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National Book Festival
I wish they hadn’t changed the dates for the National Book Festival! It used to be mid-September which gave me enough time to start breathing after our summer reading program finished and to enjoy a long weekend away from work. I won’t be making my trek down to Washington D.C.…
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Ronald McDonald Summer Library Tour
I am excited to announce that my library was one of four selected in the Greater Philadelphia Region Ronald McDonald Summer Library Tour! In an effort to encourage reading, McDonald’s donated $1,000 to our Children’s Department and we had the privilege of hosting Ronald McDonald last night with his laugh-out-loud, entertaining…
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Storytime University
If you’re a children’s librarian looking for some new ways to focus on professional development, look no further than Storytime University, brought to you by the fine librarians of Storytime Underground, a group focused on supporting, promoting, and training each other (as in storytime librarians). Storytime is often not realized…
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Evaluating Picture Books
The Story Time Secrets: Resources for Sharing Books with Kids blog has a great post today about “10 Tips for Evaluating Picture Books.” I feel as though I’ve read a lot of middle grade novels and know (at least for myself) what works and doesn’t work – character development, setting,…
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Must-Read Blogs
I follow so many blogs and although I don’t read every single entry, it’s a great way to learn about new, exciting programs, issues in the field, and a great way to interact with fellow librarians. A little while ago, I learned the term “personal learning network” which all of…
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Busy Mondays
It’s one of those days where we are short-staffed and you can tell the summer is winding down as parents are coming in frantically trying to find their children’s summer reading books for school, not to mention, it’s shark week so shark books are flying off the shelf. I’ve also…
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Reading Drought
I have been so busy recently, that I haven’t had time to read. I’ve been at the shore for two weekends, last week my grandmother and mom came to visit (which was awesome!), and this weekend I was in a wedding out of town. Needless to say, there hasn’t been…
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Story Time Faces
I just saw this post, “What’s Your ‘Storytime Face?’ ” on Miss Mary Liberry’s blog from last fall and had to laugh out loud, because I have seen pictures of myself doing story time and my facial expressions are ridiculous! I always tend to have a hand up in the air,…
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Amazon the new library?
Amazon has recently launched a new “Netflix-like” subscription service for ebooks. And a number of recent articles are posting that Amazon is now going to replace libraries with this service. Including this article from Great Britain, whose author believes that the country could save money by offering an ebook subscription…
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Top 10 Reasons I Love Conferences
Due to the fact that I took a red-eye back to the East Coast this morning, had just enough time to drive home, shower and get to work, I’ll say I’m not running on all cylinders right now. I had a parachute storytime this morning that went very well, took a…