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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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May 9, 2010 Happy Mother’s Day Garza 1.0!
This Mother’s Day, I wanted to thank my mom, Lynne, for encouraging me to enter this profession in the most public way possible. She’s a totally amazing librarian herself and has been in public and private libraries for probably more years than she’d care for me to share on the internet. She originally went into [...]
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April 22, 2009 I’m on the Intertubes… Sort of.
Someone made a video of (part of) my Baby Goose story time, and now I’m famous! Let the internet dollars start rolling in! Well, you can’t really see me through the sea of infants, but I’m there, holding my stuffed baby-placebo monkey and singing. The songs are “Here We Go Up, Up, Up!” (good activity [...]
Tags: Baby Goose, Here We Go Up Up Up, libraries, songs, story time
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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 [...]
Tags: children, helen oxenbury, libraries, michael rosen, we're going on a bear hunt
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