<img class=”alignnone wp-image-1497″ title=”Giving Trees at the Library: Celebrating Random Acts of Kindness Week | Hafuboti” src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/closehand.jpg?w=584″ alt=”Giving Trees at the Library: Celebrating Random Acts of Kindness Week | Hafuboti” width=”584″ height=”756″> About six months back my boss accidentally misquoted our fines totals to me. I was so shocked at the large amount that my…
Brittany and I generally brainstorm ideas about our <em>Great Wall-o-Puns</em>. It’s usually a pretty fun session, or I’ll say “think about what we should do next month” and walk away. If we’re sharing ideas together, then it’s the one that puts a sparkle in her eyes that I know we’ll be doing. Sometimes I’ll be at…
In January we had one very upset little girl at the library who couldn’t understand why we didn’t have a library scavenger hunt that month. We had done <em><a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/2014/01/16/build-a-band/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Build a Band</a> </em>instead – which did alright in terms of participants, but nowhere as good as our scavenger hunts. She loudly bemoaned this fact…
I wish that I could tell you where on earth this idea came from, but I had it suddenly and it came together very quickly. I’m truly hoping that people interact with it (both young adults and adults since we point out that you can choose any books in the library, not just the displayed…
<em><strong>Warning:</strong> I’m going to go on a lengthy-for-me philosophical post in terms of the motivation for the displays that we do at our libraries. This is unusual for me, but thought it worthy enough to bring up here – and thought that others might want to think about this and/or share their thoughts. It began as an aside…
I was having a bit of a mental block when it came to putting up a display at our Main Library for the new year. I really didn’t want to do the “New Year New You” that we seem to default to every year. I was also concerned that I may not come up with…
Behold my silly creation! <img class=”alignnone wp-image-1390″ title=”The Tale of Loki Rabbit at the Library: a silly mashup cover of a fun story that deserves contemplation (or not). ” src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/lokirabbithlo.jpg?w=584″ alt=”My fake cover illustration of The Tale of Loki Rabbit at the Library – riffing on Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit.” width=”584″ height=”755″>…
Here’s the final grand finale to our <a href=”http://wp.me/p2N1aX-ks” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”><em>Jamuary</em></a> theme, but this particular event will be going on until the middle of April. But let me back up a bit and explain what brought us to do this. After reading <a href=”http://www.fatgirlreading.com/winter-reading-a-program-how-to/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>this</a> by the wonderful <a href=”http://www.fatgirlreading.com/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Angie…
A while back I made a mash-up logo with Batgirl and the ALA public library logo. It was a blast to do, and ever since then I’ve wanted to do more super heroes (even though they don’t have the awesome library tie-in that Batgirl has). It took one awesome stranger tweeting about how much she…
We were looking for another passive program to have at our library for <a href=”http://wp.me/p2N1aX-ks” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Jamuary</a>, when we came across <a href=”http://lisaslibraryland.blogspot.com/2013/12/roll-gingerbread-man.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>this</a> on <em>Pinterest</em>. <em>Pinterest </em>is sort of the best, amiright? Anywho, I could envision us doing a music version of this and mentioned it to Brittany who I’d put in charge…
Back in late November/early December, we set about the task of brainstorming ideas for January at the Children’s Library. Brittany suggested “Jamuary,” and I liked it right away, but it really didn’t knock my socks off. BUT then all sorts of stars aligned and <em>Jamuary </em>has been one of the funnest themes we’ve had so far. <img…
<img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-1239″ title=”Encouraging kids to make reading resolutions for 2014 | Hafuboti.com” src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nby-header.jpg” alt=”It’s party time at the library – where I try and encourage some life-long reading habits using bright colors.” width=”437″ height=”273″> A relatively popular program that is entering its third year at our library is a “New Year’s at Noon”…
<img class=”alignnone wp-image-1002″ title=”Converting an old and unused picture frame into a really shnazzy felt board worthy of hanging on your wall! | Hafuboti.com” src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/boid-is-the-woid.jpg?w=584″ alt=”” width=”584″ height=”778″> Ever since I found a love of felt <em>(<a href=”http://wp.me/p2N1aX-fM” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>see here</a>)</em>, I’ve been wanting to invest in a flannel board. However, we’ll hopefully be…
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/”…
As we started planning what we wanted to do in November (in early October), I had planned on trying to keep it as simple as possible. I should really know better. I gave Mary the task of figuring out something to do in terms of décor for the library. The next day she commented that…
