Libraries Are For Everyone: Finnish
This is another language that was requested and translated for me by two complete strangers within an hour of each other. It must be fate!
Thank you, both Harri and Aulikki Knight!!!!!

<a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/checkout.png”><img class=”alignnone size-large wp-image-765″ src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/checkout.png?w=584″ alt=”” width=”584″ height=”438″></a> I’ve been trying to be better about keeping track of important dates that might pertain to the library (I made a <em>Pinterest</em> board for it and that’s massively helped me). So I was very aware that September is <em>National Library Card Sign-up Month</em>. However, I hadn’t made…
Rachael Smith, a super-nice Access Services Associate at Mount Holyoke College , wrote me a squee-worthy email. Within it, she provided me with a Norwegian translation (which reads The Library Is For Everyone). Sven Aas, the Head of Web Services & Application Development at MHC, and his native speaking Norwegian cousins, worked together to come…
Remember these guys that I <a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/2014/10/06/the-mostest-with-the-ghostests/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>briefly shared with you</a> earlier this week? <a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hg01.jpg”><img class=”alignnone size-large wp-image-2267″ src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hg01.jpg?w=584″ alt=”” width=”584″ height=”431″></a> Well, they were such fun to make that I wanted to dedicate a post to them. I was inspired by <a href=”http://www.pinterest.com/pin/537758011729790364/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>this pin</a>, but when you clicked through,…
Sif Heiða Guðmundsdóttir, school librarian in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, sent me an email request for Icelandic signs. Thankfully, she also supplied the Icelandic translation for me. Thank you so much Sif!
I have really been looking forward to my first Halloween as Creative Director at my library – mainly because I’d have the Children’s Library as a canvas for cleverness. Long-story-short, due to quite a few unexpected circumstances, I had to scrap some of my more ambitious ideas and get it done as quickly as possible….
It’s been years since I wrote about Punk Rock Book Jockeys, and I still love that title and the movement that it began. The only down side to it is that it really hasn’t done anything to change the public’s understanding of what a librarian is or should be. To the majority of people, it’s…