As I mentioned in my MA(r)Y post, we wanted to keep May’s focus on art. Therefore, the brilliant Brittany came up with our art-themed Great Wall-o-Pun. And just like Mary, she surprised me with how awesome the end result was. She went to town with the fonts and colors (crayons again – can you believe…
<img class=”alignnone wp-image-1739 size-large” src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/exteriorwindow.jpg?w=584″ alt=”A giant picture book celebrating spring in our library’s front entrance | Hafuboti.com ” width=”584″ height=”333″> Well, I knew at some point I’d have to write this here post, and let me tell you – I didn’t want to do it. You see, I’ve built up all sorts of layers…
I was going to make this a simple post showing off what we do at our library in terms of treat giveaways (such as during Nat’l Library Week, or Valentine’s Day), but then it took on a life of its own. So, to save you the time if you’re not interested in me going into…
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…
<img class=”aligncenter size-large wp-image-6258″ src=”https://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/happy-caterpillar.jpg?w=700″ alt=”Celebrating the anniversary of Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar at our Children’s Library | Hafuboti.com” width=”700″ height=”478″> I have been waiting for a full year to have our decor at the Children’s Library be Eric Carle-ized. When I started working at the Children’s Library, one of the very first…
Brittany and I were pretty stumped when it came to how to tie <a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/2014/04/14/the-very-happy-caterpillar/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”><em>The Very Hungry Caterpillar </em>decor</a> into our <em>Great Wall-o-Pun</em>. I have to give complete credit to Brittany for putting it all together and it being totally awesome. She realized that the pun should be food related, and the books featured…
I don’t really have a lot to say about this particular display. I wanted bold and fun, and I think I achieved it. It was mainly an excuse to keep my silly picture book covers up for the entire month of April (and not just on the first). I’ve also wanted to do an interactive…
Last year I had quite a memorable passive event on April Fool’s Day (basically, I fooled people so well that three of my five “silly cover” books were checked out to patrons. Side Note: every single one was returned a few weeks later with their sticky-tacked covers still on them. I never found out if…
<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…
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…
<img class=”alignnone wp-image-1556″ title=”My quirky-fun sign for our Main Library’s main display for March. It could be YOUR quirky-fun sign for your library!” src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/lucky-sign.jpg?w=584″ alt=”A quirky-fun and fast library display for March | Hafuboti” width=”584″ height=”553″> Ever have one of those panicky moments of “OMG how is it March already so soooon?!?” Nope – me…
<img class=”alignnone wp-image-1541″ title=”A special jumbo card for our library’s mascot who was born when our Children’s Library was opened.” src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bdaycard.jpg?w=584″ alt=”Celebrating our Children’s Library’s Second Birthday! | Hafuboti” width=”584″ height=”515″> Last month our Children’s Library celebrated its second year of being opened. Our library is a rarity in that our City decided that it…
<img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-5928″ src=”https://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/table-top-time-feature.jpg” alt=”Using simple kraft paper to cover the kids’ activity tables at our library. It saves space while encouraging creativity | hafuboti.com” width=”1224″ height=”835″> Another one of my “projects I’ve been waiting to do” was putting butcher paper down on our kids’ tables. After reading about <a href=”http://mowillemsdoodles.blogspot.com/2013/07/dining-room-dinner-doodles-news.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>how…
I’ve contemplated doing this public library logo mashup since when I did the superheroes and had a blast. These were equally fun to do. Please have fun and enjoy them! They’re yours to use and do what you like.
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),…
