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Display Power!
This year I was given the go-ahead to do some creative reworking of our teen space, and it’s been pretty fun. One of the best decisions I made was ordering a bunch of Umbra’s Strum Wall Organizers (FYI: I’m not being paid for this recommendation). We’ve been wanting to order a slat wall endcaps for…

Libraries Are For Everyone: Chinese
A lovely Chinese novelist reached out to me and among other things, shared with me two translations of Libraries Are For Everyone. She also ended her email with this: Long live librarians! In Chinese: 图书馆长万岁 Literally, “may our library masters live for 10,000 years” – Anonymous Isn’t that wonderful?! Thank you very much, anonymous novelist!!!…
Wow Mom!
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…

Batgirl @ Your Library
I wanted to share the image that I created last night and posted to my social media sites, but also give credit as to where the idea came from. I wanted to be sure to credit my main inspiration for this which was seeing this Pinterest pin. The other thing that made a light bulb…

Libraries Are For Everyone: Akan & Twi
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…
Oh No NaNoWriMo
Well, I finally had a quasi-epic fail in terms of putting together a crafty prop for a display. I had <a href=”http://rachelmoani.com/?p=193″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>this</a>, by the amazing <a href=”http://rachelmoani.com/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Rachel Moani</a>, as my inspiration. For awhile I’ve wanted to try my hand at making a big book like Moani’s, and the perfect excuse was <a href=”http://nanowrimo.org/”…