Proposed Program: STEM Meets Diversity
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...
View ArticleRe-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...
View ArticlePaperbag Theater @ Your Library
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...
View ArticleHomePages – Homeschooling Book Club
Like many of you, I want to provide the homeschoolers in my community with programming relevant and interesting to them. Many homeschoolers are heavy library users so it made sense to design a program...
View ArticleHow We Do Library Tours (Grades K-2)
One of the questions I see come up most often online is “how do you do library tours?” And I understand why because I struggled with this too. How did we make classes visiting our library an actually...
View ArticleRe-Vamping Summer Reading, Part Two: Those Darn Prizes
—- Previously in this series: Re-Vamping Summer Reading, Part One: Adding Passive Programming & Tracking ——— It is the eternal question of youth services in a public library. What the heck do we...
View ArticleRe-Vamping Summer Reading, Part Three: Super-Action PlayPacks
—— Previously in this series Re-Vamping Summer Reading, Part One: Adding Passive Programming & Tracking Re-Vamping Summer Reading, Part Two: Those Darn Prizes — No more cheap plastic crap! No...
View ArticleRainbow Fairy Magic @ Your Library
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...
View ArticleHow We Do Library Tours (Grades 3 & 4)
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...
View ArticleDinosaurs @ Your Library!
Last summer we repeated one of our popular standalone programs – DINOS! It had been a few years since we did this program and, as many of you know, I recycle these themed programs at least every 2-3...
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