Library Day in the Life Round 5: Tuesday or “The More We Get Together the Happier I Will Be.”
Filed in Library Day in the Life,libraries,story time, July 27, 2010, 1:24 am by mmgarzaToday was my last day of storytime for the summer. We only ran Family Storytimes this summer – for ages 0-5 years. This is a notoriously strange storytime to do since it’s hard to select materials appropriate for that age range and even more difficult to keep all those involved engaged for a full 30 [...]
Library Day in the Life: Monday – Administratapalooza.
Filed in Library Day in the Life, July 26, 2010, 11:41 pm by mmgarzaDuring Library Day in the Life Round … was it 3? I was running around doing Summer Reading Club programs and working at the reference desk like a madwoman. This past Monday, I ran around troubleshooting camp administration, overseeing more super-secret library classification testing, whipping Programming Volunteers into shape and lots of administrative unpleasantries that [...]
Pre-Party Library Day in the Life #5: THE WEEKEND.
Filed in Library Day in the Life,libraries, , 1:44 pm by mmgarzaToday is technically the first day of Library Day in the Life Round 5. But, since I’ve already been at work for two days, I thought I’d fill the Internet in on my “Monday” and “Tuesday.” Also, this provides a good explanation for my unintelligible blogs and tweets towards Thursday and Friday of this week. [...]
The Library Your Library Could Smell Like.
Filed in libraries, July 16, 2010, 2:40 am by mmgarzaI’m sure we all know about the Old Spice Guy “Man your man could smell like” commercial. After all – it’s one of the best ad campaigns ever, resulting in hundreds of kazillions of internet dollars and serious lulz. (Did I just say that? Yes, I did.) Recently, the campaign (look – I’m referring to [...]