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Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Occupations in the Title
This was a fun list to pull together and I’ll be honest to say I started with a completely different list of books before pivoting to the list I pulled together below. Rather than choose ten different occupations, I decided to share ten books with the word “librarian” in the…
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Top Ten Tuesday: How I Spend My Time When I’m Not Blogging
While I spend a good deal of time on my blog, it’s only a small part of who I am. So for today’s “Non-bookish freebie” I decided to share a little bit about who I am outside of this blog! How else do you spend your time? How I Spend…
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Top Ten Tuesday: How My Blogging Has Changed Over Time
I started blogging at the insistence of my partner who is definitely an “ideas” person. He was very much on board with me starting a blog and I was way more skeptical. I mean, honestly, who would even want to read anything I’ve ever written?!?! But, it’s been 14 years…
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Director’s Thoughts – 4/25/25
Let’s talk meetings. I feel like the higher up you go in an organizational structure, the more time you spend in meetings! And right now, I feel like the majority of time I’m spending at work is in meetings. Whether they’re all productive is something we’ll get into. For example,…
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Director’s Thoughts – 3/19/25
I try very hard to steer clear of politics on this blog, rather focusing my energy on providing children’s book choices for kids of all ages and reading levels. And today’s post wasn’t going to be political, until President Trump signed more executive orders on Friday night and did so…
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Director’s Thoughts – 2/28/25
When I started as a director nine years, I felt strongly that we needed to have one day where most of the staff could come together to learn about the overall vision of the library, work on projects, and spend time together. It’s difficult to share information (I know, I’m…
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Director’s Thoughts – 1/17/24
Today I want to talk about trying new things. It’s still the beginning of the year and I thought that it made sense about making changes at a time when a lot of people are resetting for a new year with resolutions, words of the year, and goal setting. Librarians…
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Storytime Planning
While the general public might think that planning storytime is just grabbing a few books off the shelf and tossing in a few songs, planning a storytime isn’t that easy! But, if you do it well, the rewards are completely worth it! You’ll have both the kids and caregivers completely…
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Director’s Thoughts – 12/13/24
I’d have to say one of favorite things about working in a library is selecting new books for the collection. It’s a lot of fun unboxing new books and checking out titles that get automatically added to my TBR list. But, coming in a very close second is the opposite…
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Director’s Thoughts – 11/22/24
Since it’s November and a time for gratefulness, I decided to share ten reasons why I’m thankful for libraries. I grew up visiting my home library since I can remember and I started working in libraries when I was 14 years old. I have had a passion for libraries for…
