Painting Masterpieces

Painting Masterpieces

After Gretna Has Heart was over, it was time for Heba and Meggie’s first library décor creations – and I’m very happy with what they did! One of my favorite things about my job title “Creative Director” is that I get to see others’ creativity grow and delight everyone more and more. The theme was…

Kitty Café Revisited

Kitty Café Revisited

Two years ago I first shared with y’all our Kitty Café event. Now that we’ve had our third annual event, it’s time to revisit this program and share updates. Here’s this year’s video: General Updates: It is still my favorite event of the year. It helps that I’m a cat person. If you’re not a…

First Library Card Celebration

First Library Card Celebration

Over the past few months, my overall vision for our library has become about making good memories for everyone at our library. And I just had to share a new tradition that we started at our library. Because IT. IS. AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahem. One of the neatest experiences at our library is when a child finally…

Get Your Readathon On

Get Your Readathon On

Back in April, my Director sent me an email along with a link to #Readathon2016. In her email, she suggested that we take part in this national fundraiser for Every Child Ready to Read. I wish that I could say that I was super-enthusiastic for this event at the get-go, but honestly, I saw it…

The Kitty Café

The Kitty Café

You, too can hold a life-changing event that helps both people and kittens at your library. Read on to discover how the partnership began between our public library and the Nebraska Humane Society, how the program went, and some thoughts on how it could be improved in the future. How it came to be: Sometimes…

Minecraft IRL

Minecraft IRL

Eep! I’ve had to let the blogging slide a bit since things in my life and at work have been…interesting. Yes. We’ll say interesting. But we’ve had some great themes that I’ve been dying to share with y’all, so let’s get back to it. Back in September we had a big crossover celebration of Minecraft…

Winter Reading Program

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. &nbsp;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>&nbsp;by the wonderful <a href=”http://www.fatgirlreading.com/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Angie…