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Spy Night @ Your Library
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...
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A Week of ScienceFest Programming
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...
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FROZEN @ Your Library!
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...
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Thrive Thursday February 2015 Round-Up
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...
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Proposed Program: Meet the Music
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...
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Celebrate A Grade & A Simple Passive Program
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...
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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...
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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...
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Paperbag 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...
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HomePages – 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...
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How 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...
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Re-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...
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Re-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...
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Rainbow 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...
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How 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...
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Dinosaurs @ 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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