ultrapearl: Today I set up mannequins with costumes from the 50s and 60s all over our library. I did this because we have a Mad Men event on Thursday where a movie- and book critic and journalist comes to give a talk on why the series is so popular. She also wrote a book on the subject. Anyway, I have been planning this event for months, ordering the costumes, the mannequins and making posters and flyers and finding lit from the era and this week is going to be great! I have the dream job. I wish our library did displays this lovely. (Although our Banned Books Week display is shaping up pretty nicely.)
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ultrapearl:

Today I set up mannequins with costumes from the 50s and 60s all over our library. I did this because we have a Mad Men event on Thursday where a movie- and book critic and journalist comes to give a talk on why the series is so popular. She also wrote a book on the subject. Anyway, I have been planning this event for months, ordering the costumes, the mannequins and making posters and flyers and finding lit from the era and this week is going to be great! I have the dream job.

I wish our library did displays this lovely. (Although our Banned Books Week display is shaping up pretty nicely.)

exciting library interactions

  1. woman with ten-year-old daughter who aspires to be a librarian someday
  2. police officer who needs instructions on how to access our online subscription for test prep and is very patient when the mouse doesn’t work
  3. reference call about the ethnic origins of his grandmother’s last name

Less so:

  1. when #3 lapses into friendly advice on how I should wait as long as possible to have children so I keep my figure and my husband.

hi/lo books

Does anyone on here have experience with readers’ advisory for low-literacy adults? I had a man come in with his son a couple months ago and ask for adventure books written at a fourth-grade reading level for himself.

We’ve been closed or operating on a restricted basis since then, but the question hasn’t left me, and last week I read SLJ’s “Never a Dull Moment: Body Piercing? Extreme Sports? Teen Pregnancy? Welcome to the Action-Packed World of Hi/Lo Books” with some interest.

We already have in our YA collection some books from Orca Soundings, an imprint the author recommends. Would these be a good match for some of our urban, low-literacy adult readers? I’ve also started a pathfinder of suggestions on GoogleDocs, but I’m unsure if I’m on the right track.

Advice?