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iPads for Us!
We were lucky enough last year to have a little extra money to be able to purchase 10 iPads for the library (and Otterbox Defender cases). I am now (finally!) getting around to setting them up. I spent the morning pulling them all out of the boxes and after watching…
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$25 Million to Free Library
The Free Library of Philadelphia will be the recipient of $25 million from The William Penn Foundation to out towards innovations and renovations, bringing the library into the 21st century library. This is a generous gift that will go far for the 54-branch library, not only renovating the main library,…
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Take Apart Day
This is not a new program, I’ve seen it come across on a number blogs (especially for this year’s summer reading theme), but we heard about it from another local library and thought it was a fantastic idea! We gathered up old household appliances, old computers, and a couple things…
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Flexibility and Librarians
I literally just posted yesterday how it’s been relatively quiet in the library and I’ve been getting a lot of work done at my desk – revamping the library website, booklists for a new librarian and patrons, and I came in today with a pretty decent to-do list and this…
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Apps in the Library
I’ve been wrestling with this idea for awhile now, apps in the library, but I’ve finally figured out my personal viewpoint on them. For a long time it was advised to keep young children (under the age of 2) from screens, but in today’s screen-needy world, that’s almost impossible. And…