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Summer Reading is just around the corner…
I don’t believe the general public knows just how much time and effort is put into planning and executing the summer reading program each year. At my library, we begin planning in November, which means by May, I’m very tired of thinking about summer! Our library provides entertainers and shows…
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It’s Never Too Early to Think About the Newbery Award
In recent years, I’ve begun following the Newbery Award more closely. It’s extremely interesting because the Newbery Committee does not provide the public with a short list of books that they are looking at for receiving the award, but there are plenty of blogs circling the blogosphere that offer their own opinions…
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Passion
I was lucky enough this past week to hear Anita Silvey speak at a library event. If you don’t know the name Anita Silvey, then you are missing out. Anita worked in the publishing world, was an editor for Horn Book Magazine, and teaches at Simmons College, and has devoted her life in the…
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Common Misunderstanding
As I’ve said in the past, I’m a children’s librarian and have been for 4 years (professionally) and have a worked in a library since I was 14, so I’ve actually worked in my career for over 10 years and I’m only 27. That’s not to say that I’m an…
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RIP Maurice Sendak
Most people know Maurice Sendak as the author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are, but he also In the Night Kitchen and Chicken Soup with Rice among many others. Sendak received the Caldecott medal in 1964 for his most famous book Where the Wild Things Are. He will be remembered…
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Children’s Author and Illustrator Event
I was lucky enough to get out to Kutztown University’s Children’s Literature Conference this past Saturday and was pleasantly surprised by much of the conference. Matt Phelan, Seymour Simon, and Thomas Yezerski each had a session and were available for autographs. They also include a Book Review section each year. …
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World Book Night
I’ll be honest, before just a few minutes ago, I have never heard of World Book Night, but it looks like an amazing event. The USA Today wrote an article about the event that you can find here. Basically, thirty books have been selected by librarians, publishers, and booksellers to…
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Spread the Word to End the Word
What word, you may be asking? The R-word, or as others have heard it “retarded.” Why am I posting about this? Well, many of you may not be aware of a book award presented by the American Library Association called the Schneider Family Book Award. “The Schneider Family Book Awards…
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Community Outreach – Story Time at the Intermediate Unit
For the past three years, our library has provided an outreach to the county Intermediate Unit offering story time once a month for the preschool class. I visit the classroom on the first Thursday of the month seeing two different classes of children – one in the morning, the other…
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“Libraries are screwed….”
I just finished reading an article in the March/April 2012 of The Horn Book Magazine written by Stephen Roxburgh about The e-Future. In this article Stephen quotes a librarian named Eli Neiburger by saying that “Libraries are in the business of owning and sharing content. The faster the format becomes…