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One of Those Days…
It’s been a fairly busy week for us – Life-Size Board Games on Monday, story times, Enchanted Library rehearsal, meetings and more. But today was our last Parent/Child Workshop for our fall series. It started off as a great morning, even without our usual extra help we were able to…
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National Book Award Finalists
It’s getting close to the time of year when the “Best of the Best” lists come out for just about everything – including books! The National Book Award just posted it’s finalists in its four areas Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. As per usual, I’m really only interested…
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Cybils Nominations
Nominate your favorite books published between October 16, 2013 and October 15, 2014 in the following categories: Young Adult Non-fiction Young Adult Speculative Fiction Young Adult Fiction Poetry Book Apps Middle Grade Fiction Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Elementary/Middle Grade Non-fiction Fiction Picture Books Graphics Easy Reader/Short Chapter Books for the…
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Marketing Your Library
Marketing has been on my mind for awhile, maybe because it’s such a prevalent topic at conferences, but while I was sitting in on a session about branding your library, I realized that a great program to offer at a conference would be “How to Write an Elevator Speech.” I’ve…
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National Poetry Day
Contrary to what I believed (Poetry Month being April), National Poetry Day is on October 2nd. Upon further research (because that’s what I do)… it’s National Poetry Day in England! That being said, I’m going to share a few of my favorite poetry books that are accessible to all ages.…
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Conference Musings
I’m sitting at my desk, back in the library after a very busy state conference. There were some absolutely amazing programs this year and I’m so excited and grateful for a supervisor who is willing and excited to try some new ideas this fall/winter. I’m going to spoil any surprises,…
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PaLA Annual Conference
From Sunday to Wednesday, I get the chance to hang out at the Pennsylvania Library Association’s Annual Conference – networking with librarians across the state, learn about programs, resources and getting re-energized about being a librarian. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE being a children’s librarian, but its amazing…
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Youth Services or What I Do at Work
I came across this blog post today and wholeheartedly agree with JustintheLibrarian. He explains that children’s librarians need to simplify how they create programs and I believe that in doing so, we actually provide even stronger programs. We’re less stressed, we have the supplies and the resources, and our community…
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We Need Diverse Books
I was talking with a patron who was telling me a story of their 4-year old daughter. The little girls is Black, Hispanic and White, but sadly doesn’t see many others in her small community that look like her. She has begun asking her mom questions about the way she looks after…
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"Why Kids Should Choose Their Own Books to Read in School"
This is one of those articles that I read and said to myself… “well, duh!” Sadly, that’s now how this issue is looked at by many in the education field. As the writer states, I grew up in a time where Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) was something that happened regularly…