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New Activities for the Early Literacy Crowd
We’ve started planning for our fall programming and I’m looking into new ideas to share with our early literacy crowd (birth – 5 years old). We have a variety of storytimes we offer: Infant Toddler Preschool Famiy Yoga Parachute Pajama Sensory-Friendly We’ve also begun offering our Preschool Explorers program which…
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Pennsylvania's Cruise Into Kindergarten
I’m currently serving on a committee created by the State Library of Pennsylvania to create a smooth transition into Kindergarten for all children in Pennsylvania focused on what the public library can do. We’ve been working for about a year and a half and I am so excited to see some…
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Holiday Early Literacy Extras
The holidays are just about here and although there has been a lot of talk as to whether or not holiday programming has a place in the public library, I’ve thought of some great ways to encourage early literacy at home during the holidays, yes it’s Christmas focused, but that…
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Book Review: Born Reading
Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in the Digital Age – From Picture Books to eBooks and Everything in Between by Jason Boog is a great read for new and expecting parents that gives simple ways to encourage young children to learn to love books and reading. And I’m really enjoying…
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten
If you do a search online a number of libraries around the country have created their own version of 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program. My boss came to me sometime in early January, I believe, and thought that this would be a great program for our library to offer. After a…
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Family Place Library Training = Exhausted
So I spent a number of hours today in training to re-create our library into a Family Place Library and as of right now, I am so tired I can barely see straight. But, I got some amazing ideas, brainstormed with some amazing librarians, and met a lot of cool…
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Family Place Library Training
I’m away from my library for most of this week at a 4-day training so that our library can become a Family Place Library which means more offering more services to our families and young children. I’m so excited to learn more about early childhood development and how our library…
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Common Misunderstanding
As I’ve said in the past, I’m a children’s librarian and have been for 4 years (professionally) and have a worked in a library since I was 14, so I’ve actually worked in my career for over 10 years and I’m only 27. That’s not to say that I’m an…