About a month ago, I had the honor of speaking at the Massachusetts’ School Library Association‘s conference on unceded Wampanoag land. So I was especially excited when one of the conference organizers, Laura, wrote to me with the Wôpanâak translation for Libraries Are For Everyone.
A million thanks go to the Wampanoag tribe members who worked with Laura to help make this sign set happen!!!
This is the second part of my series of signage in the library. I only feel slightly sorry if you just punched your monitor because I used the word “signage.” The English language, despite decades of trying to pin it down, remains awesomely fluid. Anywho. (heh) In the first part of this series I discussed…
Okay, so in a previous post I mentioned emailing me for blank templates. I received a request within a few minutes of publishing the post, and that’s when I realized that there was a better way: share the templates here! Feel free to use the free font that I used, or use your library’s preferred…
I’ve been biding my time, pinning lots of pins to Pinterest, jotting down ideas, and basically prepping for having a LEGO library theme for close to a year now. With the release of the wildly popular LEGO Movie I thought that March would be the time to finally strike – and strike we did! Mary…
So, the other morning I mentioned to one of my mentors in the library world that I was feeling a bit overwhelmed with trying to have <a href=”http://www.freecomicbookday.com/Home/1/1/27/992″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”><em>Free Comic Book Day </em></a>at our library for the first time this year. Her response (bless her) was “Don’t you just give out some free comics? How…
I thought that you all might enjoy seeing what our Young Adult Librarian came up with for his FIRST SUMMER READING PROGRAM EVER!!!!! I’m incredibly proud of his creation, and just had to brag about him with y’all. You can learn much more about this super-cool program Teen Services Underground where he’s an agent (brag)….
<img class=”alignnone wp-image-1603″ title=”Super-basic tips for merchandising small library spaces.” src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/merchoptionthree.jpg?w=584″ alt=”Super-basic tips for merchandising small library spaces | Hafuboti” width=”584″ height=”659″> <em><strong>Warning:</strong></em> the post you are about to read is of an unusual size <em>”P.O.U.S.? – I don’t think they exist.” [immediately attacked by a P.O.U.S.]. </em>This is mainly because I love merchandising, and it’s…
