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#SaturdayLibrarian + Programming = Crazy
We haven’t provided very many Saturday programs in the past, but with more and more patrons requesting Saturday story times, we’ve decided to offer something once a month when a storyteller is working a Saturday shift. If today’s crowd was any indication, we’ll be doing something a lot more on…
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Family Fort Night
We’re having our very first Fort Night at the library this evening! I’m so excited – this would have been the perfect program for me when I was younger! My siblings and I made blanket forts all the time, usually taking over the family room or our playroom and hanging…
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SharpSchu Book Discussion
If you’ve never had the privilege or opportunity to take part in a SharpSchu book discussion, than you definitely need to set aside an hour to do so. Each month Colby Sharp from Sharpread and Mr. Schu from Watch. Connect. Read. host a Twitter book discussion – 30 minutes for a chapter…
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Appreciation
The other day I received a letter in the mail at work (yeah, an actual piece of physical mail!) from a family that has been coming to my story times since about the time I started in my current position almost seven years. With three girls now, the family is…
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Book Review – Stubby the War Dog: The True Story of World War I's Bravest Dog
Stubby the War Dog: The True Story of World War I’s Bravest Dog by Ann Bausum is about an unlikely hero that I had never heard about until reading this informational text. This orphan dog found himself in good company during basic training on Yale’s campus in 1917. Did he…
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New Collection/Rebranding an Old Collection
I’ve been posting about our progress as we rebrand one of our collections in the children’s department. The collection is what we currently call the Bridging Collection, mostly picture books that are for an older audience as well as a catch-all location for materials that don’t fit easily into the…
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Awesome New Resource!
This is too good not to post! A great new resources focused on music for kid! Check out Song Catchers’ Library I’m excited to find some new music for storytime as this is always the most difficult part, I find. Have some great music to add to the list? They have…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 1/26/15
I had a busy week of reading, specifically this weekend as my doctor put me on “vocal rest” to hopefully heal my month-long battle with laryngitis. Because I couldn’t talk all weekend, I spent the majority of my time reading, which was a great way to keep up with my…
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Book Review: Seven Wild Sisters
Seven Wild Sisters: A Modern Fairy Tale by Charles De Lint is actually a companion novel to The Cats of Tanglewood Forest (which I never realized until after I read this one) and Seven Wild Sisters can easily stand on its own. Reminiscent of a classic fairy tale story, Sarah…
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National Readathon Day
Tomorrow (Saturday, January 24th) from Noon – 4:00pm in your own respective time zone, take some time to READ! The National Book Foundation is encouraging the nation to take time to pick up a book and read with this event, so make sure you have some reading material handy –…