Libraries Are For Everyone: Afrikaans
Cheryl, the School Librarian at Springvale Primary in South Africa reached out to me with a variety of languages spoken in South Africa! Up first is Afrikaans.
Thank you, Cheryl and her colleagues!!!

Cheryl, the School Librarian at Springvale Primary in South Africa reached out to me with a variety of languages spoken in South Africa! Up first is Afrikaans.
Thank you, Cheryl and her colleagues!!!
<img class=”alignnone wp-image-3209″ src=”https://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/does-what.jpg” alt=”” width=”700″ height=”506″> It wasn’t until very recently that I had a revelation: When a patron is in our library and discovers something neat like our <a href=”https://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/2014/07/14/summer-reading-booklets/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Summer Reading Program Booklets</a>, and they’re all like, “Wow! I had <em>no</em> idea!” and I’m all Beamy McBeamface and like, “I…
Brittany and I were pretty stumped when it came to how to tie <a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/2014/04/14/the-very-happy-caterpillar/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”><em>The Very Hungry Caterpillar </em>decor</a> into our <em>Great Wall-o-Pun</em>. I have to give complete credit to Brittany for putting it all together and it being totally awesome. She realized that the pun should be food related, and the books featured…
An Ohio school librarian, a student, and the student’s grandparent all worked to get me this translation. They all wanted to remain anonymous. Thank you so much for working together to help spread the LAFE message! In case you were wondering: Akan and Twi are essentially the same. The grandparent compared their differences to that…
The fabulous Latha sent me the Malayalam translation for these signs. Thank you Latha!!!
Crystal, a librarian in Montana, reached out to see if I would make a Facebook Cover of the My Masks Protect My Community design. Of course I could totally do that, and I did, and now I’m sharing several versions of it for y’all to use. Yay!
<img class=”aligncenter size-large wp-image-5759″ src=”https://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/scenes1.jpg?w=700″ alt=”” width=”700″ height=”502″> I had the honor of making another video for the <a href=”https://www.wccls.org/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Washington County Cooperative Library System</a> youth service team this summer. A tiny bit of background on this project: the awesome Bryce from <a href=”https://brycedontplay.blogspot.com/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Bryce Don’t Play</a> puts out an annual call…