We did it! We finished another school year of library visits and tours! Lessons were learned, improvements were made, and tons of kids, teachers, and parents visited our main library and our branch library for tours and outreach. I previously wrote up the process of how we do tours for our K-2 visits and people have…
In a way, this event exemplifies everything I think these one day stand-alone programs can be: no matter what you might see, you don’t have to spend a TON of money and endless staff hours creating something that looks like it came out of a party planning book. You don’t have to limit attendance just…
Many moons ago we got a patron comment that the person loved our storytimes for their older kids, but their younger child was too little for “flashcards and long stories.” (I like to sometimes start older kid storytime sessions with color/shape/animal flashcards to have the kids make sounds, guess shapes, etc.) This was a real…
One of my co-workers called this “the perfect library program” and I have to agree! It’s also SUPER SIMPLE and BASICALLY FREE and has a huge age range appeal. What’s not to love!? We opened a new branch library after years and years of planning. (My library system only has two locations – our larger main location…
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…
I was brainstorming for summer reading when I came up with this program. A lot of the inspiration came from What Color is My World? The Lost History of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Raymond Obstefeld. This book traces the history of several African American inventors who are not widely known. As I was thinking…
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….
