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Hindsight is … the year in retrospect

Filed in Collections,Programs,libraries,story time, March 23, 2009, 4:21 am by mmgarza , ,

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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Winter Baby Goose 1: A tentative new beginning

Filed in Programs,story time, January 13, 2009, 1:15 am by mmgarza , , , , , ,

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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Lvl Up: User-Friendly Easy Readers

Filed in Collections,libraries, , 1:01 am by mmgarza , , , ,

So 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 [...]

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JNF, WTF?

Filed in Collections, September 24, 2008, 5:54 pm by mmgarza , , , , ,

I got the go-ahead to do some sorely needed weeding on the Juvenile Non-Fiction Section (my first ever). To sidestip the issue of not wanting to throw anything out because of curriculum demand, I ordered a report done for items that haven’t circulated in 2 years or more. I’m finding a lot of picturebooks on [...]