Tag Archives: children’s books
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 [...]
Tags: children's books, children's librarianship, librarianship
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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, [...]
Tags: babies, children, children's books, librarianship, rhymes and songs, story time, winter rhymes
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January 13, 2009 Lvl Up: User-Friendly Easy Readers
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 [...]
Tags: children's books, collection development, easy readers, librarianship, reading
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September 24, 2008 JNF, WTF?
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 [...]
Tags: children's books, libraries, non-fiction, picture books, public libraries, weeding
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