For a while I’ve been teasing something called Punk Rock Book Jockeys. Now the teasing is over; I have released it for better or worse (I’m hoping for better).
Follow this link to learn what a Punk Rock Book Jockey is and does.
TLDR: It’s past time to usher in a golden age of public libraries by transforming library workers. For reals.
Rock on, y’all!
Chinese Language teacher Xiaoli kindly translated “Libraries are for everyone” into simplified Mandarin for this project! Thank you Xiaoli!!!
Before last year’s Kitty Café I had an idea. You see, it tends to get pretty hot in our small meeting room during this event, even if we pump up the A/C beforehand. So it’d be nice to have fans to give to people. And, in the way my mind works, I came up with…
It turns out that I got some of my themes/months confused. I had thought that our Pokémon Go! décor had been in September. Nope. It was a bonus August theme (thank you to my team for pointing this out to me – and I’ve gone back and corrected my earlier posts as a result). Basically…
Tim from the Metropolitan Library System in Oklahoma County, OK sent me in the Esperanto translation. Dankon Tim!!!
Behold my silly creation! <img class=”alignnone wp-image-1390″ title=”The Tale of Loki Rabbit at the Library: a silly mashup cover of a fun story that deserves contemplation (or not). ” src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/lokirabbithlo.jpg?w=584″ alt=”My fake cover illustration of The Tale of Loki Rabbit at the Library – riffing on Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit.” width=”584″ height=”755″>…
With us being very short-staffed, having wrapped up <a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/2013/10/07/star-wars-reads-day-2013/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”><em>Star Wars Reads Day</em></a>, and needing to take over four weekly ongoing storytimes over the next month or so, I needed to get a quick and dramatic display up at our Main Library. I came up with the concept of having it be a…
