• Lifestyle

    Shelf Reading

    So this is what I’ve felt like for the past week – we’ve been trying to do some massive shelf reading in our department as the holidays usually show book borrowing down a little and there’s a lot more stuff to make sure has found its rightful home. We break…

  • Lifestyle

    Summer is Comin'… (insert Jaws theme song here!)

    It’s getting to that point in the year where I have to seriously start thinking about summer reading, not that it hasn’t been happening for months now already.  We had our first school visit yesterday – at the middle school, after the kids have spent the last week and a…

  • Lifestyle

    Concept Picture Books (or How to Make More Room!)

    In my library our pictures books are shelved around a large square with shelves around the inside and outside of the square.  It’s a really cool idea – leaving space for families and kids to read on the inside and is open so that adults can see over the shelves…