After several requests for a Bulgarian translation, I put out a call for help on Twitter. Thankfully, the fabulous global librarian Karen Van Drie (a.k.a. @worldlibraries) in Istanbul, Turkey responded with the translation!
A big thank you to both Karen and her translator!!!
Over the past several days we have had several parents ask us where our Halloween books are. I think that we were all a little taken aback, but as our newest team member Julia said, “the stores have the Halloween stuff out, so it’s on parents’ and kids’ minds.” Plus, it definitely feels like autumn…
Brittany and I generally brainstorm ideas about our <em>Great Wall-o-Puns</em>. It’s usually a pretty fun session, or I’ll say “think about what we should do next month” and walk away. If we’re sharing ideas together, then it’s the one that puts a sparkle in her eyes that I know we’ll be doing. Sometimes I’ll be at…
I had the honor of making another video for the Washington County Cooperative Library System youth service team this summer. A tiny bit of background on this project: the awesome Bryce from S. Bryce Kozla puts out an annual call to all library workers for fun/inspiring videos to help brighten the day of librarians who…
Several months ago I did something that would have shocked me even a year ago: I trolled an online youth services Facebook group (with the admins’ permission). My intentions with that post was to hopefully cause youth service librarians take a fresh look at how and why they promote holidays (particularly Christmas). I wanted others…
Back in 2014 I had a moment in my life where I could almost literally feel the change in my life’s path. I was sitting in a Rheumatologist’s exam room, and he had informed me that I was the poster child for Fibromyalgia. He gave me some reading material and said he’d give me and…
2016 became the year that I jumped head first into presenting in the library world. 2016 also became the year that I got a major ego check in the library world. And yes, those two things are related. When I was asked by the Three Rivers Library System to speak about Summer Reading Programs, I…
