One of our easiest and most useful initiatives is our Celebrate A Grade initiative. We’ve run it for the past three school years and it has lots of applications. Every month celebrates a specific grade. We begin in October with kindergarten. When kids in each grade come up to the desk and tell us their teacher…
It all started with Little Melba! Little Melba and Her Big Trombone was one of my favorite books of 2014! This swinging picture book biography (winner of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for Frank Morrison, yay!) tells the story of Melba Liston, a girl in the 1930s who was told little girls couldn’t play…
Welcome to Thrive Thursday for February the month of love. It’s a perfect month for me to host, because I LOVE THIS ROUND-UP and I love this community! There’s TONS of great content this month, so let’s get going! Mallory has a BRAND-NEW blog (aw yes new bloggers, welcome and keep writing!) and she wrote this…
There’s no way to escape Frozen. And hey, why would you want to? Of all Disney products, it’s not the worst. In fact, there’s some pretty great parts. What’s not to love about a heroine with ice powers and another heroine who saves her? The idea for this program really started growing when I noticed a…
My town loves science! Of course we do – we’re where the atomic bomb was built and, since that time, we’ve had a national science laboratory here in our town that fills up our community with scientists from all over the world. For the past few years, our town has celebrated a yearly Science Festival….
As many of you know, especially if you follow me on Twitter, one of my greatest fears in life is that all these cool and amazing programs we have – especially the ones during summer – miss out on working parents. Everything we have starts at 2 PM? Well, what about if you don’t have…
Summer is already in swing at my library. We are having great return numbers on our reading logs, we had a HUGE crowd for our kick-off show (easily over 300 people), and even our regular programs have had an attendance surge. We launched our Lego Club to FANTASTIC numbers of almost all boys aged 7-14…
Without a doubt, the most popular program our library provides is our Music & Movement program. It’s SO popular that we have it four times a week, including a session at our branch library. And even having it four times a week isn’t enough, we could have it every day and people would come. We get…
And I mean it. Fellow YS librarians! I know that this is our most stressful time of year: this lead-up to summer reading when all things converge into one mass of school visits, school tours, preparing publicity, lining up programs and getting ready for the crush of all those endless days of patrons, programs, and mayhem….
I had such a great response to my passive programming post, I thought I’d do two complimentary posts for some of our teen passive programming. These programs have a little more staff involvement but you can easily scale them for what works with your staff time and patron interest and response. Both of these ideas…
