Would people be interested in “Where are they now?” follow-ups on Five Question Friday interviewees? Many are moving up in the world.
Also, would people, especially public librarians, be interested in reading and sharing “Steal My Program” guest contributions on programs that went well at other libraries?
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…
Trivia warm ups always go well when we work with a public librarian. It gets the kids talking, worked up (not always good), and excited. Instead of just trivia, you could ask them what they’re reading, or for book recommendations. Little incentive prizes help. The librarian who comes to us usually just gives out pens to those who answer a question / give a book recommendation.
Great encouragement, thanks! I’ve come up with a few trivia questions, ask kids for their recs, and I think I’ll bring Pop Rocks as prizes. I’ll also chat up the prizes kids can earn by reading, and do a few quick book talks – I’m thinking a couple summer romances like Sarah Dessen, a couple Hunger Games readalikes, and a couple “coming to the big screen” books, like Ender’s Game, maybe?
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We have our fandoms. We have our favorite shows to discuss at work (Game of Thrones, anyone?). But drop that facade for a moment, you’re among friends. What is your guilty pleasure show to watch? The show you watch for 7 hours straight when you’re home sick from work?
I watch a fair amount of…
Grey’s Anatomy, for glamour, cathartic crying opportunities, and improbable but pleasantly shocking plot turns. And, relatedly, Private Practice during maternity leave.
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!
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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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.
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!
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:
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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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dispatches from public librarianship and beyond by Katherine Grimm Bowers
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