With us being very short-staffed, having wrapped up <a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/2013/10/07/star-wars-reads-day-2013/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”><em>Star Wars Reads Day</em></a>, and needing to take over four weekly ongoing storytimes over the next month or so, I needed to get a quick and dramatic display up at our Main Library. I came up with the concept of having it be a…
For someone like me, <em>Star Wars Reads Day</em> (<em>SWRD</em>) is a thing of beauty since it combines two things that I love: reading and <em>Star Wars</em>. Our library has had special <em>Star Wars</em> events almost every year for the past few years, but with no real literacy tie-in. So when I stumbled across <em>SWRD</em> I…
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…
I have really been looking forward to my first Halloween as Creative Director at my library – mainly because I’d have the Children’s Library as a canvas for cleverness. Long-story-short, due to quite a few unexpected circumstances, I had to scrap some of my more ambitious ideas and get it done as quickly as possible….
<span style=”font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625″>This past summer I took over the 3rd-5th grade book club at our library. I was very excited to take over this group since I hadn’t worked with them for almost two years and the last time it was in a craft-centered storytime. Since then, the poor 3rd-5th grader storytimes had gone through so…
<a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/checkout.png”><img class=”alignnone size-large wp-image-765″ src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/checkout.png?w=584″ alt=”” width=”584″ height=”438″></a> I’ve been trying to be better about keeping track of important dates that might pertain to the library (I made a <em>Pinterest</em> board for it and that’s massively helped me). So I was very aware that September is <em>National Library Card Sign-up Month</em>. However, I hadn’t made…
I have a lot of fun trying to decide what to do with our giant front windows that take up most of the face of our building. One idea that I’ve been exploring (once before with the <a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/2013/05/19/i-spy-a-summer…g-picture-find/ ” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Epic Picture Find</a>) is having games or activities be the display. So far…
<img class=”alignnone wp-image-716″ title=”How a plain plastic sign became fun and dimensional using Photoshop, scissors, some glue, and double-sided tape.” src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/gra3.jpg?w=584″ alt=”” width=”584″ height=”438″> For a long time we had a very bold and to-the-point purple sign (which tied-in to our purple-tinted labels that indicate our graphic novels). It did its job, especially when we…
<img class=”alignnone wp-image-694″ title=”How our small library organized and securely put out our Summer Reading Programming Prizes | Hafuboti” src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/astroturf.jpg?w=584″ alt=”” width=”584″ height=”582″> A few weeks before we wrapped-up our Summer Reading Program at the Children’s Library, we had the realization that we needed to figure out how to handle the final prizes of the…
We’ve had a very good response to the Shark Week display that I put up this week – so I thought that I’d share it.
Right before our Summer Reading Programming began, my Library Director had a fantastic idea to promote our social media presence: the phrase “<em>Like</em> to <em>Follow</em> Your Library.” I jotted it down on a post-it and knew that I’d come up with something post-SRP. Well, that time had come and I finally threw together our first…
In July, Mary and I (midst our crazy-busy Summer Reading Programming time) brainstormed for quite some time regarding what we should do for library decor in August. Neither one of us wanted to go too crazy, but the front windows had been the same for two months and we were ready for a dramatic change….
<img class=”alignnone wp-image-660″ title=”My dragon puppet demonstrates our fantastic stuffed animal swing. He should totally be a model. Totally.” src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/dragswing5.jpg?w=584″ alt=”” width=”584″ height=”547″> There was one more cute addition to our large “book tree,” and all the credit for the concept/design/execution was all Mary: a stuffed animal swing! No. It is not a swing made…
Finally the last of the paper lanterns arrived and we were able to finish the “centerpiece” of our decor! Several different team members had helped remove the book pages that made up both the Picture Find and the “tree bark.” Mary and I then used painter’s tape and did a “shingling” technique that I learned…
The biggest project is yet to be complete (ugh – waiting for a final shipment of supplies), but between last week and this week, I did throw together a display based on this fantastic idea from the ALSC blog. Generally on our shelves above the picture books we try to keep a themed display, but…
