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Types of Readers
I’m spending the next few days in beautiful Key Largo to celebrate a cousin’s wedding. While sitting poolside in the 80-degree sunny weather (don’t be too jealous!), I noticed how different the readers in my family are. My parents read to us for years and they themselves are readers too.…
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“How Being a Children’s Librarian Made Me a Better Director”
I came across this article through my email or one of the many blogs I follow and I found it very interesting, partly because I’m currently a children’s librarian and also because (eventually) I would like to move into a director’s position. The article was published in this month’s issue…
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Kate DiCamillo
In case you haven’t heard this week, Kate DiCamillo was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for 2014-15 by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. A recent creation (in 2008), the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature position raises “national awareness of the importance of young people’s literature…
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Weeding in the Library
Due to some structural issues in our library over the past few weeks , we’ve decided to begin the HUGE task of weeding our picture book collection. Our collection is in a finite space with limited shelving and in order to add more to our collection we have to get…
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Happy New Year’s
I hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year’s celebration last night! For the past few days I’ve been thinking about my reading in 2013 and my goals for 2014. Overall, I did a great job with my reading goals in 2013 – I wanted to take a closer…
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First Multiple Intelligences Library
I just picked up the December issue of School Library Journal and came across a very interesting article. I first focused on it because my sister is an interior designer and I thought she might find this idea intriguing and of course because it has to do with libraries, I…
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My Musings on Story Time
I’ve been a storyteller (I use this term lightly, because I’m more of a story time leader, than actual storyteller) for over five years now and I LOVE it! I love interacting with the kids, trying new things, and just having fun with books – it’s what I went to school…
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“Smitten” With Books
Yesterday I was finally able to put up a new bulletin board at the library. I don’t get to do bulletin boards very often, so when I do, it usually takes me awhile because I’m a perfectionist. For the next few months of winter our bulletin board theme is “We’re…
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Flexibility and Librarians
I literally just posted yesterday how it’s been relatively quiet in the library and I’ve been getting a lot of work done at my desk – revamping the library website, booklists for a new librarian and patrons, and I came in today with a pretty decent to-do list and this…
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It’s the Holiday Season…
It’s that time of year where people are (hopefully) more friendly, patient and kind than usual and although I wish it would happen year around. I love the Christmas season for this reason. I also love finding the perfect gift for someone and the memories I have of Christmas spent…