• Lifestyle

    Bonus! Book Review & Resource

    January 15, 2016 /

    Today you, my reader, are getting a Bonus! Book Review & Resource! I thought that I Am Yoga was done in the best possible way!  The text is beautiful and the illustrations are gorgeous with washes of color and poses that kids will be able to do at home with their…

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  • Activities

    Sensory-Friendly Storytime Theme: Robots

    January 14, 2016 /

    I just finished my fourth storytime of the day and I am beat!  Today’s Sensory Friendly Storytime Theme: Robots! These storytimes are provided at classrooms for preschool-age children who have a disability.  The disabilities range from vision, language, autism spectrum, learning disabilities, mobility disabilities, and others.  It can be exhausting…

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  • Activities

    Pre-K Dance Party

    January 13, 2016 /

    We had a HUGE and very successful Pre-K Dance Party yesterday morning with 45+ toddlers and preschoolers and their parents/guardians.  It has just been starting to get cold here with a very weird and warm winter.  But, kids were ready to come in and move! My few ground rules involved…

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  • Lists

    It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? 1/11/2016

    January 11, 2016 /

    I participated in my first ever Bout of Books this past week, which means my reading amount is much higher than usual!  But, I got through a lot of books that have been on my un-official TBR for a really long time!  And I’ve found that there are a lot…

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  • Lists

    ALA Youth Media Awards 2016

    January 11, 2016 /

    Wow!  I’m not even sure where to start.  I got up extra early, skipped my gym workout and got to work by about 7:15 so I could listen to SLJ’s pre-game show before the live webcast of the Youth Media Awards at 8:00am.It was so worth it.  I know everyone…

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  • Lifestyle

    ALA Midwinter Conference & Youth Media Awards

    January 8, 2016 /

    I’m super jealous of all my library friends who are spending a fantastic weekend in Boston at the ALA Midwinter conference.  I’m going to be following the #ALAMW16 hashtag to see what’s happening and the #alaleftbehind hashtag to commiserate with other librarians stuck at home.The conference is very early this…

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  • Lifestyle,  Lists

    Book Display: Show Books Some Love

    January 7, 2016 /

    We’ve been very busy weeding books throughout our department, but we had found a lot of books in our picture book area that are beautiful, relatively new books that haven’t circulated well, so we’re hoping we can save them!  I’ve seen a lot of libraries offer book displays for books…

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  • Lifestyle

    Library Leadership

    January 6, 2016 /

    I saw this article on Library Lost & Found as I was scanning my Feedly checking to see what others are talking about on the (many) blogs I follow and it caught my eye!  The title – 9 Ways to Become an Even Awesomer Library Leader in 2016 by Megan Hartline.  I…

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