passive programming

Re-Vamping Summer Reading, Part One: Passive Programs

WE DID IT.  We survived summer!  Ah summer! The most exciting and exhausting time in a public youth services librarian’s life.  Even when you’re pulling your hair out, every day has a moment or two that reminds you why you’re doing this whole thing. This summer I decided I wanted to make some BIG and…

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Passive Programming for Teens: Shelf-Talkers

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…

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Two Quick Passive Programs for Spring

We just wrapped up our Spring Break.  Last year, as you might remember, we experimented with doing a week worth of mostly school-age programming.  We had mixed results, but I’m glad we tried it.  You can read all about what we did during that week here. But I was going to be out of town…

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