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Toddler Storytime – PA's One Book
Today’s focus for storytime was around the Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child Initiative. “One Book, Every Young Child is made possible through a collaboration of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Please Touch Museum, and State Museum of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Library…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/6/15
As promised from last week, I was able to finish both All the Answers by Kate Messner and Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. I’ll talk about both of these in individual posts – they were both that good! I also finished two adult books – The Goldfinch…
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Book Review: "Greenglass House"
Let me start off by saying I kept putting this book off… for months. I had no idea what it was about, but for whatever reason, I wouldn’t crack the spine. And I’m so sorry I didn’t read it for so long! It’s a great mystery with unexpected surprises, quirky…
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Winner of the 2015 BoB!
I don’t have any clever April Fool’s joke for today, but excitingly the winner of the School Library Journal’s 2015 Battle of the Kids’ Books was announced today! Drumroll please….. the winner is The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin. And of course,…
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Don't Let the Pigeon… Party
Yesterday we had a fun Pigeon party at the library for our young elementary school kids (Kindergarten – 2nd Grade)! Sadly we only ended up with 12 kids in attendance, but they definitely had fun! I made this program really easy by using the Pigeon’s 10th Birthday Celebration Activity Kit.…
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It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 3/30/2015
I’m actually in the middle of an adult book right now, crazy right? But, my coworker told me I just had to read The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. I have about a third of the book left and I’m really enjoying it so far. I love mysterious,…
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Fore! Mini-Golf in the Library
Today we have an eighteen hole miniature golf course set up throughout the library as a fundraiser. Community members are able to stop by at any point from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm to play a round of golf. The cost for patrons to play is $5/person; $10/family; and $15/groups…
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Parent/Teacher Resources
As a Family Place Library, we are tasked with having an up-to-date parent resource section located near our play area where parents can browse for books while their children are playing and not have to wander off to the adult department to do so. We were gracious enough to receive…
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Funding – A Never Ending Battle
With a fundraiser for our library happening on Saturday, finances, budgets and money has been on my mind, especially after receiving an email this morning inviting me to attend the National Library Legislative Day the weekend of May 3 – 5 in Washington DC to talk with representatives, senators and…
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Dance Party + New Music = More FUN
We had our BEST dance party yet! I intermixed some oldies, but goodies into my children’s music playlist and had a number of parents comment about how much they really enjoyed the music selection. And for anyone who has never done this before… after 45 minutes of dancing the kids…
