Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the libraries category.
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 [...]
Pre-Party Library Day in the Life #5: THE WEEKEND.
Filed in Library Day in the Life,libraries, July 26, 2010, 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 [...]
TMI.
Filed in blogs,libraries, June 20, 2010, 5:28 pm by mmgarzaQuestion: 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 [...]
Comics for Kids, What’s Next? Being a Champion for the Comic Book
Filed in Collections,libraries, May 8, 2010, 5:15 pm by mmgarzaToday was the first day of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF) – “Hooray!” says I and hundreds of other people who crowded into the Toronto Reference Library. I went to TCAF for the first time last year and was kind overwhelmed by everything to see (and buy!) during the second day of the festival. [...]
Hindsight is … the year in retrospect
Filed in Collections,Programs,libraries,story time, March 23, 2009, 4:21 am by mmgarzaI’m belatedly celebrating one whole year as a professional librarian – whoo! <does a jig> My biblio-birthday was officially January 2… So I’m going to take a little time to think about what exactly this last year in accidental (completely on purpose) children’s librarianship has yielded in personal and professional development. Programming: I’m still trying [...]
Lvl Up: User-Friendly Easy Readers
Filed in Collections,libraries, January 13, 2009, 1:01 am by mmgarzaSo Easy Readers (not to be confused with Easy Riders)… they’re thin, often used, usually beat-up books that circulate a lot. Bad for shelf reading, hold pulling, and kind of a pain the bibliographic backside of everyone who has to deal with them on an administrative level, shall we say. So, what are people looking [...]
Stats and stuff… a restatement of purpose.
Filed in blogs,libraries, December 2, 2008, 1:43 pm by mmgarzaHuh. I just saw my stats and people are looking at this much more than the big ole “O” that I had expected. Hurray! One of my original misgivings about blogging in general is that it seems sort of narcissistic to assume that I have anything more to say about a single topic than anyone [...]
A Library is a Data-base, too! Sort of.
Filed in instruction,libraries, November 28, 2008, 1:36 am by mmgarzaJust got done with Parents as Partners: Homework Help on the Net – my bibliographic instruction course for kids grade 4-6 and their parents. It’s free (yippee!) but for some reason that means that I usually get a far lower enrolment than on paper. So, 5 kids enrolled, 2 showed up. One of the little [...]
Summer Reading Club… LMAO.
Filed in Summer Reading Club,libraries, June 4, 2008, 8:24 pm by mmgarzaThe theme for the TD Summer Reading Club this year is Laugh Out Loud (LOL) / Lire aux Larmes. I guess in French it would be LauxL, haha So for I have some dumb ideas, which are just cheesy enough to work… I’m going to put smiley faces on the wall with the kids names [...]
