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Life Without Libraries
Jeff Jacoby, a columnist at The Boston Globe, wrote an opinion piece titled “Life Without Libraries Would Be Unimaginably Poorer” yesterday. The writer talks about his experience in libraries growing up and how, although technology is important, it doesn’t make a library – books make a library. I had a similar experience…
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Early Literacy Messages In Action
As children’s librarians we all know how important early literacy is to children’s development, but how we portray the significance to the parents and ardians in our community is just as important. Jbrary.com is placing this important message in the forefront of children’s librarians this week with a round up…
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Book Review – “Piper Green and the Fairy Tree"
Piper Green and the Fairy Tree written by Ellen Potter tells the story of a second grader name Piper who lives on a small island off the coast of Maine. She loves her family, misses her older brother, and tells it like it is which makes her a interesting character…
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It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 6/15/15
Today is our official Summer Reading Kickoff! It’s been pretty busy already, but I’m going to try and post now before I forget! I got a lot of reading done this past week – and it was amazing! This week, I finished: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson The Great Good Summer…
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90 degree heat + a broken air conditioner = Madness!
Our air conditioner has been broken for a little while now and because we have to follow procedure, it may still be awhile before it can be repaired. Meanwhile, it’s been over 90 degrees for the past two days and our summer reading program officially begins on Monday. Luckily, we…
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The Last School Visits and Summer Reading
We had a group of 100 third graders visit this past week for a library tour and a quick highlight of upcoming library programs for summer reading. We had already seen them at school a few weeks ago, but they got the chance to come into the library, which for…
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Improving Adult Literacy
Engadget, a technology blog, had an article yesterday about improving adult literacy. XPRISE is teaming up with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy in a competition for developers to create applications to promote reading and writing for adults. The article states that there are 36 million adults living in the…
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It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 6/8/2015
I got a lot read this past week and am excited about a few other books for this upcoming week! And then, next Monday, all heck breaks loose as Summer Reading officially begins! (I’m not quite ready yet!) Anyway, this week I read The Detective’s Assistant by Kate Hannigan – a historical…
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Happy Birthday Tera! (The Library Turtle)
On Monday evening we celebrated our library turtle’s 15th birthday! She is a staple here in our library; the kids absolutely adore her and she is very social with the children as well! Some children just stop to say “hi,” while others show off the books they plan on checking…
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BEA – My Experience!
Last Thursday marked my first time experiencing the fun, crazy BookExpo America! I wasn’t really sure what to expect going into it, but after a lot of planning and figuring things out the day of, I had a great time! My co-worker and I drove to New Jersey to take…