Seeking Advice, 2

Going to visit a couple of fifth and sixth grade classrooms in a couple of weeks to get kids excited about our SRP. I’ll be meeting them (maybe 20 at a time) during their library time. So far, working once a week through the winter and with no school year programming (yet!), I’ve only met one or two of these guys.

I’m planning on bringing reading logs and program calendars, and also plugging our big-budget event, the Hunger Games Training Day, really hard. I was also thinking maybe I could do some sort of quick book trivia warmup (“What’s the name of Prim’s cat?” “What is Tris’s original faction?,” etc., with maybe, like, packets of Pop Rocks as prizes?).

Have you done something similar? Or are you a teacher or school librarian, who knows what she’d like to see in a visit from the local public librarian? Advise away!

libraryjournal: bookavore: Readers’ advisory practice So cool. I want to play this at librarian parties. (Hypothetical reference challenges were my favorite part of the notoriously demanding Reference core course at Simmons, and maybe of library school in general. I DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER BUT I KNOW WHERE TO FIND IT.)
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bookavore:

Readers’ advisory practice

So cool.

I want to play this at librarian parties. (Hypothetical reference challenges were my favorite part of the notoriously demanding Reference core course at Simmons, and maybe of library school in general. I DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER BUT I KNOW WHERE TO FIND IT.)

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Love my library job…

  • because I get to order YA books and get it into the hands of teen readers
  • because the programs I plan involve such disparate elements as collage and laser guns
  • because not only does my baby son get to visit me at work, he can check out the newest picture books at the same time
  • because I don’t pay library late fees
  • because public librarianship, for me, offers just the right blend of introverted and extroverted work, and of physical and mental work

spontaneous overflow: Room of Requirement

alethiosaur:

Today I was looking for bookends. “Have you checked the secret closet outside, past the stairs, next to the boiler room?” asked Librarian Jason.

“I have not.” I went out the loading dock, followed the ramp down, and then further down dark stairs. Just before the boiler room, a secret outdoor…

In which a self-proclaimed non-library-tumbling librarian writes, combining two of my favorite things — Harry Potter and libraries — a meditative essay on the magic of libraries. Let us all remember their magic.

seeking advice, 1

When you’re doing a workshop or something, and you have a signup sheet, how do you walk the line between holding people accountable and being, you know, nice and still attractive as an institution?

For Art Week, especially with the littlest kids, we were filled up with a wait list. And then there were a lot of no-shows, and I could have let the wait listers in if only I’d known. Do you get email addresses and send out a reminder? Call the day before?

Advise!

shhh! no running in the library!: Get To Know Your Tumblarians Tuesday: Favorite Childhood Books?

lecieltumultueux:

This weekend my mom pulled out a stack of children’s books for me to flip through for fun, and indeed it was! We all have our favorite series, chapter books, picture books. Which titles really stuck with you into adulthood (even if you haven’t read it since you were…

Ooh, off the top of my head in roughly chronological order:

  • Blueberries for Sal
  • Is Your Mama a Llama?
  • The Secret Garden
  • Anne of Green Gables, etc.
  • Tomorrow When the War Began, etc.
  • Harry Potter, etc.
  • The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman
  • The China Garden

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the pinakes: Get To Know Your Tumblarians Tuesday: What'd you study?

lecieltumultueux:

Something I love about the librarianship field is the interesting mix of people who decided this was the career for them. But behind this unity is a smattering of other interests, so I’d love to know, what did you study in college?

(I’ll start off. I studied French and…

English lit, Great Books, photography. I was pretty good at #1 & #2, but not so much #3 — my photography professor was known to reassure me, “I can tell you’re trying.” I loved checking out from the world while in the darkroom, though.

The English lit gave me a firm foundation in reading widely, and while Great Books helped with that, too, I think its greatest value for me was in the discussion format, which helped me learn to speak up.

My honors thesis was on Anne of Green Gables, as I think I’ve mentioned before.

I loved my undergraduate education.

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Five Question Friday: Kate and the Tumblarians

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Here, Kate poses with her very prestigious libbanana.

 After interviewing Kate thelifeguardlibrarian awhile back, I noticed things have taken off with the librarians-on-tumblr phenomenon, with Kate at the forefront as an informal organizer and motivator. Here, I ask her about what’s changed, both in her life and in what it means to be a librarian on tumblr, since we last talked.

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unemployed-librarian:

I had way too much fun with the Pulp-O-Mizer. I wanted a catchy title and remembered the Kate and the Tumblarians post. I thought “It’s a cool band name, but also a cool Book Series Name!” I hope Kate doesn’t mind too much that I used her for Issue 1.

Bad. Ass.

Well looky here.

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