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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 [...]

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July 27, 2010 Library Day in the Life Round 5: Tuesday or “The More We Get Together the Happier I Will Be.”

Today 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 [...]

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March 23, 2009 Hindsight is … the year in retrospect

I’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 [...]

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January 28, 2009 When in Doubt…

For our “story time on demand” story times (the MPL “there’s a lot of kids here -better offer story time” initiative) I’m finding this book (We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury) to be an absolute hit! I’m about to take it into Ontario Early Years circle time with [...]

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January 13, 2009 Winter Baby Goose 1: A tentative new beginning

Ah, another season, another round of Story Times. I’m still fighting the good fight with Baby Goose, our story time for 0-2 years. Although now with our new out in the open story time design that usually means I’ll get kids from newborn on up. This bother some people – with my 0-5 story time, [...]

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October 14, 2008 Baby Goose: Welcome to My World of Inadequacy…

This fall brings about a whole new challenge: BABIES. After MPL’s new “out in the open” mandate, we have two separate baby times, Baby Goose (out in the open) and Books and Babies (the closed-off original version of the program). Lois, the full-time library assistant at Angus Glen, is the source of all this programming [...]

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July 22, 2008 Family Fun-Day Monday Week 3… Ooey Gooey… Librarian

Week 3 of this self-proclaimed lame named (haha fox in socks, sir) story time. This week’s theme was “Ooey Gooey.” The jury’s still out on whether or not the themes make it easier or harder for story time planning… this was kind of a strange theme, so maybe that was it. The program itself was [...]

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July 15, 2008 Family Story Time: A lesson in not being cool

Since one of the Children’s part-time library assistants has left (sniff sniff) I’ve taken over a second story time every other week. This week I was too stressed out to come up with an ingenious theme combination for the second story time. So I threw together some funny books that didn’t fit in with any [...]

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July 8, 2008 Family Fun-Day Monday Week 1… Funny Foods. I can haz out in the open?

My very first story time that I have created… planned… and will do for longer than 15 minutes! Hooray! I was really really nervous. This is also Angus Glen’s very first “out in the open” story time ever. Good thing it went much better than expected! The kids were incredibly cute. I’ve found that small [...]

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