunities and I was so excited to be offered this position and am even more…
