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Libraries Are For Everyone: Chinese
A lovely Chinese novelist reached out to me and among other things, shared with me two translations of Libraries Are For Everyone. She also ended her email with this: Long live librarians! In Chinese: 图书馆长万岁 Literally, “may our library masters live for 10,000 years” – Anonymous Isn’t that wonderful?! Thank you very much, anonymous novelist!!!…

A Legacy of #LAFE
It is hard for me to fully express what the Libraries Are For Everyone campaign has meant to me. Hitting 100 languages this week has really made me pause and reflect on this experience. When I’ve been asked to talk about it, I find that I can’t because it is so deeply moving to me,…

Libraries Are For Everyone: Pashto
Here’s the Pashto translation provided by the generous Muhammad Jamal. Thank you, Muhammad Jamal, for this translation!
Joyful January
The idea for Joyful January happened back in November, when I flipped out over <a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/2015/12/02/fall-can-be-easy/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>the tissue paper window treatment</a> that Natasia did. I had a vision of seeing whispy images through the tissue paper, and then I realized that we could sandwich a photo between tissue paper and it would look…
Bookworm Love
In January we had one very upset little girl at the library who couldn’t understand why we didn’t have a library scavenger hunt that month. We had done <em><a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/2014/01/16/build-a-band/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Build a Band</a> </em>instead – which did alright in terms of participants, but nowhere as good as our scavenger hunts. She loudly bemoaned this fact…
The Very Happy Caterpillar
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