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January 14, 2012 Learn from Tina…Like a BOSS.
This week I’m in the midst of both being Branch Librarian (taking care of the branch and all of the people therein except for circ staff and librarians) and a huuuuuuge event in Children’s Services that I hadn’t yet prepared for. Also programs started this week so we have a handful of new instructors running [...]
Tags: leadership, libraries, like a boss, management, staff
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January 9, 2012 Like a Boss Installment 1: The Preamble
My fourth year of legit librarianship, and I’m kind of a boss. I mean, I was always kind of a boss – my library system only has one librarian per department per branch. After working at BTPL during my internship, I sort of assumed that I’d be taken under the wizened, awesome tutelage of more experienced [...]
Tags: boss, leadership, librarian, librarianship, libraries, public libraries
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March 1, 2011 A, B, C, D, E-readers
Of course everyone and their mother is talking about e-content nowadays, especially in the wake of the Harper Collins/OverDrive upset. After squawking about e-books enough in my “trends” portion of month-end reports, I was asked by my administration to develop and lead a series of sessions to train staff on the fundamentals of using different [...]
Tags: children, e-readers, education, libraries, reluctant readers, students, teaching, technology
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December 12, 2010 Christmastime is Here… and that means a Winter Storytime for Children Birth to 7 years!
Since school gets out a full week before Christmas this year, I felt like I should provide entertainment at the branch. After Christmas – I’m on vacation and the library is on it’s own! We have an awesome Teen Advisory Group (TAG), who really enjoy working with the kids here, and even beg the teen [...]
Tags: children's programming, children's story times, storytime
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September 15, 2010 Ontario Early Years Sept. 15
Ah, back in the Ontario Early Years saddle. I asked if they had any special themes for the day – usually it’s something like “fall” – and Elham and Kim said “Well, what about making new friends? A lot of the kids are new today.” Wellllll usually no problem! Unfortunately today, we’re in Day 3 [...]
Tags: Anita Lobel, Audrey Wood, books, David Ezra Stein, Don Wood, Hello Day!, Piggies, Pouch, storytime
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July 16, 2010 The Library Your Library Could Smell Like.
I’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 [...]
Tags: harold b. lee library, libraries, old spice guy, promotions
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June 20, 2010 TMI.
Question: When is information too much information? Answer: When information is in the form of my Twitter feed that I established in the interest of being professionally responsible and then… became kind of involved (read: addicted) on a personal level. At first I tweeted sparingly about library related topics only but then it kind of [...]