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 of US and British English.
This fall our Children’s Library will be losing it’s large Ash tree that is home to our library dragon. The kids have been relieved that he’s already grown so much that he has to use our entire row of Bradford Pear trees as a home. But everyone’s sad about losing its autumn leaves. For the…
I received a great email from Rahat, who sent me the Turkmen translation of Libraries Are For Everyone. I cannot even begin to express how excited I still become when someone reaches out and shares a part of themselves. It’s the best. Thank you so very much Rahat!!!!!
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…
For awhile I had been making a mental list of simple ideas that I wanted to introduce to our Children’s Library. I mainly needed to wait until we got our budget for the new fiscal year since most would take a bit of a financial investment. As our new fiscal year came around (in October),…
It wasn’t until very recently that I had a revelation: When a patron is in our library and discovers something neat like our Summer Reading Program Booklets, and they’re all like, “Wow! I had no idea!” and I’m all Beamy McBeamface and like, “I know! Isn’t it great?!” That’s just wrong. It took me taking…
Katy reached out to me on Facebook and sent me two Georgian translations from school librarian Maia Maglakelidze. Thank you so much, Maia!!! Public Libraries: School Libraries:
