• Lifestyle

    AtoZ Blogging Challenge – Education

    During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the 2017 Blogging from A to Z Challenge. For this year’s theme, I chose to look at leadership qualities as I’ve just recently (within the past 6 months) become the director of my public library. We have about 50 staff members,…

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    AtoZ Blogging Challenge – Determination

    During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the 2017 Blogging from A to Z Challenge. For this year’s theme, I chose to look at leadership qualities as I’ve just recently (within the past 6 months) become the director of my public library. We have about 50 staff members,…

  • Lists

    Top Ten Tuesday: Harry Potter Fandom – Quote Style

    I had a difficult time with this topic! I’m not super into any one thing, unless it’s books, but I decided to go with Harry Potter because I do love the series, I just don’t do the whole writing fan-fiction, purchasing merchandise, etc. part of fandom. So instead I chose ten…

  • Lifestyle

    AtoZ Blogging Challenge – Change

    During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the 2017 Blogging from A to Z Challenge. For this year’s theme, I chose to look at leadership qualities as I’ve just recently (within the past 6 months) become the director of my public library. We have about 50 staff members,…

  • Lists

    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/3/17

    I feel like this is all I say, but it was a crazy week – we’re making some policy changes (to make our library more accessible) and there’s always a little confusion among staff and opinions from patrons.  Hopefully, everything has sorted itself out, we’ll see what tomorrow morning brings!…

  • Lifestyle

    AtoZ Blogging Challenge – Budget

    During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the 2017 Blogging from A to Z Challenge.  For this year’s theme, I chose to look at leadership qualities as I’ve just recently (within the past 6 months) become the director of my public library. We have about 50 staff members,…

  • Lifestyle

    AtoZ Blogging Challenge – Adjustment

    During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the 2017 Blogging from A to Z Challenge.  For this year’s theme, I chose to look at leadership qualities as I’ve just recently (within the past 6 months) become the director of my public library. We have about 50 staff members,…

  • Activities

    Holocaust Survivor Program

    We had a HUGE crowd for this program on a Wednesday evening. At a time when there are fewer and fewer Holocaust survivors living, I felt strongly that we needed to give our community the opportunity to hear about this horrific historical event from a first-perspective. It also worked out…

  • Lifestyle

    2018 Blogging A to Z: Theme Reveal

    Although I missed the official theme reveal last Monday, I still want to take a second and reveal my theme for this year’s Blogging from A to Z Challenge. I participated for the first time last year creating 26 blog posts for storytime planning with great stories and rhymes to…

  • Lifestyle

    2017 Anna Dewdney Read Together Award Finalists

    The first annual Anna Dewdney Read Together Award finalists were announced last week and I didn’t get a chance to post this yet, so here goes. Anna Dewdney, children’s book author and illustrator, most well-known for her series Llama Llama passed away last year of brain cancer at the age of…