I am absolutely thrilled that Claudia, a Youth Services Librarian at Homer Public Library was able to obtain a Sugs’tun translation from the wonderful Sally Ash. Sugs’tun is the language spoken by the Sugpiaq people of coastal Alaska.
Thank you so very much Sally and Claudia!!!
HAPPY KRAMPUSNACHT EVERYBODY! Over the past few years, Krampusnacht has become more acknowledged and celebrated in the United States. This celebration takes place on December 5, the day before Saint Nicholas (who approves of the Krampus’ work) rewards the good children on Nikolaustag. Read more about it here since I’d rather get to the storytime…
I can hardly believe that the last time I wrote about our Summer Reading Program booklets was five summers ago. That’s utterly unreal to me. Since then I’ve heard from librarians across the country who have been interested in our program – and some who actually have done it with great success! Yay!!! Over the…
<strong><em><img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-2947″ src=”https://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/deep-thoughts-hafu.jpg” alt=”” width=”584″ height=”389″>Warning: the following post is very wordy and pretty philosophical in nature. In other words it’s really not like most of my other posts ’round here. I won’t feel bad if you skip it. Promise.</em></strong> <strong><em>For those who brave my musings – I’ve sprinkled the post with pictures that…
Both Brandi and another librarian suggested that I make an ASL set of signs. I wasn’t sure how I could do this, so I put out a request for help on my personal Facebook account, and I ended up having a very interesting discussion about representation vs. “othering.” We never came to a confident conclusion,…
The prep for this year’s front window display began a full month prior, where we put out mysterious colorful squares containing two black lines. We instructed our youngest patrons to write their name on the top line, and then a book or book series’ name on the second line. We then kept the squares. That’s…
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…
