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Oh My Beverly Cleary!
I owe <a href=”https://twitter.com/renatasnacks” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>@renatasnacks</a> a thank you for giving this post its title – it’s part of what she tweeted in response to what I’m sharing here. Which is something that I made for <a href=”https://twitter.com/bunnybrarian” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>@bunnybrarian</a>. If you don’t follow or friend or whatever other librarians on any social…

Three Summer Savers
In the almost-decade that I’ve worked at a public library (how the heckie-pooh did that happen?!), I can unequivocally state that summers are, at their mildest, hectic. And over time, our Children’s Library team has come up with a couple of simple time-savers/stress-reducers that I thought I should share to hopefully help someone else out…

Libraries Are For Everyone: Tajik
This translation comes from Stephanie Yancey, the Library Media Specialist at Myrtle Beach High School in South Carolina. In her email to me she said that “We were named the most diverse school in the state a few years ago, and I’m constantly struggling to find materials for my diverse group of students. We have…
Really-Truly Welcome to Hafuboti!
For over a year I’ve been kicking around the idea of starting a blog. Back then the amazing Aunt Peaches put the idea in my head that I should give blogging a try. 9-17-2020 The rest of this post I rattle on a bit about my hopes for the blog, which were, essentially, getting people…

The Kitty Café
You, too can hold a life-changing event that helps both people and kittens at your library. Read on to discover how the partnership began between our public library and the Nebraska Humane Society, how the program went, and some thoughts on how it could be improved in the future. How it came to be: Sometimes…
The Redecemberleying
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